Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The princess was taught to curb her natural impetuous temper and to own her mistakes to all she had wronged , regardless of rank . |
| 2 | However , when the upturn comes , the company , with its strong balance sheet and unique spread of service activities , is well placed to continue its long record of growth . ’ |
| 3 | Lionel Sackville , the Union Jack 's chairman , said the deal would transform it ‘ into a better balanced company , well placed to continue its active exploration programme in a tax-efficient manner ’ . |
| 4 | On the contrary , much of it — the taxation proposals in particular — is calculated to sacrifice our competitive edge . |
| 5 | Whitelegge 's knowledge of epidemiology , and his experience of public health administration in industrial districts , recommended him at this time to the Home Office , which was being pressed to reorganize its industrial health work . |
| 6 | It reckons it is well placed given its behind-the-scenes work in helping to develop some important interoperability features for Unix : it also developed the Transparent Computing Facility for IBM 's AIX and a remote procedure call test and validation suite for the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 7 | The first is that the possibility of a revolution occurring in a country where capitalism was poorly developed made him aware of the problem of setting up too rigid a sequence for human evolution . |
| 8 | His words , deliberately intended to curb her growing assurance , struck home . |
| 9 | Choose a product which has been formulated to meet your particular requirements . |
| 10 | Where any investor is part of a larger organisation , the Panel should be consulted to establish which other parts of the organisation will also be regarded as acting in concert . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ As a result of the many representations received , the Council has now resolved to continue its traditional transport arrangements . |
| 12 | Dawkins 's approach to evolution was presented in characteristically entertaining form when he suggested that the organism is ‘ … a robot vehicle blindly programmed to preserve its selfish genes ’ . |
| 13 | Looking ahead , Mr Kindersley said that DK adult publishing was expected to continue its strong performance , and that DK Children 's would probably be flat until 1994–95 , when a number of major reference books were scheduled for publication . |
| 14 | The Lebanese parliament is expected to continue its informal sessions here until the weekend — when the MPs will face the real ( and potentially frightening ) task of returning to Lebanon to account for their words in front of the sometimes sinister figures who still control the land . |
| 15 | The market in the Pacific Basin is expected to continue its rapid growth and the challenge for LASMO is to find additional reserves of gas to supply this growing demand . |
| 16 | Everything presented to the court is designed to support their basic argument of either guilt or innocence . |
| 17 | For in the real world the Tories were never expected to lose their immense majority in one go . |
| 18 | The two systems have been carefully designed to enable their joint use both for local issues , such as individual branch manning , and for broader events such as participation in production of projections and sensitivity analysis during the banks ' annual corporate planning and budget cycles . |
| 19 | UniSoft says it knows of at least three firms that paid up to $1m each for MIPS ' doomed Advanced RISC Computing development kit , originally designed to kick-start its Advanced Computing Environment initiative into life last year . |
| 20 | Will he reassure representatives of women 's institutes and townswomen 's guilds and other voluntary workers that the implementation of the Act is not designed to target their fund-raising activities in the preparation of food in village halls and elsewhere ? |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , I 've come to see me old mate Bella here . |
| 22 | Hazel had supposed that he and one or two of his comrades would be taken to see the Chief Rabbit — who would probably not be Cowslip , since Cowslip had come to see them unattended — in his burrow , after which they would all be given different places to go to . |
| 23 | The Lithuanians are to make an even more serious challenge to Moscow at a special republican party congress later this month , which is expected to restore its pre-war independence from the Soviet Communist Party . |
| 24 | Being bullied make him angry . |
| 25 | It was only from looking at film of the first episode that everyone remembered Frank had forgotten to wear his famous beret and raincoat . |
| 26 | The mere thought of being confined made her breathless . |
| 27 | On a typical holding , however , you will use some buildings as they stand , modify others and eventually erect one or more designed to meet your specific needs . |
| 28 | Whether you 're looking for your first flat or have finally found the castle of your dreams , The Royal Bank of Scotland has a range of mortgage schemes specially designed to meet your particular needs . |
| 29 | By the way , I really must correct a false impression that I inadvertently gave just now ; I said you would be permitted to observe our sacred and ancient rites . |
| 30 | I had expected to find them empty . |