Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A management group of specialists ( including representatives of the Countryside Council for Wales , Dyfed Wildlife Trust , Otter Project Wales and RSPB Wales ) helped draw up the initial conservation plan and now guides all aspects of the management and monitoring programme . |
| 2 | Defence and foreign ministers of the nine member countries of the Western European Union ( WEU ) , meeting in Bonn , Germany , on June 19 , agreed to set up a joint military force which could be deployed for peacekeeping , humanitarian and other missions , including the deployment of " combat forces in crisis management " , in Europe and elsewhere . |
| 3 | It had seemed even more logical to choose this MP since he 'd built up a vast international organization devoted to security . |
| 4 | On the other hand , a photograph can not be generalized or simplified to bring out the important diagnostic features of a species ; it must be always of an individual at a particular time and place . |
| 5 | Russian President Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Kravchuk , meeting in Dagomys ( on the Russian Black Sea coast ) on June 23 , agreed to draw up a comprehensive political treaty " reflecting the new quality of their relationship " . |
| 6 | If they have been just very bad , and if they have someone to stand up for them , they are given three strokes of the whip , usually by Sheldon Parry , the born-again television director , and then made to put on a short green smock for the duration of the service . |
| 7 | Standing motionless , a yard inside the room , I began to pick up a strange hissing noise . |
| 8 | Above him , the ward 's Christmas decorations looped in colours of green , red , silver , gold and white , and his elbow threatened to knock over a small ornamental tree hung with miniature packages . |
| 9 | While Piłsudski was to accuse the KPP of undoing his own hard work as military leader and of trying to dismember Poland by ‘ Trojan horse methods ’ , Moscow decided to rein in the free-thinking Polish socialists . |
| 10 | Owing to this unfortunate meeting and our certainty of being observed , we decided to take up an all-round defensive position and fight it out when a recce. party arrived . |
| 11 | Twice former title-holder Richard Corsie advanced to set up an all-Scottish second-round clash with Gourlay when he coasted to a straight-sets win over South Africa 's Bill Moseley . |
| 12 | Time and again , they came upon heaps of white shard-like bones or tripped cursing over a trailing white , skeletal arm or leg protruding from its thin veil of soil . |
| 13 | The Medium-Term Financial Strategy ( MTFS ) introduced in 1980 aimed to set out a medium-term financial framework for the monetary and fiscal policies consistent with the government 's overall strategy for reducing inflation and laying the foundations for sustainable economic growth . |
| 14 | Gerry : Even though we talked about the report on ethnic minorities for a bit , more importantly we discussed setting up an independent Black group with our own structures and demands . |
| 15 | For the mid-air leap , Crawford had to drive up a narrow thirty-foot ramp and jump from a height of seven feet over a wall . |
| 16 | Methodism had broken down the old geographical barriers so that now nearly all areas had their Nonconformists . |
| 17 | He had picked out the only Georgian-born individual purely on the strength of his personal feelings . |
| 18 | About six months after the dinner party she realised that , for the first time in her life , she had turned down a decent journalistic commission in order to start work for a crazy old lady off Ladbroke Grove , whose garden specialised in old roses , and who was insistent about sterilising soil before new plantings . |
| 19 | First he had to sort out the embarrassed financial affairs of his brother John , which had been neglected by the latter whilst working for the Company . |
| 20 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 21 | She had built up a good little business in the indoor market-hall and now she and George had amassed enough in the bank to set up on a farm of their own . |
| 22 | He said that before the war Japan had built up a large international textile trade , part of which in his view , was legitimate and part illegitimate . |
| 23 | Stemming from the poor and insignificant Landais lordship of Labrit , they had built up a large territorial holding along the Atlantic coast of Aquitaine . |
| 24 | In Iran the Shah , mindful of Iran 's imperial past , had built up a formidable military machine . |
| 25 | They had to walk down the long straight street past Shea 's pub with its sour smell of drink coming out on to the street from behind its dark windows , past Birdie Mac 's sweet shop where they had spent so much time choosing from jars all their school life . |
| 26 | She had rigged up an old green bedspread over the thin cotton curtains , so the room was very dim with a murky greenish light . |
| 27 | And in order to assess the wind speed , we had to climb up a perpendicular outside iron staircase , which took us onto the flat roof of Flying Control . |
| 28 | Well I think a , they , knock , had to knock down the old brown hall |
| 29 | He was glad that the French had driven back the invading foreign armies , but this was no real comfort to the conflict in his mind . |
| 30 | If any other pioneering company had brought out a call-only cordless telephone , I wonder who would shed tears when it failed to sell . |