Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home . |
| 2 | Gerry was taught to drive in nineteen forty six in the States , where they , they gone , they 'd gone over to total automatic , and he despised manual gears , thought they were a ridiculous waste of time and effort , said you want to concentrate on the , on the road , not on the car , but then you see Gerry improved himself , he was a |
| 3 | The people had never heard preaching like this before , and so they embraced the teaching before they had time to become used to it and ‘ Gospel-hardened ’ as had happened to the people of Bridgnorth . |
| 4 | We can not abandon people to the horrors of primitive siege warfare , so the ramshackle institutions of the United Nations will have to be drastically overhauled to cope with this crisis and others like it which are festering in an increasingly unstable world . |
| 5 | In spite of these doubts , a powerful consortium using both corporate and national government funding has been formed consisting of such major electronics interests as Philips , Bosch , Thomson and Thorn EMI . |
| 6 | Vice-President and Finance Minister George Saitoti presented a budget on June 15 , 1989 , largely intended to appeal to international donors through its aim to curb public expenditure and to reduce the deficit to 4.2 per cent of GDP in 1989-90 , from 4.5 per cent in 1988-89 . |
| 7 | Craigendarroch 's information pack — which can be found in your room — is a mine of information on the many activities and placed to see in this fascinatingly diverse area . |
| 8 | If pressed to go beyond these limits they should suggest that the questioning be addressed to ministers . |
| 9 | There was also an intermediate step — the Dino Berlinetta GT of 1966 — but this was never intended to go into full production . |
| 10 | If an exchange had a rule that required members to state that every contract was intended to go to physical delivery , notwithstanding the fact that since the rule was made the exchange had introduced a number of cash-settled contracts ; this would almost certainly be subject to some sort of variation . |
| 11 | Her hair was drawn back , skilfully arranged to fall in loose waves from a gold clasp . |
| 12 | Christie 's had secured a good selection of attractive conversation pieces and landscape paintings calculated to appeal to private collectors on a budget , as well as the more interesting portraits and equestrian compositions , while the quality of the works at Sotheby 's was particularly thin . |
| 13 | Muhammad ibn Ali promoted a campaign which used the medium of itinerant missionaries and was calculated to appeal to most of the people who for different reasons were discontented with the Umayyads . |
| 14 | Many plants are common to both disciplines , but the manner in which they are prescribed differs in many instances . |
| 15 | It is intended to cope with irregular plurals ( " child " — " children " ) , other morphological variation which is too context dependent to be handled algorithmically ( " Hebrides ' = " Hebridear " ) , abbreviations ( " BBC " = " British Broadcasting Corporation " ) , words with alternative spellings ( " gaol " = " jail " ) and near synonyms ( " Great Britain " = " United Kingdom " = " Britain " = " UK " = " British Isles " ) . |
| 16 | To achieve this , sufficient domestic tax relief would be given to compensate for higher import prices resulting from tariffs up to current levels of imports . |
| 17 | you 're first taught to write in small letters , these crosswords or as they print most crosswords in erm capital letters , and of course you do n't recognize them do you ? |
| 18 | That a computer can be taught to work like that has always been a controversial proposition ; even today there are observers who believe that it is impossible to build a machine ( at least with current programming techniques ) that can plan even remotely as well as a human . |
| 19 | In a three-variable table with one response variable and two explanatory variables , the proportions are calculated to sum to 1 within each of the cells formed by the categories of the explanatory variables . |
| 20 | ‘ Having regard to the terms of the contract , the conduct of the parties and the circumstances of the case , I have no doubt that the property was not intended to pass in this case on contract but only in exchange for a valid building society cheque , but even if it may be regarded as intended to pass in exchange for a false , but believed genuine , building society cheque it will not in my view avail the insurers . ’ |
| 21 | In this new world , all architecture , furnishing , clothing and behaviour are intended to relate to each other in a visibly coherent fashion . |
| 22 | The army had stopped laughing within one week of receiving Gary . |
| 23 | The EPLP is ideally placed to work alongside other Parliamentary groups in the Community to set the agenda for Europe and for its people . |
| 24 | The system was developed to work with multiple databases , including Ingres , Oracle and Btrieve , various local nets such as NetWare and TCP/IP , and a variety of computers . |
| 25 | The assistance given ranged from financial assistance for the procurement of legal advice to the issuing of court orders . |
| 26 | Here , a series of patch reefs are developed surrounded by inter-reef sediments ( Fig. 8 ) . |
| 27 | In practice , this would mean that even when assigned to work with specific individual children , support teachers should : |
| 28 | And by the end of about a month , the guy I was assigned to work with refused to work with me because I was always cracking jokes — he said ‘ I 'm not going to work with you , if you crack one more joke I 'm going to the supervisor . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Nobody can predict what will happen over the next decade , particularly with all the agricultural changes brought about by the EC , but East Anglia can grow some of the best and cheapest grain in Europe and we are well placed to benefit from that ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ British industry is far more productive , far more competitive , better managed and with better industrial relations , in a better tax climate than at the beginning of the 1980s , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY , ‘ so it is better placed to benefit from economic recovery . ’ |