Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [coord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But all the previously jagged edges are ironed out and the sound watered down , presumably by the omnipresent hand of The Man , so that Billy Ray Wanker fans will buy it . |
| 2 | The buttons had been ripped off and the pockets torn open , but it kept me warm . |
| 3 | All pretence that the paper ever belonged to MacQuillan personally had been given up and the title transferred to a newly formed company within the MacQuillan empire . |
| 4 | Most of the notorious grade anomalies have been ironed out and the colour photos should whet people 's appetites . |
| 5 | Three weeks on , The Paradise Club proves the contrary : it is now looking less like a showroom model than a motor on which the clock has been wound back and the polish is beginning to fade . |
| 6 | It is because collecting the refuse of houses in close proximity , such as terraced houses in the city of Sheffield , costs only one third of what it costs to collect the refuse of houses in the posh south-west of Sheffield , where the houses are spaced out and the collection men have to walk up long drives . |
| 7 | The safety surface at the play area near his home in Kendal Drive , Great Sutton , had been torn up and the debris dumped around the climbing frame . |
| 8 | Many people believe that the condition of a horse 's coat depends on what you feed rather than how you groom , but whatever your views there is no doubt that as long as his feet are picked out and the parts where the tack touches are clean he will come to no harm . |
| 9 | After the cross-country phase , the penalties are added up and the competitor with the fewest penalties wins . |
| 10 | Once the required modifications to a package and its constituent modules have been carried out and the package has been submitted for approval , as described in the section on Modules , the DCs which were formerly active through the package change state to IN APPROVAL , thus preventing any further modifications to the modules while approval is in progress . |
| 11 | Only the doctor who attended the last illness is required to certify when someone dies in the hospital and a post mortem has been carried out and the results known to the doctor . |
| 12 | After cutting the material is passed through to the machining room where the sails are sewn up and the hanks etc. are put on . |
| 13 | Over the past sixty years the buildings housing the scientific laboratories and teaching classrooms have been built up and the population of students and staff has grown until there are now nearly one thousand registered postgraduate students and over one thousand academic , research and support staff . |
| 14 | It is true that in the case of Buckinghamshire County Council v Moran Slade LJ attached considerable significance to the fact that the land there in question had been fenced off and the gate locked , but the position it seems to me is quite different in a metropolitan context such as one finds in Brighton . |
| 15 | push the bed , the bed had been pushed up and the stuff had tumbled and I just moved it all away |
| 16 | She had told me the tunnels had now been connected up and the workmen used the subway constantly as a private short cut . |
| 17 | About 20 tapes have already been handed over and the police hoped there would be more . |
| 18 | MIPS ' ACE liaison officer and vice president of software technology , Larry Weber , said the sixteen companies on the board wo n't be sent their third-quarter bills until after all the MIPS-SGI merger details are cleaned up and the need for these funds is reassessed . |
| 19 | Even if you listen out carefully before you transmit , you have no guarantee that another pilot is not going to press his or her PTT at exactly the same moment as you do , with the probable result that both messages are drowned out and the Air Traffic Controller 's ears are assaulted by a high-pitched screech . |
| 20 | ‘ But it also meant a lot of brances had been washed down and the river has a lot of snags anyway . |
| 21 | Being expensive to maintain and run , they have been sold off and the incumbent now often finds himself in a small modern house , undoubtedly warmer and more convenient , but usually without character and , tellingly , without social status . |
| 22 | Since their manufacturing plant has been closed down and the building converted into the Templeton Business Centre . |
| 23 | The account is settled , keys are handed in and the guest departs with a warm invitation to ‘ please come again ’ . |
| 24 | After that , spices are packed in and the skin resewn . ’ |
| 25 | Differences are played down and the self surrendered in what can become a metaphysical experience of the kind described by John Donne : |
| 26 | Mr Rampton said the text showed that ‘ subterfuge ’ had been crossed out and the word ‘ silence ’ substituted . |
| 27 | He has found that by lowering the temperature of the tank to 72–73°F , the white spot are slowed down and the daphnia , which feed on the parasites remain active . |
| 28 | Later on we found out the perimeter fence had been burnt down and the festival is banned here next year . |
| 29 | ‘ The kitchen drawer had been pulled out and the coal bucket had been overturned . |
| 30 | As polythene liners have little elasticity , they are installed without water being added , but plenty of movement should be allowed for , so that , when the water is gradually introduced , the wrinkles can be smoothed out and the liner moulded to the contours of the hole . |