Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know what I expected to see , but as always when you have a tooth out or get kicked half to death the change in appearance is nowhere like commensurate with the pain . |
| 2 | I would be grateful if you could just check to see if I have made any errors of fact , or have misunderstood any point you and your colleagues made to us . |
| 3 | If you are a keen gardener or have done any fund-raising or interesting travelling , for example , you will appear a more attractive candidate than someone who simply spends their spare time slumped in front of the television . |
| 4 | I hope all of you know or have met this good friend of the Hundred I 'm sure that most of you have and he has with him today a guest from Germany , Herr and his charming daughter er and Mr was a member of the and has provided invaluable information here , who as you know is doing a , a comprehensive book on the monster mission and in commemoration of what we have done today , we have a letter addressed to er the Hundredth Bomb Group Memorial Association U K , from the Most Reverend Doctor the Bishop of Munster which I would like to read to you . |
| 5 | When the time comes to settle up ( this can be after 25 years ) you may owe money or have made some . |
| 6 | Some sufferers have such intense addictive disease or have sustained such significant emotional and other damage that they may require extended primary care lasting many weeks or months to gain gradual , gentle understanding of the disease process and of the beginnings of recovery . |
| 7 | For my character that 's been her hook on life , she sees it as a way of competing with women who are brighter or have got more of a start in life . |
| 8 | Many of the studies that do exist have been small scale or have had some other issue , such as integration , as their key focus , referring to welfare assistance either in passing or as a subsidiary concern . |
| 9 | In on large study , the perinatal mortality risk increased by 20 per cent for the infants of smokers of less than 20 per day and by 35 per cent for smokers of 20 or more per day , compared with that of non-smokers. ( 5 ) The risk is greater in women who are poor , anaemic or have had several children . |
| 10 | When children have been taken into care at a very early age , and have lived in institutions until after their third birthday , or have experienced several changes of foster mother during this time , they have sometimes failed to form any secure affectional bond or attachment . |
| 11 | In practice this is likely to mean those schools which are already participating in school improvement schemes or have shown some other indication of an ability to grapple with problems . |
| 12 | In practice this is likely to mean those schools which are already participating in school improvement schemes or have shown some other indication of an ability to grapple with problems . |
| 13 | In Italy , Bettino Craxi 's party was the first victim of the corruption scandals that have hit all the mainstream parties . |
| 14 | In Wales the club-v-country argument has gone on for longer even than the locust years — a constant , nagging reminder of the manifold and manifest divisions that have wrought such damage on Welsh rugby . |
| 15 | The study of palaeontology in conjunction with geology ought to throw light on the interaction of historical events and the evolution of a substantial sample of the organisms that have inhabited this planet . |
| 16 | Yamazaki seems unconcerned by the fact that he 's taking on problems that have defeated many who should have known better . |
| 17 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 18 | I regard arms races as of the utmost importance because it is largely arms races that have injected such ‘ progressiveness ’ as there is in evolution . |
| 19 | These are the qualities that have sent many behavioral scientists in search of cooperative , group-oriented , non-hierarchical organizational forms . |
| 20 | Our society and culture , together with our spiritual awareness , has built a structure over the years to help us remember those people and events that have done much to determine the kind of lives we live today , and that part of the structure that relates to the Royal Air Force has , of course , a special interest for our Association . |
| 21 | The cuttings to take now are semi-hardwood or semi-ripe cuttings : young shoots that have grown this year and started to harden at the base . |
| 22 | The great transitions of life — birth , marriage and death — retained their power over the imagination , and the rituals around these are all that have kept many churches functioning . |
| 23 | Because most of our readers will be using libraries that have adopted this system , fuller details are given below , together with a brief description of the Universal Decimal Classification , which is based on the Dewey system . |
| 24 | A reason why a number of companies that have adopted some form of matrix management have declared it a failure is to be found in inadequate preparation and briefing of those involved . |
| 25 | Many advice workers are unaware that they have had a democratic part in the policy decisions that have adopted these training requirements and some even see these demands on them as a personal affront . |
| 26 | Whether the graptolites were not living near shore , or whether the conditions were not right for their preservation , are questions that have excited some argument . |
| 27 | Environmental factors that have received most attention include nutritional status and past or present hepatitis B virus ( HBV ) infection . |
| 28 | In contrast , it is the ergonomics of the hardware and the physical environment that have received most attention . |
| 29 | ‘ Marstons must realise that it is the skills and enterprise of the licensees that have made these pubs so popular , ’ said branch spokesman Robert Whatley . |
| 30 | The dismissal of hypochondria by most doctors is a relatively new attitude , and one which is lamented by those that have studied this disorder . |