Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made £41.7m compared with £32.5m in 1990 and is increasing its total dividend payout to 56.4p per share from 47p . |
| 2 | The Great Eastern then pioneered a new development , annotated timetables designed for tourist use and pamphlets detailing local trips with train times and fares for each of the Great Eastern seaside resorts . |
| 3 | The fact was that Charles gave up shooting for a few years because he had simply grown bored with it : it was too easy to blast away overfed birds frightened into the air by a band of beaters . |
| 4 | But then Myverygoodfriend finished second and after Galway Star had become their fourth odds-on scorer , Passed Pawn failed in the last race . |
| 5 | The SPD on May 6 attacked plans presented by Waigel to reduce growth in federal government spending to 2.5 per cent a year until 1996 and to keep Land and communal spending increases to 3 per cent a year . |
| 6 | other overseas banks and consortium banks ( UK registered institutions owned by banks or financial institutions ) . |
| 7 | Up to the passing of the new Act , the loan societies recovered money owed to them either by a summons to a Court of Requests or to a Police Court . |
| 8 | In what was hailed as a major initiative , US President George Bush on Sept. 27 announced proposals aimed at substantially reducing US air- , land- and sea-based nuclear weapons . |
| 9 | The shed was of wood , a compact , dark , creosoted building tucked into the corner of the shrubbery . |
| 10 | The muddy track skirted the precipitous drop to the water one hundred feet below , then descended to the stream edge and meandered through ancient alders with red-tinted catkins , through poor pastures , passed blackthorn covered in deep purple sloes withering on spiny twigs and wound upstream into open moorland . |
| 11 | Acorn for example , produced data broken down by ‘ agricultural areas ’ , ‘ older housing ’ , ‘ council estates ’ , ‘ metropolitan areas ’ . |
| 12 | The officer became light headed and saw spots in front of his eyes . |
| 13 | Ms Richardson said that the plants at Ayr and Galway made computers aimed at different sections of the market . |
| 14 | The 33 shearling ewes levelled at £335 against £309 in 1990 while 26 ewe lambs averaged £263 compared with £248 12 months ago . |
| 15 | She was a writer , a real one who got books printed . |
| 16 | When they were weighed in June they averaged 23.9kg compared with the 20.5kg of Bleu du Maine crosses managed in the same way . |
| 17 | While publications designed for mass appeal concentrated upon the issue of immigration , the more esoteric magazines and recommended books promoted the antisemitic notion of a world Jewish conspiracy . |
| 18 | Shaw produced images described as a woman 's navel , a breast , a thigh , and Jesus , on an 8 mm movie film , This he did by spitting on the lens . |
| 19 | Attired in his pouting purple daemon 's mask , he escorted a bucking , snarling , tattooed warrior bound with electrocuffs and firmly gripped by two Phantasms . |
| 20 | He tried tar made from the distillation of coal and in the distillation process became interested in the gas given off . |
| 21 | In both areas the SDA created programmes designed to enhance industrial property , to help small firms and to reclaim and improve land ( Gulliver , 1984 ) . |
| 22 | In the three months to the end of April , housing starts rose 16pc compared with the same period in 1992 . |
| 23 | I came home later and found Kelly shaken . |
| 24 | The government also pursued policies designed to encourage a commercial ethos in the remaining public enterprises . |
| 25 | We found Sheffield strewn with uprooted trees and fallen chimneys , the result of a ferocious storm which began on our wedding day . |
| 26 | It was this depth of breeding that encouraged such lively bidding for the Woodhayne stock which sold to 1200gns for Woodhayne Citrine , a Gulliver sired cow offered with a heifer calf by Mavesyn Midas . |
| 27 | This Article could aid considerably the plight of upland broadleaved woods discussed in Chapter 9 but much evidence given to the House of Lords Select Committee on this item gave the proposal a very mixed reception . |
| 28 | The process begun under Edward I was continued in July 1333 when , at Halidon Hill , outside Berwick , the English showed that they had learned to coordinate the use of ‘ traditional ’ cavalry with the ‘ new ’ archer force , the combination on this occasion being that of archers and dismounted men-at-arms drawn up in a defensive position which showed what successes a measure of flexibility could bring to an army led by men willing to experiment . |
| 29 | He then used skills honed in half a lifetime as a successful actor to feign shock and sorrow , said Mr Calvert-Smith . |
| 30 | Back in Cairo , Stirling found headquarters sunk in despondency , having lost all the gains they had made in December . |