Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A woman 's chastity is considered as her highest virtue and all Hindu traditional literature extols the greatness of a chaste woman . |
| 8 | Thousands of farm workers are in danger of being exploited if their minimum wage is scrapped . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It remains to be seen whether his own observa-tion of six years ago ( ‘ I was a rotten singer ’ ) still applies . |
| 12 | Her beautician noticed when her left hand began to stay relaxed while she manicured Esther 's fingernails . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I was adopted when my own mother died a few days after I was born . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Firstly the process of moving down towards our S S A needs to be facilitated because my own instinct is that the government , faced with all sorts of financial tribulations , is going to take a harder and harder nosed attitude towards local government expenditure , as it will unfortunately with an awful lot of the rest of what we have come to expect over the decades to be the responsibility of central government , clearly the current expenditure review is going to have some nasty shocks in it for consumers of account services , consumers of other assets of the welfare state but particularly I would suspect , the local government . |
| 23 | ‘ It was the first bit of luck I 'd had since I first set eyes on you . |
| 24 | With its overwhelmingly Hindu population , New Delhi was quite unchanged by the onset of the Muslim month of fasting , but the Old City had been transformed since our last visit . |
| 25 | The character of the building is also best preserved when its original fabric or ornament is conserved , not altered , removed or replaced . |
| 26 | One of those I saw in Northampton was extremely impressive and is founded as my honourable friend says , on positive partnership . |
| 27 | The head is still the leader and acts as chief executive from the viewpoint of governors — partly being told what to do , partly being expected to put forward alternatives of policy and plans for action , partly being used as their principal adviser and partly as the intermediary and negotiator with the other parties . |
| 28 | However , I do still have a squashed , rather brown and mildewy rose pressed between the pages of a book somewhere , so I suppose that could be classed as my first attempt ! |
| 29 | Although Garvin was shown as his formal superior in terms of the office organization chart , that was to some extent a convenient fiction and the Mamur Zapt had his own lines of communication to the powers that were . |
| 30 | The development of this northern suburb is better understood than its southern counterpart , because enough small-scale excavation has taken place to elaborate the information from the aerial photographs . |