Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present tax system was too complicated ; people setting up in business on their own were more or less forced to employ an accountant . |
| 2 | He stayed at Dunvegan for eight nights , from Monday , 13 September , to the morning of Tuesday the 21st , and may even have outstayed his welcome ; Johnson more or less refused to leave the comfort of the castle and applauded the weather 's inclemency which kept him and his companions pinned down . |
| 3 | In effect , a ‘ conspiracy of silence ’ still surrounds those northern Protestants who at various times and in their different ways condemned the landlord system , called for a wider franchise , disapproved of religious bigotry , or even sought to break the connection with Britain . |
| 4 | The camera can be preset or remotely controlled to cover the subject or area to be photographed , and provision made for a sequence of pictures or a single exposure , according to the camera type and its shutter release . |
| 5 | Her eyes were rolling with terror as she began to struggle to free herself from the tenacious , sucking mud — struggles that only served to hasten the process and cause her to sink at an even greater rate . |
| 6 | They were waiting for them inside the restaurant , which turned out to be a smallish place that somehow managed to achieve an atmosphere of casualness and intimacy at the same time . |
| 7 | However , our own observations show that once invited to submit a proposal , a school 's case is subject to the same criteria as any other , and that these criteria are fairly rigorously applied . |
| 8 | I am therefore today asking you for her hand , for no one else is capable of making me happy nor more fitted to wear a crown . |
| 9 | Although deliberately designed to test the market to destruction , the results shocked the participants and the Department of Health . |
| 10 | And here we find that the term is widely rather than narrowly defined to include an offence which carries a sentence of three years or more on first conviction ; or involves the use of violence ; or results in substantial financial gain ; or involves conduct by a large number of people in pursuit of a common purpose . |
| 11 | Six foot shit-hot sharp shooter that never failed to hit the spot . |
| 12 | A further three wells were drilled and successfully tested to appraise the field — the last being completed in 1991 . |
| 13 | Later I improved and graduated to two fingers , and eventually learnt to play the tune using all my fingers . |
| 14 | Ibn Fayoud fiddled with the car keys and eventually managed to start the engine . |
| 15 | I was supposed to have a meeting on with erm , a couple of guys from the British Coal Enterprise down in Middlesbrough with , but unfortunately again the weather caught all of them out and they decided not to come , but did n't occur to them to say they would n't come , so I sat down there for an hour , and eventually managed to find a phone number and get in contact and the guy was still there , and he said oh no I 'm not coming up . |
| 16 | In any event , the education welfare service is frequently too busy and inadequately staffed to exercise the kind of supervision which enables the causes of truancy to be explored fully ( nor to work with schools in order to develop links with parents , as advocated by the Better Schools White Paper in 1985 ) . |
| 17 | Robert Norman McNevin ACA and David Carty FCA both of 234 Manchester Road , Warrington having been found to be in breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that they at Warrington between 10 June 1991 and 1 August 1991 passed clients ' monies through their firm 's office account were each reprimanded and jointly and severally ordered to pay a fine of £500 and £250 by way of costs . |
| 18 | John Leslie Bill FCA , Nigel John Collins ACA , David Scott Fisher FCA , Ralph Edgar Rowledge FCA , Michael Ross Hart FCA , Malcolm Philip Hemming FCA and Gerry Paul Harborne ACA all of Griffin House , 18–19 Ludgate Hill , Birmingham having been found to be in breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that they at Birmingham between 31 January 1991 and 23 August 1991 passed clients ' monies through their firm 's office account were each reprimanded and jointly and severally ordered to pay a fine of £500 and £250 by way of costs . |
| 19 | These events , they argued , demonstrated that the hand of God himself was at work in the history with which the Bible deals , and so served to authenticate the Bible 's own divine origins . |
| 20 | On his part , Corbett shrewdly watched the Frenchman and knew he was correct and so moved to close the trap . |
| 21 | The remaining test utterances were not incorrectly identified ; the system simply generated too many partial interpretations and so failed to give a response within the resource limits of the trial . |
| 22 | He observed St-Germain-des Pres from a little distance , was distressed by its tendency towards abstraction , took his new mistress Francoise Gilot from its fringes , and so thought to teach a lesson in painting to both her and her contemporaries . |
| 23 | Many of us became accustomed to highly salted foods in childhood , for example , and so learned to prefer the taste . |
| 24 | Somehow , Reg Pybus , who is such a square he even has a mono Walkman , refused to drink with the match only hours away , and so managed to get the team into their kit and out on to the pitch . |
| 25 | Calvin left Geneva and only returned to lead the city when the city council asked him to return . |
| 26 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 27 | The audience was predominantly under thirty , dungareed and apparently predisposed to like the film , despite the controversial reviews . |
| 28 | It is only when the frequency and magnitude of each behaviour is sufficiently marked and sufficiently prolonged to impede the child himself in his daily life or cause distress to his family or community that it can be defined as disorder ( Rutter et al. , 1970 ) . |
| 29 | It seems that Louis-Napoleon , through a combination of misinformation and wishful thinking , overestimated the strength of Bonapartist feeling in France and foolishly decided to attempt the overthrow of the government of Louis-Philippe by means of a coup d'état . |
| 30 | Corporate taxation policies for example , have greatly favoured capital intensive firms and thus helped to widen the productivity gap between large and small companies . |