Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Film producer Liam Brennan , who may face extradition to the US on deception charges , admitted using a worthless cheque . |
| 2 | One of the first attempts to treat the effluent involved building a small lagoon , the idea for which Dai discovered in a book . |
| 3 | It will be collected using tape-recorders , transcribed and analysed using a sequential and comparative method . |
| 4 | Also of interest is computer use during consultations , where patient notes are made available and up-dated using a desk-top terminal . |
| 5 | When would-be television stars realised that just to get through the first round involved completing a detailed questionnaire their enthusiasm waned somewhat . |
| 6 | Thus the proportion of records stored as synonyms will be roughly equivalent to half the packing density in a file created using a single-pass load , and with single record buckets . |
| 7 | ( There are spiders too : an engineer , inspecting the Lake as it was filling , reported seeing a half-drowned tree covered with what appeared to be black foliage : he paddled alongside , then shot away as fast as his blades could carry him . |
| 8 | The RSPCA was called to the farm after someone reported seeing a lame horse . |
| 9 | About twenty years ago , after dusk , a weighbridge office employee reported seeing a tramp-like figure walk into the weighbridge office , look around , and then walk through the back wall of the office . |
| 10 | Emergency services , fell search and rescue teams and RAF and Royal Navy helicopters were called in after a driver reported seeing a light aircraft flying just feet above his vehicle in the area between Consett and the Derwent Reservoir . |
| 11 | Hugh 's plan involved purchasing a heavy duty shredder , a baling press , a fork lift truck and a purpose built Ford lorry — total outlay £61,500 . |
| 12 | Mr Baker also proposed establishing a permanent Nato arms control verification staff to monitor compliance with arms reduction and confidence building measures . |
| 13 | With an equaliser the priority , the Scots were caught embarrassingly exposed at the back by Ferreri 's sweeping ball and Cantona found scoring a joyous simplicity . |
| 14 | Until then , police practice involved turning a blind eye to minor breaches of public decency rather than embarking on lengthy prosecutions . |
| 15 | After an appeal from the Constitutional Court that President and legislature settle their differences , Yeltsin and Khasbulatov reached a compromise which involved holding a constitutional referendum on April 11 , 1993 , and freezing all constitutional amendments adopted at the Congress . |
| 16 | Thus a particularly bizarre practice , for which with typical resourcefulness Tylor coined the name teknonymy , involved calling a married person not by his own name but by that of his children . |
| 17 | Of course , all theatrical activities came to an abrupt halt ; but Guthrie was not prepared to accept what seemed like being the total demise of Sadler 's Wells Opera , and proposed sending a small touring group of the company round the provinces and he offered me a small contract . |
| 18 | At last there was a knock on the door and a young man entered wearing a battered leather jacket and torn breeches . |
| 19 | The juniors were very earnest and keen cricketers and I always found umpiring a ticklish business as I do not know the rules . |
| 20 | The plan , which involved charging a flat-rate tax per kilo , represented an attempt to reduce the amount of waste dumped in landfill sites . |
| 21 | Of the eight other women not admitted only two cases ( 25 per cent ) involved consulting a male family member ( Fisher exact probability test : one tail 0.013 , two tail 0.015 ) . |
| 22 | The experiment , known as the Isotropic Lead Experiment , involved substituting a special isotope of lead mined at Broken Hill in New south Wales , Australia for the normal additive in all petrol sold in the area . |
| 23 | Thus someone who found learning a foreign language extremely difficult might struggle to pass grade 1 spoken French by the time he was 16 . |
| 24 | Schafer ( 1967 ) reported finding a significant asymmetry in the electrical activity of the brain immediately prior to speech production . |
| 25 | Gummer having been summarily dismissed , a lugubrious George Gardiner tapped on the door and entered carrying a large parcel , marked ‘ urgent ’ , upon which Lady Thatcher fell with cries of pleasure . |
| 26 | As I slipped Martina 's book between the folds of my best suit , Felix knocked and entered bearing a white package the size of a small coffin , flamboyantly fastened with a blood-pink bow . |
| 27 | ‘ I stopped mourning a long time ago . ’ |
| 28 | The original method of producing acrylic sheet , which involved casting a thickened and part-polymerized methyl methacrylate syrup in plate glass cells and completing polymerization by heating in an oven , was devised in the 1930s . |
| 29 | It involved thrusting a lighted taper into little glass jars and applying them in great haste to Jean-Claude 's back , which would bubble up under them in balloons of skin . |
| 30 | The three proposed drafting a new constitution for those republics which wished to stay in Yugoslavia as a " conferation of equal republics and peoples " and the signing of a " historic agreement " between the Serbian and Moslem communities in Bosnia . |