Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] [v-ing] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On leaving Apple , Steve Jobs was described as ‘ its heart and soul ’ ( Patterson , 1985 ) and Lévesque was seen as speaking for the little people of Quebec , the average French Canadians whom he loved . |
| 2 | Should treatment be withheld and the available donor organs donated to ‘ more suitable ’ patients or should such ill patients be actively treated while waiting for a suitable donor organ , thus leading to a potential increase in the number of stable patients likely to deteriorate while awaiting ‘ elective ’ transplantation ? |
| 3 | My knowledge of chyluria progressed while working for the senior physician of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases . |
| 4 | It has also often been argued that there is empirical evidence that rules the suggestion quite out of court by demonstrating that a pre-exposed stimulus quite lacks the properties that have been taken as defining for an inhibitory CS ( Rescorla 1969 ) . |
| 5 | The Howard Beach outrage , when a young black man was killed while looking for a public phone in an Italian neighbourhood , provided much of the inspiration for Spike Lee 's Do The Right Thing . |
| 6 | Another bomb fell and he was back in the gutter beside Peregrine , convinced that anything was preferable to being killed while waiting for an improbable train . |