Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor have I been encouraged ever since to think there 's an exact science . |
| 2 | In light weather , she was handicapped only if driven by her rotors alone , and only in comparison with a fully rigged sailing vessel dead before the wind . |
| 3 | One views unusual vertical arrangements with suspicion , presuming that they are made so as to prevent others entering the industry , to raise margins and thereby increase profits at the expense of consumers . |
| 4 | If they receive much less description in fiction , it is because they are sensed rather than seen . |
| 5 | However , such groups possess a wider significance if they are seen either as representing the last stages of a long , discreditable history , or as one of the means by which this history is transmitted into the future . |
| 6 | On the " substantial " interpretation , they are seen simply as relating to certain terms which if substituted for variables in the relevant propositional schemata yield ( contextually ) true propositions , irrespective of whether or not such terms stand for actually existing objects . |
| 7 | Although many more ancient monuments and ruins existed than survive today , they were either thought of as relatively recent ruins or natural phenomena , or else they were explained away as having been made by gods or legendary heroes . |
| 8 | The cohorts now past retirement age , it must be remembered , had the experience of childhood during the inter-war depression years and then young adulthood in the war , when they were encouraged rather than discouraged from smoking . |
| 9 | It was held in Attorney General v Tod Heatley , however , that an owner of land has a common law duty to prevent it being used so as to amount to a public nuisance . |
| 10 | It is constructed rather than discovered by the historian . |
| 11 | A salient characteristic of the internal structure of' the elite is that it is rational , in the sense that it is structured so as to achieve in a purposeful and conscious manner the objectives of the elite as a whole . |
| 12 | While his superstar peers make records with one ear cocked in anxious deference to pop currency , Prince alone behaves like an aristocrat , squandering the success he 's earned rather than consolidating the estate with cautious measures . |
| 13 | Asquith 's 1915 government was only halfway to coalition ; it was in fact a coalition of parties rather than a coalition of men , and it was run so as to maximize continuity . |
| 14 | They found him under the yew tree and after a rather stormy scene , during which Bigwig grew rough and impatient , he was bullied rather than persuaded into going down with them into the great burrow . |