Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the year under review he has been involved in 20 seminars , 18 counselling workshops and has undertaken 92 company visits . |
| 2 | They have apparently prevented the graft-versus-host reaction from starting up in a number of patients who have received bone-marrow transplants . |
| 3 | To attack their anti-racist policies would have exposed Labour to ( more ) accusations of racism ; far easier to attack the much less extensive lesbian and gay policies ; and if that meant abandoning lesbians and gays to isolation and intimidation , so be it . |
| 4 | Maybe fish had developed muscular fins and crawled on to land to become amphibians ; maybe amphibians in their turn had developed water-tight skins and become reptiles ; maybe , even , some ape-like creatures had stood upright and become the ancestors of man . |
| 5 | We 've prefaced that and the , the heading , I should have a copy , what ? |
| 6 | During the visit the Vietnamese delegation reportedly received economic advice from a group of Malaysian , Indonesian and South Korean officials . |
| 7 | If specific information about pupils ' ability , eligibility for free school meals , any disabilities etc. is required , then a painstaking search is undertaken each time for the particular piece of information required . |
| 8 | The number of contracts undertaken each year is approaching 10,000 deriving from thousands of customers in 50 countries , but 14 top customers in the UK and Europe still account for 70% of all business sales . |
| 9 | The co-pilot held a West German Commercial Pilot Licence with instrument and instructor ratings , and had accumulated a total of 2,550 hours flying experience including fifty hours on the accident he had flown 120 hours , of which fifty hours were on the accident type . |
| 10 | In the long run , such images become coins of exchange along with pickets , football riots , and urban disturbances ; they populate our consciousness and can be recalled intact by the sheer mention of a single word or by a brief news clip from the past . |
| 11 | According to a report in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung of Jan. 10 , 1990 , the European Commission of Human Rights , to which plaintiffs turned in the first instance , had registered 1,445 cases brought by individuals or private organizations in 1989 ( a 40 per cent increase on the previous year ) . |
| 12 | There are 3–4 large irregularly arranged oral papillae ; distal to these and situated within the mouth slit is a series of 3 or 4 smaller papillae . |
| 13 | Is it not likely that some people who take cars or ride in taken cars will be convicted of the aggravated offence , and be given harsher penalties , largely as a result of these provisions on proof ? |
| 14 | However , the Germans had foreseen that possibility and they quickly extended their occupation of Italy . |
| 15 | Of course , they associated being photographed with their father 's death , she ought to have foreseen that . |
| 16 | Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong . |
| 17 | when it was foreseen that what was gon na happen . |
| 18 | I could surely have bluffed out the running ; it was the standing under the rod that was the important part , the critical part ; why had n't I realised that ? |
| 19 | These wily chaps have realised that goodwill means having to show it . |
| 20 | Mr. Spiers had n't realised that . |
| 21 | Max has to establish a relationship with the soldiers : ‘ He had quite early realised that part of their life depended on their being left to do things by themselves and not being interfered with . |
| 22 | I should have realised that genius , as some bright spark in the office said , has a lot to do with genes . |
| 23 | I had n't realised that before . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , heavens ; I had n't realised that . |
| 25 | as if I had n't realised that already . |
| 26 | Strange , Gina thought , how much their two countries had in common and how little she had realised that element of kinship before . |
| 27 | Now I 've realised that 's one of the most important parts of designing a garden . " |
| 28 | It 's doubtful whether these distinctions were ever clear , and certainly nowadays , it 's realised that pure and applied research goes side by side , within all research organisations . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought you might have realised that after all this time . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm a bit concerned you know , about this , just this one week 's wages you know because I would have thought once Jack got his time sheet out he would perhaps realised that |