Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The performance of modern gliders makes it much easier and more likely for a pilot to fly himself into a potential death trap unless he uses his imagination or has already learned to have a healthy respect for the elements . |
| 2 | An animal that is overtly unhealthy or has already started to give birth should not be used . |
| 3 | Although the land was largely champaign , some demesnes had never lain in common field , or had long ceased to do so . |
| 4 | Whatever the situation in which you find yourself living alone ; whether your husband or wife has left you or the children have left home ; whether your husband or wife or elderly parent has died or your flatmate has left ; whether you are starting college or a new job or have just decided to leave the family home , you must accept and make the very best of your new life . |
| 5 | Press reports that local education authorities have cut back drastically on , or have even stopped making , discretionary awards have rather exaggerated the position . |
| 6 | It was only yesterday that Stoute finally decided to send Opera House to Leopardstown instead of Goodwood in the hope that the opposition would break up enough for Opera House not to have a hard race before Paris . |
| 7 | It is quite incredible what has happened in my life — the help that has just seemed to come , the opportunities that have arisen , doors that have opened in all directions and , if occasionally one closed , it did n't matter because it always meant a better one would open later . |
| 8 | It is a policy that has signally failed to persuade either the financial markets or the rest of the European Community , mainly because neither Mrs Thatcher nor Mr Lawson shows any serious sign of being persuaded by it . |
| 9 | ‘ In those stations it is the management that has now refused to put through the emergency calls . |
| 10 | The pomp of Parks , Thompson and Dexter must seem further away than ever for a club that has now failed to progress beyond the group stages in 12 of the 21 Benson & Hedges Cup . |
| 11 | One of the issues that has inexplicably failed to get even a whisper of an airing in the campaign wars of words is whether a graphical interface is the preferred environment for a large proportion of desktop users . |
| 12 | ‘ What can a piece of mine do for an audience that has really come to enjoy one of the great operatic masterpieces of all time ? ’ asks Jonathan Dove . |
| 13 | TEENAGERS looking over Queen 's University today found that research there helped put a ferocious roar into Steven Spielberg 's Jurassic Park dinosaurs . |
| 14 | The company that had previously tried to fix the pool had finally given up , so Enterprise was called in to the rescue . |
| 15 | These were birds that helped each other in an apparently altruistic way , but refused to help — bore a grudge against — individuals that had previously refused to help them . |
| 16 | Autumn had given the trees that extra golden lustre and the leaves that had already fallen lay round about the mourners , feet like a russet carpet . |
| 17 | In terms of active , practical government and politics , however , it was the Investiture Contest that had already begun to change the face of European government . |
| 18 | Nechaev 's dictatorial style highlighted an issue that had already begun to exercise the populists . |
| 19 | He predicted that up to 2,000 schools would vote to join the 200 that had already chosen to run their own affairs — a development that could spell the end of council involvement in education . |
| 20 | On 10 December 1939 he remarked ominously that Andre Chamson had informed him that " a storm was brewing in Aragon 's mind " By 5 February 1940 , in the grip of a persecution complex , he was voicing fears that his resignation from the party would be publicly perceived as an act of treachery that had finally laid bare his " inner soul " . |
| 21 | The appointment of fresh Designers to the series finally broke the ping-pong philosophy that had so threatened to trap Newbery and Cusick forever on the Doctor Who treadmill . |
| 22 | Two million voted in the six republics that had formally declined to participate , among whom the level of support for the continued existence of the USSR was predictably very high . |
| 23 | She had also inherited the lustrous black hair that had once helped to make her mother so attractive . |
| 24 | A hangover from Lyn 's childhood , a mother who cleaned at Chesney Hall , a father at Cartwright-Cageby 's was to feel respect that had once amounted to awe for the professional man . |
| 25 | The one relationship that had ever grown to mean anything in D'Arcy 's life would be in dire peril . |
| 26 | And , to rub further salt into her wounds , Marissa had treated the younger girl with a cool , obvious contempt that had quickly begun to strip away Laura 's small store of self-confidence . |
| 27 | Having proved the value of a design-led business , Conran saw the logic of applying the same approach to other retail companies that had perhaps got left behind in the high-street revolution . |
| 28 | Department of the Foreign Office , who was possessed of a sense of the fatuous that had often threatened to wreck his career . |
| 29 | And that had swiftly turned to censure and contempt . |
| 30 | The local community-based organizations that have since formed have been more basic in their opposition to any mining and have taken political organization — through lobbying , petitions , demonstrations and public meetings — as their mode of operation . |