Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb pp] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among many hundreds of aircraft destroyed or severely damaged as Hurricane Andrew swept across southern Florida in August were those housed in the Weeks Air Museum at Tamiami Airport , which was itself totally destroyed . |
| 2 | A pair of Derwent jet engines , once fitted to Meteor WL181 and latterly used as runway de-icers were hammered down for only £750 . |
| 3 | ‘ A workman , who had been injured through the breaking of a defective part in the machine with which he was working , brought an action of damages against his employers , and later convened as second defenders the manufacturers of the machine , who had supplied it to his employers , on averments to the effect that the accident had been caused by the fault of the manufacturers in that they failed to supply his employers with a machine which was safe for use by their servants . |
| 4 | Any cash taken in the restaurant from chance sales would be entered on the tabular ledger under the ‘ chance meals ’ column , and also shown as cash received . |
| 5 | Cave paintings , for example , are now generally and understandably seen as art , indeed in many of their examples as major art . |
| 6 | In the first place , the British homosexual movement was badly organised and severely divided when Clause 28 appeared : there was no national organisation for lesbians and gays in England at the time . |
| 7 | On purgatory and prayers for the dead , the Articles were also ambivalent , since they admitted that : ‘ it is a very good and a charitable deed to pray for souls departed ’ , but made no claim that such prayers were efficacious and even questioned whether purgatory existed at all . |
| 8 | The plan should not be formulated and then forgotten after grant for the first year has been obtained . |
| 9 | By a notice of motion dated 11 September 1985 George Albert Auger , the trustee in bankruptcy of Winston Lloyd Dennis sought against Stuart Bernard Goodman and Hilgay Archer , the executors of the will of the wife of the bankrupt , and the bankrupt ( 1 ) a declaration that the trustee was in the events which , had happened solely and beneficially entitled as trustee of the property of the bankrupt to the property situate at and known as 100 , Gurney Road , West Ham , London E.15 registered at H.M. Land Registry and comprised in Title No . |
| 10 | These works , some of which were strongly anti-Catholic and evidently intended as propaganda in the war against Spain , earned him the epithet of ‘ the Spanish heretic ’ in the Index . |
| 11 | The opening of mail was as extensive and systematically organised as telephone tapping . |
| 12 | Its share in Liverpool rose by more than 14% compared with 1986 , but hardly changed if comparison is made with 1988 . |
| 13 | Also to the drivers , who not only drove with such care that the passengers were n't inconvenienced in any way , but also doubled as bike handlers to get the bikes on and off the trailer , inevitably a dirty job . |