Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] be [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , the profit was earned by the exploitation of property assets and arose or was derived from the places where those assets were when sold or licensed and remain ; all outside Hong Kong . |
| 2 | Lambert blinked to rid his eyes of a sudden haziness and then the German was on him , with a curiously muffled stutter that swelled and was lost in the bellow of their engines as they passed in a blaze of flashing muzzles and white-hot exhausts and shinning propeller blades . |
| 3 | He dismounted and was received into the royal tent . |
| 4 | Long believed lost , the plates recently surfaced and were acquired by the Tate Gallery . |
| 5 | A + mistake may be made at a single point or a length of DNA may become temporarily dislocated and be reinserted in the wrong place . |
| 6 | That political crisis both drove and was driven by the economic crisis : but again and again it emerged that the key lay in politics . |
| 7 | In addition , there were a number of other conflicting relationships within this central ( and here , much simplified ) question , which affected and were affected by the course of the war as a military exercise . |
| 8 | Pain stabbed in their ears , plaster dust swirled and was swallowed by the gusting storm winds and blasting rain . |
| 9 | ‘ Did you get very far with Wickham last night , Rain ? ’ he asked and was confounded by the stunned look she gave him . |
| 10 | The golden pavilion and the peacock feathers flared and were gone in an instant , but the Hill of Heaven took a long while to cave in , and Hell burned with a black , acrid smoke billowing out of its throat . |
| 11 | Earlier in the week their Paddling Challenge , the oldest canoe race in the world , had seen several of the overseas competitors joining in without stopping even to unload their vehicles when they arrived and being joined by a number of prominent paddlers from the past . |
| 12 | After a while their nervousness vanished and was replaced by the glory and wonder of each other . |
| 13 | They rose , they hung almost still , and gradually they declined and were flattened into the bulk of the later books of the Evangel . |
| 14 | Certainly we know from Pope Gregory 's instructions that temples existed and were reused by the Christians . |
| 15 | Recently , just before I woke up , I had an insight that I perceived as being connected with the Celtic tradition ; I ‘ saw ’ that animal sacrifice in Celtic mythology was a way of buying interaction with the world of spirits , the souls of the animals being the currency used . |
| 16 | Some of the components of ‘ North Star ’ survived and were incorporated in a non-working replica built for the Stockton and Darlington centenary . |
| 17 | Chris and Pauline met while being treated at the same psychiatric unit of a local hospital . |
| 18 | May I and my right hon. and hon. Friends join in expressing sympathy for those who died or were injured in the atrocity in County Tyrone on Friday ? |
| 19 | Still , the application of different principles of design at the two ends could be accounted for in one man 's work : either by supposing that he saw and was overwhelmed by the Theseion mural between designing the east and designing the west ; or , perhaps more convincingly , that he felt a traditional , sculptural style proper to the entrance-front while allowing himself at the back to experiment with a new pictorial interest . |
| 20 | She believes that junior doctors could be empowered by longer contracts and proposes that house jobs should be arranged in one year ( or even 18 month ) blocks within single or closely linked units , so that the doctors felt and were recognised as an important part of the service provided . |
| 21 | It may seem at first sight that the plot of land , the fief , as it was called , was a reward for service , something granted in exchange for service , which would fall in when the vassal died and be regranted to a new vassal . |
| 22 | In January 1863 , Old Looking Glass died and was succeeded by a son of the same name , hanging his father 's trade mirror , and his burdens , about his own neck . |
| 23 | His magic , the magic of uncovering a man who had trod the land that I now trod , who died and was laid in the chalk 3,000 years ago , had been little more than pages in a notebook : another find in the ceaseless archaeological round . |
| 24 | The dramatic and mythological language disappeared and was replaced by a doctrine more fitted to legalism or the language of the ledger : salvation came to be seen as a question of balancing the books , or paying debts to the debtor . |
| 25 | In the course of the depressed 1930s Gramola disappeared and was replaced by the distinguished HMV label in distinctive dark blue . |
| 26 | When considering the right to silence it is salutary to examine the case of Clintom McCurbin who , in October 1988 , died while being arrested in a Next clothes shop on a case of alleged credit card fraud . |
| 27 | Campaign to reinstate members who resigned or were terminated during the recession.E |
| 28 | A copy of the initial writ requires to be served on ( 1 ) the clerk of the licensing board and ( 2 ) all parties who appeared or were represented at the hearing including the applicant if the appeal is by an objector , at the same time as the initial writ is lodged with the sheriff clerk or as soon as may be thereafter ( para. 3,5.1. 197711622 . |
| 29 | Such lack of fundamental change is perhaps understandable because , since the eighteenth century , the rate of economic growth in Britain has been slow , a rate which influenced and was influenced by the nature of the institutional and social system . |
| 30 | A child cried and was silenced with a bottle of orange-coloured liquid . |