Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [is] [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , point six erm okay look at the sentences one and two under six , one is apparently ill-formed , herself left , except in I think some Irish dialects actually yes , well it has a rather special meaning where herself is given special status erm in the context , but in normal English , English herself left is ill-formed , but two , Florence saw herself is fine herself is a reflective pronoun refers that herself each other or one another , the other are reflective pronouns . |
| 2 | In fact , there is a view that agencies too opt for long-term foster care instead of adoption with contact where there is continued parental interest . |
| 3 | A large aerogenerator programme is at present underway in the Netherlands where it is hoped that wind will be supplying about one quarter of Dutch electricity demand by the year 2000 . |
| 4 | Public Health Nursing is still to a large extent task-oriented and the findings in a survey of the work load of the Public Health Nurse in Ireland in 1986 showed that only a small percentage of time ( 0.2% ) was spent directly on health education , although it is acknowledged that health promotion is a component of tasks and policy in all aspects of their role . |
| 5 | Once it is accepted that management involves technical expertise , the court could , without departing from the existing but anomalous principle that the standard of care is linked to the attributes of the director , impose an appropriately higher standard , given that most executive directors of large companies do have considerable business experience . |
| 6 | Once it is accepted that surrogacy is unlikely to cause any serious harm , the idea that it could be used for social rather than medical reasons should lose much of the horror and condemnation with which it tends to be associated . |
| 7 | Once it is established that insider dealing ought to be a criminal offence , the question becomes : how much do we punish and why ? |
| 8 | Once it is agreed that legislation should be prepared , the civil servants consult with the outside pressure groups , they clear their ideas with other interested departments and negotiate any financial aspects with the Treasury . |
| 9 | So if somebody is offered premature retirement and they accept the offer , that form 's automatically sent to you you do n't actually need to apply . |
| 10 | But Elvis was going through a very fat period , and I thought , ‘ Well , I 'll wait until he 's lost some weight , ’ because my childhood image was of a real animal of a person . |
| 11 | I shall certainly stop him inheriting until he 's learned some sense . |
| 12 | If it is decided that use of a measure of material deprivation is informative and conceptually sound , then simple measures based on easily available and regularly updated measures would be preferable to the opaque and statistically complex derived indices . |
| 13 | if it is accepted that biotechnology is here to stay , how can it be controlled to the best advantage ? |
| 14 | If it is accepted that ability to consume is the major determinant and indicator of economic status — and that is implicit in the common concern over the ‘ standard of living ’ of different groups in society — then the conclusion must be that retirement is only one of a number of factors that affect economic status , and retirement alone is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for economic dependency . |
| 15 | If it is accepted that representative or indirect democracy is at best an inadequate substitute for personal participation , and that everything possible should be done to ensure that the views and wishes of the people are represented as accurately as possible within such a system , it must surely follow that representation should be in proportion to the weight of opinion in the society itself . |
| 16 | It is as well to appreciate that a body in free fall from a fixed starting event will follow different geodesics if it is given different starting velocities . |
| 17 | If it is agreed that project work has a great deal to offer in terms of developing reading , but recognised that these opportunities tend not to be exploited to the full , it is necessary to examine ways in which project work can be designed to make fuller use of its potential . |
| 18 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
| 19 | And I wonder if he 's put any oil on that door ? ’ |
| 20 | 1.15:WONDER MAN is a most exciting chasing prospect and I will be surprised if he is beaten this afternoon . |
| 21 | Yeah , cos it 's called Early Learning Centre . |
| 22 | In addition , wood will deteriorate and eventually rot unless it is given regular maintenance . |
| 23 | Now , the Family Health Services Authority has warned that unless it is given more money , prospective fundholders could be discouraged from joining the scheme . |
| 24 | To make progress each member is allowed to speak only once on any motion that is before the meeting unless he is given special permission by the Chairman . |
| 25 | I love Ma , but she must expect to be unhappy because she 's reached that time of life . |
| 26 | Mother says I must n't grow any more till she 's collected enough wool to knit me a bigger one . |
| 27 | Because it 's designed that way , with tiles coloured and crafted to live in harmony with both history and local environments . |
| 28 | She says it 's ages since she 's done any exercise , and it 's good for her . |
| 29 | No attempt was made , therefore , to calculate the delivery times of individual items from the Annexe , since it is known that delivery times range from an minimum of just over three-quarters of an hour , for requests submitted immediately before the majority of the van 's departures from the Main Building , to a maximum of around sixty-six hours , for requests submitted immediately after the van 's final departure on Fridays ( and longer at holiday periods ) . |
| 30 | Only after it is decided that company collection agencies are unsuitable for the job should outside agencies be contracted to fill in the gaps . |