Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [conj] [adj] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 2 | I am told that there has been an agreement that some of the contact orders should be varied now but that does not form part of the appeal . |
| 3 | The common European toad , when it meets a snake , inflates its body and stands on tip-toe , a procedure that makes it appear to have grown suddenly and that seems to baffle most of the snakes that encounter it . |
| 4 | We have seen above that this involves a shift from the concrete perceptual meaning of " following a phenomenon with the senses " to viewing perception merely as the basis for asserting that the infinitive 's event really took place . |
| 5 | Mr Guerin was to have been sentenced yesterday but this has now been delayed by up to two months . |
| 6 | However , any treatment to relieve pain and suffering may well be justified even if this leads to an earlier death . |
| 7 | The number of stock under the supervision of a single worker has increased considerably and this has placed an additional burden on the skill of the stockman to face the new challenges which have resulted . |
| 8 | The value of diagnosing a condition that presents late in life with often only trivial symptoms , may be questioned especially when this entails changing long established eating habits . |
| 9 | Secondly , he should be loved wisely and that involves complete detachment from earthly values ( 112 – 13.138 – 70 ) . |
| 10 | The balance between self and majority interests sometimes conflict and a balance must be maintained even if this means sacrificing the opportunity to attract or retain some families . |
| 11 | It was suggested , perhaps uncontroversially , in the Green Paper , Trade Unions and Their Members , that a system for enforcing the statutory duties which a trade union owes to its members should serve three purposes -enable interested parties to initiate complaint procedures easily and at reasonable costs ; -ensure that such complaints are handled speedily and that remedies available where complaints are upheld are effective ; and -give protection against unfair treatment of complainants by trade unions . |
| 12 | ‘ The car is going to have to be completely re-built afterwards and that has to be taken into account in the total cost , ’ he says . |
| 13 | As yet there is no morphological features which can distinguish them as separate species , except perhaps the features mentioned above but this needs to be investigated . |
| 14 | Of the 102 symbols , 79 were correctly guessed first time and only 8 symbols required more than 5 guesses . |
| 15 | ‘ He had been nursed superbly and that needs to be said because the nurses have gone through a difficult time for obvious reasons and I would like to assure them , in public , that what they have done was quite superlative . ’ |