Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the fields had been ploughed and our job was to weed out the wiry roots and tufts of grass that the wooden ploughshare had failed to dislodge so that the field could be smoothed out ready for flooding . |
| 2 | While contact between Europe and West Africa can be traced back many hundreds of years , it was only during the middle of the nineteenth century that Europeans arrived in any numbers in East and Central Africa . |
| 3 | The role of auditors can be traced back many hundreds of years . |
| 4 | Its weaving tradition can be traced back several millennia , and there are a number of pile carpets dating from the 15th and early 16th centuries still in existence today . |
| 5 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |
| 6 | The contract for the £4.5m. worth of repairs is due to be given out this month and be completed by the winter of 1993/4 . |
| 7 | With a payment under covenant , The Deed of Covenant has to be filled in corrected before a payment is made . |
| 8 | The routine sheets should be filled in each week or whenever the weight is increased . |
| 9 | It does not follow that Parliament had the same intention when , whatever criteria are adopted , all spaces in the school will be filled in any event . |
| 10 | It 'll be filled in later . ’ |
| 11 | Should it be pointed out all three winners were males ? |
| 12 | Staff at Cardiff-based Rimer-Alco volunteered to work over the bank holiday to prepare special oxygen machines to be flown out next week . |
| 13 | Flying out of the stalls , Lucky Parkes made all , needing only to be shaken up two furlongs out to beat Sir Harry Hardman six lengths . |
| 14 | Flying out of the stalls , Lucky Parkes made all , needing only to be shaken up two furlongs out to beat Sir Harry Hardman six lengths . |
| 15 | The Steen business had to be sorted out that evening . |
| 16 | Poor Jasper happened to be curled up asleep some five feet away at the time and was rudely awakened . |
| 17 | Though the companies that remain will no doubt respond to increasing demand when the upturn comes , imports could be sucked in faster and the trade gap widen . |
| 18 | The smaller systems will be rolled out first , probably around the third quarter this year . |
| 19 | A 45m or 50m rope should be carried on all climbs , even though only short sections are used when moving together . |
| 20 | The white man 's burden had to be carried on strong backs . |
| 21 | THE AUTHOR , Salman Rushdie , yesterday condemned the death edict against him as a ‘ terrorist threat ’ after Iran renewed its call for the sentence to be carried out four years after it was imposed . |
| 22 | If a house is bought this way all the surveys and investigations should be carried out first , and you must be ready to sign and exchange contracts on the day of the auction after paying over the 10 per cent deposit . |
| 23 | Tests must be carried out eight hours after the microwave 's last use . |
| 24 | There is some agreement between my view and that of L. J. Fishwick , who suggests that training could be given to allow more environmental audits to be carried out in-house . |
| 25 | Due to the high costs of equipment for high-quality colour printing , the actual printing work should be contracted out , but the design work can be carried out in-house . |
| 26 | Any rigid scheme that means exact amounts of specific exercise must be carried out each day is usually doomed to failure . |
| 27 | This may require the parents being given some special activities to be carried out each day , or it may involve more general and less highly structured activities , such as looking at books or playing with toys . |
| 28 | Because of the hammering the great Bugattis and the like gave Brooklands during the summer months , extensive repairs had to be carried out each winter . |
| 29 | Training should be carried out three to five days a week . |
| 30 | An enclosed community guards and cares for an enclosed community and we the public gladly subcontract this duty , hoping that it will be carried out unseen and unheard . |