Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It may be that those involved in the sale of gilt options did not realise that they actually increased the risk to which the council was exposed rather than reducing it . ’ |
| 2 | In the case of South Africa , this kind of self-esteem has to be sought in deliberately resisting the implications of what is taught rather than accepting them . |
| 3 | Resistance does not operate outside power , nor is it necessarily produced oppositionally : it is imbricated within it , the irregular term that consistently disturbs it , rebounds upon it , and which on occasions can be manipulated so as to rupture it altogether : |
| 4 | Very simply , the theory behind this is that any product has some characteristic which can be developed so as to make it unique in its class . |
| 5 | The rules of the Young Communist League were altered so as to widen its membership " not only to those who support its stated policy and aims , but also to those who , while not being actively hostile to its policy and aims , wish to study Socialism " . |
| 6 | Wilson and Jones , in their investigations of this effect , did not test the carcinogens on cells , but on DNA extracted from cells and treated so as to make it mimic the methylated DNA of a dividing cell . |
| 7 | On the other we have Forey asserting that ‘ Fossils have clouded rather than clarified our attempts to reconstruct phylogeny . ’ |
| 8 | New books and dictionaries are expected to contain the new spellings , while Proust , Racine and the rest will gradually be re-edited so as to make them conform . |
| 9 | That survey was quite methodologically sound in that the sampling procedure was er designed so as to make it as representative as possible of the U K population . |
| 10 | The project will investigate formally the gains that result from coordinated policies on CO2 emissions , as against unilateral policies , and suggest how international agreements on CO2 emissions may be designed so as to ensure they are sustainable . |
| 11 | Mr Gorbachev reportedly offered to resign at Saturday 's meeting after Kemerevo party chief Alexander Melnikov ‘ really let himself get carried away and said something like this : ‘ Is it proper to go bowing to the capitalists ? to go asking a blessing from the Pope ? ’ ' according to a conservative Central Committee member . |
| 12 | Yes , before you all write in , I do know that by pressing the yellow button on the machine I will be told when I need to knit with the main carriage , but ( hand on heart ) how many of you have got carried away and done one too many strokes with the lace carriage ? |
| 13 | I had not even finished writing this before I got carried away and bought myself another Christmas present — a Synodontis angelicus . |
| 14 | He adds : ‘ People who get carried away when describing their wares can end up in the small claims court . ’ |
| 15 | By the time I had come downstairs and made it over the mali 's trenchworks , Balvinder had polished the bonnet so bright he could curl his moustache in the reflection . |
| 16 | I caught an early edition , read about the ruckus , and thought I 'd better come home and see what was happening about the five grand . ’ |
| 17 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 18 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 19 | ‘ They are one of the few teams that have come here and attacked us and they did a good job , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Before she had managed it , she heard Glyn 's voice , and it seemed of the utmost importance that he did not begin to get to know the man who had come here and turned her small world upside-down so quickly . |
| 21 | She should have rung immediately and said there was a question mark . |
| 22 | On the whole , they had either been through the English education system and had therefore a good command of English and a limited domestic register in their other languages , or they had been educated abroad and learnt their English as adults when they arrived in this country . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps Nigel had come earlier and killed him and then arranged to come back and find the body . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The person shown on television having an exchange of words with David Campese has come forward and given his account of the incident . |
| 25 | Today at the fringe meeting where seventy odd people attended , I 've been inundated by people who 've come forward and said we wan na raise it , we wan na put instructions on the machines that dispense these . |
| 26 | Erm what I think we need is an alternative to the suggestion made by Mr Broughton erm is simply erm a wording in the exceptions policy should it be er carried forward that makes it clear that the agricultural policies in the structure plan do still apply erm to those proposals . |
| 27 | We did n't know where it was and it was only at the end of the exhibition , when everything was being dismantled , that we found the piece hidden away and realised what had happened . |
| 28 | This is true , but of no great significance since it is easy to modify the model developed above and make it immune from this particular criticism , while ensuring that all its important features are retained . |
| 29 | He began to realize , too , what hardship she had suffered rather than ask his family for money . |
| 30 | Suppose , for example , that the indirect tax structure could be reformed by introducing differential rates of tax on different commodities ( so that , say , necessities bear a lower percentage ) , and that this could be done so as to make everyone better off ( or no worse off ) . |