Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a phenomenal level , what happens here can be described by saying that it is as if your perceptual mechanisms became fatigued by some salient characteristic of the adapting stimulus — its orientation or periodicity in the case of Figure 9 , or direction of movement in the case of the motion after-effect . |
| 2 | Better-heeled passengers penned a succession of sad descriptions of the flotsam and jetsam of Europe they encountered beached on many an American station . |
| 3 | An 11-pounder I caught came to such a bite , and four others around 9lb on the same day to similar bites . |
| 4 | The establishments visited consisted of 24 secondary schools ; 16 primary schools ; 13 training centres ; 9 offices ( regional , divisional , diocesan ) ; 5 tertiary institutions ; 1 special school and 2 community centres . |
| 5 | The equipment they used consisted of two concentric tubes leading to a horizontal jet , and an arrangement of bevelled wheels for turning the lump of lime . |
| 6 | During my basic training in the army in 1968 , one of the traditional marching songs we used went like this : |
| 7 | The figures showed that in 1981-91 the area of vegetables grown in England and Wales fell by 10 per cent but the area treated with pesticides increased by 40 per cent ; the volume used fell by 10 per cent , as pesticides became less bulky . |
| 8 | The importance of livestock on the farms surveyed led to many farmers being less confident in machinery work . |
| 9 | The number of visits clients received ranged from daily to once a month . |
| 10 | But though his mind was , and remained , romantically anti-Establishment , at once Catholic and mildly left-wing , his fiction never seemed impelled by any serious desire to alter the social system of a nation from which , after the war , he was willingly an exile , and his arguments concern rather the writer 's alleged duty to refuse all favours from the state — even ‘ the bourgeois state ’ , as he calls it — and to live in romantic independence , royalties apart : surviving ( in Joyce 's famous phrase ) by silence and cunning . |
| 11 | The average brood size noted ranged from 3.6 to 7.7 , with a mean of 5.2 , but the number finally reared was often much less ; the few figures available indicate a predation rate of up to 40 per cent. , sometimes more . |
| 12 | The only real criticism Shamir received came from hardline " hawks " , such as Ariel Sharon , who pressed for a military attack on Iraq . |
| 13 | Well , United started in fine style as early as the twentieth second ; Martin Foyle was brought down on the edge of the penalty area and Paul Simpson 's free kick was headed away for a corner . |
| 14 | If it had been Everthorpe , she would have dismissed this performance as a clumsy pass , but Wilcox seemed teased by some genuine memory . |
| 15 | Roy Jenkins , usually so percipient an interpreter of the public mood , became caricatured in popular legend as the libertarian Home Secretary who wanted to insulate policemen in Panda cars . |
| 16 | The tents were straw-coloured , ranked in orderly rows , and every so often they passed a larger pavilion which Rostov guessed belonged to some kind of nobleman or senior officer . |
| 17 | The difficulties in the relationship with the Soviet Union centred on repayment of Mongolia 's debt , which the Soviet Union claimed stood at 9,700 million roubles , payable in hard currency . |
| 18 | The short answer to this contention on behalf of the appellant is that the money in the wallet which he appropriated belonged to another , to Mr. Occhi . |
| 19 | The total populations served ranged from 100,000 in the case of Bassetlaw to 370,000 in South Nottingham . |
| 20 | At the time when we were at work , interest in what we did was widespread and encouraging because the area in which we were engaged and the questions we addressed seemed to many people important . |
| 21 | The prescription that Janice collected consisted of two syringes , each filled with a measured dose of the drug , ready to load into an autoinjector , a spring-loaded plastic ‘ gun ’ . |
| 22 | The conversation that followed went like this , as far as I can remember . |
| 23 | What they heard went like this : ‘ How many mountains are there , anyway ? |
| 24 | The data collected fell into two categories : those related to operations management and those related to R&D project management . |
| 25 | ‘ We are a Pacific people , ’ I heard said on many occasions , ‘ and we are proud . ’ |
| 26 | I got swore at many a time , I did . |
| 27 | I just got razzed by some faggots . |
| 28 | The Thaxted tradition which he established consisted of three features : firstly , a very thoroughgoing Christian socialism ; secondly , a marked attention to music and all that went with it ; and thirdly , a liturgiological care for distinctively English medieval antecedents . |
| 29 | In the United Kingdom , for example , between 1965 and 1973 , the fall in the pre-tax rate of profit to shareholders was one-seventh , while the return on all capital employed fell by more than one-quarter . |
| 30 | Essentially , the position which Anselm established lasted till 1920 , despite the heroic struggle of Gerald of Wales in the early thirteenth century to establish an archbishopric at St Davids . |