Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Surely you are not suggesting that my daughter — ? |
| 2 | A particularly difficult situation arises in the case of a girl who is sent to hospital in need of a therapeutic abortion and refuses point blank to enter the hospital unless a guarantee is given that her parents shall not be told about it . |
| 3 | And , she forbade bodily contact , a perfectly sensible interdict given that her interviewees were boring , or scruffy , or dirty or all three . |
| 4 | Given that their deposits are ‘ money ’ , there is an overwhelming case from an economic point of view for dwelling on their similarities ( and calling them all ‘ banks ’ ) rather than on their differences . |
| 5 | The Liberals apparently entered into secret negotiations with both parties , a surprising development given that their leader , Economic Affairs Minister Itzhak Moda'i , had in 1986 resigned from a Cabinet headed by Peres after an acrimonious personal feud [ see p. 34770 ] ; Moda'i was also a noted supporter of leading hardliner Ariel Sharon . |
| 6 | Curiously , given that its UK arm does a significant amount of work on VME mainframes , there is no place for ICL Plc kit in D&B 's initial plan — not so smart , perhaps — but again , support is expected to follow shortly . |
| 7 | Founder and managing director Simon Goodfellow — a refugee from Solbourne Computer Inc 's UK operation — thinks Sparc International was unnecessarily aggressive in the way it handled the use of the Sparc trademark , given that its mission is to encourage the development of a Sparc marketplace . |
| 8 | That is to be expected , given that its decisions are based on the European Convention of Human Rights . |
| 9 | Given that its hero 's fatal handicap was the size of his nose , it seemed to me most tactless that there should be a ‘ pneumological ’ institute named after him in Cambo , when the last thing he can have suffered from was breathing problems . |
| 10 | Campaigning under the slogan " deliverance " , the FNM emphasised that it was time for a change , given that its free-market strategy of combating recession , high unemployment and reviving the tourist based economy differed little from the PLP 's . |
| 11 | I find it impossible to believe that the Director would contemplate sending an official to interview a defendant during his trial , even if there were anything to be gained from such a course , which is hard to see , given that his answers would not be admissible . |
| 12 | Given that his secret was safe , what else could there be ? |
| 13 | He 's a ball winner , and given that his average minutes/appearance during his time with Leeds must be about 10 , he 's knocked in his share of goals . |
| 14 | Farr-Jones dismisses the idea that his championing of IMG 's cause has compromised him , given that his brother , Peter , has joined the sporting company after working in the banking sector for many years . |
| 15 | They will probably be fairly reluctant to assist , given that your client is not a member of their union , but they might be persuaded to part with the safety minutes which contain relevant complaints that predate the accident . |
| 16 | Given that our Delegation 's 15 votes formed less than two thirds of a quota and bearing in mind that this was a first attempt , it was felt that this was a somewhat ambitious foray into the politics of the wider Trade Union Movement . |
| 17 | It leaves it unsolved , but all right , given that our ancestors had this because they wanted to swim sinusoidally and eat , you know , filter feed and do things like that , we do n't swim sinusoidally and filter feed why on earth do we are we so conservative ? |
| 18 | Given that our Association had been 75 years outside the wider Trade Union Movement , our Delegates were concerned at what type of reception they might receive from the Conference . |
| 19 | However , given that our interviews with users have uncovered an increasing disillusionment of heroin users with GPs , and vice versa , and given the overlap between users known to GPs and the Home Office , it is possible that , even in the case of GPs , the number of problem drug users ‘ missed ’ is not that large . |
| 20 | The trick is to make the qualification time long enough so that the people who go to a club towards the end of their career and get large transfer bonuses do not qualify , but short enough for the players to feel that they will not have to wait half their lives to get theirs . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd not even seen Leanne for about four months and then she was with him , but I got half my arm blown away . ’ |
| 22 | Mr Young , though thinnish , had a habit of eating half his wife 's food as well as his own . |
| 23 | A cheery old Berber made half his house ours at Tagmout . |
| 24 | There they sold half their animals , bought goods with the proceeds , loaded them onto the remaining animals and returned to Kufra , resuming the annual north-south movement . |
| 25 | And you sold half your ring and all , did n't you want to cut up ? |
| 26 | The half-life of a radioactive substance is the time interval taken for the radiant species present to lose half its radioactivity . |
| 27 | WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT ! he 's liable to lose half his teeth by the time he 's 40 because of Mouth Acid |
| 28 | We do not want this My Lords , th the th the appointed members system will be wrong , it will be against the whole trend of policing as the Noble Lord Harris spelt out from eighteen thirty-five . |
| 29 | CB is also most unlikely to reach its ambitious goal of generating half its earnings outside France by 1992 , despite having started 20 new businesses in Europe over the last few years . |
| 30 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |