Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [conj] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new novel , unlike the fictions of Tolkien and Lewis , is stubbornly secular , but with an ear cocked to the supernatural ; it is no more anti-religious , that is to say , than Philip Larkin 's poem ‘ Church Going ’ , which intones sympathetically the values of an empty place where the dead lie buried and where prayer has once been valid . |
| 2 | But he gave a rare interview yesterday , stressing his belief that his report had been grossly misrepresented and that numbers infected heterosexually were ‘ substantial ’ and growing . |
| 3 | As the calculations are worked out it is vital that everyone in the Government ensures that all expenditure is scrutinised , that no money is wasted and that cuts do not fall on or anywhere near the people who are worst off in our society . |
| 4 | This report was criticised because of the small number of patients studied and because patients had not been stabilised on each insulin before acute hypoglycaemia was induced . |
| 5 | A Britain where freedom was extended and where people took on more responsibility for running their own lives . |
| 6 | These improvements were achieved in a market where hire rates have not improved and where contracts became even harder to win with margins further reduced . |
| 7 | In practice case management for people with long term mental illness has developed into a range of techniques that can be described along 12 different axes ( box 2 ) , which aim to ensure that patients with long term psychiatric disorders receive consistent and continuing services for as long as they are required and that services do not focus inappropriately on patients with less severe conditions . |