Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( At least , until |
| 2 | Presumably your clothes will need to be altered or some new ones purchased . |
| 3 | Most such acute psychiatric wards are now sited in district general hospitals ; and even though it is not essential for in-patient facilities of this type to be in the same place as other medical specialties , it is often helpful for elderly people , in particular , to be treated where specialist medical advice on physical illness and disability is readily available . |
| 4 | The entrances were placed where most convenient and there was ‘ a high degree of natural and justifiable irregularity in almost all the parts ’ which , although rejected in the Houses of Parliament , was he said , ‘ the invariable practice of the best Gothic architects ’ . |
| 5 | On April 23 Lang , newly responsible for education , dropped or modified controversial university reform proposals introduced by his predecessor Jospin [ see p. 38471 ] . |
| 6 | 1 noticed that they frequently lost interest during bulletins when political activities and speeches were reported or some official announcement was made . |
| 7 | In Hollywood a host of productions , several with a Middle East location , were postponed , cancelled or left stranded in the sand . |
| 8 | There are many documents that can be happily produced at 300dpi and either photocopied or short-run printed and no-one will ever be aware that they have n't been typeset . |
| 9 | Officials also disclosed that all bilateral treaties ( dealing with defence and security , health , trade , commerce , agriculture and energy ) were under review . |
| 10 | Manager ‘ Ila Tapueluelu , however , disclosed that five younger players had been drafted in for the Fiji event after a disappointing showing in a tournament in Western Samoa . |
| 11 | In one particular alone , the Scott Report disclosed that 40 million rounds of small arms ammunition had been delivered in fourteen months , which was totally inconsistent with the 15 per cent claim . |
| 12 | From what we have seen it might be supposed that private judicial patronage was more trouble than it was worth , but the offices were in fact received as a sign of favour by many lawyers , who could of course use them as stepping stones to better things . |
| 13 | It is not improbable that men worth £1 or less did not begin to attract attention until the later stages of the subsidy bill , as a result of the Commons ' determination to shift the burden of taxation downwards , for if the intention was to rope in labourers and servants as a makeweight , it could not have been seriously supposed that any substantial amount could be wrung from them . |
| 14 | The atomic age has forcefully reopened that old forgotten Christian question : ‘ What if the world should end tonight ? ’ |
| 15 | It must be stressed that many other dietary components such as calcium , other divalent ions and trace elements may be equally important with respect to blood pressure ( McCarron et al , 1982 ; Saltman , 1983 ) . |
| 16 | This is dramatized in table 9.5 , which presents the results of setting each coefficient at plus or minus two standard errors in order to illustrate the potential range of estimates for expenditure needs for an authority ; it must be stressed that this simple procedure overstates the true variability , but we do not have available sufficient information to enable a better assessment . |
| 17 | It should be stressed that large wooden articles such as doors are usually far better stripped by removing them and dipping in a caustic tank . |
| 18 | The reader is reminded that all that has been written so far has been dealing with the First and Second Periods into which the development of the Created God has been divided . |
| 19 | Hence there must be a facility for storing the cross- reference until it is required , and a system by which the editor is reminded that that cross- reference needs to be written in at the other point ( earlier or later in the text ) . |
| 20 | It is expected that two Czechoslovak dissidents , spanning a 20-year period , will be chosen as joint winners to emphasise the durability of the movement towards liberalisation . |
| 21 | It is expected that all senior managers in most of the organisations competing in an industry will be interviewed . |
| 22 | If a self-citation ( see 5.4 ) was , in the majority of cases , the first citation , it would be expected that these two values would be identical , because the first citation of the thesis would be in the author 's first related published paper . |
| 23 | It is only to be expected that these two rather different techniques , the Doppler shift technique and the " chirp radar " technique , would be useful for different special purposes . |
| 24 | By Aug. 24 , when the Security Council Military Staff Committee met , the USA had drafted a proposed resolution which would give UN legitimacy to the use of the necessary force to maintain a blockade , but which would leave the decision on such interventions to the naval command ( i.e. to the US Navy , in practice , or the British or French , since it was expected that those other countries which had contributed naval forces on a smaller scale would wish to avoid this controversial step ) . |
| 25 | It is expected that any such changes to be manifested not only at the attitudinal and cognitive levels , but also in behavioural indices such as higher rates of criminal activity , marital problems and disputes at work . |
| 26 | There has been a strong movement in favour of delegalization and privatization of family and personal matters ; but when moral panic breaks out law continues to be invoked as ‘ binding on everyone in society , whatever their beliefs … the embodiment of a common moral position ’ , despite the recognition that ‘ in our pluralistic society it is not to be expected that any one set of principles can be enunciated to be completely accepted by everyone . ’ |
| 27 | Each of these subjects involves a highly intricate body of law , and it is not to be expected that any one man or even three or four men can master them all . |
| 28 | Although both the Reagan and the Bush administrations had previously waived this provision , it was expected that senior Democratic senators would oppose another suspension of the certification requirement . |
| 29 | It was expected that some 40-50 mergers per year would fall due for examination in this way . |
| 30 | The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out to create a healthy atmosphere for the population within less than a decade , but even by the 1990s this has not been achieved and it is now expected that some urban areas will not achieve healthy air until well into the next century . |