Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing in soft conventionalism guarantees , or even promotes , the ideal of protected expectations , that past decisions will be relied on to justify collective force only so far as their authority and their terms are made uncontroversial by widely accepted conventions . |
| 2 | His brothers aged 8 and 10 , whose school was a long walk in the opposite direction , had to be relied on to take this responsibility when their father could not . |
| 3 | From time to time the Tanganyika government proposed excision of parts of Masailand for the use of other tribes , and Masai District Officers could be relied on to oppose these proposals . |
| 4 | But where there 's a will a bet ca n't be far behind and the local bookmakers can be relied on to provide ante-post prices the day before . |
| 5 | While direct participation in government by personnel from big business has characteristically declined in modern liberal democracies ( except in the USA ) , the state apparatus remains staffed overwhelmingly by strata of society who can be relied on to adopt pro-capitalist stances on economic and industrial issues — for example , members of professions , lawyers , accountants and farmers . |
| 6 | Another close relative , acetylsalicylic acid , i.e. aspirin , was active only if it was broken down to release salicylic acid . |
| 7 | The state ‘ could have developed along managed capitalist lines , such as a small nation occasionally cam do , for example , as Norway ’ . |
| 8 | So if this stands for this year 's output at a hundred percent fifty percent of it has to be added on to give next year 's . |
| 9 | While some women have carried on wearing short at the office , the eye has quickly adapted , and a look that was once considered sharp suddenly looked old fashioned . |
| 10 | While some women have carried on wearing short at the office , the eye has quickly adapted , and a look that was once considered sharp suddenly looked old fashioned . |
| 11 | Exactly what activity was being carried on remains uncertain , but it seems to have had commercial implications . |
| 12 | Yeah , downstairs , Clara and erm and one just carried on going straight and I got seventeen things that I can eat |
| 13 | Another metre either way , and we 'd have carried on rolling all the way down . ’ |
| 14 | no doubt you 've come down to watch some decent cricket . |
| 15 | In some parts they are grouped in swarms hundreds strong , as thick as herds of grazing antelope . |
| 16 | Just dropped in to say all the best . ’ |
| 17 | As luck would have it , Sophie had had no arrangement of her own for this evening , and , either forgetting our pact , or not taking my need for it seriously as she knew my activities were , on her terms , so innocent , had dropped in to borrow some coffee . |
| 18 | Two kilometres or so away , over the Swedish border , the conditions are worse and these Swedish Lapps have come over to find better feed . |
| 19 | Clements Farm is of great antiquity , the building itself probably dates back to the 15th century , and happily has been boarded up to prevent more deterioration . |
| 20 | These were recorded in the Salle Wagram , paris , in 1970 and , as with the Symphonies above , have come up sounding splendid in their new transfers . |
| 21 | That was understood , and Sabina rubbed her arm to ease the bruising , then began to attend to Catti , puffy from sleep , like a bird with its feathers fluffed up to keep warm ; and then , with a sidelong look at Rosa , began humming , |
| 22 | Curled up to keep warm but still breathing . |
| 23 | And so does a man , or at least he does when he first falls in love , when he 's too caught up to pay any attention to what other fellows think . |
| 24 | ‘ Peace be to Lieutenant Denholm but he 's a civilian electronics specialist who 's come out to fix some abstruse electronic fault that only he can fix . |
| 25 | But we have come out to catch that prisoner , and the Devil himself will not make me turn back . ’ |
| 26 | The remark had been intended to put him in his place , but it had come out sounding peevish and sensitive , as though she actually gave a damn about what he thought of her . |
| 27 | It is usually appropriate to see patients one to three times per week at first ; sessions after this can be spaced out to provide continuing support as changes are consolidated . |
| 28 | His sleeves were rolled back to reveal golden , muscular forearms , the first two buttons of his shirt were undone so that she could see the strong , tanned column of his throat , the hollow where his pulse beat , the start of the strong , hard planes of his chest . |
| 29 | The cuffs were rolled back to reveal tanned forearms . |
| 30 | A series of interviews is carried out to clarify relevant factors about the organisation , which are then analysed and illustrated in a rich picture . |