Example sentences of "[verb] [modal v] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Home helps are carrying out tasks which they say should be carried out by qualified nurses and are being forced to neglect domestic duties such as cleaning and shopping , according to a survey by public sector unions . |
| 2 | Grapes for pressing would be brought in from many different vineyards , following Dom Pérignon 's explicit instructions . |
| 3 | Although John Wright had been due to send Hanns a letter about the technical requirements , it was actually the choreographer who wrote again in late September , suggesting simplification to avoid distracting the eye and adding ‘ You must design several feet around the back cloth , otherwise what you have designed will be cut off by the back legs and flies ’ . |
| 4 | Barth travels far and wide through the Bible , from Genesis to Revelation , and digests , criticises , and re-states a vast amount of material from the previous history of Christian thought , and from contemporary discussion — much of this in lengthy pages of tiny print , which readers are sometimes relieved to discover can be passed over without loss of the main drift ( though it should be said that some of the finest passages are to be found in the small print ) . |
| 5 | What the planner needs to know can be set out in the form of a cycle of information and analysis — a cycle , because marketing and advertising are a continuous process , and knowledge gained from one advertising campaign can be used to develop its continuation . |
| 6 | The portions of the application that do have to be emulated can be loaded in via floppy disk . |
| 7 | The portions of the application that do have to be emulated can be loaded in via floppy disk . |
| 8 | The bang as it bounces may be picked up by a hearing-aid or by a vibrator , thus avoiding that sticky mess on top of the stove . |
| 9 | ‘ Depending on the way nurse prescribing is introduced , there is a real danger that time saved may be used up on additional procedures . |
| 10 | Skinnergate and High Row will be closed to traffic on an experimental basis , despite claims the town 's disabled could be driven out of Darlington . |
| 11 | It would also mean , as Charlotte knew , that awareness of what was happening would remain under one roof , that her judgement of what should and should not be done could be neutralized along with Ursula 's . |
| 12 | She told herself that the best thing she could do would be to go out of the house and climb up to where the buzzards and the ravens nested on the clifftop , but she did n't pay herself much attention . |
| 13 | For a confidence boost , all he need do would be to look back on his management days at Huddersfield , where the Town scaled the heights in defiance of the most adverse conditions . |
| 14 | A pledge on which a loan of more than ten shillings had been made would be put up for auction , but its owner could come and redeem it on any day up to that of the sale . |
| 15 | Most of the heart valves collected will be transplanted in to local patients , many of them children . |
| 16 | When we changed the concept of insurance totally , and we have said that the sum assured will be paid out on the diagnosis of the disease , and not on death or anything else . |
| 17 | Well yes I , no , I would endorse that and , and hopefully perhaps you know the comments that have been made will be picked up by the press . |
| 18 | Easy to spawn in a planted tank , and fry can be brought on with adults . |
| 19 | A member with a holding of a similar size will be quite unable to present a credible challenge to the board because in any contested vote the bulk of shareholders who bother to participate can be relied on to support the incumbent management team . |
| 20 | If , as seemed likely , one cause of unemployment was an excess of savings over investment , the equalisation of decisions to save and decisions to invest could be brought about by Labour 's plans for progressive taxation which would redistribute income to the poorer sections of society . |
| 21 | If an old person is admitted to local authority residential care while still having a house to sell , some of the value of the property when sold may be claimed back by the authority in retrospective residential charges . |
| 22 | When someone has been asked to make over on death whatever remains of an inheritance , and from the price of objects sold buys other objects , he is not regarded as having diminished [ the estate ] in respect of the objects sold … but the objects thus bought should be made over in place of the ownership which has changed … . |
| 23 | It is vital though , that gradual , later weaning should be done along with continued full breast or bottle feeding , with no rush to drop feeds . |
| 24 | The panel that he envisaged would be made up of their representatives and would provide them with a forum to air concerns . |
| 25 | and the ones that had been cast out would be without that thing , so that 's why it 's gone in relation to that it 's because those that did n't have the faith that the army officer had would be cast out as the sons , of the sons of the kingdom , that 's why he mentioned it in likeness |
| 26 | But an inquiry into how the accident happened would be carried out by the Danish Government 's Marine Department . |
| 27 | The quantification of the amount they are entitled to retain must be carried out by the Chancery master and can not be referred by him to a taxing master . |
| 28 | Anyhow , whatever it was , maybe a little , as Jan says , he also had a f a bad flu bug at a bad time anyhow he crashed out of the computer science course and he announced that he was only regarding the computer science course as being a stepping stone to being a teacher so the sensible thing to do would be to go on to the teacher training course at Lancashire , an education course , cos that 's what he wanted to do . |
| 29 | The only way to reverse what the hon. Gentleman alleges would be to go back to the sort of tax rates that we had under the last Labour Government — 83 and 98 per cent . |
| 30 | All these people I know will be trying out for the new series . |