Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The differences between Roosevelt and Truman have sometimes been exaggerated where their attitudes to Russia were concerned . |
| 2 | In other situations a rumour or suspicion may with great care be reported if its existence ( irrespective of its truth ) has some significance , if its victim is allowed to reply and renounce the allegation and if the publisher is scrupulous not to indicate expressly or impliedly that the allegation is true . |
| 3 | No public librarian , for instance , can regard each item on the fiction shelves as an equal unit , to be discarded if its rate of use falls below the average rate for the entire stock . |
| 4 | The illusion persisted that the British might have succeeded if their diplomacy had been more sensitive and subtle , and if Macmillan himself had been more alive to the timing of the presidential election . |
| 5 | It would have been interesting to listen to their discussion , trying to understand their arguments , for I 'm hanged if their decision makes an ounce of sense to my mundane way of thinking . |
| 6 | The Bible is not written in a secret spiritual code which must be cracked if its message is to be understood . |
| 7 | Fortunately , all of these problems can be solved if your camcorder is fitted with a socket for an extension microphone . |
| 8 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 9 | The real force of literature 's subversive power , though , is ultimately contained because its texts are sanctioned by the state to play a subversive role , a role which state institutions can control . |
| 10 | The possession charge had been dropped because her daughter had only had a small amount on her . |
| 11 | That 's why he 's been picked because his mistress is totally deaf , and partially sighted . |
| 12 | Her voice was muffled because her head was under the bed , still shoe-hunting . |
| 13 | Had Tyndale collapsed because its teachers had no understanding of the expectations of the parent body ? |
| 14 | At one property , an indoor swimming pool collapsed because its floor level was below the flood level . |
| 15 | I 've known myself disciplined because my mother spoke to me in Bold Street . |
| 16 | Grumman said he was caught because his entry was picked up by its own computers . |
| 17 | Tenants in a house at Brockworth near Gloucester , who say they 've been paying rent for six months , barracaded themselves in when they heard they were being evicted because their landlord had defaulted on his mortgage . |
| 18 | Mr Major would have resigned because his Government could not attract the support of a parliamentary majority . |
| 19 | In 1945 Labour won because its thinking was clearly in tune with the times . |
| 20 | He will have won because his vision offered more hope to American voters than four more years of George Bush in charge . |
| 21 | He had hoped to get the award cancelled because his co-defendant , Nigel Watts had reached a separate agreement with Lord Aldington . |
| 22 | A macroeconomic model by its very nature must be highly simplified since its purpose is to simulate what is happening in the economy as a whole . |
| 23 | Owned since its formation by the clearing banks ( eighty-five per cent ) and the Bank of England ( fifteen per cent ) , it represents a commercially successful , City-based initiative to help meet British industry 's long-term capital requirements . |
| 24 | And so was the famous old Raffles Hotel ( although it 's been rebuilt since his visit ) just as he remembered it — from the outside , that is . |
| 25 | Mr Tweddle said the driver parked while his wife went into a shop and when he saw her returning he started the car and reversed . |
| 26 | Spencer was only caught after his victim went scouring the streets of the city looking for him and the other attackers . |
| 27 | I shall use it only on your business , and if your business is done and myself discharged before your gold is spent , you will take back the balance , or I will break your teeth with it . |
| 28 | The nursing home to which her husband has her committed after her eccentricity has become dangerous , and from which she and the other residents are eventually ejected to be cared for by an amorphous ‘ community ’ , might have been lying in wait for her from the day she was born . |
| 29 | Ltd. , locomotive engineers of Stoke-on-Trent , but the firm collapsed before his term had been completed , and he finished his apprenticeship with R. A. Lister & Co . |
| 30 | The sinister side included Norman Whiteside , still short of full fitness and substituted after his irritability got him booked , and the right-footed Neil McDonald , an obviously uncomfortable deputy at left-back for Neil ‘ Disser ’ Pointon . |