Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his appeal to the IRA leadership to call a halt to its bloody campaign is likely to be dismissed as promptly as the Loyalists yesterday rejected calls to lay down their arms . |
| 2 | This means that EEC law must be examined not only when the UK legislation has been passed to implement an EEC obligation but in all cases in which the EEC has legislated in the field under consideration . |
| 3 | If we take into account the fact that women are now marrying at a younger age as well , twentieth-century families will be completed even earlier than the chart indicates . |
| 4 | The usual way of expressing Boyle 's law , however , is Thus , when a gas is allowed to expand ( or is compressed ) at constant temperature from an initial volume of V1 to a final volume of V2 , the final pressure P2 can be calculated so long as the initial pressure Pl is known . |
| 5 | On Thursday , the pot of Maxwell money will be swollen still further when the contents of his Oxford home are auctioned at Sotheby 's . |
| 6 | One disputed point is whether words alone can constitute an assault : the preponderance of authority is probably that mere words , unaccompanied by any threatening conduct , can not amount to an assault , but if the point of the offence is to penalize the creation of fear of imminent attack , it is difficult to see why utterances such as ‘ Get out the knives ’ or ‘ Let's hit them ’ should be regarded more indulgently than a raised hand . |
| 7 | Also the battery needs to be checked regularly especially if the child is wetting frequently . |
| 8 | If a woman is tearful and apologetic and can claim some biological disturbance , then she is not likely to be treated as severely as a man . |
| 9 | In its original form , it is a time-consuming and complicated procedure , but it can be simplified so long as the underlying principles are honoured ( see Arnold , 1982 ) . |
| 10 | A child who is not feeling well will stop eating temporarily and rapidly lose weight over a short period but this will be regained equally quickly once the child has recovered . |
| 11 | If at any point it is bought by a non-registered person the VAT is not recoverable , but must be added on again if the vehicle is sold at some point in the future by a registered person . |
| 12 | The matured loan notes can be rolled over indefinitely until the tax liability expires . |
| 13 | Unnecessary procedures must never be carried out just because a learner needs the practice . |
| 14 | Both replication and review can be carried out only where a full and detailed record of the original experiment is provided . |
| 15 | I do not believe that any other paint system can be applied as thinly as a watercolour wash and still yield as much colour brilliance . |
| 16 | But it should not be built somewhere simply because a Bill is lying on the table . |
| 17 | Eventually equipment purchases will have to be made so long as the demand for packaging is there . |
| 18 | as colleagues who are involved will know is just about the only industry in the building materials sector that has n't made some kind of pay offer in this current round it 's very much bringing up the rear and we 're determined to use what industrial strength we have to change the employer 's stance otherwise we 're very concerned that the national negotiation missionary , this will be his death knell since we 'll have to resort to local pay bargaining , so the short answer is E C C er , will be balloted as far as the G M B is concerned union and , er , T & G are balloting in for industrial action to try to change the employers ' position . |
| 19 | The tendency to split up was strengthened by another result of the absence of involvement of the government in London : the colonists had to work out how to handle their local problems of administration and , while there was virtually no idea of challenging the power of the monarch in England , policies had to be decided much faster than the royal government could ever manage . |
| 20 | The school ‘ plant ’ began to be seen not just as a resource which could be used for adult education or the occasional PTA dance and parents ' meeting . |
| 21 | The practical effects on the reporting unit can be seen more readily when a proprietary view is taken of a group of companies . |
| 22 | This can be done quite casually if the information system is in the general office where the manager , deputy or other workers may also be consulting the system , writing case reports or telephoning . |
| 23 | Maybe it could be done monthly rather than the punishingly weekly ? |
| 24 | This could be done more effectively if the law was changed so that it became the jury 's responsibility to assess only the actual damage to the plaintiff and the judge 's responsibility to impose an unlimited fine on the defendants according to his view of their culpability . |
| 25 | None of these has posed any particular threat to the hegemony of traditional discipline and patterns of academic thought and women can be incorporated as easily as the rest . |
| 26 | Legacies can also be sought more easily if the organisation can show that it has charitable status . |
| 27 | The loss of a goldfish might be felt as keenly as the loss of a family dog in certain circumstances . |
| 28 | That his departure can be dated as late as the reign of Mehmed I Uzuncarsili 's alternative suggestion is , however , rendered unlikely by the fact that there exists a dated Rajab 808/December 1405-January 1406 which carries the signature of Ibrahim b . |
| 29 | Both the visual-judgement and category-judgement tasks could be performed quite easily when the readers were distracted by the shadowing task . |
| 30 | This novel method of synthesising the compound could perhaps be used more widely if the compound were dispersed — eg within a zeolite — where there are channels for the rapid movement of the reactive plasma species . |