Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [n mass] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the average length of time patients spend in hospital was continually being shortened and staff dealt with more people in acute stages of mental illness . |
| 2 | Now if you are an extrovert and gregarious person like Jane and a Sagittarian , then perhaps we have something going for us , but it 's very , very unusual , for people to be organised and sales orientated . |
| 3 | One month later the appellant and another accomplice entered an off licence , wearing stocking masks and carrying a gun which was not in working order ; the female licencee was threatened and £65 taken from the till . |
| 4 | Hostages were to be freed and people returned to the villages from which they had been deported . |
| 5 | But a London Underground spokesman said a public address announcement was made and staff assisted in the evacuation . |
| 6 | An ABC News poll showed 48pc disapproved and 46pc approved , with the rest having no opinion , and that Clinton 's main problems were the continuing weak economy and dislike of his tax plan . |
| 7 | Staff should be involved in the marketing and sales programmes and targets should be set and staff rewarded if they are achieved . |
| 8 | In the depressed countryside there was a considerable fund of labour to be tapped and people flowed from the uncertainties of seasonal rural poverty to the equally depressing conditions of the Brighton back streets . |
| 9 | The long-term trends in population redistribution during the latter half of the twentieth century have broadly been serving to undo the principal features of population change in the nineteenth century when the North 's share of national population increased and people concentrated into the major urban and industrial agglomerations . |
| 10 | Selected habitats will be studied and data collected on the ‘ costs ’ of conservation , for example in financial ( compensation payments ) and social opportunity cost ( foregone production ) terms ; but the main research effort will examine the ‘ benefits ’ of sites by studying |
| 11 | Small industries were destroyed and people driven to the cities where they were forced to switch from home-grown food to imported processed food . |