Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [be] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These results were taken as supporting a temporal discrimination hypothesis of the same type that has been used elsewhere to describe short term verbal recency effects ( e.g. Bjork & Whitten , 1974 ) . |
| 2 | It is this discretion that has been used routinely to allow questioning which Parliament had intended should be exceptional . |
| 3 | For instance , the censuses of 1971 and 1981 investigated country of origin more fully than had been done previously to extend knowledge about the immigrant population . |
| 4 | Mistrust even more two leaves that have been joined together to fabricate a bifolium . |
| 5 | But this is probably better than some of the attempts that have been made deliberately to exploit the natural human interest in such a tragic event with supposedly factual accounts of the eruption , in which accurate reportage takes second place to lurid , entirely hypothetical detail . |
| 6 | The data discussed here were selected according to wind-direction and particle-concentration criteria that have been shown previously to define ‘ baseline ’ periods of very clean oceanic air . |
| 7 | Then he began : ‘ My friends , you have heard all the arguments that have been brought forward to prove the new world-view . |
| 8 | Stéphane Dumas looks for a soul in things that have been thrown away to continue their life as rubbish . |
| 9 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 10 | He put out his arms and caught her and held her , and they stood there on the gravel path in the grounds of Hilderbridge General Hospital , embraced as if they had long been lovers and had known each other with profound emotion and physical joy and had been parted only to meet again now , by chance , so felicitously . |
| 11 | Employers have consistently complained that most forms of standard building contract published by the Joint Contracts Tribunal have inadequately catered for their requirements , and have been devised mainly to suit the traditional procedures adopted by the building designer , quantity surveyor and contractor . |
| 12 | The 1975 Act had been accepted in the Court of Appeal as having been passed mainly to give effect to the Hague Convention , but that purpose nowhere appears in the text of the Act which was also designed to replace earlier United Kingdom legislation , notably the Foreign Tribunals Evidence Act 1856 in which the phrase ‘ civil or commercial matter ’ was used in a context wholly divorced from any international convention and which formed part of the law of many Commonwealth ( and common law ) countries . |