Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the four old aircraft hangars were erected side-by-side to make the Central Works , construction of the first completely new car began . |
| 2 | THE only way men could be relied on to take the proposed male contraceptive pill would be if it enlarged certain parts of their anatomy in the way the female pill enlarges breasts . |
| 3 | " Auntie Eve " could always be relied on to take an interest in their studies , or come up with something exciting such as a picnic or a day in the bush when they were home from boarding school . |
| 4 | But … the growth in net exports ( of ) services and food can not be relied on to replace the loss of manufacturing and oil net exports and secure further growth sufficient to achieve full employment ’ ( p. 139 ) . |
| 5 | The graph of the cratering rate for the Moon ( Figure 8.1 ) can only be relied on to give a very general indication of the ages of the various cratered regions on the other terrestrial planets , even if considerable care is taken in adapting the data to these planets . |
| 6 | In my view , however , therein lies its strength ; it is a programme that can be relied on to give an unvarnished account of the proceedings of the House and its committees ; it has been called a mini-Hansard . |
| 7 | It can be argued that the interests of the various groups affected by company decision making — employees , local communities , consumers , and all of us , through our interest in the environment , for example — are invested with a moral significance that can not be adequately captured within the relatively finite external legal controls that are currently relied on to regulate the terms on which wealth is created . |
| 8 | I agree with Jacobs that legislation may be the only answer as commercial forces , if left to their own devices , can not be relied on to protect the most vulnerable members of society . |
| 9 | So the teacher finally asks Peggy , who can be relied on to know the correct answer : |
| 10 | The recognised or nominal leaders of such groups may be relied on to produce an initial list of individuals who are presumed to have power in community affairs ( leaders ) . |
| 11 | As well as seeking to eliminate the old technicalities , in which it has , I think , been largely successful , the new code made one radical alteration in the nature of the evidence which could be relied on to prove the offence . |
| 12 | The first drugs which could be relied on to reduce the dangerously high arterial pressure which precedes strokes and heart failure were substances which blocked the actions of acetylcholine at these ganglia , and so prevented the passage of nervous messages which put up the blood pressure . |
| 13 | The court can not be relied on to imply a term that the parties should co-operate in the appointment of a replacement : see 8.17.4 . |
| 14 | They know she can be relied on to make the big day for her clients sparkle with the perfect glittering accessory . |
| 15 | His mere re-election can be relied on to revive the market and solve those problems — without costing the public purse one penny . |
| 16 | If it were absent , all transactors could be relied on to keep a promise to implement any decision to the best of their ability . |
| 17 | There was a ‘ secret list ’ of useful persons who could be relied on to keep an eye open for promising young men . |
| 18 | He asked if Hall had forgotten that it was intended eventually to extend the new buildings as far as Great George Street where they would be seen with the Abbey and the Palace of Westminster . |
| 19 | In future , core samples will have to be examined microscopically to determine the likelihood of failure , but development of the new test is not yet complete and will not be available until summer at the earliest . |
| 20 | In the home computer market speech synthesis is generally used to enhance games ; scores are read out and warnings of enemy attack can be given verbally leaving the player free to concentrate on the tactics of the game . |
| 21 | Graphical and frame representation are given side-by-side to show the frame representation |
| 22 | Likewise we suspect , from the ignorance he displays in scene one of Chetwyn and his work , that his praise of Chetwyn 's university , in the next scene , is given merely to uphold the approbation maxim and thus the Politeness Principle . |
| 23 | The DUC , with some ten members , was not initially anti-mining and was formed only to investigate the implications of the prospecting and then to report back and decide in consultation with the community what action should be taken . |
| 24 | WORLD cricket has distilled itself into the English game : the World Cup is over , South Africa have played their first Test match against the West Indies and now the far flung stars of these international matches have flown in to fill the last few places in the carousel of English county cricket . |
| 25 | Not to mention the profit being made by private clinics when rich girls are flown in to have an artificial hymen put in so that the rituals of defloration may continue . |
| 26 | A report in Le Monde of March 31-April 1 said that French Foreign Legion troops , flown in to assist the Rwandan forces when the rebel invasion began the previous October [ see pp. 37765-66 ] , were being withdrawn following the ceasefire . |
| 27 | Indomethacin given alone had no significant effect . |
| 28 | Shortly after the birth of the church , when the leaders gathered together to worship the Lord with fasting , the result was that ‘ the Holy Spirit said , ‘ Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them . ’ |
| 29 | The suite of National Certificate Modules listed below provides a means of studying European issues within a sociological , political , historical and geographical context : |
| 30 | Oil producing seeds pressed together produce a solid cake that animals — particularly cattle — can eat . |