Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took it from the cupboard and as usual became engrossed in the other pages of the newspaper . |
| 2 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 3 | This is largely due to support provided by the British Library Research and Development Division which during 1978–1980 funded projects in seven UK library schools based on the use of the HP2645A . |
| 4 | Lord Chesterfield , when discussing ‘ useful prejudices … which I should be very sorry to see removed ’ a little after the previous war , had declared that ‘ that silly , sanguine notion , which is firmly entertained here , that one Englishman can beat three Frenchmen , encourages and has sometimes enabled one Englishman in reality to beat two . ’ |
| 5 | The insistence on the supremacy of the political has become a cliché of recent thinking . |
| 6 | The 36-year-old American is due to meet revitalised French Open finalist Mary Joe Fernandez for a place in the semifinals . |
| 7 | Page 30 NY cellular telephones : McCaw Cellular has bought the half stake owned in the New York cellular telephone franchise by Metromedia . |
| 8 | In the patient with migration of the TIPSS deployment of a further stent has resulted in no further bleeding . |
| 9 | And while the proportion of those people who would recommend a young couple with a steady job to buy as soon as possible has fallen from 78 per cent in 1989 , the latest survey shows 70 per cent would still offer this advice . |
| 10 | But such enthusiasm for working on as many projects as possible has lead to serious cautions from doctors for Merton . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , most recent work into the psychological attitude of people as to whether areas are urban or rural has used multivariate techniques . |
| 12 | The Swedish multinational has invested £6.5 million in the plant , which will manufacture chassis for the Olympian double-deck and B6 single-deck midi models for both domestic and export markets . |
| 13 | In that time , the giant multinational has bought a 40 per cent stake in the company that runs south Crofty ( which also operates a small mine at Pendarves ) as well as 18 per cent of the shares in Geevor . |
| 14 | Former Chief Justice Bhagwati summed up the situation succinctly : ’ The multinational has won and the people of India have lost . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Something absolutely frightful has happened , ’ he said . |
| 16 | For Pat junior has grown up to be a hunky , muscular , six foot two . |
| 17 | The assumption that the rate of technical advance is exogenous has meant that tax policy affected only the steady-state levels of the capital-labour ratio , wages , etc . |
| 18 | Less dramatically , the health of the surviving has improved . |
| 19 | Pumping to keep reclaimed land dry has lowered water tables in some areas and the land is sinking as the soil compresses . |
| 20 | CONTRACT caterer Catering & Allied has teamed up with systems supplier T IS to speed up and simplify the job of stocktaking at its City of London contract with merchant bank Morgan Grenfell . |
| 21 | Our growing appetite for the sweet and sticky has contributed to the R and K Wise success story . |
| 22 | Dr ‘ Scott ’ You come to a house where something awful has happened and there 's the mother and a couple of daughters and the neighbour from next door and they 're in a terrible state . |
| 23 | You spoke about what was said in the brochure that management charges had been or would be running at about a rate of inflation , we can see it on page fifty six , it 's better if you look at it I think , rather than I parrot phrase , see fifty six if you so kind now see fifty six is talking about at Broadstone will the management charges greatly increase the answer is no management service , er , sorry has appointed U K leading management specialist for several reasons , firstly because of their professional caring attitude , secondly because time has shown that management charges , rises the rate either slightly below or at the levelled inflation when that brochure was produced in respect of that development was that statement true or was it not ? |
| 24 | In terms of transaction size , MAS has assisted on several large acquisitions ( with purchase prices approaching £50 million ) as well as number of smaller transactions . |
| 25 | In addition to the International Network , MAS has designated people responsible for initial service delivery in most of the European countries . |
| 26 | There are a number of printers with whom MAS has worked already ( some being clients ) who are well known for security printing . |
| 27 | To date MAS has tended to provide acquisition assistance to the following type of organisation : |
| 28 | He criticised the backwardness of Islamic orthodoxy ; nevertheless he wrote on 17 October 1936 , ‘ a soul that was only superficially Islamic has become a soul convinced of Islam … a soul that daily rendered homage to HIM ’ . |
| 29 | They say when you look at someone who is dead the spirit is n't there , it 's a shell because whatever made it alive has gone . |
| 30 | And now here I am in the morning admitting that every one of the 34 days Madeleine has been alive has seemed like a birthday . |