Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their style was exceptionally clear and one was carried along in the unfolding of an argument which seemed as majestically inevitable as the development of a Bach fugue . |
| 2 | It 's all very clear and it 's supported and led by a very strong musical energy — I do n't mean necessarily me , I 'm talking about Mussorgsky 's phenomenal score . ’ |
| 3 | Yet , while the pregnancy might have been unplanned and she was destined to be a single parent , termination had never once been considered . |
| 4 | Her only outing since when she scored in a canter by five lengths at Haydock has proved that debut form all wrong and she is expected to win again in the Ballymacoll Stud Stakes . |
| 5 | Midge had known the moment she saw them that something was wrong and she was hurt by Patrick 's announcement that he was going to pack up his things . |
| 6 | And I 'll tell you later one wrong and you 're hit on the head ! |
| 7 | He was very confused , his body temperature was high and he was dehydrated . |
| 8 | Shanti was eight years old and we were determined that her childhood was not going to be spoiled by this disability . |
| 9 | He went on : ‘ Linford was a bit special from about seven years old and we were told by teachers at secondary school he was very talented . |
| 10 | I was at the local convent school from twelve to eighteen years old and I was considered clever but ‘ strange ’ . |
| 11 | I discovered the Messiah when I was sixteen years old and I was overwhelmed by the sheer beauty and grandeur of Handel 's enduring masterpiece . |
| 12 | Q My baby 's six months old and he 's started to bite me when I 'm breastfeeding him . |
| 13 | The royal physician dressed the corpse for buried and it was interred eleven days later at Jedburgh . |
| 14 | Of the members re-elected to the standing committee , Premier Li Peng 's commitment to Deng 's reform programme was equivocal and he was believed to have conservative sympathies . |
| 15 | The North West Airlines planes and the cargo trucks were empty and nobody was hurt . |
| 16 | The food there did n't taste too different and we were spared a cabaret but I reckon £30 is n't too high a price for eating in a beautiful , traditional-style Moroccan room with the well heeled jet set , being served by obsequious waiters in costumes that would put to shame Aladdin 's chorus at the Palladium . |
| 17 | And what was considered acceptable and what was considered being bloody greedy ! |
| 18 | They were afraid and they were lost . |
| 19 | The reason for this is not clear but it is believed to be related to surface characteristics such as defect chemistry . |
| 20 | The book proved very popular but I was left with a nagging regret that my limitations with a camera had prevented me from portraying the district in colour . |
| 21 | The house is very charming but it 's taken 20 years to get to the present condition . |
| 22 | The basic professional stand against censorship is sound but it is weakened by inaction when opportunities arise to be decisive and it is further weakened by elements of the profession which seek to censor , while often interpreting this as positive discrimination . |
| 23 | Her movements then are equally purposeful but they are constricted and withdrawn , so that her father 's contemptuous rejection of her pleas and his throwing her to the floor seem the proper outcome of what in his eyes is sheer disobedience . |
| 24 | Rudolf Diesel 's father might have been German but he was born in Paris . |
| 25 | They were from the North of England , working-class , unemployed but it was thought only temporarily . |
| 26 | The Defence Minister , Mr Ferenc Karpati , told the Hungarian parliament that the troops used were not from the regular army but from the Securitate secret police , whose uniforms are similar and who are equipped with tanks and sophisticated weapons . |
| 27 | The court was influenced by evidence pointing to the fact that the defendants had been negligent and it was stated that had steps been taken to mitigate the nuisance , the Council would not have found itself in the position it was now in . |
| 28 | Troy has the mental age of a seven-year-old and he was sentenced to death for kidnap and murder , though Mr Stafford Smith does not accept that he did it . |
| 29 | In Turkey , the September coup brought to power a military regime headed by General Evren , cutting short the period of civilian parliamentary politics in which the personalities of Ecevit and Demirel were prominent and which was marred by much violence , urban and rural alike , with right- and left-wing extremists involved . |
| 30 | She do n't put him down for a minute , oh he feels insecure and he 's left his mummy and goes love his granny and come on your granny , I think oh carry on ! |