Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Code is very persuasive for a number of reasons : ( 1 ) Any company listed on the London Stock Exchange which does not comply with the Code can have its listing suspended or withdrawn ( although the Panel has rarely had to use this sanction and it can have the effect of injuring innocent shareholders ) . |
| 2 | With his splendid physique and proud , noble head his presence is such as to give him an instant advantage over any bowler , and he has rarely failed to put that advantage to use ; spinners in particular have suffered at his hands , but when he decides that he wants to score runs it is virtually impossible to bowl to him . |
| 3 | Psychology has rarely tried to correct this bias . |
| 4 | The Anti-Slavery Society has since had to adapt Victorian values to the post-Victorian world . |
| 5 | Jack is thought to be the GHOST of some poor manacled prisoner who died in a dungeon and has henceforth sought to torment other humans . |
| 6 | The government has thus attempted to restrict local authority discretion by reducing the level of income received from the central government via cuts in the RSG and through rate capping . |
| 7 | The geographical patterning of the subsequent ‘ national ’ economic recovery has largely served to reinforce this dichotomy . |
| 8 | The various pupils ’ study needs just listed include many skills that most school teachers would expect their pupils to have been taught or to have acquired in the process of their secondary education . |
| 9 | MODEL turned actress Shebah Ronay , 20-year-old daughter of fashion designer Edina Ronay , has just completed shooting two episodes of the Thames TV series Covington Cross . |
| 10 | The two notes referring to James Island suggest that he has just started to identify different species by their specific island localities . |
| 11 | Sometimes a feature of the Constitution is discerned as such only at the time when it has just ceased to have much relevance . |
| 12 | But the biggest scam of all is run by the Government , which has somehow managed to harness young energy , ambition and initiative without ever giving it a real chance to shine through . |
| 13 | Despite his avowed slobdom , Peter FitzSimons has somehow managed to play seven rugby union Tests for Australia . |
| 14 | In Fig. 3 the oldest branch ( c ) will soon have to be cut right back to the vine stump and it can be seen that the vigneron tending this vine has already decided to cultivate another branch ( b ) in preparation . |
| 15 | The government has already decided to bring special health authorities into the internal market . |
| 16 | This mean that as it has already applied to run that route it only now needs clearance from the British government . |
| 17 | At the time of writing , the THORP plant is in fact nearing completion , and the Sellafield management is boasting of the long list of multimillion pound contracts it has already won to reprocess nuclear fuel from around the world . |
| 18 | Michael Sams , 51 , has already admitted kidnapping 25-year-old Stephanie Slater but denies murdering 18year-old Julie Dart . |
| 19 | Sams , 51 , has already admitted kidnapping 25-year-old Birmingham estate agent Stephanie Slater , but denies murdering 18-year-old Julie Dart . |
| 20 | Oliffe has already admitted keeping 300 sheep in pens surrounded by broken bottles and barbed wire in Gloucester . |
| 21 | ‘ As no court has ever attempted to define fraud so no court has ever attempted to define undue influence , which includes one of its many varieties . |
| 22 | On the one hand , force has been required to subordinate it , and , on the other , it has always threatened to outbreed protestant loyalists , an outcome which has only been avoided by catholic — nationalist migration over the past seventy years . |
| 23 | The centre has been in financial trouble before , but has always managed to find further sources of funding at times of apparent crisis . |
| 24 | IAAF president Primo Nebiolo has always refused to accept any decision taken by the American courts and that was still their stance last night . |
| 25 | The Christian Church has always refused to accept this idea . |
| 26 | However , by the time a foal has matured , it has usually come to accept that patting is some peculiar human aberration to indicate friendliness — and accepts it as such . |
| 27 | Although he has usually had to play second fiddle to Jackson , he is a super athlete in his own right , having won silver medals at the European championships ( 4x100 metres ) and Commonwealth Games in 1990 . |
| 28 | As he points out , Libya has repeatedly offered to submit this dispute to international arbitration , to the International Court of Justice , to an international commission of investigation , or to some other type of ad hoc international institutional arrangement for the impartial investigation and adjudication of these allegations . |
| 29 | The Congress-run state government in Uttar Pradesh has also moved to defuse Muslim ire by formally endorsing Urdu , spoken by most Muslims , as the official second language in the state . |
| 30 | Whether by accident or design , it has also served to conceal historical information of considerable importance . |