Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [vb pp] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the safety and soundness of a financial institution ( and the financial system generally ) may be put in jeopardy ; and secondly , those who are consumers of financial services risk being treated unfairly because of the increased likelihood that conflict of interest situations will be abused . |
| 2 | I 've been called worse than that round here . |
| 3 | I almost feel I 've been sent here so they can teach me a lesson about life . |
| 4 | You saw her just now and you 've been engaged less than twenty-four hours ! |
| 5 | And learning together as we 've been reminded more than once than this morning engages us all irrespective of age , irrespective of experience it engages everyone and it 's worth emphasising that the quality of learning does not depend upon the size of a congregation ! |
| 6 | Man will voluntarily integrate his own goals with those of the organization if management works on the assumption not that people dislike work , prefer being directed rather than taking the initiative and respond only to material rewards or threats and sanctions ; but that they have needs for autonomy and independence which must be satisfied through structures of authority that allow self-motivation and self-control . |
| 7 | Confined to West Africa , these species of shrews have been persecuted locally because of their strange internal armour . |
| 8 | A recent Chinese assurance on ballistic missile sales to Middle Eastern countries , accreditation for a Voice of America journalist , and discussions of a possible resumption of the Fulbright academic exchange programme , have been dismissed here as inadequate . |
| 9 | The weights used should be increased once 3 sets of 10 repetitions have been achieved so as to make the weight training progressive . |
| 10 | For a start , French three-month interest rates have been cut sharply since the new government arrived in March , as tension over the franc has eased . |
| 11 | Some have been sighted more than thirty feet in length , cruising almost a kilometre above sea level . |
| 12 | Various circumstances have been indicated above where such judicial construction or evaluation may arise . |
| 13 | The Action Campaign is also seeking support from medical journalists , and I have been asked repeatedly if I was going to add to the ‘ adverse ’ ME publicity . |
| 14 | fund , er and we say that er , er we hope your Lordship will be with us on the main issues , but if your not , we say there are very powerful reasons of English and community law including er the obligation on the court under article five , to ensure that the , er the , the trials some two years hence lasting some five weeks with all the expert evidence , my learned friend says will be necessary , should not in the interim have the effect of er frustrating er the operation of er apparently valid provisions in the United Kingdom statutes and the Lloyds Acts and byelaws , which er , are themselves measures that have been adopted so as to pursue the policy |
| 15 | Due diligence for asset sales is generally cheaper and quicker than for share sales as the investigation covers the specific assets that have been selected rather than investigating hidden liabilities . |
| 16 | Mains supplies of potable water have been regarded generally as of reasonably high standard , apart from the suspended matter in some and the hardness of others . |
| 17 | The history of St Mary 's and that of the town over which it presides have been bound together since the Middle Ages , and the church 's sober , dignified presence was to form part of Coleridge 's earliest recollections of childhood . |
| 18 | The arrangements have been made so as to enable spectators to be SET DOWN AND PICKED UP AT THE SAME POINT in a city unfamiliar to them . |
| 19 | No more representations have been made recently than is usual . |
| 20 | However , favourable outcomes have been noted repeatedly when adequate treatment is given before the onset of central symptoms . |
| 21 | Cockling gangs have been turned away when they arrive without council permits to take vehicles on the shore , which is owned by the local authority . |
| 22 | Birds have been recorded singly except for two together flying west off Selsey Bill on 28 August 1965 , and three likewise off Langney Point on 12 September 1970 . |
| 23 | The Bax and Bantock have been reissued more than once on LP , but neither has ever sounded so well as on the present reissue . |
| 24 | They have been permitted here because , until 1991 , English wine was only entitled to experimental table status . |
| 25 | The two accused boys have been held separately since their arrest on Thursday morning , but it is feared today 's court appearance could provide a flashpoint . |
| 26 | Frederick Montague gave evidence to the Commissioners that no Court of Attachment or Swanimote had been held in Salcey Forest since he became Ranger , ‘ and I doubt whether such Courts have been held ever since the Rangership has been in my Family , which is about 120 years ’ . |
| 27 | Many thousands of young fish have been marked soon after they hatched . |
| 28 | Age criteria in the treatment of myocardial infarction and respiratory failure have been criticised even though age has been shown to predict mortality of patients with these disorders . |
| 29 | In the more commonly understood sense they have been strengthened , because they have been changed so as to obtain more convictions relating to well-publicised and hard-lobbied issues . |
| 30 | So the myths of ministerial accountability , bureaucratic neutrality and administrative anonymity have been preserved even though Parliament has proved incapable of controlling an administrative apparatus whose discretion and influence on public policy has been growing steadily : |