Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the key features of each — the limited liability company , the use of collective bargaining and the state provision of welfare — all have something of a Christian basis in terms of providing outlets for savings , strengthening the family , and correcting injustice and providing for those in need , nevertheless it is easy to see how they can become taken over by humanistic philosophy — so that they become unlimited freedom to create wealth , the use of collective power and the denial of individual merit and the state as the alternative for the family and private charity . |
| 2 | So the delicate gilded furniture and the rococo mirrors had gone from his office ; and in their place were desks and chairs that renaissance princes might have sat on in perfect safety , even if they had weighed three hundredweight . |
| 3 | Bigsun will have come on for High Easter run |
| 4 | If they had interviewed the — what were then termed — clerical officers and assistants , they may well have come up with different results . |
| 5 | The increase may have come about through various kinds of gene duplication . |
| 6 | My children should have grown up into loyal Abbey national customers . |
| 7 | Even if I had been sufficiently knowledgeable about the NHS funding system to counter his arguments , I still would n't have felt up to political sparring . |
| 8 | ‘ Imagine ’ , Du Camp reports him as saying , ‘ the capital one might have made out of certain incidents . |
| 9 | She tried to guess what he might have found out about Sabine Jourdain that did not hinge on her death . |
| 10 | It is hoped that Rambert will be one of the first companies to appear at the Festival Theatre when it opens next year , by which time Christopher Bruce will have taken over as artistic director of the company with which he used to be a leading dancer and choreographer . |
| 11 | If we had selected different base categories , we could have ended up with negative values of d . |
| 12 | It has been suggested , from an evolutionary point of view , that language may have arisen out of primitive man 's use of manual gestures to communicate with his fellows ( Hewes , 1973 ) . |
| 13 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 14 | Pallister recovered from early setbacks when he could so easily have drifted back into Northern League football . |
| 15 | I do n't mean put down like bloody tramlines . |
| 16 | It includes the latest Purple Airways information , to make sure you do n't get mixed up with Royal flights . |
| 17 | You can get steamed up over Central America ( Missing ) or racism ( Betrayed ) , but there 's no arguing with the death camps . |
| 18 | ‘ If a department has an internal review it can get bogged down in internal considerations . |
| 19 | I 'm not pushy enough to dig out real controversies , and I ca n't get worked up about red-hot issues . |
| 20 | We could lie propped up against wide pillows edged with lace , the legs of the bed rooted in a froth of cow parsley , convolvulus thrusting through the wrought-iron bedstead , the blue sky and the clouds more solid than the rows of houses underneath . |