Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home . |
| 2 | We can not abandon people to the horrors of primitive siege warfare , so the ramshackle institutions of the United Nations will have to be drastically overhauled to cope with this crisis and others like it which are festering in an increasingly unstable world . |
| 3 | If pressed to go beyond these limits they should suggest that the questioning be addressed to ministers . |
| 4 | ‘ Having regard to the terms of the contract , the conduct of the parties and the circumstances of the case , I have no doubt that the property was not intended to pass in this case on contract but only in exchange for a valid building society cheque , but even if it may be regarded as intended to pass in exchange for a false , but believed genuine , building society cheque it will not in my view avail the insurers . ’ |
| 5 | In this new world , all architecture , furnishing , clothing and behaviour are intended to relate to each other in a visibly coherent fashion . |
| 6 | This combination of lower costs and increased market share makes the business well placed to benefit from any improvement in trading conditions . |
| 7 | I was recommended to go to this lady who 's Irish and then she 's gone back , , and I 've never , I mean , the examination was quick and painless he said , but just keep an eye on that double on there , erm , there 's a little tiny crack in it |
| 8 | And the other thing is that it 's er a wide syllabus is fine as long as you 're not expected to go in any depth , but you 're expected to go sort of both , a broad syllabus and into a little bit of depth more than perhaps erm I mean in effect I mean you 're not far off of covering A level psychology at this at tha the level we 're going to . |
| 9 | The trial was expected to continue for some time and it was widely believed that evidence would be given which would incriminate politicians still active . |
| 10 | Captain Mark Phillips had been expected to remain for some time in his cottage on the estate , where he has lived since the marriage broke up three years ago . |
| 11 | Roads inside the course are designated as ambulance routes , and no unauthorised vehicles will be permitted to wait on these carriageways . |
| 12 | Taking for example the nuclear power plant control room , the question is whether the desk operators should be expected to cope with all emergencies which appear within the total information presentation or whether , for complex and dangerous situations , a more senior person such as the shift-charge engineer should be called upon to make the decisions . |
| 13 | People who are mentally handicapped can not be expected to cope with many aspects of this AL independently . |
| 14 | Past changes in both relative equity and gilt prices have a negative influence on future expectations although interest differentials ( RATE ) are expected to persist for some time . |
| 15 | In a society whose social and economic system had originally been , and to a certain degree still was , organised to provide for such eventualities , this was scarcely surprising . |
| 16 | Andrew Wilton 's conception of the show is designed to work on several levels , and should be ‘ genuinely accessible ’ to the non-specialist visitor in terms of the beauty and importance of the objects while offering a coherent reading to the specialist . |
| 17 | The rights of the zemstvos were curtailed and they were forbidden to communicate with each other even on the most mundane matters of common concern . |
| 18 | A review of offshore banks was also started and was expected to lead to several banks losing their licences to operate . |
| 19 | But you may think me merely biased if I say that my own father could in many ways be considered to rank with such men , and that his career is the one I have always scrutinized for a definition of ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 20 | The appeals panel is not expected to rule for several months . |
| 21 | The history department would be expected to participate in this process and then match up their own practice to that agreed . |
| 22 | The view of human nature as fundamentally aggressive can be expected to prevail in those domains where it corresponds with social and cultural ideology . |
| 23 | The M two motorway remains closed between junctions five and six and is not expected to reopen for several hours . |
| 24 | Nationalized industries are expected to comply with all SSAPs . |
| 25 | ’ . Under Para 10 , the Royal Botanic Gardens are specifically mentioned , so it is clear that we are expected to comply with this Directive . |
| 26 | We have also noted in passing the important and increasing role which public authorities have come to play in many countries in the bargaining process . |
| 27 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that exceedingly full and comprehensive reply — the type of reply that we have come to expect from this Minister . |
| 28 | People found their way round such systems by linking issues to file series based on subject , organisational provenance , or function — the Ministry of X 's file series about Y , the registered files of the Ministry of X 's Y Branch , or the Ministry of X 's files on its discharge of Act of Parliament Y. Since paper records were designed to fit into such registry systems , they carried pointers to their position within them ; file covers , file numbers , cross references to other files in the same series or related file series , and so on . |
| 29 | Two of the five vessels being built for Olsen are designed to comply with this legislation , and this , says Parker , will give it a proven ability to fit in with the new requirements . |
| 30 | He is expected to play in both games — Against the United States and Costa Rica . |