Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , it may well be felt that an old person 's wish to stay with a carer should be respected unless their mental state is so gravely impaired that they literally do not know what they are doing . |
| 2 | In contrast , the range of breeding success among hinds is greater than might be expected because their potential breeding lifespans are long ( over 12 years ) and individuals tend to be either consistently successful or consistently unsuccessful breeders . |
| 3 | A small cemetery plot had been added since my last visit . |
| 4 | A rescue helicopter was scrambled after his empty dinghy was spotted floating out to sea . |
| 5 | The man had every caution given him not a minute before to be careful with the gun , but his time was come as his poor shipmates say and with that they console themselves … |
| 6 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 7 | Camille Alliali , former Minister of State and a member of the government since 1966 , a close confidante of the President who was sometimes tipped as his possible successor , also left the Cabinet , as did Public Works and Transport Minister Koffi Aoussou ; the latter 's responsibilities passed to Construction and Town Planning Minister Vammoussa Bamba . |
| 8 | A woman 's chastity is considered as her highest virtue and all Hindu traditional literature extols the greatness of a chaste woman . |
| 9 | The combination of spiritual , cultural , and economic influence at its disposal made the Russian Church in some ways better placed than its Western counterparts to resist the ambitions of the newly centralized State . |
| 10 | I 'm aware that we are in very subjective territory here and I have already confessed where my own preferences lie , but I 'm not alone in my opinion that the 80R 's channel two falls short of the mark , because every one of us here has come away with the same opinion . |
| 11 | A chest X-ray or more detailed tests can be done if there any indications . |
| 12 | So I 'll be obliged if you two gents would drink up and leave . ’ |
| 13 | Thousands of farm workers are in danger of being exploited if their minimum wage is scrapped . |
| 14 | He may have gone to Italy in order to escape the regime of Queen Mary I , and his support of the Protestant settlement of 1559 was clear , but his credit suffered because his Catholic wife practised her faith within his household . |
| 15 | In these Articles injured States comprise those in a defined bilateral relationship ; those in a defined third party relationship ; those who share a formal relationship with the wrong-doer State , although not necessarily factually injured by the breach ; and those indirectly injured because their only injury is as a member of the international community . |
| 16 | It remains to be seen whether his own observa-tion of six years ago ( ‘ I was a rotten singer ’ ) still applies . |
| 17 | It is an obvious guess that these are social signals of some kind — instructions to the rest of the shoal , summons to mates — but much more work has to be done before their exact functions are properly understood . |
| 18 | Her beautician noticed when her left hand began to stay relaxed while she manicured Esther 's fingernails . |
| 19 | As laid down in the will that he had made on 29 April 1696 , revising an earlier one dated 13 July 1685 , in which his wife had been named as his sole heir , Howard 's estates were inherited by his only surviving child , Henry Charles Howard ( born 18 October 1668 ) ; from him they descended to his son , Charles Howard [ q.v. ] , who became tenth Duke of Norfolk in 1777 . |
| 20 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 21 | I was adopted when my own mother died a few days after I was born . |
| 22 | He was disturbed when his 2 attackers crashed in through a back door . |
| 23 | But Mackenzie was greatly missed as his devoted service to deaf people was universally acknowledged , and he was a man of great charm and Christian virtue who had many friends among the deaf community . |
| 24 | They both appeared sad throughout the evening and I suspected that there was something wrong ; possibly the two children had been injured when their previous home had been damaged by shellfire . |
| 25 | The six lambs have to be handreared as their natural mothers have enough to cope with . |
| 26 | Surely it was what he had seen as her present stupidity that had earned her his contempt , since the past was the past , and she was still reluctant to explain anything more than the absolute minimum necessary to put an end to his increasingly unbearable taunts . |
| 27 | It did , nevertheless , develop a theology of marriage in which procreation was no longer seen as its sole purpose , but conjugal love was recognized as of equal importance , and this inevitably placed the issue of contraception in a somewhat different light . |
| 28 | Thus magic was a crutch to which men turned when their technical expertise failed them , myth provided a justification or ‘ charter ’ for existing social and political activities , and ritual offered comfort in time of distress and despair . |
| 29 | It is , indeed , at this very point that the movement to advance the status of " English " in education must be situated if its particular history as a cultural and administrative form is to be understood . |
| 30 | Of course , the situation would be greatly eased if our political leaders were less addicted to secrecy . |