Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than a quarter of those who said they intended to vote Labour said they either agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that he has served the town well . |
| 2 | Soviet studies underlined that historically neutralised and demilitarised territories had often been created on the basis of unequal treaties and had resulted from the inability of the colonial powers at a given period to agree to the direct partition of a colony . |
| 3 | Another study found that poorly differentiated solid carcinomas showed only weak staining and in our small sample a poorly differentiated tumour would significantly decrease the apparent sensitivity . |
| 4 | but you 've got a very nice way of actually listening and you 'll actually learn far more about people by listening than actually talking so erm I found that quite picked up and pinpoint areas contact er eye contact , that was good , stayed in control , not too pushy yeah . |
| 5 | Heron ( 1957 ) found that unilaterally presented words were better recognised from the right visual field but that with bilateral presentation there was an advantage of words to the left of fixation . |
| 6 | His model of utilitarian punishment was exemplified most famously in the Panopticon — a prison he designed and narrowly failed to persuade the British government to let him build . |
| 7 | It can be a different matter where staff are overworked and underpaid and still expected to smile constantly . |
| 8 | His telephone rang almost at once ; he was through to the chief 's personal assistant , a grey-haired lady of vast experience who monitored and sometimes modulated communication ( other than face to face ) between the chief and the outside world — including his policemen . |
| 9 | He stopped and carefully put down his briefcase . |
| 10 | Then , against all her better instincts , she stopped and slowly turned to look back down Lyra Street . |
| 11 | When we stopped and slowly turned , with our bulging eyes in place , the gang scattered with such blood-curdling screams that we wondered if we had n't overdone it , and felt sufficiently ashamed of ourselves never to use the eyes again . |
| 12 | Julia stopped and then added in a quick toneless voice , ‘ The actual facts you already know . |
| 13 | This painful , though , in its context , highly effective course of action was part and parcel of a brutal and unenlightened society and no doubt it left all those who survived it spiritually stunted and psychologically scarred . |
| 14 | Three by five foot in size , the flags are made in patchwork from European trade cloth with the designs appliquéd and occasionally embroidered . |
| 15 | He worked out regularly , jogged , played tennis and squash , swam and generally kept fit . |
| 16 | On August 8th , they tried and almost succeeded in assassinating the British High Commissioner in Palestine , Sir Harold Macmichael , and killed ten police constables in the process . |
| 17 | Boghurst was critical of the established practice of quarantining infected households — a policy ‘ oft enough tried and always found ineffectual ’ — and in general doubtful about the conclusions drawn from theories of contagion . |
| 18 | The majority ( 88% ) of the tumours studied were described histologically as moderately differentiated , with only a single tumour ( 2% ) described as well differentiated and the remainder ( 10% ) , poorly differentiated . |
| 19 | RNA polymerases : After isolation of each RNA polymerase subunits ββ ’ and α as well as truncated a-subunits α-235 and α-256 , three different core enzymes containing the wild-type α-subunit or the truncated α-235 or α-256 subunits were reconstituted and purified as previously described [ 13 ] . |
| 20 | Protoplasts from the ura5-6 strain were prepared and transformed as previously described ( 28 , 29 ) . |
| 21 | The decision came after a year-long test to ensure that packaging made from pulp mould was strong enough to protect cameras should they de dropped or roughly handled during transport . |
| 22 | While the Ministry of Finance energetically fostered industrialization , the other ministries still pursued conservative social policies which ignored or even impeded economic change . |
| 23 | Some of them were beautiful , delicately lacquered or intricately carved , and some were rough old cardboard , stamped with code numbers . |
| 24 | Minter , had he but known it , was right as well as wrong : right that Harry was running short of cash , wrong if he believed that currently mattered to him a jot . |
| 25 | Rousseau believed that biologically based inequalities between people were small and relatively unimportant whereas socially created inequalities provide the major basis for systems of social stratification . |
| 26 | The 1983 Mental Health Act stipulated that only approved social workers should be allowed to deal with mental health cases . |
| 27 | They were symbols , glowing , of plenty , of the plenty that Sebastian 's uncle ( a Labour MP , no less ) believed and somehow expected could and should belong to all , regardless of the rigours of a northern European climate and a war-crippled economy . |
| 28 | May be sniffed , or burned and then inhaled ( chasing the dragon ) or injected . |
| 29 | To make a solder-ring capillary fitting , the ends of the pipe must first be cut square , deburred and thoroughly cleaned with wire wool . |
| 30 | And down he came : Jake Endo , exquisitely westernized and gorgeously tricked out and perhaps 35 . |