Example sentences of "[subord] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguments over the validity of the notice and justification of the motives of the partners serving it are better left to an appropriate tribunal ( judge , arbitrator or mediator ) than carried on in acrimonious correspondence . |
| 2 | Dunne , Chapman 's last attempt to find a successor to Lambert , proved to be past his best , but Drake more than made up for lost time , scoring 42 League goals in 1934–5 , a club record for a single season . |
| 3 | But he more than made up for that night by setting up both Arsenal 's goals with a performance of poise and maturity . |
| 4 | As lovers they were not exactly vibrant , but their voices and Lehar 's music more than made up for that . |
| 5 | Unfortunately for them Palace injuries prevented the other two players from making any more than token contributions to our promotion hopes of the late 1920s and early 1930s , but Tom Crilly , a full-back by profession , more than made up for those disappointments . |
| 6 | One implication of this is that evaluation procedures are usually better developed in-house than bought in from other institutions . |
| 7 | The perennial fascination of Karajan 's 1954 recordings of Mozart 's Così fan tutte and Strauss 's Ariadne auf Naxos lies partly in the exquisitely cast singing and playing , partly in the use Legge and Karajan made of studio conditions to create performances of radical intimacy , the music-making addressed to the microphone and the private listener rather than belted out across some putative theatrical footlights . |
| 8 | And although frowned on by some , sugar has its place in small quantities amidst the salt and pepper , particularly if the vinegar is very acid . |
| 9 | Although set up in 1974 in response to outcries about huge increases in domestic rates , it never came near to recommending their abolition or even their substantial replacement with another tax . |
| 10 | These developments are , quite naturally , producing fears in government circles that alliances are no more than cartels designed to restrain competition , albeit dressed up in new and more attractive clothes . |
| 11 | The only girl , Roberta , or Berta , as the family called her , was the same age as her cousin Sandy and although ‘ chesty ’ as they said , she was certainly spirited enough , and more than kept up with all the boys . |
| 12 | But these murders were crafted in the human soul and decided upon by the human mind even if carried out for malicious , devilish purposes . |
| 13 | It then assumes a parliamentary intention that the steps which Parliament has enjoined or authorized for saving or minimizing tax shall not be effective if they are carried out for that purpose but are only to be effective if carried out for some other ‘ legitimate ’ business purpose . |
| 14 | Glad of it anyhow , ’ he added as if caught out in some discourtesy . |
| 15 | Sarella felt her cheeks begin to burn , as if caught out in some way . |
| 16 | As state functions are taken over by private companies , even if made up of ex-civil servants , we will find them dropping out of the public records net . |
| 17 | Fans clutch at the wire like prisoners until snarled off by these four-legged automatons . |
| 18 | The ULS Study showed that smaller farms were more labour intensive per unit of land area and the NCC 's concern is mainly that larger units ( especially if bought up by large investors ) are run as ranches with little if any regard to conservation interests or features . |
| 19 | This low-level theory , if spelt out in more detail , amounts to the claim that if wheat is grown in the normal way , converted into bread in the normal way and eaten by humans in a normal way , then those humans will be nourished . |
| 20 | Father ran a butcher 's shop in which Fagg also worked until called up in nineteen thirty-nine . |
| 21 | It can leave the Tower if driven out in this way , but it must stay close to the outside walls . |
| 22 | A good many people suffered minor injuries in consequence ; but I believe those who suffered injuries were as nothing compared to those who wished to sustain an honourable contusion or bruise , or who , to make the whole setting more dramatic , lay on the ground as if laid out for dead without any injury at all . |
| 23 | In one period , all were placed together as if spelled out in full as ‘ MAC ’ . |
| 24 | In one period , all were placed together as if spelled out in full as ‘ MAC ’ . |
| 25 | Therefore when , in 1926 , the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry ( largely at the instigation of William Beveridge , one of its members ) recommended the introduction of a system of children 's allowances financed by the mining industry itself but with a hint that it might be accompanied by a reduction in wage rates , the Miners ' Federation was only prepared to accept the proposal if financed out of general taxation . |
| 26 | Although such behaviour corresponds closely to the descriptions of other feral children , it is impossible to know whether these children might have developed similar patterns of behaviour even if brought up in greater contact with people , and it has been suggested that feral children might have been abandoned by their parents because of their behaviour problems . |
| 27 | Thanks to its coastal location , it could be easily supplied with food and ammunition by sea if cut off by hostile forces from the lands . |
| 28 | No matter how helpful some of the tools presented seem to appear , they will prove useless and even harmful if taken up by those with eyes which are spiritually blind and whose hands lack spiritual strength . |
| 29 | What the institutional life does well , if backed up by economic stability or an ideological message , is produce people who cope well in situations where feelings can be a handicap to efficient functioning . |
| 30 | The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons described docking as ‘ an unjustified mutilation ’ unless carried out for medical reasons . |