Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were only a few guests — among them Martin Browne and his wife , Rupert Hart-Davis and Jacob Epstein ( whom Eliot had come to like and admire when he was sitting to him ) . |
| 2 | Even as the ‘ external functions ’ of the Soviet Armed Forces acquire real importance , the principal means upon which the USSR relies to influence change are what Westerners are accustomed to call ‘ other means ’ : moral , political and material support furnished below the legal threshold of intervention , designed to encourage and revolutionise or at least influence and infiltrate . |
| 3 | D The seller sells as beneficial owner but the seller transfer to the buyer shall contain the following proviso : " Provided Always and it is hereby agreed that the covenants which are implied by the seller transferring as beneficial owner shall not be deemed to imply or warrant that the lessee 's covenants contained in the lease for decoration or repairs have been observed . " |
| 4 | Justice Rutledge proceeded to examine the evil which the statute was designed to cure and decided that it encompassed people outside the traditional common law classification of an employee . |
| 5 | In the years that followed endless analyses were made to try and determine whether Penkovsky had really been what he seemed . |
| 6 | However , after having reached a position out of range of detection by the Cherbourg defences , P/O Atherton and his crew must have decided to circle and wait until they felt that the defences would have assumed that the attack was over and would therefore have relaxed their alertness . |
| 7 | And yet above that and beyond that what you were seeking to do was not just to serve the Board of World Mission and Unity , it was to serve what you believed was the good and right for the church of god which you have sought to serve and to support and to take further . |
| 8 | I was just not prepared to let that go when I sold Low Birk Hatt because it was my parents ' dream house . |
| 9 | In this area of mutual ministry , the gifts of the Spirit are given to strengthen and comfort and build up the church . |
| 10 | But where I 'm puzzled a little bit by Terry , is about five minutes ago Terry said , people have got to go and beg and |
| 11 | Then you 've got to go and try and find somebody from Birmingham saying and erm |
| 12 | Since most of the money being offered was raised through Federal taxation , especially income tax , these mechanisms were being used to try and ensure that State governments did operate the welfare programmes seen as desirable by the Federal government ; if they did not , then their residents were paying taxes to Washington , but receiving relatively little in return . |
| 13 | An " anti-monde " analysis is used to try and establish and quantify the effects of integration . |
| 14 | Where significant work is envisaged in determining these factors MAS have in the past negotiated a separate investigation fee for a report on the business which can be used to highlight and rectify or address weaknesses prior to any investigation by the purchaser . |
| 15 | When asked how important the teachers felt such complaints to be they tended to demur and suggest that though they should be taken into account wherever possible and perhaps explicitly discussed ( ‘ Where are the alternatives , though ? ’ ) , other features of a book deserved more attention . |
| 16 | ‘ … you 've got to look and see whether it 's a big discharge or a small discharge . |
| 17 | Even if we knew from a multiplicity of attestations that the thinness in question was specifically a thin curtain or veil or gauze , we would still not know what precisely the image was , for a curtain could be vertical or horizontal , it could be used to divide or screen or cover , it could serve the one who spreads it out , or someone else for whom it is spread out . |
| 18 | And up to now , you 've had to quit or grin and bear it . |
| 19 | But there are occasions when we 've had to rip and tip but it 's causing a problem |
| 20 | They were n't used to doing this kind of thing — they were n't used to rock and roll or putting something up and taking it down every day , so really it was a white elephant from the beginning . |
| 21 | We are also accountable through the press and local radio in terms that all our work , unlike many other professional bodies , all our work is constantly on show and critics are invited to see and assess and attend and write up the work that we fund , and those criticisms appear in local and regional press daily . |
| 22 | But at some point we are bound to stop and ask if what we are studying , however important it may be in its own terms , is sufficiently central to its presumed subject . |
| 23 | The system can also be pre-set to cook and hold while no one is in the kitchen and , in these cost-conscious times , food can be cooked overnight or on a half-power setting to take advantage of cheap electricity periods . |
| 24 | Hagans was allowed to come and go as he pleased and only days later , he raped and murdered council worker , Anna McGurk , as she walked home from her office . |
| 25 | It has continued to grow and expand and has since established itself as a permanent base for experimentation with education in health based on Primary Health Care principles . |
| 26 | You have to have a licence to have a C.B. and when you get your licence you also get given a rule book which tells you all the things you are and are not allowed to do and say when using the C.B. One of the rules is that you are not allowed to swear down the C.B. as anybody can listen into your conversation and hear you swearing . |
| 27 | The question that people who are forced to decide whether to discard or not are liable to ask is : ‘ What have the students actually lost if these books go ? |
| 28 | No-one will be allowed to stay or return until the building has been checked . |
| 29 | No-one will be allowed to stay or return until the building has been checked . |
| 30 | One principle has been rescued form the wreckage of socialism — the principle that local authorities should not be capped and should be allowed to spend and spend as though there were no tomorrow . |