Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scotsman also understands that Unicorn suffered a similar problem earlier during her trials programme . |
| 2 | The summer holidays that year saw me at my most apathetic — and my most miserable . |
| 3 | Quark Inc chairman , Tim Gill , has come to Quorum 's defence , dismissing Apple 's position as incorrect and ill-considered : in a letter he wrote to Quorum he adds that Quorum made a port to Unix feasible for him . |
| 4 | Why has executive power tended to increase in the twentieth century ? |
| 5 | Has right arm extended to distribute fore-arm smash on any advancing attacker . |
| 6 | How has foreign trade caused changes in ( i ) mining , ( ii ) quarrying , ( iii ) fishing in South West England ? |
| 7 | Only recently has British Telecom started modernising the equipment , introducing colour terminals for instance . |
| 8 | Will he confirm that not only has British Telecom invested — this is what the Opposition keep talking about — £20,000 million in new technology , but it has contributed no less than £1,000 million in corporation tax to the Exchequer ? |
| 9 | And what title has British Coal used this time ? |
| 10 | Why has British industry failed so comprehensively in these ways ? |
| 11 | How and why has British writing acquired its ‘ no experiments , please ’ reputation ? |
| 12 | It is made from presses steel , which is then epoxy coated for a durable finish , and has rubber treads bonded on for step security . |
| 13 | Colour matching is not a real problem , heraldry has distinct tinctures laid down and these are adhered to , although Mary has had the occasional viewer saying that the badge was never that colour ! |
| 14 | Other very useful sources for the social researcher are the London Bibliography of the Social Sciences which is , in fact , the published catalogue of the acquisitions and holdings of the library of the London School of Economics , a major social science library ; and also the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences which has annual volumes devoted to sociology , political science , economics and social and cultural anthropology . |
| 15 | A bolero for example , is really just a short cardigan with curved front edges and crossover cardigan just has extra width built in to the front pieces so that they overlap each over . |
| 16 | As the philosopher van Fraassen asks , what has explanatory power got to do with truth ? |
| 17 | A rare native of Southern England , it has bell-shaped flowers chequered with pink , purple and white . |
| 18 | Mind you do n't your tongue with that I tell you what they had in er Woolies market as well , I do n't know whether you 've seen them and I do n't , I 've not got you know an old Argos catalogue to compare prices , cos they 've not got it in the summer one , but they have them in the winter ones , it 's like a , a tool box , but it 's on wheels and you make it up , you , you know all the screws and the wheels come out and you 're not , it 's all plastic , I think it must be from age three , because of the little bits , and it 's like erm , I 've seen it somewhere , where I 've been , it has little figures sat in this erm , what would you , it 's like erm , a bit like a truck , yeah , and it 's got the , the figures in it |
| 19 | Its origins are disguised by its huge cob , and only in the last few years has genetic analysis teased out the whole truth about its humble cereal ancestry . |
| 20 | He has three holes left to play today before starting the final round . |
| 21 | He has three times had problems with his guards , putting back his release at least 45 days to May 1995 , after being sentenced to six years in 1991 for raping 19-year-old beauty pageant contestant Desiree Washington . |
| 22 | The Labour party conference has three times voted to cut £6 billion from the defence budget , and we can see the extent to which that would devastate the defence industry and the defence of this country . |
| 23 | Why , following a revolution , does a government which has effective power backed up with military force , seek to make a constitution ? |
| 24 | It has full gas fired central heating to radiators and has a lovely west facing secluded garden . |
| 25 | I would say that on reception is the one that probably needs more support let her down all the rest of it . |
| 26 | A client who has severe arthritis broke her hip . |
| 27 | access data from the Omni SQL Gateway which actually has physical data stored in many different types of vendor 's repositories . |
| 28 | As I said earlier this year , there will not be enough of any one crop to give self-sufficiency , but the contribution this small plot has made to the good budget has ten times repaid the outlay on seeds and materials . |
| 29 | He was the first Frenchman to climb 8c , and has free-soloed routes graded 8a± ( about E6/7 ) . |
| 30 | Thus in the 1962 Catalogue , the Virgin Mary has 150 pages devoted to her ; Mary Queen of Scots 455 books ; the English queen Mary Tudor — ‘ Bloody Mary ’ — 73 . |