Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all scientists were and remained normal scientists then a particular science would become trapped in a single paradigm and would never progress beyond it . |
| 2 | Yet it is precisely that kind of issue that the coalition would like addressed in a coherent and collaborative fashion . |
| 3 | The relatives and friends who are left behind can also become entrapped in an overwhelming feeling that says ‘ I must be there when he takes his last breath ’ ; ‘ I must n't miss any last word he utters ’ . |
| 4 | When students pick up a BOOKWORM they know that they will rapidly become immersed in an enjoyable , skilfully-written story which provides an excellent introduction to real reading in English . |
| 5 | Most of your fans though , will remain condemned in a lonely monologue with their distant idol … |
| 6 | Wynne Godley has been consistently the gloomiest economist operating in Britain , believing that the UK economy is suffering from severe structural weaknesses , and it will remain locked in a low growth and high unemployment pattern for years . |
| 7 | It can not be argued so categorically that this was the sole source of the style in the twelfth century or that it would not soon have developed in a similar manner elsewhere if the Île de France had not then produced it . |
| 8 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 9 | The gang would have come in a high-powered motor launch , not in an ordinary punt , hired from the boat-yard half a mile upstream . |
| 10 | Although the rules do not make this absolutely clear it would be extraordinary if they were interpreted as preventing a party from adducing any oral evidence , even that which had been set down in witness statements served in compliance with the direction , simply because he attempts to adduce additional oral evidence at trial which he should have included in an earlier witness statement . |
| 11 | Public opinion , though skewed to the right on many issues , has not moved further right between 1979 and 1989 , and may actually have moved in a contrary direction . |
| 12 | Voluntary work in the community can be just as useful as anything you may have done in a paid capacity . |
| 13 | A knowledge of the working of a solicitor 's office , particularly er o of those departments handling non-contentious business , can not be automatically imputed to the judge or to council and he may as well make it is not uncommon for an expert witness to give evidence of what he would have done in a particular situation after consideration and er I resign on that because in my submission er the issues in this case are clearly issues of mixed fact and law and my Lord it is seen from the report handed up that there is particularly in relation to the erm financial aspect of the case , reference to a provision within a professional conduct of solicitors guide as to what the nature of the er duties of the solicitor in the situation is . |
| 14 | RANGER & LOEW 'S embossed stainless steel art deco cigarette case looks like the authentic article — but it 's even better because your king-size cigarettes will fit neatly in — which they would n't have done in an original case . |
| 15 | Some firms may have grown in an unplanned , unforeseen manner , others may have expanded in order to acquire greater prestige and so on . |
| 16 | I RECENTLY found a wallet containing credit cards which I could have used in a dishonest way . |
| 17 | If a theory like this were available , we would have reintroduced in a roundabout way the possibility of a conditional theory of justification . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , strong underlying trends have been pushing up costs in the United Kingdom as they have in other countries — the increasing sophistication of medical treatment , the survival of those who would have died in an earlier decade , new and expensive drugs , the growing awareness amongst the public of potential treatments , a reluctance to merely grin and bear pain and discomfort , and above all the ageing of the population . |
| 19 | He would n't say how much money it had cost him to get married , but did say the money he would have made from Jamie 's maiden win would have helped in a big way . |
| 20 | Once again , you know , you 'd have thought in a green field construction site that you would n't get access problems and in er , a restricted area like a city centre building or er , a you would get access problems . |
| 21 | Such employment leaps in particular industries could not have occurred in a tight labour market with slow labour-force growth . |
| 22 | Those making the decisions have become in a precise sense semi-literate : they can read and write , it is just that they seldom do . |
| 23 | If it had been carved to life all the detail would have disappeared in a dense and unreadable thicket of vegetation . |
| 24 | Yet the question remains as to what Baldwin thought he might have attempted in a long night of ‘ reasoning together ’ . |
| 25 | ( Incidentally , if Mary had thought , she would have slipped in a personal note instead of conveying the message secondhand through someone else . ) |
| 26 | The split could have gone in a different direction with different characterizations and emphases within the overall framework . |
| 27 | Science and technology must surely have progressed in a different way if these principles had been embraced from the start . |
| 28 | For some reason the thought that he seriously did n't care one way or another what her opinions were wounded her pride more than she would ever have admitted in a million years . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's told me things that you 'd never have admitted in a hundred years . ’ |
| 30 | The universe would have started in a smooth and ordered state , and would become lumpy and disordered as time went on . |