Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partly because , in spite of his professed indifference to the outside world , it nevertheless rankled with Franco that his regime was excluded from all the most important international circles , and he knew that it would continue to be blackballed for as long as it could be accused of denying the Spanish people free choice . |
| 2 | Cavity treatment should be delayed for as long as possible to allow the injected solution to remain in contact with blood and other body fluids and care to avoid spillage should be exercised when carrying out drainage . |
| 3 | Your Board is confident that the plan for restructuring the Group will result in a more streamlined , flexible and dynamic organisation and it is intended that it be carried through as fast as possible . |
| 4 | The earliest industrial sites are now often looked after as carefully as those of abbeys and castles . |
| 5 | The cumulative impact of these three determinants of redundancy payments is that women are discriminated against both directly and indirectly by the legislation . |
| 6 | Critique and modification has come from both within and without psychoanalytical film theory , and has centred on different aspects of the gaze . |
| 7 | As you might guess , we searched the area where the guinea had come from very carefully but , alas , no more were to be found . |
| 8 | Well is it all decorated in there now or |
| 9 | Almost £9,000 in donations have come in so far and Lynda hopes that when charitable status is granted to the Tabor Trust , more people will be encouraged to help . |
| 10 | Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels . |
| 11 | Sightings have been reported from as far as France and the Netherlands . |
| 12 | The door was smashed in so often that it had to be bricked up . |
| 13 | I had therefore only my front to guard , and as the heavy cover nowhere approached to within less than twenty yards of my position I was quite safe . |
| 14 | If Division B could not sell all it could make at £120 , it would reject other sales once the price had dropped to just less than £90 . |
| 15 | Results showed that the relationship between the target and context had a strong effect on performance ; words which were highly predictable were responded to more quickly than words which were unlikely , while anomalous words produced the slowest response times of all . |
| 16 | There was considerable substance in the complaints of Labour that national insurance added to as well as diminished the burdens of poorer workers . |
| 17 | No matter how poor the programming , if these dishes had been as glossy and futuristic as compact discs , say , then they might have caught on as rapidly as , well , CDs themselves . |
| 18 | There were no differences between the two groups for any sinister electrocardiographic abnormality , as defined earlier , when looked at either individually or in combination . |
| 19 | In raising questions about curriculum content and balance , therefore , the balance and disposition of these generic activities must be looked at as searchingly as the balance of subject time . |
| 20 | Cost-benefit for performing cardiac transplantation on such seriously ill patients may be looked at more objectively when follow up is longer . |
| 21 | The issue of equality had to be looked at very closely and we had already had detailed discussions with I.C.T.U. on equality . |
| 22 | County Court witness summonses can name only one witness and should be applied for not less than seven days before attendance is required . |
| 23 | Dot listened as the grown-ups continued to grumble along as they had done for as long as she could remember , like the harmless rumble of gunfire faraway . |
| 24 | The guarantee can be made for as long as the manufacturer chooses . |
| 25 | The second interpretation can be arrived at by reading the provision in two parts : ( 1 ) judges ' commissions are to be made for as long as they behave themselves , implying that if they misbehave they may be dismissed by the Crown ; ( 2 ) they may be removed by the Crown on an Address of both Houses , even though they have not misbehaved themselves . |
| 26 | Scientific ideas and theories are accepted for as long as the known evidence supports them . |
| 27 | We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 28 | Scientific ideas and theories are accepted for as long as the known evidence supports them . |
| 29 | We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 30 | Planting , staking and feeding have been talked and written about so frequently that it really is astounding how many questions and problems still occur about these subjects . |