Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , Tories did remain committed to the principles of passive obedience , non-resistance and indefeasible hereditary right , but they were to argue that none of these had been compromised by the Glorious Revolution . |
| 2 | She had no desire whatever to stay and become enmeshed in the affairs of Alain Lemarchand and his mother , but he had simply gathered her in imperiously as if he were in charge of her life . |
| 3 | The policy goals which governments seek to secure include : investor confidence , consumer protection , safety , and soundness among financial institutions , efficiency , competition , and the need to ensure that economic power does not become concentrated in the hands of any one sector of the financial services industry . |
| 4 | There are cases , however , where the military has seen itself as a force for modernization , particularly in societies perceived to be ruled by traditional elites , and where the military may become imbued with the norms of Western processes of industrialization to the extent that it seeks to impose them on society . |
| 5 | However , it is believed that in the virgin planet 's oceans there evolved , by chance , complicated molecules called ‘ proteinoid globules ’ ( or ‘ proteinoid microspheres ’ ) ; alternatively , these molecules might have formed on the slopes of the primordial volcanoes and been washed , by rain , down to the seas . |
| 6 | There seems no doubt that molecules such as these could have formed in the seas of the earth at the very beginning of its history . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This file should contain the responses the user would have given to the prompts for the relevant options had the system been used interactively . |
| 9 | BY NOW employees will have heard of the proposals in the White Paper on local government reform . |
| 10 | Erm you must have heard of the phrases of poncing , where somebody is operating a prostitute and if they do n't get a required amount of money a week or er er an amount of money where they consider it sufficient , they 'll probably go and beat them up or something like that . |
| 11 | Indeed , the outline of the lake may have altered in the times between the individual surveys . |
| 12 | Approaching Wallowa Lake , he found the Nez Perce warriors mounted on an impregnable high bluff , and reported : ‘ Joseph could have fallen upon the settlers in detail , killing them and destroying their property … |
| 13 | This has led to speculations that life may have originated in the depths of space and that it was brought to the Earth by meteorites . |
| 14 | Just as her childhood amusements could have originated from the pages of a 1930s ' children 's book , so Diana 's upbringing reflected the values of a bygone age . |
| 15 | ‘ A man like you might have looked through the screens of the rickshaw ; might have counted the time it took to reach the place , calculated the direction in which you were taken . ’ |
| 16 | In the same way , he might have looked at the conflicts between institutions , genres and styles during the 1890–1930 period ( for instance , between old-fashioned vaudeville and new syncopated styles ; or between the requirements of public dance and private listening ) , rather than just the more homogeneous synthesis established by the time it ended . |
| 17 | In casting , the molten metal may have squeezed between the joins of a mould , solidifying as a seam-like ridge known as a casting flash . |
| 18 | Personally , I would have voted for the lads at Cain 's Brewery but Twitters may have got the jitters if the revamped Higson 's had made the headlines . |
| 19 | ‘ Bragad 's men hold it , and all in it ; his ‘ Wares must have come over the ramparts in the night . ’ |
| 20 | But even allowing for those one strong young man could have come up the stairs to Wolski 's room and in a few minutes and one journey have stripped that soulless place of all evidence that for almost three decades , since 1946 , Wolski had lived there . |
| 21 | If there was an increase by 1545 , much of it may have come in the years after 1530 , and become important economically only after the period covered by this book ( 75 , p.69 ) . |
| 22 | Also , their inmates may often have come from the ranks of the noble and landowning class . |
| 23 | The vivid illustrations in the Blue Books of the 1840s could as well have come from the mines of Shropshire in 1770 . |
| 24 | He was a wealthy man , and although some of his wealth may have come from the profits of war , he benefited substantially from Edward 's patronage . |
| 25 | She shines , too : one never could ignore her despite the enormous charm of her victims come to seek their revenge , first in Saks 's gloomy room then in his enchanted Gauguin -esque forest , whose colours the child herself might have smeared on the walls with sticky fists . |
| 26 | Past experience in nursing can also reflect a very hierarchical , even military approach , and some ‘ procedures ’ may have suffered at the hands of obsessional and aggressive teaching . |
| 27 | At the same time it assured that those who , under weaker leadership , might have suffered at the hands of armies , could live in greater security . |
| 28 | I rather think that the RN instructors on my course must have suffered at the hands of the Customs on returning from a foreign tour as they really gave us a hard time . |
| 29 | After the door shut behind him , she sat looking at it , wondering what she would have done over the years without him . |
| 30 | It would n't have done for the women to be met by his men . |