Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's like Richard said I think The Mercury probably tried that and then gone with this naff tale about the house . |
| 2 | There are still two towns — in effect , however , the new Aberdeen has all but completely superseded Old Aberdeen , which now exists only in the way many international cities have a Latin Quarter or a Chinatown , only somewhat smaller and — as becomes all Aberdonians and most east-coast Scots — very discreet . |
| 3 | Arsenal became the subject of more ill-considered criticism than any other club , a fate which has more or less persisted . |
| 4 | imagine that but just done in complete black with white lines , yeah , like sort of like if with white lines going down |
| 5 | It makes me feel more than somewhat persecuted to have items of the British public lurking about my property — particularly when most of them have n't read two lines of my verse together . ’ |
| 6 | Matthew made his excuses , nipped to the loo , produced the goods , packaged the container and summoned a bike messenger to deliver it to the clinic — ‘ at which point , I returned to my presentation , looking more than slightly flushed . |
| 7 | So this recording , though mainly reproducing the various perspectives in effortless fashion , does occasionally sound less than ideally balanced . |
| 8 | As the number of substitution notes is increased and their resolutions are omitted , so do tonalities become more and more obscured and disrupted . |
| 9 | The result , it now appears , was that local administrators , with important defensive budgets to collect and administer , took advantage of the experience thus gained to develop their own powers in particular when , over a period of some decades , taxes originally levied for short periods came to be collected for longer and longer periods , until they became all but permanently established as part of the regular income of a town or city . |
| 10 | People do n't appreciate the material belongings that surround them , they just buy things and then chuck them away , they consume and consume and get more and more lost . |
| 11 | Journalists such as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington post filed innumerable stories , often drawn from anonymous sources , and including less than completely substantiated allegations of criminal behaviour by public officials . |
| 12 | Alexander could see no point at all in doing this and flatly refused . |
| 13 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 14 | As time goes by , Herta seems more and more put out — by my impotence . |
| 15 | Council tenants become more and more marginalised as the better-off tenants are encouraged , by generous discounts , to buy their homes . |
| 16 | It will become even less distinct as environmental issues become more and more merged with problems caused by rapidly expanding populations , poverty and the visibly harsh strictures of climate change . |
| 17 | He also realises that as Talk Talk become more and more embroiled in their lush musical underbelly , in the process becoming increasingly alienating for the average pop fan , his record sales , and subsequently his budget , will inevitably get less and less . |
| 18 | With the differentiation of the instruments of labour , the trades which produce these instruments themselves become more and more differentiated ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 19 | In the design world old designs become more and more laboured and more and more mannered . |
| 20 | For some time now I have gradually become more and more disillusioned with teaching . |
| 21 | Although attempts were made to streamline the structure and to have fewer and better organized meetings , the position has scarcely improved . |
| 22 | The Shah resented this and subsequently noted that during Kennedys presidency there was " increased US intrigue against our country . " |
| 23 | By 1980 Miami beach had all but totally eroded , and with it the town 's tourist business ; sand was then sucked from the sea-bed and the beach rebuilt . |
| 24 | Particularly where you 've more or less got the idea of it but you think you just want to sort of tidy up a few details an |
| 25 | Its distribution in space becomes more and more contorted by the velocity fluctuations , but so long as molecular diffusion plays no role , the marked fluid is always just the same fluid . |
| 26 | The number of ways of packing is reduced since the empty volume available becomes more and more correlated with the molecules . |
| 27 | As the city state continues to develop , private ownership becomes more and more concentrated in the hands of some of the citizens , but the division this give rise to does not lead to the formation of classes among the freemen because they remain united against the slaves . |
| 28 | Distinguished from all other true geese by having its whole face white , with crown , nape and neck black ; rest of plumage mainly grey more or less barred black and white . |
| 29 | I remembered the queer mixture of fear and belief with which I had read this and afterwards written it down . |
| 30 | An experienced German translator will normally replace all or most predicated and identifying themes with less marked German structures . |