Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN TEA was taken at 3.10 on the final afternoon of the first Test , even the more fervent student for the long game could have been forgiven for switching to automatic pilot . |
| 2 | Viewers familiar with Dr Latimer 's assistant in Do n't Wait Up will be forgiven for defecting to another channel . |
| 3 | The reader may be forgiven for thinking at this stage that , given the weaknesses in much project work , the solution would be to abandon it altogether . |
| 4 | Looking back on his varied career , Haslam is somewhat guarded about passing on any pet theories on how to manage at the top . |
| 5 | On Nov. 26 Duane Clarridge , former CIA chief of European operations , was indicted for lying to congressional investigators about the Iran-contra scandal . |
| 6 | The advantage of this method is that it is a multivariate technique which allows an analysis of the relationship between unemployment and imprisonment to be examined after controlling for other factors such as crime levels , numbers of convictions , and age structure of the population , which might affect the rate of incarceration . |
| 7 | Five patients were withdrawn after responding to diuretic treatment alone . |
| 8 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 9 | A NORTH-EAST ice-cream firm was yesterday fined for operating in unclean premises . |
| 10 | Time travellers forbidden from remaining in one place for more than a short while , The Shamen are taking pop to places it 's hitherto been excluded from . |
| 11 | Time travellers forbidden from remaining in one place for more than a short while , The Shamen are taking pop to places it 's hitherto been excluded from . |
| 12 | Supported by incessant air attacks and a heavy bombardment from the sea , each of the allied thrusts succeeded in breaking through Iraqi defences . |
| 13 | The Torit and Nasir factions of the SPLA had succeeded in uniting behind this demand for regional self-determination , although a representative of John Garang 's Torit faction stressed on May 31 that the " self-determination " solution remained second-best after the solution of a " secular , democratic , pluralistic and multi-party Sudan " . |
| 14 | Two men , however , both of whom came from Cardiff , succeeded in enlisting for different regiments . |
| 15 | In 1954 Mitterrand held the information portfolio in the Mendes-France Government : he appointed a Gaullist with left-wing connections , Jean Marin , as ‘ DG ’ — a post Marin succeeded in holding for 2 I years . ’ |
| 16 | Some women did not register because they were discouraged from looking for paid work because of the poor state of the economy . |
| 17 | This had no very radical consequences : it was dropped after a few years , Diodorus says ( xi.87 ) , because too many of the prominent citizens were thereby discouraged from engaging in political life . |
| 18 | Mr Justice Turner also said that a regulatory body — existing alongside the law — could be considered in dealing with some wrongdoers in the commercial field . |
| 19 | On Oct. 19 the jopint UN-IAEA Special Commission on Iraqi disarmament had maintained in a report to the UN Security Council that it remained constrained from going beyond preparatory work on weapons inspection and verification until Iraq agreed to comply with such monitoring " on the Council 's , not Iraq 's terms " . |
| 20 | Given this topic framework , J is constrained from talking about these things unless he introduces into the topic framework some additional information which he could then treat as shared by his hearer-that one of his brothers had gone to Australia to train as a brain surgeon and he considered doing the same , but settled for bricklaying instead . |
| 21 | There is another America which neither of them knew , except tangentially : the America of the Old Confederacy which had known defeat , and was committed to living with that knowledge . |
| 22 | When a nationalized industry is committed to pricing in this way , it should use these prices to calculate the stream of social profit and the social rate of return on the investment project . |
| 23 | And anyone can write into the managing director who is committed to answering within three days . ’ |
| 24 | Labour councils tended to spend relatively more and be more committed to spending on social services than Conservative councils which spent a higher proportion of their budgets on education , but the bulk of spending was similar and handled through nationally organized professionals rather than locally based politicians . |
| 25 | Sunk costs can be easily identified in that they will have been paid or are subject to legally binding contracts and the firm is committed to paying for these contracts in the future . |
| 26 | His 1911 book Political Parties argued that these organizations supposedly committed to ushering in democratic organization in fact showed all the essential characteristics of bureaucratic organizations , and a separation between leaders and led every bit as pronounced as that prevailing in industry or state agencies . |
| 27 | The same holds true of the new wave of talent highlighted here , though one or two are committed to working with building-based companies . |
| 28 | In the case of the biography the author is even less likely to be attracted to writing at second hand about a nobody , and what is more , he has a completely open field of all the somebodies that he chooses to tackle . |
| 29 | This credit upgrading , coupled with a general accord on economic co-operation , was expected to resulted in Italian investments of at least $500,000,000 . |
| 30 | The attitude of some bondholders previously willing to surrender their bonds modified on learning of this privilege which they were previously and largely unaware of in connection with redemption , so much so that of the 47 bonds bought out , 24 holders elected to enjoy perpetual membership . |