Example sentences of "[vb pp] [vb pp] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun , which reckons its US distribution is thin , is expected to strike first at SCO which is deemed over-distributed and stagnant . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On March 11 at least 28 guerrillas were reported killed when Turkish troops and helicopters attacked a PKK base near Genc , in eastern Turkey . |
| 5 | Have you given written or oral feedback to all interested parties ? |
| 6 | Unless he was a practised Don Juan , he must have felt torn and guilty . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Already towards the end of January , when it was made known that German troops were encircled in Stalingrad , the unease registered in numerous reports merged into critical comment expressing fundamental doubts about the necessity of the war with Russia and now also about the truth of Hitler 's explanations for the war . |
| 9 | She tried to remember his face , but as in the dream it had grown blurred and distant . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Past introductions of new species into a strange environment have sometimes had unforseen and undesirable consequences . |
| 12 | They 've got inspected and graded accommodation . |
| 13 | When ‘ scarce anything [ was ] more likely to mar a … man 's reputation than to be thought opposed or indifferent to the cause of abolition , but when slavery was a distant and foreign institution , the urge to respectability could predominate over the vital flame in antislavery . |
| 14 | Third , that certain factors in avant-garde culture , and especially the conscious breaks from ‘ traditional ’ styles , have to be analysed not only in formal terms but within the sociology of metropolitan encounters and associations between immigrants who share no common language but that of the metropolis and whose other ( including visual ) received sign-systems have become distanced or irrelevant . |
| 15 | Parents , surprised at the effects which a deliberate withdrawal of voluntary labour brought in its wake , have become angered and disenchanted . |
| 16 | Wherever they are now , black people are descended from Africans , but over the centuries their genetic heritage has become diversified and complicated by various permutations of mating . |
| 17 | Various other formats have come and gone over the years , but these are the ones which have become established and likely to remain for the foreseeable future . |
| 18 | Normal science , according to Kuhn , is science which proceeds along and within the lines that have become established as orthodox , for the moment . |
| 19 | The infant death rate was still high enough , especially among the poor , for parents not yet to have become complacent ; meanwhile , the promise was held out , and for the first time could be kept , that babies could be successfully reared provided that medical advice was faithfully followed . |
| 20 | Throughout the journey he had seemed withdrawn and preoccupied . |
| 21 | He was found trapped and unconscious at the bottom of the shaft . |
| 22 | The pick-up truck they used to drive to the coast was found abandoned and bloodstained nearby . |
| 23 | Among the European paintings on show will be the earliest known signed and dated painting by Ludholf Bakhuizen . |
| 24 | The process of retirement too has a differential impact on men and women , but the experience of women has remained obscured because old age has been regarded , in Simone de Beauvoir 's ( 1977 , p. 101 ) terms , as ‘ a man 's problem ’ . |
| 25 | And yesterday Eva , who had poured her life savings into the six-bedroom house , was left devastated and penniless . |
| 26 | The traditional type is delivered mixed and ready to lay by a special truck , and it is simply poured directly where required , or it can be poured into wheelbarrows . |
| 27 | My hon. Friends and I feel justified in asking for a special debate to call attention to the ridiculous fact that , at Humberstone , which is part of the EDDR route , a mile of new road costing £1.5 million has stood finished and unopened for over a year , while the county and city councils argue about a proposed route by the side of the clinic on Scraptoft lane through a recreation area which happens to be owned by the city council . |
| 28 | We know nothing of her months there , and we only know that when she returned it was with the dark inner side of her nature woken , so that she must be kept chained and guarded . ’ |