Example sentences of "[conj] the [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Peter and Anna had come for interview , Anna had looked at the hills with hunger , and not at the cramped kitchen or the meanly proportioned sitting-room , and had urged Peter to accept . |
| 2 | Thomas , whom she met once every week or two , for dinner , or a trip to the theatre , or , if it was the weekend , a forage round the Upper East Side galleries or a visit to the Whitney or the newly opened Guggenheim Museum . |
| 3 | If in any particular case because of a failure of the court to follow the rules or the well established practice there is a likelihood that injustice may have been done … a case should be relisted for hearing . ’ |
| 4 | You could n't say the free food and drink or the luxuriously appointed cabins had bought her , but it had affected the tone of her pieces . |
| 5 | But the city that goes down , the civilization ‘ run by the few ’ which ‘ fell to the many ’ , is not Ilium but Richmond or Montgomery or Atlanta , any one of the cities of the Confederacy finally sacked by Grant or Sheridan or the specially hated Sherman , generals of the victorious Yankee North . |
| 6 | The relative lack of planning , or the relatively planned character of the economy in the transition period originates in the existence of small undertakings , of market connections , that is , of anarchist elements of considerable strength . |
| 7 | I mean I do n't understand why the church or the so called church or whatever you like to call it . |
| 8 | He had been a cheerful fellow in those days and life was as inconsequential as a laugh on the wind or the carelessly squandered words of a song . |
| 9 | Secondly , the case became representative of the whole thrift scandal , where the newly deregulated savings and loan industry had been pillaged through ruthless speculation and outright fraud . |
| 10 | At the end of the Corniche , opposite where the newly arrived barge was moored , was a police post and an army barracks . |
| 11 | It was only years later that I came to learn that the easily remembered collects were those that had been translated by Archbishop Cranmer from the Sacramentaries of Popes Leo , Gregory and Gelasius , while the difficult ones to remember were in almost every case the work of reformers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 12 | He failed as a writer and as an actor but then discovered that the easily acquired skills of movie-making would enable him to become the artist and prophet for which his background had prepared him and for which Progressive America was so eagerly waiting . |
| 13 | Critically discuss the proposition that the generally perceived importance of dividend payments constitutes a financial mirage . |
| 14 | It is now proposed that the rarely exercised power of the House to imprison be abolished and for a power for the Commons to impose a fine ( as can the House of Lords ) to be substituted . |
| 15 | In this context , a recent report that the well documented neoexpression of ABH and Lewis b antigens in colonic cancer is mediated by a higher expression of the enzyme alpha 2 fucosyltransferase may be relevant . |
| 16 | It was strongly suspected that the softly spoken Irishman had been framed . |
| 17 | These values are then scaled to produce a recognition score for the word in the range 0 … 1 , such that the best ranked word receives a score of 1 , and an average rank of 6 would receive a zero confidence score ( such occurrences are extremely rare ) . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , a 15 m ( 50 ft ) animal is no mean beast ; moreover , because of the way that the earliest known whales so closely resemble modern ones , we have to assume that their ancestry stretched back some way , even though no relevant fossils have yet been discovered . |
| 19 | But doubt remained among them and many of them continued to think that the legitimately elected king was Philip . |
| 20 | In 1850 The Westminster Review urged that the newly created Board of Health should establish a system of periodic inspection of prostitutes , enforceable at law . |
| 21 | On investigating , I found that the newly recorded cassette had inexplicably taped this lively , foot-tapping music , although the original tape was indeed Bach throughout . |
| 22 | As will be considered further , it is not at all clear , however , that the newly formulated offence entirely cures what might be called the policeman defect . |
| 23 | If the discussions are successful Mr Duffield said that the newly formed company would have a QAI employee stationed permanently in Yugoslavia . |
| 24 | A number of executive members agreed that the newly formed Coalition for Scottish Democracy would take the lead on campaigning for constitutional change and be the main co-ordinator of future events . |
| 25 | One question that the newly appointed editor Tim Marlowe ( of the Tate 's education department ) will have to decide is the editorial stance of the magazine : he has to balance the curatorial concerns of the Tate with issues that would appeal to a general reader while treading an ideologically independent path . |
| 26 | The UN 's slow reaction was highlighted in the journal , Africa Confidential , which reported in August that the newly appointed UN Development Programme Emergency Representative ( who was responsible for leading emergency co-ordination ) was delayed in Kenya for three months by bureaucratic problems . |
| 27 | The decision of the Conference , by a margin of nearly three to one , to stay in the Government , fed MacDonald 's fears that the newly adopted War Aims would become a mere ‘ plaything of Governments … . |
| 28 | Mehta 's final proposal was that the newly elected government conclude an Afghan-Soviet treaty along the lines of the Soviet-Finnish treaty and negotiate the withdrawal of the remaining Soviet forces . |
| 29 | The effect of the provisions is that the newly issued shares are deemed , as it were , to be a replacement of the shares transferred so that no capital gains tax becomes payable on the transfer by the transferor at that stage . |
| 30 | Thus , for example , Waterstones in Belfast found that the newly opened bargain bookshops , like the increasing number of non-traditional outlets in the city now stocking books , tended to cater for members of the public who were not regular book buyers or to those making one-off purchases : ‘ They do not therefore have a serious impact on larger traditional bookshops . ’ |