Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicknamed the Dottore sottile ( " subtle doctor " ) , he had become reconciled in the 1980s with Craxi , whom he had previously criticized for what he regarded as his autocratic attitudes . |
| 2 | Park was perhaps the most influential early member of this group and it was he who , in tracing this transition , distinguished between what they called the ‘ biotic ’ and ‘ cultural ’ levels of human behaviour . |
| 3 | ‘ I join the martyrs , punished for what I believe . |
| 4 | I think it 's to make us realise that you get punished for what you do , but it does n't 20 work like that . |
| 5 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 6 | This sort of evidence should be carefully examined for what it is worth . |
| 7 | When the losses are recognized for what they are then the healing of the pain can begin , but so often the loss is so deeply buried in people 's minds that it can take a long while for it to come to the surface again . |
| 8 | It also emphasizes the importance of readings in which fictional texts are recognized for what they are rather than being treated as truth claims or pronouncements about the world . |
| 9 | They all bear the prefix ‘ W ’ ( i.e. Worldscale ) and in the context are easily recognized for what they are . |
| 10 | When Byrd 's songs have finally been recognized for what they are , there will at last be a recording of ‘ O dear life , when may be it be , sung to its complete text all eight stanzas of Sir Philip Sidney 's agonizingly erotic poem by five brave and talented singers who know exactly what they are doing . |
| 11 | She stretched out her hand to click on the bedside light , checked her watch , then lay back , panic subsiding , her eyes staring at the ceiling while the terrible immediacy of the dream began to fade , recognized for what it was , an old spectre returning after all these years , conjured up by the events of the night and by the reiteration of the word ‘ murder ’ which , since the Whistler had begun Iris work , seemed to murmur sonorously on the very air . |
| 12 | The legal model 's attempt to equate corporate managers with ordinary entrepreneurs acting so as to maximize the profits of the company should be recognized for what it is — a failure . |
| 13 | After more than a century of relative obscurity , Gordon 's A Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever of Aberdeen ( 1795 ) was recognized for what it is , a masterpiece of early epidemiology based on astute clinical observation and written with exceptional clarity . |
| 14 | Suddenly , the economic miracle of the past decade began to be recognized for what it was . |
| 15 | The little shop had been arranged as what I have seen described as a mini-hypermarket , so I found a basket and busied myself with collecting what supplies I thought I might need for the next couple of days . |
| 16 | Grades are more to be blamed for what they do not do than for what they do do . |
| 17 | ‘ In terms of ideas , I had been trying to produce pictures at that time which had a very flat , two-dimensional feel to them , being torn between what I think are two different ends of photography , but which both have that quality . |
| 18 | The NCC rounds off its booklet with a list of 10 guidelines for course developers : survey the site , evaluate it , defuse any local notions that golf is anti-conservation , allow plenty of room in the design , avoid sensitive areas in the lay-out , take care of drainage sites , do n't bother designing the rough at the start ( it 'll become clear anyway ) , plant native species , manage the land sympathetically , and keep people educated about what you 're doing . |
| 19 | As he was led away from the dock by prison officer , a woman in the public gallery shouted ‘ He deserves to be hanged for what he has done to the children . ’ |
| 20 | You could be hanged for what you have done . ’ |
| 21 | Meanwhile , this one can be enjoyed for what it does in its own right . |
| 22 | Too often too many of those responsible for credit control are not trained or organised for what they are doing . |
| 23 | ‘ … one who deals with goods at the request of the person who has the actual custody of them , in the bona fide belief that the custodian is the true owner , should be excused for what he does if the act is of such a nature as would be excused if done by the authority of the person in possession , if he was a finder of the goods or entrusted with their custody … . |
| 24 | In such circumstances , it is effrontery that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East and my hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) should be attacked for what they might do , instead of the Government being brought to account for what they have done and continue to do . |
| 25 | Such patients may be helped by being reminded of what they have accomplished during treatment . |
| 26 | Let Marion be reminded of what she had cast away . |
| 27 | In other words , there are no revenues included against which we must charge future expenses and there are no expenses against which we must match future revenues : there are no hidden liabilities but at the same time there are no hidden windfalls . |
| 28 | We saw earlier that critics in Northampton had protested against what they called a ‘ cultured ministry which … shoots over the heads of the people ’ . |
| 29 | On July 14 , when a PRI victory had already been announced by Michoacán 's State Electoral Commission , thousands of PRD supporters in the state capital , Morelia , protested against what they claimed had been widespread fraud . |
| 30 | In the 1720s , having become disillusioned with what he saw as a decline in the moral and spiritual standards of European culture , he formed the project of founding a college in Bermuda for the sons of English settlers and natives , both from Bermuda and the American mainland . |