Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The infant death rate was still high enough , especially among the poor , for parents not yet to have become complacent ; meanwhile , the promise was held out , and for the first time could be kept , that babies could be successfully reared provided that medical advice was faithfully followed . |
| 2 | Sutton people became so enraged about this , that the Pope eventually became involved . |
| 3 | Because of this he often failed to bring about cures and eventually became disillusioned with hypnosis as a form of therapy . |
| 4 | Under the old system , it was possible , if a shortage of any one part occurred , to complete a large number of bodies up to the point at which this particular part was required , and even if the whole of the body shop floor eventually became taken up by partially built bodies , it was still possible to keep the body makers employed in splicing bottom sides and cantrails and fitting the pillars in position alongside the partially erected bodies . |
| 5 | The upmarket London furniture store Heals , fashion chain Richard Shops and finally British Home Stores were absorbed into the group , which eventually became known as the Storehouse group . |
| 6 | Car 68 was withdrawn and replaced in the following year by a modernistic design , which eventually became known as the Bandwagon . |
| 7 | With the retirement of Thomas Goldney the firm reverted for a time to Pountney and Co , and eventually became known simply as the Bristol Pottery until its cessation in the 1960s . |
| 8 | Of the six patients with poor or absent gall bladder emptying ( non-function ) two had patient cystic ducts after treatment of perforated empyemas but have since developed contracted , thick walled gall bladders . |
| 9 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
| 10 | Isaac and his brother Jacob [ q.v. ] clubbed together to produce Hebrew books for the Christian market , and thereby became acquainted with some of the most eminent Christian Hebraists of the day . |
| 11 | Dr Schumacher has since joined TRANSAID as a London-based director . |
| 12 | A STEEL erector was killed when a two-ton steel pipe he was working on became dislodged and dropped , trapping him underneath . |
| 13 | The benches by the Cages were suddenly stark and mysterious as they slowly became set against this drifting whiteness . |
| 14 | This one sentence from the notebooks goes straight home to the novel which eventually got written . |
| 15 | We engaged a third syce called Makonnen ; he turned out to be a quarrelsome intriguer and we eventually got rid of him . |
| 16 | It all eventually got straightened out , despite the Vadinamian distaste for the unusual , and suspicion of off-worlders . |
| 17 | The terrible trio eventually got caught and were expelled . |
| 18 | We were playing for a long time before we ever had a deal , and when we eventually got signed by a big company , they pretty much took us for what we were . |
| 19 | However , the Stuarts eventually got traded in for solid Hanoverian stock , and the latest evidence suggests that the South learned fast . |
| 20 | Now , the last thing I want to say , because I know we , our guest is here , and so presumably has collected his thoughts and is able to leap into the breach , the last thing I want to say on this is , writing articles , writing pieces , is a game , another area where practice makes perfect . |
| 21 | Rayward has argued that the creation of electronic resources is blurring the distinction between museums , libraries , and archives ( 1993 ) . |
| 22 | Once successfully test flown , Don intends to sell the aircraft , as has been the case with previous replicas he has built — the Bristol M.1C and Sopwith Tabloid on display at the RAF Museum , Hendon . |
| 23 | In fact the dream that we all had about Great Britain acknowledging it 's theatre and funding it properly has suffered a lot of setbacks since the ‘ sixties ’ . |
| 24 | Six hundred people in the business coughed up £2 10s 0d each , thereby becoming known as the Noble Six Hundred ; subsequent donations and the proceeds of Royal Variety performances meant that a nursing wing was added two years ago , and today there are 36 residents with a staff of 60 to look after them . |
| 25 | So far Saatchi and Saatchi has maintained its ability to win new business and remarkably has clung on to its status among advertisers , only recently being voted the best all-round agency . |
| 26 | Being able to integrate such datasets digitally has made it possible to generate prospectivity maps in a study of carbonate-hosted buried mineral deposits in the north of England . |
| 27 | While not denying the clinical value of the EEG as a non-invasive technique it is probably fair to conclude that electro-physiological research has so far not contributed anything new to our knowledge of cerebral asymmetry but rather has corroborated findings from other areas of investigation . |
| 28 | ‘ Here in the palace — though since none herein has seen hide or hair of him , one suspects that the king and his brother are under some form of house arrest . ’ |
| 29 | What is happening is that the English rural landscape is slowly becoming divided into three major types in the lowlands . |
| 30 | women are not sexy skinny women are not sexy , really skinny women we have to be like the Madonna type woman and I think that the , the , its about money and its about co , its about the consumer and about money and about making money from an image that somebody somewhere has seen as the normal perfect woman and the norm can be any thing it could be whatever you want it to be . |