Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outreach to land-users in the project area was in all cases ‘ slower than expected ’ , or seemed to have been forgotten altogether in the evaluation . |
| 2 | Here had been the baroque brothels , where wenching had been carried on in the grand manner . |
| 3 | Victor Goblin and Alien & Unwind have been swallowed up . |
| 4 | Mr JAD Gilliland QC ( sitting as a deputy judge ) permitted the defendants to rescind a contract for the sale of land as a result of a misrepresentation made before contract , despite the fact that clause 10 of the sale agreement provided that the agreement contained all the terms of the contract between the vendor and the purchaser and that the purchaser did not enter into the agreement in reliance on any warranty or representation made or purported to have been made by or on behalf of the vendor other than the vendor 's solicitor 's written replies to enquiries raised by the purchaser 's solicitor . |
| 5 | My first rule of journalism goes back to something which was written down or reputed to have been said by H L Mencken , who was a , an American prize-winning journalist and commentator . |
| 6 | The Occupational Pensions Board gave examples of circumstances in which applications for orders for pension fund surpluses to be reduced or eliminated had been turned down , as part of new guidance on how to make applications . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , where woodstopping has been used , it is usually apparent as it breaks the natural grain configuration . |
| 8 | The practical effects of this regulation were to cause many students to register for 12 modules but participate seriously in only 10 ; to cause them to stack their choices , so that modules which they needed or intended to pass were taken in terms 1 and 2 , and to bias apparent but not real demand towards term 3 . |
| 9 | These arguments stem from ignorance and the mistaken impression that touch legering is advocated as the answer to all legering situations . |
| 10 | Mill manager , informs us that if all the bags that has packed were laid end to end they would reach to Moscow ! |
| 11 | Even by the standards of Harry 's yard , Heraldic was no looker , a great , gangling colt with a head and neck that seemed to have been added to his body as an afterthought . |
| 12 | Struggling through the cotton wool that seemed to have been stuffed into her brain , Julia found that announcement of savagery almost impossible to believe . |
| 13 | In these uses , one gets the impression that let has been dematerialized to the point of almost being a mere " actualizer " of the infinitive event ( cf. |
| 14 | Large numbers of animals — a particularly aristocratic breed of sheep , with black heads and legs , and long white coats that look to have been draped over them , like wigs , rather than grown naturally ; sleek , monochrome cattle ; and pottoks as well as full-grown horses , all seem to spend an agreeable and nutritious summer on these high pastures . |
| 15 | Only 1 library service out of the 9 school services that replied had been automated . |
| 16 | When this matter was discussed at housing committee , I believe it 's only last week but it seems a lot longer ago , I spoke at some length about the errors and fallacies in the report arguing against a case that officers have put forward , pointing out mistakes and erroneous conclusions that seem to have been drawn from some very flimsy evidence . |
| 17 | The only benefits that seem to have been suggested is that their proposals are better than what 's there at the moment , er Grant Developments must be aware that there is a , an approval , a current planning approval for the development of that site , which is a development to retain the existing bungalow and develop the existing bungalow , and to build a house in the rear . |
| 18 | The events that followed have been chronicled by several of those that took part , My fate was similar : we were to listen out for a coded signal from Group at Lyon if we were to proceed to the target . |
| 19 | In particular , the movement of workers directly from one job to another has an effect on both the in flow into unemployment and the outflow from it , an effect that seems to have been neglected . |
| 20 | It was a real art that seems to have been lost today . |
| 21 | Thank you Chairman , erm I 'm delighted to be the last person to present a set of budget proposals as it gives me the opportunity to draw attention to some facts that seems to have been overlooked by the representatives of the other two groups . |
| 22 | County talks about putting a million pounds back in and it turns out that this million pound in fact is part of a two million pound cut that appears to have been made . |
| 23 | A trade that purports to have been executed in the exchange 's competitive trading system is in fact pre-arranged by bilateral negotiation . |
| 24 | The tensions that did arise were generated during the period of readjustment and later resolved . |
| 25 | Well , those animals that did survive were treated at a number of animal shelters . |
| 26 | Although warming has been detected over the last few decades , scientists claim that not enough is known about the natural temperature variations of the region to be able to come to any conclusions . |
| 27 | Under a dark pullover without elbows he was wearing a Levi shirt that appeared to have been sucked colourless by some dog . |
| 28 | She could remember the bra , it had been rather a good black lace wired Kayser Bondor , of a line that appeared to have been discontinued , as she 'd never been able to find another . |
| 29 | The ships that had survived were divided , some to continue with the trade that was their life-blood ; the rest thinly spread through the Sudreyar , including Man , where Bishop Hrolf cultivated his souls and his fortifications with equal exuberance and had received from his smith on Holmepatrick , in his scant leisure from illegal coining , a custom-made tunic of chain-mail with the cross of Christ on every ring of it . |
| 30 | Repeat colonoscopies were performed every 6 months for the entire 2 year follow up period , and any metachronous adenomas that had occurred were removed . |