Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] [adv] [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The engine operated until about 1848 but proved to be too heavy for the line and was never entirely successful . |
| 2 | Bernard Coard 's How the West Indian Child is made Educationally Sub-Normal in the British School System ( 1971 ) had already given concrete expression to many black parents ' justified fears that their children were being systematically mis-classified as educationally subnormal and relegated to a ‘ special ’ education which effectively excluded them from any possibility of acquiring decent qualifications . |
| 3 | The equipment should be heated until very hot and switched off . |
| 4 | The way is then clear for a specifying definition of the ‘ aesthetic ’ , which is not the practical satisfaction of a determinate need , but which is also not offered as objectively real and demanding ( ‘ magico-religious ’ ) belief ; its images are closed and real in themselves . |
| 5 | Shirley 's best friend Jane ( Alison Steadman ) , on the other hand , declares herself a feminist but is shown as merely paranoid and frustrated , cured of her analysis by a brisk holiday romance . |
| 6 | Then he was placed while still alive and bleeding somewhere else . |
| 7 | Consequently the NHS inherited a large number of public hospitals containing many who were defined as chronically ill and written off as being impossible to rehabilitate and restore to the community or independent living . |
| 8 | One of the few exceptions to this was Stonehenge , which always seems to have been regarded as extremely old and to have excited theories about how the lintels were raised : one early theory was that the magician Merlin placed the stones . |
| 9 | All personal details are treated as strictly confidential and remain on computer file . |
| 10 | Beyond this , the knowledge of the ways in which initially neutral cues are treated as potentially relevant or ignored is growing , and suggests once again that the rules for learning can be influenced by the nature of prior experience ( e.g. Dickinson , 1980 ) . |
| 11 | These are captured when still small and raised on tasty tit-bits until they are big enough to ride . |
| 12 | The poison was described as virtually harmless when taken in small amounts . |