Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That money could have electrified railways that would 've given industry a chance to get its goods into Europe . |
| 2 | are putting in they have high attendance rates because they 're including explained absences you know , as justified you know , and putting them with the actual attendance |
| 3 | Everyone who buys Mishima will want Fallen Angel as well . ’ |
| 4 | As I , well I got given orders . |
| 5 | Visiting them at Christmas was particularly rewarding for the field-worker in order to see conspired contacts demonstrate the regard in which they held the neighbourhood police ; of course , it was equally rewarding for the police . |
| 6 | Indeed , some of his contemporaries were highly critical of his preoccupation with the technical side of verse ; even friends like Herbert Read placed emphasis on the Wordsworthian ‘ spontaneous overflowing of powerful feelings ’ . |
| 7 | On Feb. 4 President Roh Tae Woo placed South Korea 's armed forces on maximum alert , stating that the US preoccupation with the Gulf war meant that " the possibility of North Korean provocation is higher than ever before " . |
| 8 | The four Strauss songs are unremarkable as I have already inferred , but the Sibelius , Rangström and Grieg , the texts fully comprehended , are all given considered readings . |
| 9 | Yet if Richard Armstrong was writing according to a tried formula , concrete detail and well-conceived plots and the firm line of his character drawing helped him to achieve a special , moderate , even low- keyed reality in his books . |
| 10 | I was born in a barn , never knew my father , but was a very goodlooking baby — I could 've won prizes . |
| 11 | Time wasted equalled theft . |
| 12 | An' a crackling of flames , 'cos the pontoon 'ad caught fire and some o' the wreckage was ablaze as well . |
| 13 | Their contribution so far has emphasized reviews of human impacts often reflecting research in other disciplines rather than appropriate fundamental impact studies by physical geographers . |
| 14 | I have had breathing problems which my doctor has said is a figment of my imagination and he has diagnosed depression . |
| 15 | After 20 years at Data General Corp , where he was most recently director of Unix Development and acting director of the Database Engineering unit at the company 's Research Triangle Park , North Carolina base , John Pilat has jumped ship to become vice-president of Redwood Shores-based Oracle Corp 's Hewlett-Packard Products Division . |
| 16 | After 20 years at Data General Corp , where he was most recently director of Unix Development and acting director of the Database Engineering unit at the company 's Research Triangle Park , North Carolina base , John Pilat has jumped ship to become vice-president of Redwood Shres-based Oracle Corp 's Hewlett-Packard Products Division . |
| 17 | Vice president of software , Dave Stone , one of DEC 's fair-haired boys , has jumped ship to become president of AT&T Network Systems Group 's Operations System Business Unit . |
| 18 | Carol Bartz , Sun Microsystems Inc vice-president of worldwide field operations , has jumped ship to become chairman , president and chief executive of Autodesk Inc , Sausalito , replacing Alvar Green : she is succeeded at Sun by Joseph Roebuck who becomes vice-president of worldwide field operations for its Sun Microsystems Computer Corp arm . |
| 19 | Not good news , is the loss of vice president , Grover Righter , who has jumped ship to rival Unix-on-the-desktop house , Santa Cruz Operation Inc . |
| 20 | THE number of children on Wirral 's child protection register has jumped 10% in a year , according to the council 's annual social services report . |
| 21 | There is a contradiction which has pervaded responses to the National Curriculum in special education . |
| 22 | A certain narrow-mindedness has pervaded studies of electronic information as the focus has been predominately by national archives on the preservation of records about the national governments themselves . |
| 23 | And CLR 's conviction that cricket can only be seen truly in its social , political and historical context has pervaded Sissons 's subsequent writings on the game , including three books — Cricket and Empire , The Players and George Lohmann — The Beau Ideal . |
| 24 | Injury has stripped Fulton of full-back Andrew Ettingshausen and stand-off Laurie Daley . |
| 25 | Nearly three decades later a British publicist had no doubt that ‘ the refinement of modern ages has stripped war of half its horrors ’ . |
| 26 | British Steel has trebled productivity since 1979 . |
| 27 | A multi-million pound airport built in a remote part of Ireland has trebled profits to £138,000 . |
| 28 | The commitment to maintain or increase expenditure on arms , agriculture and energy has drained investment from the manufacturing base on which all of these priorities depend . |
| 29 | The Defence Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , has revised plans for defence cuts , two regiments which were to be merged will be saved , but there will be no u-turn on the merger of Gloucester Regiment . |
| 30 | HAD GENERAL Manuel Noriega been overthrown by rebel troops , it would have meant the end of a two-year political crisis that has wrecked Panama 's economy and brought political embarrassment and frustration to the United States . |