Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At 13 or 14 , I should have been taken away from my family and placed somewhere where I would have felt loved and like a real person . ’ |
| 2 | He did not say it loudly and she was not sure she had heard right so she continued . |
| 3 | Notations are generally taught long before their significance is apparent . |
| 4 | Broadly , they break down into two main types : one where the water is heated and stored hot in a hot water cylinder or tank ; the other where cold water is heated instantaneously as it is drawn off . |
| 5 | However , they should be prescribed only where there are definite indications . |
| 6 | Unfortunately a cold home , heated only when there are wet clothes around , causes damp and consequently health problems . |
| 7 | He removed it before saying venomously , ‘ Well , I hope if they 're ever in Louise Butler 's position , they 're treated better than you treated that girl . |
| 8 | Although judges were appointed by the authorities at the remaining levels ( circuit courts , judicial tribunals , and the Senate , which acted as a court of appeal ) , they could be dismissed only if they broke the law themselves . |
| 9 | He thinks he has saved for his holiday — a fallacy that is exposed only when he tries to redeem those bits of paper against an empty spending account . |
| 10 | First , it was assumed that no long-range problems would occur ; that is , that the acidifying or toxic power of the gases would be neutralised long before they got to Scandinavia or anywhere else . |
| 11 | Her daughter Chandrika , whose politics have not altered much since her Left Bank days as a student at the Sorbonne , will be the province 's chief minister . |
| 12 | Like Cadbury 's chocolate , the recipe and packaging of the Mills and Boon volume may not have altered much since its inception , but the methods of marketing and distribution have changed dramatically since the early days of the twopenny library . |
| 13 | ‘ Consequently , the measures which the member states may adopt when exercising the power conferred on them by article 5(2) of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/82 with a view to excluding certain of the vessels flying their flag from sharing in the utilisation of their national quota are justified only if they are suitable and necessary for attaining the aim of the quotas … |
| 14 | The normal justification thesis states that accepting authority is justified only if it improves one 's compliance with reason . |
| 15 | This entails , as was pointed out above , that disobedience to a law is justified only if it is justified by an existing legal doctrine to that effect . |
| 16 | The purpose is to improve work performance and is justified only if it has that result . |
| 17 | Usually they take about three weeks to make but a further nine months can elapse before brass-polishing is completed especially if they are to be exhibited before use . |
| 18 | The embarrassed silence which followed was broken only when everyone turned to watch as the Simonova 's bay tractor beams started to draw the most recently captured platform through the force field . |
| 19 | It is broken only when his neighbour is injured and not before . |
| 20 | They drove back to Alnwick in complete silence , broken only as they reached their suite , by Roman . |
| 21 | No longer can investigative stories be stopped merely because they might " prejudge " a matter which may have to be decided in litigation at some future time . |
| 22 | In the case of regional development grant , for example , the three Partnerships in the assisted regions actually received less than their late 1970s industrial populations would have suggested . |
| 23 | Look , cos that 's why it 's already broken so if you push it it 'll go . |
| 24 | It is ironical that the experimental evidence of the recent past suggests that Einstein 's position on quantum mechanics can be sustained only if one is prepared to relinquish his special theory of relativity . |
| 25 | A notable casualty of the reshuffle was the Minister for Institutional Relations , Antoine Ntashamaje , who was dismissed apparently because his son had been linked to the rebel activity . |
| 26 | You think the whole blooming world 's all arranged so as everything ought to be your way . |
| 27 | Use of naturalistic information is wholly disallowed only if there can be some settlable choice of cognitive methods where all of our naturalistic information is available only if we resolve the choice in one of the possible ways . |
| 28 | On the other hand , taking the issue costs of equity shares to the statement of total recognised gains and losses may be considered right as it reflects the nature of these costs as a permanent loss of capital . |
| 29 | In other words , if precedent was followed , the package of budget cuts would be attacked piecemeal when it disappeared into the congressional maze ; even though there might be general agreement on the need to cut the budget , vested interests operating through sympathetic members could , one by one , weaken or restore specific cuts . |
| 30 | The historian D.L.W. Tough comments that the main pointers are in what is omitted rather than what is mentioned : barely a reference to shirts or nightshirts , and the possibility that even adult Borderers had their underclothes sewn on and removed as seldom as those of slum children in later industrial cities . |