Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As is often the case , much of the ‘ aid , was more or less off-loaded to clear warehouses in the donor country with little thought of its use to the victims of catastrophe . |
| 2 | Most have a characteristic arrangement of paired fins , but these can be lost , or fantastically modified to form fans or poisonous barbs . |
| 3 | A person would only be liable as a constructive trustee of money he had received in payment of a commercial liability , and which had already passed through his hands , if it was possible to show that he knew that the money was misapplied trust money because he had actual knowledge of the breach of trust or he had wilfully shut his eyes to the obvious or had wilfully or recklessly failed to make inquiries that an honest and reasonable man would have made . |
| 4 | Had you bothered to look up the LD-50 in any standard work , or even bothered to consult Dr Woodward , you would have been more cautious about repeating tales of poisoning . |
| 5 | Launched in 1957 , it claimed 25,000 supporters by 1958 and by 1960 pacifist members had sailed into the Pacific testing grounds , boarded nuclear submarines or missile bases or simply refused to take shelter during bomb drills . |
| 6 | It makes me feel more than somewhat persecuted to have items of the British public lurking about my property — particularly when most of them have n't read two lines of my verse together . ’ |
| 7 | Relations with Nicaragua were tense over the presence in Honduras of United States-financed Nicaraguan contra rebels who , although technically confined to border camps by international agreements , had again stepped up their attacks in Nicaragua at the end of 1989 [ see p. 37038 ] . |
| 8 | A person is not partially exempt if his or her ‘ exempt input tax ’ ( the sum of the residue apportioned and that directly attributed to exempt supplies ) is no more than the de minimis limit of £600 a month on average ( Reg 33A ( 1 ) ) , ie £7,200 a year . |
| 9 | These inspectors , although originally instituted to inspect schools receiving grants from Parliament — a function now replaced by the task of reporting to the Secretary of State for Education on the quality of educational provision — have always had the aim of seeking to improve education in the institutions they visit . |
| 10 | Siemens AG said last week that it would take longer than previously planned to reduce losses at its computer and also at its semiconductor divisions , and blamed a continued deterioration in market conditions . |
| 11 | It was adopted and successfully applied to clone PCR-fragments into the polylinker of the phage M13mp18 , but it can be extended to phagemids . |
| 12 | On the economy , Li supported the cautious 6 per cent annual growth target as outlined in the current five-year plan , and thereby failed to endorse Deng 's demand for double-digit expansion rates . |
| 13 | These little blisters enlarge and eventually burst to form ulcers which are shallow and acutely painful to touch . |
| 14 | The remaining transports crept back into Dunkirk , while de Roquefeuil 's warships , driven far to the west , only managed several days later and badly battered to re-enter Brest , the nearest friendly port for vessels of their size . |
| 15 | Charles Henry Lovell FCA and David Ian Whalley FCA both of Royal House , Market Place , Redditch , Worcs having been found to be in breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that they at Redditch between 27 January 1991 and 19 July 1991 passed clients ' monies through their firm 's office account were each reprimanded and jointly and severally ordered to pay £250 by way of costs . |
| 16 | ACA ACA and FCA all of who were found to be in breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that they at Stockport between 1 February 1991 and 31 October 1991 passed clients ' monies through their firm 's office account were each reprimanded and jointly and severally ordered to pay £250 by way of costs . |
| 17 | ACA , FCA ACA and FCA all of all of Bridge House , Heap Bridge , Bury , Lancs who were found to be in breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that they at Bury between 7 August 1991 and 8 September 1991 passed clients ' monies through their firm 's office account were each reprimanded and jointly and severally ordered to pay £250 by way of costs . |
| 18 | FCA and FCA all of who were found to be in breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that they at Hoylake on or about 17 September 1990 passed client 's money through their firm 's office account were each reprimanded and jointly and severally ordered to pay £250 by way of costs . |
| 19 | A question that puzzled some followers of Zarathustra in later times was that , if Ohrmazd was all-powerful and so destined to overthrow Ahriman , why did this not happen immediately , so that the world would have been spared all the suffering caused by the conflict between them ? |
| 20 | In July 1990 , for example , many arbitrageurs who had written futures contracts to buy FTSE 100 Index futures found that they were short of the FTSE contract close to the expiry deadline , and so attempted to reduce share prices to reduce the value of the index . |
| 21 | They set traps of silk across the flyways between the branches and so continued to take toll of the insect population . |
| 22 | The ones able to secure ‘ sugar daddies ’ fooled the poor men into thinking that there was a Tiller rule that they only go out in twos and threes and so managed to get meals for their best friends as well . |
| 23 | Ironically , Mrs Neil Lyndon has now revealed she was abandoned by her husband last year and only managed to receive child support for their six-year-old son by obtaining a court order . |
| 24 | The positive result has been to emerge from 1992 fitter and better organised to win work in what will be another very tough year . |
| 25 | The report was false and apparently intended to undermine relatives ' appeals for new court investigations into the fate of the ‘ disappeared ’ . |
| 26 | The opposite suggestion , that marine planation at the present level is active , has been made from observations of wide platforms truncating hard rocks and apparently related to present sea level . |
| 27 | I have been given free catalogues , invited to try any guitar I wished — not just the cheapo imports either but vintage stuff too — actually got useful information from people who , without exception , seem to be knowledgeable and often talented players , and generally made to feel welcome . |
| 28 | For a fear of pollution and impurity in the body physical is constantly and easily transposed to create controls in the body social . |
| 29 | The East India Company and other companies like the Royal Africa Company and the Hudson 's Bay Company rarely brought in men like Roe to help with work at the top , and normally expected to promote people who had spent their lives working for the Company . |
| 30 | Elaborately and exactly carved to represent towers with as many as thirteen storeys , these monoliths were probably erected in the third and fourth centuries AD . |