Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [coord] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 This is most clearly the case in referrals where relationship problems were considered primary and where no compulsory admission took place .
2 Even in India today , where certain animals are considered sacred and where the life of the spirit and contemplation take precedence over the development of the material world , this is an important handicap to the development of the Indian economy .
3 The response of the law-enforcement agencies is taken by some writers as further evidence that this violence against women is considered legitimate and that the state should , therefore , be considered a patriarchal institution rather than a neutral body .
4 Middle class observers often expressed the opinion that working class housekeeping had grown sloppy and that the food budget could be better managed .
5 There is a tendency for more junior staff to believe that reports should be made public and that the next report should again deal with the whole school rather than some part or aspect only .
6 If the reason was redundancy do not say that you were made redundant but that the job itself became redundant .
7 Not only is having had some form of employment considered to increase a job seeker 's attractiveness to an employer and diminish the chances of a devaluation of his work skills , but temporary placings themselves can turn into permanent ones , either because the temporary position is made permanent or because the employer becomes acquainted with the capabilities of the temporary worker and recruits him into a vacant permanent position.1 Special temporary employment schemes such as the Community Programme are often justified in this manner , the suggestion being that they raise the chances of the long-term unemployed finding jobs some threefold ( Turner , 1985 ) .
8 Will he discuss with his Cabinet colleagues whether the discretionary grants for vocational training for the professions might be made mandatory or whether the training and enterprise councils might provide money to help those with little means to train for entry into the professions ?
9 If it had become axiomatic that the author ( or ‘ scriptor ’ in Ricardou 's terminology ) had become decentred and that the novel could not represent any psychological or social reality , then the origins of a text could only be found in the self-generating aspect of language itself .
10 McKie had become aggressive and although the girl had tried to fight him off , he had raped her before fleeing .
11 David says : ‘ It is time-consuming and expensive but the research has been so fascinating and enjoyable that it would n't matter if we were proved wrong or if the truth never came out . ’
12 At dinner he was utterly silent and tried to leave as soon as he had eaten sufficient but before the table was cleared .
13 The Bill proposes that hoards be kept intact and that the practise of paying the full market value of the objects to the finder should be extended to the entire hoard .
14 We called at a traditional fishing village where time seemed to have stood still and where the houses on stilts looked picturesque , but somewhat less than homely .
15 A spokesman for the kidnappers insisted , however , that Ghani had been released alive and that the Indian security forces were responsible for his death .
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