Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , let it be supposed that she lacked ordinary competence and capacity . |
| 2 | They have stressed that they love all their children . |
| 3 | ‘ My husband has married only once , ’ she told me ‘ but he has forgotten that he has any duties . ’ |
| 4 | Thus it is claimed that they have two important advantages over tricyclic and related antidepressants — they are better tolerated and are less toxic in overdose . |
| 5 | It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals . |
| 6 | Staff at the Commission have claimed that it has insufficient funds to do this . |
| 7 | For too long , says Ward , we have persisted in the Henry Ford myth that only a genetically privileged few can do joined-up thinking , and the rest are fit for manual tasks so simplified that they produce that brand of mind-numbing tedium which is the most fertile soil for industrial unrest . |
| 8 | Instead it is thought Meiko will use the Fujitsu Ltd VP single-chip vector processor for floating point operations alongside the Texas Instruments Inc Viking SuperSparc for scalar operations , although Meiko has said that Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's HyperSparc will be considered once it became available ( UX No 385 ) , and that the i860 could work with the new architecture if required . |
| 9 | members are recommended that they approve these two course of actions , thank you very much . |
| 10 | mm , I mean has he recommended that you use that |
| 11 | It is recommended that you have separate command files for these actions , which you then call as appropriate from the standard VMS command files . |
| 12 | Likewise , if you have already written a will , it is strongly recommended that you have this checked by a professional adviser to ensure that you do not give money unnecessarily to the taxman . |
| 13 | It was also objected that he wielded excessive personal power over the nation 's financial assets , for he continually asserted the Bank 's independence from the Treasury in a manner both arbitrary and overbearing , ignoring the protests of Reginald McKenna [ q.v. ] , chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 14 | My Thanks are due , ’ Prince wrote to Jardine on 7 April 1840 , ‘ for your instructions respecting the specimens in spirits , which I have since carefully examined , separated and supplied with fresh spirit ; many of them I regret to add are much decomposed and I fear some may at last prove useless . ’ |
| 15 | ( a ) He can arrest where he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that an arrestable offence has been committed and he has reasonable grounds for suspecting the person to be guilty of the offence . |
| 16 | Out of the original hundred houses this was the last one to be occupied and we saw this being built , erm right from the time that it was a plot of land and we knew it was ours |
| 17 | Golf development will not normally be permitted if it causes unacceptable disruption to the public enjoyment of rights of way . |
| 18 | This might well be modified if we made alternative , and possibly more realistic , assumptions . |
| 19 | The Divine purpose of life is almost entirely forgotten and he spends each lifetime self-centredly chasing after vanishing mirages . |
| 20 | The charge was dropped and he walked free , mumbling his thanks , after being bound over to keep the peace for a year . |
| 21 | As the storm receded and the thunder became a distant grumbling , Cullam 's shoulders dropped and he lifted sullen eyes . |
| 22 | Its transponder means it can be located if it becomes detached from its lift wire and umbilical . |
| 23 | Different pronunciations of the same word are only added if they cover different portions of the input and therefore provide different word boundary segmentations . |
| 24 | Debts started to build up when Mr Harris 's building firm collapsed and he went bankrupt . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , an insurance company with which he had become financially involved collapsed and he lost most of his fortune . |
| 26 | The night before one double and four other fish had been caught and I think this could be where the answer lies . |
| 27 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 28 | With such a healthy list of urgent needs , advice workers might be excused if they become impatient when training for which they can not see an immediate need is imposed upon them . |
| 29 | The meaning of " written standard terms of business 's has already been considered and it seems clear that s3 will always apply to terms in standard terms of trading . |
| 30 | I earned a few sous so I became more fantastical , maintaining I had met Brahmins who killed themselves on funeral pyres ; men with monkeys ’ heads and leopards ' bodies ; giants with only one eye and one foot who could run so fast they could only be caught if they fell asleep in the lap of a virgin . |