Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dutch euthanasia practice is legalised and therefore becomes a collective responsibility but , as with war crimes , collective responsibility does not free the actor ( the physician ) from personal accountability . |
| 2 | One evening he was summoned to the bedside of a dying lawyer , who had first robbed and then seduced a female client . |
| 3 | Models or paintings might be made and perhaps become a similar basis for talk . |
| 4 | In these he has tried to reflect not only the period in which their music was written but also to devise a particular way of dancing inspired by the structure and tone of the particular piece of music ( see page 41 ) . |
| 5 | Parents were still placed under enormous pressure to choose specialist resources ‘ in the interests of the child ’ : integrated placements were often presented as chiefly fulfilling a selfish need of the parents to deny their child 's special needs . |
| 6 | Thanks to this device many thousands of birds have been caught , weighed , measured and then had a lightweight metal ring clamped round one leg before being released in the hope that , when it is next caught ( or perhaps found dead ) , the number stamped on the ring will be seen and reported . |
| 7 | The link between Edinburgh and Leith is the spacious boulevard known as Leith Walk , which sadly lacks the Parisian elegance it might have had but still retains a certain impressiveness . |
| 8 | It does not provide a comprehensive explanation of every facility offered but rather gives a brief introduction to the most commonly used methods involved in the financial side of exporting . |
| 9 | In his adult life all these painful thoughts had been buried but still caused a great deal of unhappiness . |
| 10 | Radiotherapy for cancer of the bladder was typically given in two phases ; phase I tumour dose of 40 Gray in 20 daily fractions over four weeks and Phase II 20 Gray in 10 daily fractions over two weeks , the different phases being distinguished by the fields used but always irradiating a similar volume of the rectum . |
| 11 | 4-S Briefcase can be customised but also offers a pre-configured recipe . |
| 12 | Thucydides also underlines the strategic importance of the place : an enemy like Sparta , if she held Amphipolis , could strike at Athens ' north Aegean allies , provided that Thessaly allowed a safe passage to the Strymon area . |
| 13 | If attitudinal justifications , and criticisms of counter-attitudes , are based upon such common-places , then attitudes by their content are socially shared and thereby possess a social significance beyond the motivations and affective reactions of the individual attitude-holder . |
| 14 | It has been restored but not altered a great deal in modern times . |
| 15 | Built around this album , The The at the Town & Country provided as near perfect a late-Eighties rock show as anyone could want . |
| 16 | He paid calls to La Vieille Cité , famed for its antiquities , where he was politely entertained and actually bought a little Renaissance bronze relief , but no one had heard of a cross coming on the market in recent years . |
| 17 | So 28-year-old Neil had them removed and now has a false set after losing the rest while playing sport . |
| 18 | My therapy with Dr Gyggle had continued and now entered a new phase . |
| 19 | It is also interesting to note that endorphins are released when acupuncture is practised and perhaps make a significant contribution to the therapeutic effects which may be achieved . |
| 20 | He had always been very highly strung and eventually suffered a complete mental and physical breakdown before dying in a private lunatic asylum in Roehampton 2 January 1900 . |
| 21 | The next morning when the bells of the abbey tolled for Prime , the first prayer of the monastic day , Corbett was up , dressed and gently kicked a sleepy , grunting Ranulf awake . |
| 22 | The young ones were less strongly coloured and still had a downy look about them . |
| 23 | They give proper emphasis to its quiet poetry as well as its obvious rhetorical grandeur , while their classic mid-price disc is finely recorded and also includes a sensitive account of the Debussy Sonata as well as other music by Debussy and Ravel . |
| 24 | But this was not before State subsidies , both direct and indirect , had first fuelled and then maintained a remarkable period of private development . |
| 25 | As the float rose the shaft rotated and so did a circular metal plate attached to the end of it . |
| 26 | At school she was liked but not considered a leading academic talent . |
| 27 | The language signifier is perceived as potentially representing a lost signified . |
| 28 | These three premises can be regarded as together forming a possible new creed to be used in the search for a new meaning to the word ‘ god ’ , and hence for a new religion . |
| 29 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
| 30 | Rosen and Thomas ( 1984 ) have suggested that repeatedly squeezing a small rubber ball in the hand until this produces considerable discomfort in the wrist and forearm can also help . |