Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [noun pl] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SONOROUS voice from some unseen depth wafts the audience back to the darkest days of the Raj where murky affairs were afoot , when life was cheap , gentlemanly double-dealing was routine and deeds could be done and curses uttered which would pursue a man back to civilisation and England . |
| 2 | Their aim was to ensure that contracts were given and policies enacted which favoured their interests in making profits . |
| 3 | However , as shopping still had to be done , schools reached and roads crossed whatever the road width or traffic volume , accident levels continued to rise and living environments to deteriorate . |
| 4 | With the slump in building work , the market forces reversed and contractors found themselves in a fiercely competitive market with tenders very keenly priced . |
| 5 | Decisions are taken and appointments made which rate , at best , a paragraph in the more serious newspapers . |
| 6 | The reason for this , continued James , is that ‘ the exact combination of ideals realized and ideals disappointed which each decision creates is always a universe without precedent , and for which no adequate previous rule exists ’ . |