Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 36-year-old American is due to meet revitalised French Open finalist Mary Joe Fernandez for a place in the semifinals . |
| 2 | The first advertisement to appear told this story under the headline , " Before you choose the pattern , choose the china . " |
| 3 | Financial limitations and unwillingness to sell made new players increasingly hard to find , in an area where , as Chapman pointed out , industrial conditions were not conducive to home-grown talent , and where there was strong competition from rugby . |
| 4 | I seem to 've had bad vibes about you lately . |
| 5 | Every inhabited building or interior tells a different story , of how life is or was : ‘ The joyous shot at how things ought to belong fallen wide ’ . |
| 6 | The multiplicity of groups to which each individual was obliged to belong placed further external restraints on his or her activities , and discouraged the expression of independent thought even among close friends or relatives . |
| 7 | ‘ Why did n't you contact us as soon as you knew your daughter had been kidnapped ? ’ was Miller 's unceremonious introduction of a point Charlotte had been expecting to hear raised all day . |
| 8 | Meant to be striking , it is reserved to depict magic or the supernatural , both within the action when magic powers are exercised , and also between acts to help set such scenes . |
| 9 | After removal of Alu probes , the filters were also hybridised to nick translated 3 2 P-labelled HPV DNA ( 2×10 8 cpm/µp ) under stringent conditions ( 50% formamide , 10% dextran sulfate , 5×Denhardt 's solution , 1% SDS-1 M NaCl , 50 mM TRIS-HCl , pH 7.4 , 500 µg/ml depurinated salmon sperm DNA ) at 42°C for 24 hours . |
| 10 | The Tory led authority says they 've been so successful in collecting the tax , that they 've earmarked a hundred and seventy thousand pounds to help cut future bills . |
| 11 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |
| 12 | Such an obligation would be particularly hard to justify given that those who join in the future will do so on financial terms that reflect the company 's situation at the time they acquire their shares . |
| 13 | But this is in no way relevant to what one has to do given that one did not . |
| 14 | The twin emphases on the deaths of islanders and the need to repopulate produced many statistical tables in Rivers 's book which stressed that |
| 15 | Three soccer fans from in Jail in Turkey accused of trying to use forged fifty pound notes will learn their fate today . |
| 16 | Three soccer fans from who are in jail in Turkey accused of trying to use forged fifty pound notes , will learn their fate today . |
| 17 | However , the talks soon broke down , and de Gaulle 's efforts to find an alternative Algerian force with which to negotiate proved fruitless . |
| 18 | He squared the ball into the centre where Kenny completely mis-kicked and he was relieved when the ball wobbled slowly into the empty net to put United two goals up . |
| 19 | In most countries , damage to spruce remained stable or decreased slightly , although a notable deterioration was recorded in Czechoslovakia , Lithuania and Poland . |
| 20 | Eligibility to vote remained controversial . |
| 21 | Oxford United were heading for their second successive nil all game , when in the first minute of injury time , central defender , Andy Melville popped up in the penalty area to score a vital goal , and to give United three vital points in their fight against relegation . |
| 22 | Lyn de Alwis now proposed to use the same technique to persuade captured wild elephants to walk quietly into the back of a truck . |
| 23 | When efforts to persuade them to go proved fruitless , the building began to be demolished around their heads . |
| 24 | He 's a thief , a criminal , he nicked my bag and I had to sift through every shit-bin in Bristol till I found my dreams and found out what I ought to 've known all along if you had n't … |
| 25 | The fact that these memories are often associated with emotional situations is interesting but dangerous to interpret given that there is no easy way to estimate the number of similar emotional situations which did not lead to such memories . |
| 26 | Those able to read totalled 63 ( 90 per cent ) , whilst 76 per cent attended Sunday School with 81 per cent being present at public worship . |
| 27 | You could even make a different arrangement for each season , if you are decorating a photograph you wish to keep displayed all year round . |
| 28 | Unable to stand it any longer , Sheila went up to him and before he had time to react seized both envelopes , feverishly tearing open her own and handing the other to Mona , who appeared almost unable to take it . |
| 29 | to keep cut easier to cut it square |
| 30 | During the dramatic climatic fluctuations of the last ice age — warm to cold to warm repeated several times — the flowering plants acted as thermometers for the climate , sensitive recorders of the shifts that affected everything from beetles to man . |