Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I imagine those who appeal would carry on paying the bill until the outcome is resolved and then receive a rebate with interest if necessary , ’ said Mr Collin . |
| 2 | I hauled it when the weather permitted and invariably found a lobster or two in it , or even a fish of some sort . |
| 3 | As would be expected , such a use would not be possible with make , since the law would appear to be actually bringing about the paying of taxes ( " concurrent causation " ) : ( 166 ) * The law makes everyone pay his taxes , With oblige , on the other hand , the tax law is depicted as simply imposing a state of obligation in the present , which leaves the future actualization of paying taxes up to each individual , who may or may not actually pay them . |
| 4 | I have never met or even seen a member of the Royal Family . |
| 5 | We should have SOME games in the season where we are outplayed and yet get a result . |
| 6 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 7 | In practice , we first form a column of skip means alongside the values to be smoothed and then form a column of the required smoothed values . |
| 8 | He said he would wait another week to see if the injury healed and then make a decision — if he steps down , leading batsman Javed Miandad may lead the team . |
| 9 | During the year , Mortgage Asset Management Limited has been further developed and now has a portfolio totalling £74 million . |
| 10 | In practice , unless the employer can show that the employee has copied or physically removed a list of names or the details of a process then it may be very difficult to establish that the knowledge of the employee is exclusively due to confidential information . |
| 11 | This duty might vary according to the nature of the contract of employment but would be broken if the employee copied or deliberately memorized a list of customers . |
| 12 | The reasons for these declines in late-age mortality are not well understood but probably reflect a variety of factors including better health care and improvements in nutrition and other aspects of living conditions as well as improvements in the availability and quality of medical care . |
| 13 | Between 1740 and 1760 there was introduced and popularly used a sauce-boat in the shape of a shell , sitting on a short-stemmed , moulded foot . |
| 14 | The trees and shrubs wavering in the wind had stilled and now resembled a child 's Plasticine world . |
| 15 | Larval termites look like those most primitive of insects , the bristletails ; larval horseshoe crabs are visibly segmented and so reveal a similarity with the trilobites difficult to perceive in the adult ; the free-swimming molluscan larva looks very like that of the segmented worms and thus suggests a link between the two groups . |
| 16 | These groups represent a minority opinion , she suggests , and it is up to the NVALA and groups like it to defend and reassert ‘ traditional ’ values before humanism takes a grip of society generally , rather than just at the BBC where it is viewed as already having a stranglehold . |
| 17 | More generally , governments in Japan , the US , and Europe have promoted and lavishly funded a number of large-scale pre-competitive research consortia ( such as the VSLI consortium , SEMATECH , MCC , ESPRIT , and others ) , and antitrust law and practice in both the US and Europe have become noticeably more lenient with the passage of the National Co-operative Research Act in 1984 and the announcement of the block exemption from Article 85 in the EEC for certain categories of R&D agreements in 1985 . |
| 18 | I also told them about the financial statement we had issued and afterwards received a letter asking if I would send on a financial statement , which I did " . |
| 19 | In 1576 Thomas Cherrington complained in the Queen 's Council of the Marches , that Thurston Woodcock , lord of Meason , had assembled a gang armed with long staffs and billhooks , and had forcibly ploughed and then enclosed a piece of his waste ground with a ditch . |
| 20 | Imaging quality has been vastly improved and now includes a 3D facility . ’ |
| 21 | It may be an absolutely true statement , but it does nothing whatsoever to give any guidance as to the ways in which performance may be improved and merely passes a message down the line that those at the top do not want to know the bad news and would like to dissociate themselves from it . |
| 22 | Situated just a mile from Kirchberg centre , the hotel has recently been completely re-furbished and now offers a sauna , table tennis and bicycle hire free of charge . |
| 23 | Will the Foreign Secretary keep the House informed and perhaps make a statement when the House returns after the recess ? |
| 24 | At 4 a.m. it was purely by chance that Bob Newman first heard that Tweed had murdered and then raped a girl . |