Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entrenched positions may be established easily between the two with the result that claims are prepared and argued merely to prevent loss of face when in reality the matter could and should have been settled by discussion on site when the problems arose . |
| 2 | It was important to initially construct a system whose outputs could be evaluated and understood by ATE experts and by doing so gain their confidence and support . |
| 3 | She stressed that her client only knew of the cockroach problem the day before the complaint was made and had immediately bought powder to rid the restaurant of the insects . |
| 4 | As a result they were unable to perceive the direction in which a genuine rehabilitation of price theory must be developed and proceeded instead to construct models which suffer from the very defects that invalidate the perfectly competitive model . |
| 5 | Congress , the G M B as a union founded and built around working people as a duty , an obligation to accept that challenge and to lead that campaign . |
| 6 | Peden was not armed and did not take part in the band 's less reputable exploits . |
| 7 | In this instance , for example : The corner shop is to be closed and knocked down to make way for a multi-storey car-park . |
| 8 | She took the cup of tea she was offered and did not stop Annabel spooning sugar into it . |
| 9 | Some British officers had been sent to help the Madeirans with their resistance , but they had arrived only a few days before the Portuguese troops landed and had not had time to organize . |
| 10 | To save precious fuel , sheep were occasionally used on the front field instead of a motor-mower to keep the grass in check , though it probably did not matter too much , as for a short period the field could no longer be used anyway for Games , owing to the telegraph poles and other obstacles laid and dug there to thwart landings by German gliders and paratroopers . |
| 11 | Those gardens which survived were in the main bulldozed and concreted over to provide station car-parking in the 1950 , another victory for functionalism over aesthetics . |
| 12 | The moral code remained an ideal even if the performance was inferior , and for tribes and clans the aspiration was what counted : those who fought , sacrificed and died together became brothers , their leaders fathers . |