Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [subord] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This file should contain the responses the user would have given to the prompts for the relevant options had the system been used interactively as described below . |
| 2 | In view of the terms of those dicta , the paucity of cases in which the discretion has been exercised so as to exclude legally admissible evidence is not surprising . |
| 3 | Apart from the way that racial meanings are inferred rather than stated openly , these new forms are distinguished by the extent to which they identify race with the terms ‘ culture ’ and ‘ identity ’ , terms which have their own resonance in antiracist orthodoxy . |
| 4 | Congress alone has the power to decide whether the present laws can or can not be amended so as to carry out more effectively the objects of law . |
| 5 | A few borings indicating greater thicknesses might be explained away as going diagonally through detritus on the outer flank of the reef , but there are now too many for one to conclude that the results can be explained in this way . |
| 6 | After all , how else can alignments of physical objects be calculated so as to lie along propitious meridians , save by reference to more fixed and less mutable properties of the earth ? |
| 7 | Testing will be revised so as to add less to teachers ' workloads . |
| 8 | But this ignores two vital facts : first , that doubt itself is not the denial of faith , and second , that if they are pursued doubts may be resolved rather than deepened so that faith is confirmed and not denied . |
| 9 | Later documents will be perused rather than analysed thoroughly in the hope that any new information is revealed in the process . |
| 10 | Both Maid Marian and Holy War are very clean engines and little smoke can be seen even when working hard . |
| 11 | In the main the structure is permissive ; with some exceptions , setting limits on what can be done rather than laying down by law what must be done . |
| 12 | This can be done electrically as described above . |
| 13 | The module can then be scanned again as described above . |
| 14 | One of the great problems of this schedule would be , the definition of the amount of windfalls , bearing in mind that many of the local plans coming forward erm are about to be produced rather than have just been produced . |
| 15 | Mitch 's image alone does not make clear that he will be mocked rather than taken seriously as an object of desire . |
| 16 | In the former camp , organisations such as the Council for the Protection of Rural England vigorously protest at any threat to the Green Belt and argue that derelict , or ‘ brown ’ sites within it should be restored rather than handed over to developers . |
| 17 | This does not apply to one-off instructions , which should be vetted particularly when taking over the case from another firm . |
| 18 | The distinction between the two is linked to men 's belief that women are after emotional closeness as much as physical pleasure , and that women regard the sexual act as something that should be protracted rather than completed as briskly as possible . |
| 19 | As the clients relaxation skills develop the exercises may be combined so as to speed up the process of relaxation . |
| 20 | Passive participles provide a rich vein of relevant instances ; it is a commonplace that these can be construed either as related directly to a verb , and hence in many cases referring to some assumed event , or as being adjectives expressing a state that have lost their verbal connexion . |
| 21 | After Mrs Wordingham 's death later in 1989 , Mr Wordingham applied to the High Court for rectification of the will under s 20(1) ( a ) of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 , which states that ‘ if the court is satisfied that a will is so expressed that it fails to carry out the testator 's intentions , in consequence — ( a ) of a clerical error … it may order that the will shall be rectified so as to carry out his intentions … ‘ . |
| 22 | One attractive aspect of this theory is that it highlights the way in which formal instruction can inhibit learning by not allowing sufficient scope for self-expression and self-development — alienation following submission to being taught rather than learning how to learn . |
| 23 | IgG anti-bovine lactoferrin antibodies were measured essentially as described above , except that no negative or positive serum references were used . |
| 24 | If shareholders object to profits being retained rather than paid out as dividends they may sell their shares , thereby increasing the likelihood of a takeover by a predator . |
| 25 | It has even been suggested that some coral reefs , which it will be recalled are mostly dead coral and debris , are being destroyed rather than built up : they could be relics of higher sea levels . |
| 26 | This liability would only be avoided if careful records of the sources of drugs were kept so as to pass on liability to the manufacturer responsible for any defect . |
| 27 | Similarly the text is written so as to bring out comic connotations of the word fut , the passé simple of the verb " to be " by writing it with a characteristically Anglo-Norman spelling as " " fout " " , recalling foutre . |
| 28 | If you touch the rope even , the bell is angled so as to sound continuously . ’ |
| 29 | 8.1 The Department is committed to support any member of staff who is assaulted either whilst carrying out their official duties or as a consequence of official duties . |
| 30 | With the help of an infrared converter , the measuring beam ( 2μm square cross-section ) was aligned so as to pass axially through a given cell while the reference beam passed either outside the retinal fragment or in a space between photoreceptors . |