Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All will be meticulously examined to see whether any recorded the planting of the two bombs in litter bins . |
| 2 | A shareholders action committee has been formed to see if any value can be obtained . |
| 3 | I would be fascinated to know if these yards of generally disagreeable reviews will in fact sell copies . |
| 4 | Mr Coates 's replacement , Jonathan Davie , thinks that , in Britain , the firm is well placed to benefit if share-trading volumes continue at the pace of the first quarter of this year . |
| 5 | Erm what I was trying to do was be candid about what kind of er inquiries of the strategic kind might be expected to come if this county had that kind of policy . |
| 6 | This market can be expected to grow since increased leisure time and rising disposable incomes are likely to.lead to an increased take up of leisure activities . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose he 's got flu now and I 'm expected to manage as usual with only half of you here . |
| 8 | Our studies were designed to determine whether transient UOS relaxations occur during gastro-oesophageal reflux . |
| 9 | TableCurve can calculate the data 's best fit to one of its equations , or the plot of the data can be previewed to decide whether any data needs to be edited or excluded , or weighting factors applied prior to processing . |
| 10 | Does subsidiarity mean that the Member States should be permitted to decide whether that decision is an individual matter or one for the national state to take on the basis of its view of where the best interests of |
| 11 | All four of the properties described above make it less likely that central banks would ever have to defend parities that the markets had come to regard as indefensible . |
| 12 | We 've come to stay as long as you like really , up to a week . |
| 13 | The study compared what each type of creditor — holders of debt , preference shares and equity — would have expected to get if strict legal priority had been applied with what they actually got . |
| 14 | Now we have come to ask if that 's all right . ’ |
| 15 | The present study was designed to test whether massive ( 90% ) PSBR would remove sufficient enteroendocrine cells to prevent the hypercholecystokininaemia of lesser enterectomies and , if not , whether the CCK receptor antagonist CR-1409 would blunt the adaptive response of the pancreas . |
| 16 | On March 11 at least 28 guerrillas were reported killed when Turkish troops and helicopters attacked a PKK base near Genc , in eastern Turkey . |
| 17 | The People 's Assembly began discussion of a new public order bill at the end of January , proposing a series of tough measures aimed at rioters and looters and the establishment of a new intervention force designed to act when public order was threatened . |
| 18 | For both these purposes , it is inconvenient to regard the existing distinctive qualities of women — whatever these may be — as simply deformations produced by oppression , which could be expected to evaporate when that artificial pressure is removed . |
| 19 | The results are expected to show whether these motivational styles are more prevalent amongst pupils with learning and behavioural difficulties than amongst pupils who are not identified as having these special needs . |
| 20 | The number of casualties was expected to rise because many people were still trapped in the rubble of damaged buildings . |
| 21 | When the plan is being constructed and teachers are deciding upon success criteria for plans they may put searching questions and suggest additional ways to ensure that objectives become reality : if a school aims ‘ involve all pupils ’ are checks being made to see whether this is occurring ? |
| 22 | In the tear-down bay the engine is carefully dismantled and an initial ‘ eyeball ’ inspection is made to see if any snags become apparent . |
| 23 | The firm is pushed to continue as long as it can without breaking the law — indeed Dista can claim CSM positively discouraged it from taking action , a situation which , some observers claim , shows that the British drugs watchdog has power without responsibility . |
| 24 | Scientists from Lancaster Moor Hospital and Lancaster University , who discovered the link , are calling for more studies to be done to see if other childhood cancers have increased in the 4,000-5,000 children born between 1950 and 1990 to mothers in the target group . |
| 25 | She sat down and prepared to wait as long as was necessary . |
| 26 | The most risky situations , high risk exemplars of high risk junctions are given significantly more descriptions that are clearly not related to risk than any other type of situation . |
| 27 | ‘ is a matter of confidence between him ( the Home Secretary ) and the judiciary which we have not sought to breach because such consultation truly lies in my view within the realm of confidence , i.e. privilege . |
| 28 | This effectively established a matrix on the database ( Fig 11.10 ) so that an annotation could be made to indicate whether each item of information , in relation to the activity described , was relevant to the functional groups that existed in the EPH , ie the Officers ( OICs ) , Clerical Assistant ( Clerk ) , Care Assistants ( CA ) , Domestic Assistants ( DA ) , the Cook , and the Gardener/handyman ( Gdnr ) . |
| 29 | Why the chamber should have decided to evacuate after half-a-million years stability remains a matter of conjecture . |
| 30 | In these examples descriptions of exchange and the crossing of frontiers illustrate the move from one discursive domain to another , showing how such actions can be made to function as textual manoeuvres and figure the metaphoric strategies of the imagination . |