Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that 's a real nuisance with a working dog because it does n't matter where you have your beasts gathered or which direction you want to drive your sheep , a rabbit is always likely to pop up and Meg would be off like a shot . |
| 2 | They can dispense with the claim that science must start with unbiased and unprejudiced observation by making a distinction between the way a theory is first thought of or discovered on the one hand , and the way in which it is justified or its merits assessed on the other . |
| 3 | ‘ ( 1 ) An act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable in tort on the ground only — ( a ) that it induces another person to break a contract or interferes or induces any other person to interfere with its performance ; or ( b ) that it consists in his threatening that a contract ( whether one to which he is a party or not ) will be broken or its performance interfered with , or that he will induce another person to break a contract or to interfere with its performance . |
| 4 | A much more likely thesis is that the theory is wrong — either our ideas of the way in which stars function are wildly misplaced or our understanding of the process of nuclear fusion is flawed . |
| 5 | The fact that he did not stop can be explained or whichever part of this point is applicable . |
| 6 | Where there is limited choice or competition , as in many public services , individual citizens can not as easily make their voices heard or their views count . |
| 7 | Details of the number of Hurricanes scrambled or my position in the formation escape me . |
| 8 | Even if some of them come for what others hold to be a wrong reason , they should not be discouraged or their motives despised . |
| 9 | By then Bragad 's other men had surrendered , for they were surrounded and their lord was captive . |
| 10 | The magazine served to reinforce my own feelings that we in the UK must fight to preserve lesbian and gay rights which were so hard won and which Mrs Thatcher seems determined to destroy . |
| 11 | As things stood , no ‘ crime ’ had been committed and their moment of human folly would pass unremembered in the official calendars of criminal acts . |
| 12 | ‘ I think we should also make love as soon as possible , ’ he murmured , as his kisses deepened and their breathing began to quicken . |
| 13 | The boys of 602 , sitting at their camp tables reading Picture Post or playing chess were scrambled and their marker moved into the Forth Sector . |
| 14 | Providing you 're , you are correctly fused and your wires are okay then no problem . |
| 15 | Her disabilities are not particularly apparent — her speech is only slightly stilted and her walk remarkably confident . |
| 16 | We are thus faced with the following problem : what organization in the early sea-urchin embryo ensures that the proportions of cells that form the skeleton , the gut , and the surface layers , will be the same in embryos whose cells can be quite extensively rearranged and whose size varies over a factor of eightfold ? |
| 17 | TCR -β genes are rearranged and their RNA has been detected before TCR- α gene rearrangement in the fetal thymus . |
| 18 | Under Dej , the once affluent bourgeois residents of Herastau , the attractive northern suburb of Bucharest , were evicted and their houses occupied by the new élite . |
| 19 | A police station adjacent to the jail was simultaneously attacked by the rebels , its occupants disarmed and its telephone wires severed . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , it is worth reiterating that notation is added to the list of subjects that comprise the schedules of a classification scheme after the subjects to be included and their order have been settled . |
| 21 | The turbocharger is water cooled and its vanes are small to keep inertia down . |
| 22 | Once a routine becomes boring it is soon forgotten and its benefits are lost . |
| 23 | Richard seemed to me to have changed so much , become humourless and uncertain-tempered , a family man who grumbled because his socks were not mended and his shirts not ironed properly , so that I was slightly nervous of him and also resentful : I felt that I had become , in his eyes , so much a wife , that he would see my new involvement as a nice occupation for me , like embroidery or dressmaking . |
| 24 | Their udders dropped and their teats became larger and more pendulous so that when they lay down in their stalls the vital milk-producing organ was pushed away to one side into the path of the neighbouring animals . |
| 25 | As Clare staggered , her arms dropped and her banner wrapped around her head : she could not see where she was going . |
| 26 | He said that the latest measures had been a success , that Ruth 's temperature had dropped and her breathing loosened . |
| 27 | The birds , at Ryde on the Isle of Wight , were to be trapped and their necks wrung because of complaints by traders . |
| 28 | This chart is designed to show at a glance exactly how many rooms have been let and exactly how many rooms are still available to be let and their type . |
| 29 | Her ribcage lifted and her chin tilted up in self-defence to warn him off , but he seemed to interpret that as a provocatively brazen invitation . |
| 30 | His missing hand is lifted and its blessing stays . |