Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] [vb pp] the " in BNC.

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1 It is nevertheless likely that more middle class women accepted than resisted the experts ' view of their physiology and psychology , though they may also have passed those views through their own filter .
2 Hence a depressed person may well remember their childhood as considerably less happy than they would have done if asked the same questions before the onset of their current depressive symptoms .
3 The visit had been far from successful , for Adam had sulked when offered the four-ten , the so-called ‘ lady 's gun ’ .
4 Within this chapter our concern is with those , both Marxist and non-Marxist , who have taken as given the particular direction in which technology has developed , and with those who , while accepting that it is possible and desirable to exercise some social control over technology , have taken the view that there is no fundamental conflict at the work-place and that the system of organisation there can be optimised in the light of a set of objectives to which they assume all would be able to agree .
5 They have taken as read the scientific conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that global warming is a real threat .
6 On his arrival he immediately set about strengthening his Manors at Halling and Trottescliffe and also erected as mentioned the high walls around the Palace .
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