Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [conj] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Storrie fled but was later traced to Blackpool . |
| 2 | Maybe you 've recently had artwork printed and are now faced with marketing . |
| 3 | The gig continued but was effectively overshadowed by the possibility of impending disaster and it was n't until the encores of ‘ William , It Was Really Nothing ’ , ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ and ‘ Barbarism Begins At Home ’ that they slipped into the comfort of early promise . |
| 4 | That we could talk about having a breast removed or being badly damaged by surgery or our hair dropping out or whatever . ’ |
| 5 | Furthermore , since at this time Islam was pursuing a policy of particular openness towards other religions , less of a barrier existed than is sometimes assumed . |
| 6 | One must be careful not to sentimentalise : more detailed anthropological studies would be needed to see how far this respect was diluted as frailty advanced or was ritually accorded , without substance . |
| 7 | Our plane landed and was immediately surrounded by children from the school , although the arrival of aircraft is no great novelty in the many villages in the region that have an airstrip but no access by road . |
| 8 | Woollen cloth led but was increasingly supplemented by a wider range of manufactured goods as well as by re-exports of tobacco , sugar and dyes . |
| 9 | The steam boiler was originally coal fired but is now fuelled by oil . |
| 10 | One crew member ejected but was later found drowned , the other did not eject and died in the crash . |