Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [conj] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giles Hawick suddenly looked tired and McLeish felt for him , as he promised to keep him in touch with their investigations . |
| 2 | In parallel with this , Ann has overseen the establishment of entirely new team budgeting processes , and Tracy has made sure that staff affected by chance have appropriate space and office facilities to do their jobs . |
| 3 | In traditional critical study , questions about politics were rarely felt important since politics engaged with transitory activities . |
| 4 | The gearbox selected neutral as Patrese went through a quick left-hander , a problem which he could have coped with had the mechanism not decided to offer him , without warning , second gear half-way through . |
| 5 | Copies of the initial draft of the report should be made available and time allowed for observations and objections to be made which could be incorporated in the final report . |
| 6 | Owen was an older contemporary of Forbes and Darwin , but lived far longer than either of them ( 1804–92 ) ; it is often a good idea to outlive one 's opponents , but Owen 's bête noire was Huxley ( who outlived him ) , and by 1892 the world had become Darwinian and Owen seemed like a living fossil . |
| 7 | Baby Victoria Reece was born blind and brain damaged at Hereford County Hospital . |
| 8 | Even as she spoke , however , the door was flung open and Sarah stumbled over the threshold , half-dragging and half-lifting George into the room . |
| 9 | Then the door was flung open and Boz stood in the doorway , wild-eyed and angry . |
| 10 | The last author commented ‘ increasing numbers of Americans have become aware that crime exists in the suites of many corporations just as surely as it exists in the streets of their cities and suburbs ’ . |
| 11 | He had asked if he could go to the seminary school at once , but he had seemed relieved when Tom advised against it . |
| 12 | The place was scrubbed clean though flies feasted on the huge globules of red blood spattered across the white-washed walls . |
| 13 | And twenty American servicemen are feared dead after air crashes in the Gulf . |
| 14 | A 10–15 mm long part proximal and distal to the experimental segment , as well as part of the experimental segment itself , were cut open and immersion fixed in an isotonic formaldhyde-acetic acid solution . |
| 15 | Cleanse the area if necessary — remember that the wound is best left dry as bacteria thrive in a moist , warm environment . |
| 16 | Specimens were taken fresh and samples fixed in 2.5% glutaraldehyde for transmission electron microscopy and 10% formol saline for light microscopy . |
| 17 | His anxiety mounted as telexes were left unanswered and calls blocked by Martin Huckerby , another Wapping refusenik whom Sutton had recruited as the paper 's managing editor . |