Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1990 , by which time he had moved to become manager of West Ham , Macari became embroiled in financial scandals dating back to his years at Swindon and eventually ended in the newly promoted club being relegated from the First Division to the Third , a draconian punishment which was partially decreased on appeal . |
| 2 | At first the Empire knights looked unstoppable as they drove the Goblin wolf riders from the field , but soon both sides became embroiled in hand-to-hand combat where the Knights ' lances were hindered by the close press of warriors . |
| 3 | On the one hand , some clients may prefer a structured day with routine care , which everyone receives given at set times , very probably by a succession of nurses . |
| 4 | In a moment are seen the paradisiac regions , as if the curtains of the moments have parted to show the gardens of reality that remain hidden to everyday sight . |
| 5 | Collapse breccias , however , are not related to any particular facies and potential reservoirs resulting from this process are most likely to be found around structural highs that became exposed at various times since , the Zechstein . |
| 6 | Its sluices could be used to flood the whole area if it became infested with invading forces . |
| 7 | She then became fascinated by Montessori pre-school education and on returning to England she started a Montessori school in her country home . |
| 8 | For the final two years of his schooling he switched to Kingston College of Further Education , where he became fascinated by British political history ( ‘ I was living in the nineteenth century , ’ he says ) . |
| 9 | I was dead thin and not eating anything and then I got sacked for gross misconduct , y'know , for never going in and that . |
| 10 | The air above and beyond the ridge became filled with wind-swirled smoke and the echoes of distant blasts . |
| 11 | All members of the company ( though not its secretary ) must be qualified solicitors , and there are special provisions to apply when a member dies or is struck off the roll or otherwise loses his qualification to practise , which in essence provide that such member 's shares become non-voting so long as they remain registered in unqualified hands , and only qualified solicitors will be able to vote as proxies . |
| 12 | And it also served to draw stings : it ensured the main issue got cloaked in unimportant wranglings . |
| 13 | Depending on the nature of the defect , electrons may remain trapped for long periods of time ; such a trap would be referred to as ‘ deep ’ . |
| 14 | In April 1990 , as the downturn deepened , they sold LET to Swedish life insurance giant SSP for £550 million , pocketing £40 million each and staying on to run the company . |
| 15 | Paige was glad of her strong boots , but she would gladly have thrown her bag away , for it either kept falling off or got caught on stray branches . |
| 16 | In the USSR itself , art flourished at first in experiments after the 1917 Revolution , but became confined to social utility after 1922 . |
| 17 | Great thicknesses of pumice and ash had piled up on the slopes of Vesuvius above Herculaneum , and this loose material very rapidly became saturated by torrential rainstorms which may have been triggered by the eruption cloud itself : the dust particles acting as nuclei on which water vapour could condense to form droplets . |
| 18 | Those who can get out generally do ; those who can not , remain trapped by poor housing , declining job opportunities , inadequate public services , increasing crime and vandalism , worsening education , declining likelihood of new employment opportunities , increased likelihood of disturbances and riots , and so on . |
| 19 | Here , a series of patch reefs are developed surrounded by inter-reef sediments ( Fig. 8 ) . |
| 20 | Dead birds were to be seen everywhere , and live ones , in quarrelling flocks , feeding on the burst stacks and blown seed-corn ; stabbing the cheeses that shone in the short winter grass ; pecking at the dried skeins of fish ; fluttering trapped beneath torn scraps of net . |
| 21 | This will also help to prevent the disks from becoming filled with obsolete files . |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on low flying ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 23 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many inquiries the ’ 199 ? ’ hotline has received from small businesses in Essex . |
| 24 | It 's but one of several the NME has received from Nazi filth rushing to defend Morrissey and claim him as their own . |
| 25 | Despite its importance and grade II* listing , the treatment it has received in recent years has been disgraceful , and it is to be hoped a great many lessons will have been learnt about how to deal with irresponsible owners of such important listed buildings . |
| 26 | It would seem that the restoration profession has not been able to keep its nerve in the face of the rapidly growing attention it has received in recent years , and is reacting in an undisciplined way . |
| 27 | ‘ The number of people becoming unemployed has eased over recent months and more people are leaving unemployment and getting back to work , ’ she said . |
| 28 | Since then , however , Scotland 's forward play , under the benevolent eye of Richie Dixon , has developed with pleasing continuity , particularly at the lineout , where in both the previous Five Nations games opposition machinations have been torn asunder rather like the post-war devastation in the Orson Welles screen classic . |
| 29 | Tourism has developed with considerable speed into one of the major industries of the modern world , and much of its current shape and nature is the result of British innovation during the past 150 years . |
| 30 | To this day , public fascination with the disaster remains so strong that a flourishinhg market has developed for Titanic memorabilia . |