Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " 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 | There could be few better ways of becoming tolerably wellinformed about Matteo Ricci , Hugo Grotius , Matthew Wren , Prince Rupert or Rapin de Thoyras ( among others ) than to turn to this collection . |
| 3 | Graphite mining also expanded in Kurunagala and Kagalla . |
| 4 | In rich provincial capitals these apprehensions might have been well-founded , but the men of smaller towns made common cause with the country folk : Kett 's rising actually began in Wymondham , the Prayer Book rebellion in Bodmin . |
| 5 | 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 ) … |
| 6 | The new RHA formula for funding district spending also came under scrutiny . |
| 7 | She saw his eyes go to the coat fixture , and guessed that he knew the jacket hanging there belonged to Travis when he went and took it from its hanger . |
| 8 | Moreover , despite popular views to the contrary , the majority ( 65 per cent ) of households in publicly owned council housing also lived in houses with gardens . |
| 9 | Fighting also continued around Knin where Serbian rebels ordered the general mobilization of every male under 60 . |
| 10 | However , continuing heavy fighting was reported near Kafarnihan , the Islamic forces ' headquarters 25 km east of the capital , and fighting also continued in Dushanbe itself despite appeals for calm broadcast by Rahmonov . |
| 11 | Fighting also occurred in Basra , the centre of the 1991 Shia revolt [ see pp. 38081-82 ] . |
| 12 | ‘ The helicopter I 'd been watching suddenly veered to port and its rotor blades did n't look the same . |
| 13 | John Lennon 's lyrics for A Day In The Life fetched £44,000 and Paul McCartney 's hit She 's Leaving Home went for £41,000 at Sotheby 's in London . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Nationalized industries created additional difficulties ; volume planning often led to overcapacity and excessive output , with huge losses having to be written off . |