Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home . |
| 2 | We can not abandon people to the horrors of primitive siege warfare , so the ramshackle institutions of the United Nations will have to be drastically overhauled to cope with this crisis and others like it which are festering in an increasingly unstable world . |
| 3 | Craigendarroch 's information pack — which can be found in your room — is a mine of information on the many activities and placed to see in this fascinatingly diverse area . |
| 4 | If pressed to go beyond these limits they should suggest that the questioning be addressed to ministers . |
| 5 | Muhammad ibn Ali promoted a campaign which used the medium of itinerant missionaries and was calculated to appeal to most of the people who for different reasons were discontented with the Umayyads . |
| 6 | That a computer can be taught to work like that has always been a controversial proposition ; even today there are observers who believe that it is impossible to build a machine ( at least with current programming techniques ) that can plan even remotely as well as a human . |
| 7 | ‘ Having regard to the terms of the contract , the conduct of the parties and the circumstances of the case , I have no doubt that the property was not intended to pass in this case on contract but only in exchange for a valid building society cheque , but even if it may be regarded as intended to pass in exchange for a false , but believed genuine , building society cheque it will not in my view avail the insurers . ’ |
| 8 | In this new world , all architecture , furnishing , clothing and behaviour are intended to relate to each other in a visibly coherent fashion . |
| 9 | ‘ Nobody can predict what will happen over the next decade , particularly with all the agricultural changes brought about by the EC , but East Anglia can grow some of the best and cheapest grain in Europe and we are well placed to benefit from that ’ . |
| 10 | This combination of lower costs and increased market share makes the business well placed to benefit from any improvement in trading conditions . |
| 11 | I was recommended to go to this lady who 's Irish and then she 's gone back , , and I 've never , I mean , the examination was quick and painless he said , but just keep an eye on that double on there , erm , there 's a little tiny crack in it |
| 12 | Overheating degrades battery electrolyte , and rechargeable types are designed to cope with this to a large extent , but dry cells are not . |
| 13 | Luminescence chambers are designed to cope with this and are tested up to specified voltages with metal targets as samples . |
| 14 | Although preliminary speculation was that the crash might have been caused by a bomb , accident investigators revealed that the plane had nose-dived after the right engine suddenly went into reverse thrust ; electronic safety systems designed to cope with this had apparently failed , and a warning light had either malfunctioned or had not been believed by the pilot . |
| 15 | And the other thing is that it 's er a wide syllabus is fine as long as you 're not expected to go in any depth , but you 're expected to go sort of both , a broad syllabus and into a little bit of depth more than perhaps erm I mean in effect I mean you 're not far off of covering A level psychology at this at tha the level we 're going to . |
| 16 | Heavy rain driven by gales predicted for last night was forecast to continue for much of today . |
| 17 | He continued in his refusal to offer a defence in his trial on charges of corruption , which opened in March 1991 and was expected to continue through most of the year [ see pp. 38157-58 ] . |
| 18 | The trial was expected to continue for some time and it was widely believed that evidence would be given which would incriminate politicians still active . |
| 19 | ‘ The slump on the major markets is expected to continue throughout most of 1993 . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Warburton replied that since Newton had had single-lead aspects in the past , it had not been considered to fall within any of the interpretations of the embargo . |
| 21 | Captain Mark Phillips had been expected to remain for some time in his cottage on the estate , where he has lived since the marriage broke up three years ago . |
| 22 | But based on the experience of the last 10 years the total is expected to fall by more in March . |
| 23 | However , they are permitted to deviate from this if special geographic considerations ( for example , the size , shape , and accessibility of a constituency ) appear to render such a deviation desirable . |
| 24 | Roads inside the course are designated as ambulance routes , and no unauthorised vehicles will be permitted to wait on these carriageways . |
| 25 | They could hardly be expected to agree to less , and they 're excellent tenants . ’ |
| 26 | Taking for example the nuclear power plant control room , the question is whether the desk operators should be expected to cope with all emergencies which appear within the total information presentation or whether , for complex and dangerous situations , a more senior person such as the shift-charge engineer should be called upon to make the decisions . |
| 27 | People who are mentally handicapped can not be expected to cope with many aspects of this AL independently . |
| 28 | Past changes in both relative equity and gilt prices have a negative influence on future expectations although interest differentials ( RATE ) are expected to persist for some time . |
| 29 | During the day there was a factory and you used to have to make boxes , or if you were a cleaner you used to have to scrub the landings and everything , or there was a farm and you could work there — but you used to have to be really trusted to work on that . |
| 30 | In a society whose social and economic system had originally been , and to a certain degree still was , organised to provide for such eventualities , this was scarcely surprising . |