Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [coord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could no doubt be taught to sew or clean things . |
| 2 | She felt constrained to sit and light-headed when she rose and crossed the long boards to fold back the shutters and open the windows wide . |
| 3 | That they ask you specific questions of that naming it 's a multi-choice more importantly in your written answers you will have to in , you are expected to include and correct systematic ohms for any organics that you deal with . |
| 4 | There are obvious limits to the extra work that families can be expected to absorb and these limits may already have been reached . |
| 5 | Scattered to dust and all their beauty fled . |
| 6 | Sun , which reckons its US distribution is thin , is expected to strike first at SCO which is deemed over-distributed and stagnant . |
| 7 | Its softly rounded and gently coloured contours , dotted with lush trees and russet houses , set comfortably into the landscape like plump and cosy chickens , were in strong contrast to coastal Northumberland which so often looked scoured and rough . |
| 8 | They have been involved in various forms of community action designed to protect and regenerate community life and to tackle the social , economic and cultural problems common to both communities — Catholic and Protestant . |
| 9 | Complete refurbishment has added airconditioning and modern , fresh furnishings . |
| 10 | A total of 79,498,240 ballots were cast , of which 1,716,757 ( 2.16 per cent ) were deemed spoilt or invalid and 1,525,410 ( 1.92 per cent ) were not counted because the names of all six candidates had been crossed out . |
| 11 | Underlying inflation , now around the 3.7% mark , is expected to slow but due to the devaluation of the pound UK exports should pick up dramatically because the price of British goods will be much cheaper abroad . |
| 12 | Others , less directly committed to change or worried as to how their institutions would cope with its demands , would , nevertheless , have been finding it increasingly difficult to regard school mathematics as fixed and unchangeable . [ … ] |
| 13 | but I tell you what you know the mark two , have you ever displayed a coder and it rings , rings the bell when the intercom rings , rings the bell if the trunk 's designed to ring and all that , you know when you get the , you put a call on hold and it comes back and it goes brr , brr , brr , the bell starts going ding , ding , ding , a right noise and apparently that 's standard in the system I think that was a bit of an oversight to be honest with you |
| 14 | Nevertheless , there is certainly a common core of skills and knowledge that managers are expected to master and these are built into the managers ' induction and training programme . |
| 15 | Stifling her yawns and fighting to keep her eyes open during the Litany of the Saints , she wrestled with the problem , terrified that Tristram might be caught trespassing but unable to think of any way to warn him . |
| 16 | In July and August of 1980 , the Duarte regime introduced a series of decree laws restricting all trade union activities : public employees were forbidden to strike and major public sectors were simply conscripted by decree into the armed forces and placed under military discipline . |
| 17 | Have you given written or oral feedback to all interested parties ? |
| 18 | He was a quiet man , not much given to open or abandoned laughter , mainly because he thought laughing made him look like a horse — which it did rather ! |
| 19 | Here , we enter the realms of fantasy , because Yin & Yang are related to light and dark or sun and shade . |
| 20 | Unless he was a practised Don Juan , he must have felt torn and guilty . |
| 21 | Instead of battering , might he have decided to try and sweet-talk her into submission ? |
| 22 | This mother said that even in the midst of all the pain and trauma of her children being taken away , she had felt surrounded and safe in the love and support of the Quaker movement . |
| 23 | Inbreeding depression can result when individuals which are too closely related reproduce and this diminishes survival of the young . |
| 24 | Although there is no shortage of childless couples in Britain , there is a shortage of couples prepared to adopt or foster handicapped children , and as a result the numbers of fostered and adopted children remain small . |
| 25 | When purchasing from a group , arrangements must be made to calculate and clear intra-group accounts . |
| 26 | She tried to remember his face , but as in the dream it had grown blurred and distant . |
| 27 | They offer hope for thousands of guitar bands that have felt rejected and superfluous in a music business strangled by drum machines , synthesised dance music and passing fads . |
| 28 | This is why the method is often applied to soften and diffuse distant objects or hills , as in atmospheric perspective . |
| 29 | Past introductions of new species into a strange environment have sometimes had unforseen and undesirable consequences . |
| 30 | Well if you were going to come for me you 've got to drive and that and he 's still not up yet today , so I , I have to get Arthur to draw some money |