Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The rally came amidst reports of dissatisfaction among army officers , some of whom had threatened to resign unless senior defence staff , blamed for Kuwait 's defeat by Iraq in August 1990 , were dismissed . |
| 32 | It remains for us to ask how the popular Hitler image we have examined contributed towards the growing strength of the regime and towards making possible this war , which , from what we have seen , most Germans — though prepared to fight if necessary — had been only too anxious to avoid . |
| 33 | On the face of it , it may seem that these two approaches can be made to coincide as long as the rules are drawn up to reflect the facts . |
| 34 | An attempt was made to determine if fluid transport varied between days 6 and 9 . |
| 35 | With a study designed the way this one was there is very little that can be done to decide whether this relatively uninteresting possibility is the major factor determining the results , the studies in the remainder of this thesis are , however , designed to address this problem . |
| 36 | Had Baldwin resigned immediately after the election , on the other hand , the King might well have sought to ascertain whether another Conservative could have formed a government and secured Liberal support . |
| 37 | Mr Radovan Karadzic , the main Serbian leader in Bosnia , had threatened to attack unless Bosnian officials freed an associate held after sniping incidents , police said . |
| 38 | The arrangement of the signs and symbols is designed to encourage a deepening awareness of their " pointing-towards " character ; the deeper we penetrate behind the scenes as it were of the various words and actions , the closer can they be seen to become because all alike are pointing towards that Mystery which is beyond straightforward conceptual understanding . |
| 39 | These findings were used to see whether appropriate timing of octreotide injections with respect to meal ingestion might avert impaired gall bladder contraction . |
| 40 | It remains a mystery to me why we should have had to wait as long as this for a recital disc , and why it should not have appeared on one of the major companies ' labels ( all credit to Delos ) . |
| 41 | A national study is needed to see whether these trends are representative but little information about night visits is collected centrally . |
| 42 | Grandchildren could be used to help when small , and there were also a few instances of a grandchild moving in during adulthood . |
| 43 | The mortified referee ordered the game to end but then was persuaded to leave while one of the linesmen took over , a spectator taking the linesman 's place . |
| 44 | It is good for me to get out and do the shopping ; I enjoy that bit of fresh air every day , and it is something I have got to do because this is when I meet people . |
| 45 | Logistic regression analysis was used to determine whether any of the reflux variables was predictive of oesophagitis . |
| 46 | Heseltine said that the government ‘ carefully evaluates directives ’ before agreeing to them and on occasion had needed to question whether other countries were honouring their commitments . |
| 47 | The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether potential jurors may be excluded from a case because of their sex . |
| 48 | After almost 10 years in University history teaching I was concerned that my students seemed to have very little idea of how history actually came to be written and of what criteria might be used to decide whether one book was more worth reading than another . |
| 49 | Equally , the lack of pressure for land has meant , in contrast to LDDC , that MDC has not had to decide whether existing firms should be forced to quit the area . |
| 50 | A further series of experiments was performed to assess whether colonic bacteria could contribute to measured metabolism . |
| 51 | Long term studies will be needed to assess if this effect is maintained . |
| 52 | Management should first examine the data produced to ascertain whether any variance from the breakdown is due to site conditions or mismanagement . |
| 53 | My favourite statistic of the match , however , is that six of the England team have the middle initial A. I can not be bothered to check whether this has ever happened before , but I doubt it . |
| 54 | Analysis of such a complex ‘ polygenic ’ disorder is not easy but ‘ candidate genes ’ can be identified and recombinant DNA techniques used to investigate whether any particular genotype or haplotype is associated with increased risk of disease . |
| 55 | Mean attitude scale scores for the different sub-groups of teachers , derived from the factor analyses for each phase , were then used to test whether any of the institutional and demographic matters listed above had a statistically significant effect on these attitudes . |
| 56 | Got killed when that horse kicked him in the head . ’ |
| 57 | He admitted , however , that there had been ‘ some people in countries such as India to whom it has occurred to ask whether this [ Soviet policy ] is in keeping with the principle of non-alignment , with a non-bloc policy ’ . |
| 58 | And is there anyone you know that has just recently got married cos these are areas that obviously |
| 59 | or another remedy is needed to follow before complete resolution occurs . |
| 60 | When the distinguished surgeon who had agreed to operate if necessary was told this , he said he doubted if that was the cause , as there was no numbness in my arms , and he would like to see the effect of the blue dye on the lower half of the spinal cord . |