Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | You do n't want to be the one who tells your boss that er a production line has broken down again or y'know that they 've failed to meet their sales targets for the third month running , whatever it is , okay ? |
2 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
3 | He has wrapped up warmly and wears good walking boots , old and reliable . |
4 | Yet , even here , there is a puzzle , a strange , unplaceable something which does n't quite fit with that account of the gradual driving out of the reader and the suggestion of a steady shift towards the rare and the difficult , for I would guess that anyone not put off in advance by suspicion or hearsay , anyone that is who has got as far as dipping into Ulysses , say , will have come hard up against things that are startlingly , even discomfortingly , recognisable . |
5 | Anyone who has got as far as saying this , has already thrown the first proposition overboard , because if it is ‘ the responsibility of management to do everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce prices ’ , then we would not need a commission to tell us that managements which raise prices are falling down on their responsibility . |
6 | The company , which has four US and four European offices , has branched out further and has now established an Asia-Pacific operation for which it chose Singapore . |
7 | ‘ Everyone on the MMSC team has pulled together well and worked conscientiously towards this target , ’ Mike said . |
8 | This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic . |
9 | ‘ Social imperialism ’ suggests that the main beneficiaries of this policy were British consumers , and indeed one writer has gone so far as to argue a direct link to the Attlee government 's social reforms : ‘ The nationalisations , medical provision and expansion of education so magnanimously legislated by the Labour Ministry were largely achieved because the Bank of England kept the Sterling Area show on the road . ' |
10 | One theorist has gone so far as to claim that ‘ the viability of the large corporation with diffuse security ownership is … explained in terms of a model where primary disciplining of managers comes through managerial labor markets , both within and outside of the firm ’ . |
11 | One former American Secretary of State has gone so far as to characterise the Armed Forces as an institution ‘ operating entirely outside Party control ’ . |
12 | Indeed one commentator has gone so far as to describe the DTI 's performance in these cases coupled with its sloppiness in the Barlow Clowes affair and failure to press prosecution over the House of Fraser takeover as ‘ part of a lengthy and dishonourable supine tradition ’ ( Alex Brummer , Guardian , 28.8.90 ) . |
13 | Conran has gone so far as ending catwalk exhibitions totally in favour of presentation by video . |
14 | Charles Rycroft , an eminent contemporary British psychoanalyst , has gone so far as to reject entirely the Freudian theory of the origin and function of dreaming . |
15 | Moreover , the North American Securities Administration Association has gone so far as to accuse the South Pacific micro-states of Nauru , Vanuatu , Tonga and the Marshall and Northern Mariana Islands of being ‘ international centres of prostitute banking ’ . |
16 | G. Kopcke ( Tzedakis and Hallager 1987 ) has gone so far as to suggest that the curious high ‘ rock ’ formation in the centre of the picture may actually represent the tsunami or tidal wave generated by the great Thera eruption of 1470 BC . |
17 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |
18 | ONE OF Czechoslovakia 's most prominent dissidents , Stanislav Devaty , has gone underground rather than face an appeal hearing which could have confirmed a 20-month jail sentence . |
19 | Barclay 's has gone as far as to create a ‘ high technology ’ unit to examine requests for finance from possible customers . |
20 | José Harris has gone as far as to describe the dispute as ‘ a major conflict of principle ’ between the two boards . |
21 | Eire is planning to use its forthcoming Presidency of the European Commission to press Britain to embark on a major upgrading of road and rail links between North Wales and the Channel Tunnel , and the Shadow Irish Transport Minister Gay Mitchell has gone as far as proposing an Irish Sea Tunnel to be constructed using Channel Tunnel equipment and an allegedly largely Irish Channel Tunnel workforce . |
22 | This year Pest Control has prospered once again and moved forward on all fronts . |
23 | If the applicant has survived this far and avoided a pre-hearing assessment , the case will be listed for hearing . |
24 | It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself . |
25 | Much worse to begin too soon and realize one has begun too soon than to begin too late and realize one has begun too late . |
26 | Much worse to begin too soon and feel one has begun too soon than to begin at the right time and discover one has nothing to begin . |
27 | The Geneva Convention on Bills of Exchange is an example of an excellent Convention which has functioned extremely effectively and has been widely adopted . |
28 | The study of the distribution of exotic imported goods within England has extended as far as noting that there are two basic patterns to their distribution , apparently depending on their sources , and that particular areas or individual cemeteries have disproportionately high quantities of some of these goods . |
29 | ‘ I 'd fallen quite badly and had disc problems with my back . |
30 | A few minutes later , when she 'd got as far as wrapping herself in her host 's dressing-gown , Penry Vaughan knocked loudly on the door . |