Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to overcome the problems of a mechanism becoming inadvertently disassembled by component changes , the development of an automated associative procedure was considered . |
| 2 | A headmistress in 1946 said that same thing at greater length , but in doing so collapsed into meaninglessness : In my opinion , such a school should not be an imitation of the old Secondary School ( that is , of the grammar school ) … |
| 3 | The new RHA formula for funding district spending also came under scrutiny . |
| 4 | ‘ The helicopter I 'd been watching suddenly veered to port and its rotor blades did n't look the same . |
| 5 | Shamed by having to say no whenever I was asked if an urgent document could be dispatched to me down the telephone — feeling badly outfaxed in fact — I had finally succumbed . |
| 6 | Nationalized industries created additional difficulties ; volume planning often led to overcapacity and excessive output , with huge losses having to be written off . |