Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourthly and finally , the nature of the participation asked for is not made clear . |
| 2 | The tenement building we moved from is now gone ( as is the one we moved to ) , replaced by a row of council blocks of impressive ugliness , vintage early sixties . |
| 3 | This week Unisys previews a far-flung range of ‘ Pentium-ready ’ machines , currently using 80486s but designed to be seamlessly upgraded to 60MHz Pentiums in the third quarter . |
| 4 | This week Unisys will preview a far-flung range of ‘ Pentium-ready ’ machines , currently running 80486s but designed to be seamlessly upgraded to 60MHz Pentiums in the third quarter . |
| 5 | In fact , they asked for the practices and procedures of all the agencies involved to be thoroughly scrutinised . |
| 6 | BMW claims that this far more sophisticated ( and , no doubt , expensive ) rear suspension finally lays to rest the spectre of lift-off oversteer which has so bedevilled the 3-series over the years — albeit to a much lesser degree with the outgoing model which , in Sport form at least , we found to be well balanced and responsive rather than inherently tail happy . |
| 7 | Perhaps the most interesting example of this is to be found in the Manor House garden , where a large section was unearthed and found to be well preserved . |
| 8 | Looking to our right we recognised the Cottages with the road in front of them close to the ditch ; also our Professor 's stable , coach-house and dog kennels , with the back entrance from the road to his garden … we were soon in King 's Road [ Pancras Way ] which we found to be well studded with trees on each side … to our left the Country residence of Counsellor Agar [ builder of Agar 's Town ] … we turned to the right and first took notice of the front of our Professor 's house with its large garden protected from the pathway and road by a brick wall . |
| 9 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 10 | The motion of the ionized spiral arms has been studied spectroscopically at both radio and infrared wavelengths and found to be highly organized . |
| 11 | Gray 's comments evoke a kind of mystical disenchantment with the movement which he found to be too focused on an intellectual critique of society . |
| 12 | Arctic ozone found to be seriously depleted |
| 13 | The Thomas Harris referred to was closely associated with the composer , and his signature may be seen as witness to Handel 's will and to its first three codicils ; in the fourth and last codicil he actually becomes a beneficiary . |
| 14 | It all came of being so confined , of knowing nothing beyond the village of Haverstock . |
| 15 | A book in Arabic On the Construction of Water-clocks , believed to be partly based on the translation of a Hellenistic treatise in Greek , preserves the idea of the invention of the basic machinery of a water-clock by Archimedes , together with later ingenious additions to the mechanism made by either Byzantine or Islamic craftsmen . |
| 16 | The thrust of the prosecutions case is that Mr How , who had offices in Gloucester , Cheltenham and Worcester , used money which his clients believed to be safely invested , to pay for high risk property deals , which fell through causing his customers to lose almost two million pounds betwen them . |
| 17 | ( 1980 ) and Wood , McMahon and Cranstoun ( 1980 ) in relation to the nursery , must make us question the claims that schools provide a linguistically rich environment , able to provide compensation for children believed to be linguistically deprived at home . |
| 18 | For sheer bloodyminded determination since his debut 23 seasons ago , it deserved to be widely applauded . |
| 19 | She pinched ears , lips and nostrils , pulled hair and poked her hard fingers into tender places , and she did so with a vexed expression on her face , as if the worried children in her charge deserved to be roughly handled . |
| 20 | He raised that study to the rank of a single comprehensive and independent science , and thus deserved to be reverently regarded by posterity as the eponymous hero of all the long line of later scholars " . |
| 21 | Its introduction into British schools for the deaf , first by the Rev. Thomas Arnold at Northampton in 1868 then by Mr. William Van Praagh at 11 , Fitzroy Square , London in 1872 , rapidly spread , especially after 1880 , until it came to be both detested and feared by leading deaf people everywhere who saw that it could — and indeed as it did — seriously damage the systems of education that had served so well since the growth of deaf education . |
| 22 | Given the growth of international competition and the emergence of the multi- national enterprise , such limited control came to be widely recognised as inadequate , particularly as with the approach of 1992 the number of cross-border mergers was increasing . |
| 23 | Bovet produced a curare-based compound that came to be widely used as a muscle relaxant during surgery on the chest and the abdomen . |
| 24 | Before long there were many activities for which time came to be increasingly regarded as valuable . |
| 25 | It appears therefore that whilst ‘ private ’ homosexual conduct may have been decriminalised , the ‘ public ’ margins came to be increasingly policed . |
| 26 | Robert Kerr caused outrage in the mid-1860s by suggesting that the doctrine of three bedrooms ( stipulated in the 1840s when the blue books revealed a high incidence of incest ) should be abandoned ; but , though the moral problems did not of course vanish , his view came to be increasingly shared . |
| 27 | Stein 's book may have influenced the initial formulation of Marx 's conception of the proletariat in capitalist society ( Avineri , 1972 , pp. 53–5 ) , but whether that is so or not it did undoubtedly express in a very clear and forceful way ideas which were widely held about the dominant political issues in nineteenth-century European societies ; to such an extent that the social movement came to be largely identified , especially in Germany , with the labour movement . |
| 28 | More generally , it was in the 820s that Louis favoured transrhenani ( " men from across the Rhine " ) which gave him a strong network of loyalties in the east , though it came to be bitterly resented in the west . |
| 29 | However , once its sentencing decisions came to be regularly reported in the Criminal Law Review ( from 1954 onwards ) , the way was then open for the Court of Appeal to start laying down general sentencing principles for lower courts to apply in similar cases in the future . |
| 30 | The plaintiffs made a liqueur called advocaat which came to be well known . |