Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] [vb pp] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faith is better caught than taught and the example of a parent is a strong influence even while teenagers seem to be rejecting what you taught them . |
| 2 | The black and white lists provide fairly clear guidance to the kinds of clauses which are and are not deemed to violate Article 85(1) , and firms interested in co-operating with each other need only build in an R&D element to their agreement and consult the white and black lists to remove the threat of antitrust action ( ‘ grey clauses ’ require notification , but will be deemed as exempted if the Commission does not reply within six months ) . |
| 3 | Lord Shawcross , who at one time or another was chairman of the Bar Council , the Press Council , the Medical Research Council , the Takeover Panel , and assorted royal commissions and tribunals of inquiry , claimed when questioned that the consideration uppermost in the minds of such figures was ‘ the national interest ’ . |
| 4 | Two motifs side by side would look good , especially if the right-hand side was knitted as shown and the left-hand side reversed so that one image mirrored the other . |
| 5 | Writers can excoriate poor persons secure in the knowledge that , unless a trade union or well-wisher finances the action , it is unlikely to be pursued : even a journalist as senior as Adam Raphael has quailed when told that the legal cost of suing another newspaper to vindicate his reputation could be as high as £250,000 if the case went to trial . |
| 6 | Peristalsis was defined as impaired when the distal oesophageal contractile amplitude was <20 mm Hg . |
| 7 | There was to be no debate about which direction to take in economic policy ; the essentials of supply-side theory were to be taken as given and the criteria for appointment to the major economic policy posts were to be , ‘ competence , experience , and absolute , complete loyalty to Reagan 's economic policies … . |
| 8 | He said , ‘ So far as this court is concerned it must be taken as settled that the proper construction to be given to [ s.14(2) of the Water Act 1973 ] is to exclude liability for escapes in the absence of negligence ’ . |
| 9 | The selection of a prospective parliamentary candidate shall not be regarded as completed until the name of the member selected has been placed before a meeting of the National Executive Committee , and his or her selection has been duly endorsed . |
| 10 | For example , if all syllables are said with low pitch except for one said with high pitch , then the high-pitched syllable will be heard as stressed and the others as unstressed . |
| 11 | For this purpose , expenditure is treated as incurred when the obligation to pay for the asset becomes unconditional . |
| 12 | Factual content of the whole report is to be treated as disclosed since the Purchaser knows its content at completion . |