Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That money could have electrified railways that would 've given industry a chance to get its goods into Europe . |
| 2 | Everyone who buys Mishima will want Fallen Angel as well . ’ |
| 3 | Indeed , some of his contemporaries were highly critical of his preoccupation with the technical side of verse ; even friends like Herbert Read placed emphasis on the Wordsworthian ‘ spontaneous overflowing of powerful feelings ’ . |
| 4 | On Feb. 4 President Roh Tae Woo placed South Korea 's armed forces on maximum alert , stating that the US preoccupation with the Gulf war meant that " the possibility of North Korean provocation is higher than ever before " . |
| 5 | Yet if Richard Armstrong was writing according to a tried formula , concrete detail and well-conceived plots and the firm line of his character drawing helped him to achieve a special , moderate , even low- keyed reality in his books . |
| 6 | Time wasted equalled theft . |
| 7 | An' a crackling of flames , 'cos the pontoon 'ad caught fire and some o' the wreckage was ablaze as well . |
| 8 | I have had breathing problems which my doctor has said is a figment of my imagination and he has diagnosed depression . |
| 9 | After 20 years at Data General Corp , where he was most recently director of Unix Development and acting director of the Database Engineering unit at the company 's Research Triangle Park , North Carolina base , John Pilat has jumped ship to become vice-president of Redwood Shores-based Oracle Corp 's Hewlett-Packard Products Division . |
| 10 | After 20 years at Data General Corp , where he was most recently director of Unix Development and acting director of the Database Engineering unit at the company 's Research Triangle Park , North Carolina base , John Pilat has jumped ship to become vice-president of Redwood Shres-based Oracle Corp 's Hewlett-Packard Products Division . |
| 11 | Vice president of software , Dave Stone , one of DEC 's fair-haired boys , has jumped ship to become president of AT&T Network Systems Group 's Operations System Business Unit . |
| 12 | Carol Bartz , Sun Microsystems Inc vice-president of worldwide field operations , has jumped ship to become chairman , president and chief executive of Autodesk Inc , Sausalito , replacing Alvar Green : she is succeeded at Sun by Joseph Roebuck who becomes vice-president of worldwide field operations for its Sun Microsystems Computer Corp arm . |
| 13 | Not good news , is the loss of vice president , Grover Righter , who has jumped ship to rival Unix-on-the-desktop house , Santa Cruz Operation Inc . |
| 14 | Injury has stripped Fulton of full-back Andrew Ettingshausen and stand-off Laurie Daley . |
| 15 | Nearly three decades later a British publicist had no doubt that ‘ the refinement of modern ages has stripped war of half its horrors ’ . |
| 16 | British Steel has trebled productivity since 1979 . |
| 17 | The commitment to maintain or increase expenditure on arms , agriculture and energy has drained investment from the manufacturing base on which all of these priorities depend . |
| 18 | Instead , the siege mentality towards the accompanying press party , that has wrecked morale on previous tours , notably the 1986 trip to the West Indies , has set in again with a vengeance . |
| 19 | Once a male silkmoth has sensed bombykol , his only task is to fly in the correct direction ; he must make the correct taxic response ( p. 40 ) . |
| 20 | On two occasions , the IBA has delayed transmission of programmes involving former security service personnel , fearing that the Authority might be joined in a prosecution under the Official Secrets Act . |
| 21 | As is often the case in such circumstances , the accountant has delayed submission of later accounts pending settlement of the enquiries and establishment of the true liability . |
| 22 | [ Where a person , not appointed as a trustee , ] has received trust property with actual or constructive notice that it is trust property transferred in breach of trust , or because , not being a bona fide purchaser for value without notice , he acquires notice subsequent to such receipt and then deals with the property in a manner inconsistent with the trust , [ he is deemed a constructive trustee . ] |
| 23 | But it is acknowledged in security circles that whoever fired the shots that killed the two soldiers and constables Alan Corbett in Belcoo , Fermanagh , and Jonathan Reid in Crossmaglen last month , has received army training in handling firearms and is a cool operator . |
| 24 | It is likely that the child has received criticism , ridicule , and anger about the soiling which will exacerbate their distressed emotional state . |
| 25 | In common with other black directors , Singleton has received criticism for his depiction of black women . |
| 26 | The team has been learning about tree-planting and has received help from David Barbour at Gosbeck 's Farm . |
| 27 | Instruction of research students in research methods and techniques has received government attention for almost a decade . |
| 28 | The responsible dog ownership group has received correspondence on this matter from the Animal Shelter , which is the agency currently being used by the Government to register pit bull terriers . |
| 29 | And it is fanciful to suggest that an order on Mr. Tully to say whether he has received Abbey 's money and if so what has happened to that money could result in his ill-treatment or in a dubious confession . |
| 30 | His mother has received phone calls threatening her should her son play . |