Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision was a crushing blow to the Aga , one of the sport 's most powerful owners , who must now consider whether to halt his costly campaign . |
| 2 | ONE OF THE first things you must consider when producing your first R/C helicopter is which type of radio equipment to use . |
| 3 | One of the advantages a child has when learning his first language is that he has lots of opportunity to hear it without being called upon to speak . |
| 4 | This would give them a period of study and experience abroad after which it could be decided whether to offer them permanent appointments . |
| 5 | Among the skills that are in short supply are advocacy and probate , so procedure , evidence and wills are good subjects to choose when planning your academic course . |
| 6 | Arts teachers are also not seen as helping their own cause in as much as classroom practices in the arts might not be living up to the expectations of other professional staff . |
| 7 | Anderson and Roberts can perhaps be seen as offering us different facets of essentially a similar situation , where feelings of affection and concepts of duty are taken into calculations about mutual advantage based on material considerations . |
| 8 | The ideal model helps to differentiate the workforce ( by age , sex and colour ) according to how far different groups approximate to the model and can be seen as representing its exemplary qualities of commitment and reliability . |
| 9 | The blood discharged by a woman during birthing is also seen as rendering her unclean . |
| 10 | After analysis , these strategies will be seen as having their own associated difficulties . |
| 11 | He wrote about his own temptations , and came close to presenting the revolt of the Noldor as a felix culpa , a ‘ fortunate sin ’ , when Manwë accepts that their deeds will live in song , so that ‘ beauty not before conceived [ shall ] be brought into Eä ’ ; fiction , poetry , craftsmanship are seen as carrying their own justification and as all being much the same thing . |
| 12 | I can do nothing to help except give them good references and a few quid to tide them over . |
| 13 | He was known for wanting to be photographed from every conceivable angle and vigorously applauded when making his inflammatory speeches , and I was looking forward to seeing in the flesh this extraordinary man of whom my parents had brought me up to disapprove . |
| 14 | As the manor of Whitwell was valued by a feodary survey at £3. 13s. 9d. , it is virtually certain that the £80 assessment of Richard Flower , the resident owner , must be interpreted as meaning his whole income scaled down by 20 per cent . |
| 15 | That is , I am caused , perhaps by a deformation of my visual cortex , to have the visual experience which others describe as seeing something green in colour when the thing in question is what gives rise to their seeing it as red . |
| 16 | While Miller was preparing the Kalendar , he was told of the ‘ ungenerous intention ’ of others to use Dictionary information for the same purpose , ‘ upon which I was the more intent to have it published before such a design could be accomplished by any other hand , which was not very difficult for me to do , having a complete Diary of my own , so that I had little more to do than to transcribe my loose papers and dispose them into the method wherein they are here presented to the world . ’ |
| 17 | Well , summer is well and truly with us — though as I write I ca n't decide whether to pack my industrial strength waterproofs or my total block sun cream when I go off to the Peak District this weekend . |
| 18 | PEOPLE should carry ‘ switch-me-off ’ cards to help doctors decide whether to keep them alive if there is no hope of recovery , the British Medical Association said yesterday . |
| 19 | Jim Bolger is still considering whether to aim his Irish Derby and King George winner at the mile and a quarter contest , but that does not worry Michael Kauntze . |
| 20 | Once you have completed the basic exercise given above you will have a ready reference on which to draw when identifying your personal learning needs . |
| 21 | Selkirk … . 16 Boroughmuir .. 9 EVEN with three replacements permissible it is not always possible to cover the loss of a key player , as Boroughmuir discovered when suffering their third defeat in four years at the hands of Selkirk , this time by a 16-9 margin . |
| 22 | Besides laughing with a comforting or gratifying sense of superiority when confronted with pictures of the incompetence of figures who the readers may recognize as representing their fellow men , the readers may also be regarded , she suggests , as laughing at common humankind and thus also ( unconsciously ) at themselves . |
| 23 | ( a ) Status When recruiting new members of the firm the partners will have to determine whether to accord them full equity or salaried status . |
| 24 | But she looked fully recovered when despatching her unranked opponent in one hour . |
| 25 | There are all sorts of fashionable exercise outfits to wear while doing your chosen exercise . |
| 26 | The WRU now has to decide whether to take its ultimate sanction and expel the 18 from membership . |
| 27 | Here we debated whether to abandon our planned route and continue along the coastline . |
| 28 | It is probably worth taking advice from a specialist competitions house when organising your first big competition . |
| 29 | I would have thought that a large company like Fender could supply this information with their products as a matter of course , together with technical specifications and notes on the safe usage of this product — after all , I seem to recall several musicians being electrocuted when playing their electric guitars . |
| 30 | Groups of college staff led by experienced chairmen considered a series of case studies designed to highlight the problems which they might encounter when preparing their own course submissions . |