Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BBC network television has gone a step further and introduced a sexual harassment hotline , which , though it sounds like one of the services advertised in David Sullivan 's tabloid journals , is intended to root out rather than promote unwanted lubricity . |
| 2 | Finally , if misconstruction is to be avoided , it may be useful for legislation to explain how gradation is intended to operate so far as the charging and prosecution of offences is concerned . |
| 3 | I hope it will be agreed that those who think that the tax law is justified do so partly because they believe that there is in the circumstances imagined a reason voluntarily to contribute a sum which is equivalent to a just tax . |
| 4 | The trip is expected to last even longer than the seven-month record set by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Anatoly Berezevoi in December . |
| 5 | Clockwatching has no place and everyone is expected to work as long as is necessary to do the job — and to do so without complaint . |
| 6 | er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house |
| 7 | While one may whizz straight through the enemy , and another might stall in front of your Mob , the other one is bound to end up somewhere where you want him . |
| 8 | In this way it is hoped to establish more precisely where competition for jobs takes place between young people and adults , where young people are protected from competition , and where they are not even considered . |
| 9 | This is allowed to happen not only because of the sin in the world , but also because of sin in the Church . |
| 10 | Microsoft claims Windows NT is certified to run on more than 1,000 hardware platforms , including 25 symmetric multiprocessors , supports 650 printers , 50 SCSI peripheral devices , 25 network adapters and 12 different types of display adapters for VGA , SuperVGA and XGA video modes . |
| 11 | The professor is required to retire not later than the 30 September immediately preceding the 66th birthday , except that , if the successful candidate can establish a vested interest , as defined in the University 's statutes ( details available on request ) , in retirement at age 67 or later , then the date of retirement will be not later than the 30 September immediately preceding the 68th birthday . |