Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home . |
2 | We can not abandon people to the horrors of primitive siege warfare , so the ramshackle institutions of the United Nations will have to be drastically overhauled to cope with this crisis and others like it which are festering in an increasingly unstable world . |
3 | Vice-President and Finance Minister George Saitoti presented a budget on June 15 , 1989 , largely intended to appeal to international donors through its aim to curb public expenditure and to reduce the deficit to 4.2 per cent of GDP in 1989-90 , from 4.5 per cent in 1988-89 . |
4 | If pressed to go beyond these limits they should suggest that the questioning be addressed to ministers . |
5 | There was also an intermediate step — the Dino Berlinetta GT of 1966 — but this was never intended to go into full production . |
6 | If an exchange had a rule that required members to state that every contract was intended to go to physical delivery , notwithstanding the fact that since the rule was made the exchange had introduced a number of cash-settled contracts ; this would almost certainly be subject to some sort of variation . |
7 | Her hair was drawn back , skilfully arranged to fall in loose waves from a gold clasp . |
8 | Christie 's had secured a good selection of attractive conversation pieces and landscape paintings calculated to appeal to private collectors on a budget , as well as the more interesting portraits and equestrian compositions , while the quality of the works at Sotheby 's was particularly thin . |
9 | Many plants are common to both disciplines , but the manner in which they are prescribed differs in many instances . |
10 | It is intended to cope with irregular plurals ( " child " — " children " ) , other morphological variation which is too context dependent to be handled algorithmically ( " Hebrides ' = " Hebridear " ) , abbreviations ( " BBC " = " British Broadcasting Corporation " ) , words with alternative spellings ( " gaol " = " jail " ) and near synonyms ( " Great Britain " = " United Kingdom " = " Britain " = " UK " = " British Isles " ) . |
11 | To achieve this , sufficient domestic tax relief would be given to compensate for higher import prices resulting from tariffs up to current levels of imports . |
12 | you 're first taught to write in small letters , these crosswords or as they print most crosswords in erm capital letters , and of course you do n't recognize them do you ? |
13 | ‘ Having regard to the terms of the contract , the conduct of the parties and the circumstances of the case , I have no doubt that the property was not intended to pass in this case on contract but only in exchange for a valid building society cheque , but even if it may be regarded as intended to pass in exchange for a false , but believed genuine , building society cheque it will not in my view avail the insurers . ’ |
14 | In this new world , all architecture , furnishing , clothing and behaviour are intended to relate to each other in a visibly coherent fashion . |
15 | The army had stopped laughing within one week of receiving Gary . |
16 | The system was developed to work with multiple databases , including Ingres , Oracle and Btrieve , various local nets such as NetWare and TCP/IP , and a variety of computers . |
17 | The assistance given ranged from financial assistance for the procurement of legal advice to the issuing of court orders . |
18 | Here , a series of patch reefs are developed surrounded by inter-reef sediments ( Fig. 8 ) . |
19 | ‘ British industry is far more productive , far more competitive , better managed and with better industrial relations , in a better tax climate than at the beginning of the 1980s , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY , ‘ so it is better placed to benefit from economic recovery . ’ |
20 | This combination of lower costs and increased market share makes the business well placed to benefit from any improvement in trading conditions . |
21 | A number of dolphins have been taught to communicate in rudimentary English . |
22 | I was recommended to go to this lady who 's Irish and then she 's gone back , , and I 've never , I mean , the examination was quick and painless he said , but just keep an eye on that double on there , erm , there 's a little tiny crack in it |
23 | Damman , Saudi Arabia : Both International Paint Saudi Arabia and International Paint ( Gulf ) have taken delivery of high specification Hyster forklift trucks designed to cope with difficult environments . |
24 | They 're not designed to cope with cobbled streets . ’ |
25 | Nevertheless , provided that it is possible to make informed assumptions about the likely shapes and sizes of buildings at particular periods , a computer can be programmed to search for particular configurations of post-holes that might result from such a structure and ‘ peel them off ’ , to reveal a simplified picture of earlier building phases . |
26 | Thunder singer Danny , at No. 25 with Low Life In High Places , was booked to perform to 50,000 fans at a stadium in Rio De Janeiro . |
27 | Sun 's 40MHz Sparcstation 10 Model 41 is rated at 50 SPECmarks , 50MHz Models 52 and 54 are expected to go to 80 SPECmarks in single processor configurations . |
28 | Although companies are not expected to go to unreasonable lengths to accommodate someone who is not able to carry out his job to the full extent , an employer who disregards altogether the possibility of finding you some other position and is unwilling to consider any other form of compromise may be vulnerable to an unfair dismissal claim . |
29 | The dispute was now expected to go to international arbitration , although the Belize government of Prime Minister George Price emphasized that not " one inch " of national territory would be conceded and that there would be no foreseeable cuts in the size of the British forces stationed in the country . |
30 | Clients with greater needs than this , the DSS said , would be ‘ expected to go into residential care or a nursing home ’ . |