Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roughly , unilateralism provides that the plaintiff must win if he or she has a right to win established in the explicit extension of some legal convention , but that otherwise the defendant must win . |
| 2 | Relatively cheap methods of testing local ground conditions which have been researched by geomorphologists can act as useful warnings to engineers as to whether they are risking the kind of problems which now make the Trannon scheme , with hindsight , a questionable one to have undertaken in the first place . |
| 3 | who who do you think , I mean , th , you know , the government 's making it pretty clear at the moment , Mrs , that that er , in these troubled times something 's gon na get squeezed because there 's so m , many people out of work that gi , you know , they 're having to pay more unemployment benefit , there 's not enough tax money coming and and generally the government is hard up , so someone 's going to get squeezed in the social security system . |
| 4 | It seems to have originated in the personal computer segment about the time Compaq proved it could supply 286 machines that were comparable to IBM 's … and do so in a more timely fashion . |
| 5 | It was performed at the festival of Dionysus in Athens and is said by Aristotle in his Poetics ( c. 330 B.C. ) to have originated in the Dionysiac dithyramb . |
| 6 | Thus , although incoming variants of both vowels appear to have originated in the same hinterland Scots dialect , each has assumed a diametrically opposed social value in its new urban setting . |
| 7 | ( Incidentally , oranges and nuts seem to have occupied in the social life of those days the place soft drinks and ice cream occupy today , being consumed in great quantities even in the most dignified circles . ) |
| 8 | A fall in urban rent values can also be seen in Oxford , although the evidence cited is less comprehensive than that for York , and the most drastic fall seems to have come in the second half of the fifteenth century after a period of relative stability . |
| 9 | UTILITY — A small program which will do a single , simple job ; often performing a function that Windows ought to have done in the first place . |
| 10 | When a biographer dubs his subject ‘ the greatest novelist ever to have written in the English language ’ in his opening chapter , he is clearly about to embark upon an act of homage . |
| 11 | He was first jailed and then compelled to leave Rome ; he is said to have died in the Punic city of Utica , a remarkable place to go for a disgraced Roman intellectual ( St Jerome , Chron. a. 1816 , p. 135 Helm ) . |
| 12 | What it does not seem to have shown in the nineteenth century is any ready acceptance of a formal role in moralising the nation . |
| 13 | I think there must be another box of these and they 've sort of got in and that seems to have got in the wrong box . |
| 14 | But that is nothing compared to the inflation that seems to have occurred in the early universe : an increase in size by a factor of at least a million million million million million times in a tiny fraction of a second . |
| 15 | Interestingly , something similar seems to have occurred in the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin . |
| 16 | However , the acceleration in the rate of decline which appears to have occurred in the second half of the 1960s has been lessened by the payment of investment grants . ’ |
| 17 | After the reorganization this part of the process seems to have worked relatively smoothly , but injustices appear to have occurred in the comparative chaos of the earlier period . |
| 18 | Little is known about the history of these crops ; their domestication is thought to have occurred in the African savannah , but the date and precise location are unknown . |
| 19 | You must have that " something extra " — not just to make it to the top but to get employed in the first place . |
| 20 | I had measles and had to stay isolated in the darkened room for two weeks . |
| 21 | Iraq was also reported to have invested in the Argentine Condor II and , possibly , the Brazilian SS-300 . |
| 22 | Suleiman Franjieh , the elegantly dressed ‘ excellency ’ who expatiated so eloquently on the back of the tourist map about Lebanon 's hospitality , security and stability , is widely believed to have participated in the machine-gun massacre of members of the rival Douaihy family near the town of Zghorta in 1957 . |
| 23 | Alvarez was alleged to have participated in the 1985 kidnap and murder of US Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) agent Enrique " Kiki " Camarena Salazar [ see p. 33967 ] . |
| 24 | A doctor , Alvarez was alleged to have participated in the 1985 torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena-Salazar by helping to prolong the agent 's life so that the drug-traffickers who had captured him could continue to interrogate him . |
| 25 | Indeed , it is a power of that nature which the revenue claim to have exercised in the present case , in the course of their general function of managing and administering the tax system . |
| 26 | erm for some reason certain issues do n't seem to have appeared in the first place |
| 27 | Like some of the best American bands to have emerged in the past couple of years — notably Pavement and Sebadoh — there 's a sense here , contrived or otherwise , that Mercury Rev make occasionally astonishing music entirely by accident . |
| 28 | I used to suffer from spots , but they seem to have gone in the last year or two , I 'm thankful to say . |
| 29 | Instead , I had sent an open letter to John that I hoped to get printed in the Lebanese press . |
| 30 | Robson is now even more determined to assist United in the overriding ambition of bringing the League title to Old Trafford for the first time in 25 years . |