Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are offered or have seen brooches of this description , please contact me . |
| 2 | The Plan can not cover you during the first 24 months for any existing medical condition you may be suffering from or have received treatment for in the two years prior taking out the Plan . |
| 3 | But it is understood that most of the banks who have lent money to Bond have secured their loans against assets or have made provisions against ultimate default . |
| 4 | But first we should turn to investigate the motives and arguments which lead or have led philosophers in this direction . |
| 5 | In the past the courts have construed statutory and common law rights to information restrictively and have either required an applicant to show a special reason for wanting the information or have denied access to a person with an ‘ indirect motive ’ such as a councillor helping a constituent in a complaint against the authority . |
| 6 | Many landlords have pulled out of the market completely or have upgraded properties to luxury standard and are now asking rents far beyond the meagre grant cheque budget . |
| 7 | Considering geography as the description of the changes that take place or have taken place in or at the surface of the earth Linton ( 1965 ) suggested that any changes which occur in the real world imply that work has been done and energy expended . |
| 8 | Once the Ghosts have been defeated or have vanished thanks to instability , the mist disperses quickly . |
| 9 | An individual must have been in the business for ten years or have retained shares throughout this period to qualify for maximum relief . |
| 10 | Firms that have employed women in this way are , for example , the American concerns , the maquiladoras , that have been set up in northern Mexico near the US border . |
| 11 | High-yield-bond sales through Drexel helped finance the acquisitions that have turned Hasbro into America 's biggest toy company . |
| 12 | The fact that Derby County have now beaten Cosenza and Pisa by 3–0 margins — the two Italian sides that have defeated City in the competition — emphasises Smith 's problems . |
| 13 | ( iii ) Discussion should bring out examples of words and expressions which tend to undergo very rapid change in use or meaning — eg terms of approbation ( wicked , brill ) ; differences in the use and meanings of words as used by pupils , their parents and grandparents — eg wireless , radio , tranny , receiver ; and new words that have become part of the English vocabulary during the last 50 years or so , eg computer , astronaut , macho . |
| 14 | The issues I will be discussing are ones that have engaged philosophers for many hundreds of years and on which a vast literature has accumulated . |
| 15 | Do you think any of the erm companies that have done business with Japan would have any such pictures ? |
| 16 | Against this background of recent dramatic change in retail patterns that have remained town-based for centuries , the new guidance is welcome . |
| 17 | I would like to hear from any schemes with success in recruiting Asian carers and organisations that have undertaken research in this area . |
| 18 | Late on Sept. 20 UK Prime Minister John Major ( whose country held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1992 ) announced that he would call an emergency summit to discuss ratification of the Treaty and to " deal with the particular problems in the foreign exchange markets in recent days , that have revealed shortcomings in the exchange rate mechanism system " . |
| 19 | The term applies also to draughting machines that have increased productivity in some UK drawing offices by 300 to 400 per cent . |
| 20 | Assured tenancy companies that have raised money under the BES to invest in properties for letting are having trouble valuing their properties . |
| 21 | Replace any flexes that have damaged insulation with new flex of the correct type and current rating for the appliance concerned . |
| 22 | The severe storms that have affected Britain in the last few years may be linked with sea-surface temperatures which have been fractionally higher than the long-term average . |
| 23 | It is these positive examples of what is generally taken to be a negative force that have given rise to such concepts as ‘ white ’ ( i.e. good ) witchcraft ; they are part of our European tradition and lend a certain credence to Margaret Murray 's exaggerated presentation of a satanic underground cult of evil co-existing with orthodox Christianity . ’ |
| 24 | The range of policies needed to counter the root causes that have given rise to the underclass and keep it firmly in place at the bottom of the social hierarchy are examined in Part IV . |
| 25 | They have found a position which has advanced from that of the rather more hierarchical structures that have pervaded schools in the past . |
| 26 | The Misbourne is just one of many rivers and streams that have fallen victim to the recent drought and the increase in demand for water in the south . |
| 27 | The world 's biggest wildlife hospital says it 's being overwhelmed with animals that have fallen victim to summer traffic . |
| 28 | The world 's biggest wildlife hospital says it 's being overwhelmed with animals that have fallen victim to summer traffic . |
| 29 | Not for our policy makers the quantitative techniques — such as citation indexes and patent records — that have made inroads into the US 's science policy system . |
| 30 | Times being hard , the vicious squabbles that have plagued Peru since the 1960s have broken out again , between raw-material exporters ( who want freer trade ) and manufacturers ( who want still more protection ) . |