Example sentences of "[vb pp] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extent to which management powers over generation were devolved depended on the central triumvirate of Citrine , Self and Hacking , and not on a statutorily entrenched position . |
| 2 | More than 200 others were reported injured among the 327 passengers and 13 crew . |
| 3 | He had a streak of red paint across the back of his uniform , so one at least had come armed with the essential spray can . |
| 4 | In the first month of the new junta , 131 workers were reported killed as the military hardliners in government sought to clamp down op the unions . |
| 5 | Although some of these sites were reported destroyed in the early stages of the air campaign , the mobile facilities in particular proved difficult to detect . |
| 6 | She had felt trapped by the old mesh of loyalty and shame . |
| 7 | Have you ever felt constrained by the male domination of rock music ? |
| 8 | She had grown used to the tiny sounds that were so much a part of Seawitch , just as she had grown used to the boat 's continually changing motion . |
| 9 | I climbed over the dead bodies and looked around the washroom ; my eyes had grown used to the dim red emergency lights by now . |
| 10 | A is related to the intensity of light I that is transmitted compared with the initial intensity I by |
| 11 | Three schemes have been prepared based on the low level vertical alignment showing possible routes for a new access to the Baberton Estate . |
| 12 | Unavoidable shortfalls of staffing levels are made known to the immediate manager . |
| 13 | The circumstances in England as to housing and education can be made known to the Australian court as can those circumstances in Australia be made known to the English court without the necessity in either case of calling oral evidence . |
| 14 | The circumstances in England as to housing and education can be made known to the Australian court as can those circumstances in Australia be made known to the English court without the necessity in either case of calling oral evidence . |
| 15 | Will my right hon. Friend ensure that that message is made known throughout the American business community ? |
| 16 | On his return in mid-December all his colleagues had felt encouraged by the Prime Minister 's buoyancy ; he had conducted the last debates with all his old skill and command of the House . |
| 17 | The basal tissue of the conodont has also been compared to globular calcified cartilage as seen associated with the earliest authenticated bone of Eriptychius . |
| 18 | The family coat of arms can be seen carved at the main doorway of the house and in the Church . |
| 19 | Tony also mentioned how he had visited a local centre for the young unemployed which he had seen advertised in the local newspaper . |
| 20 | The nits , also brown in colour , can be seen attached to the pubic hair , and examination with a magnifying glass will distinguish those containing a developing larva , which takes a week before it leaves the egg , from those which have already been vacated . |
| 21 | In Algeria , at the Maison Alletti , the large , low-built house which the old baron had had built in the late 1920s , which formed the base for his Algerian vineyards and timber plantations , and which was built among gardens on the slope of a hill , overlooking the city and the breathtaking bay of Algiers . |
| 22 | No it 's cos I 've got done by the other teachers before . |
| 23 | Now , in a bit of a rush : the asparagus was excellent , but its finger-bowls arrived late , so that buttery fingers only got rinsed at the last bite . |
| 24 | You know , I was on the phone to a customer for fifteen to twenty minutes because they 'd had a bad experience and I was actually making an appointment for Roy to go in and that twenty minutes is a long time , and I think really if anything , it 's just brought to me really , , how little time sometimes , it 's not always the case , it does vary , that , depending on the incoming calls , depending if you 've got got through the emerging paperwork for whatever reason , how little quality time perhaps you do actually spend on the phone , making outgoing calls to sell . |
| 25 | Mr Ratner , who is 41 , quickly got rid of the snobby atmosphere which prevails in most independent jewellery stores . |
| 26 | I 've got rid of the damn thing now . ’ |
| 27 | I asked them if once they 'd got rid of the forty percent they could then get it back by dropping the prices , you know , they 've , they 've |
| 28 | We should never have got rid of the little Fiat we used to have which started first time every time and if anything did go wrong you could fix it with an elastic band or a bit of string , Gianluigi used to say , although personally I 'm hopeless with machinery . |
| 29 | By evicting smelly plastic items ( see p 174 ) you have already got rid of the worst de-gassers . |
| 30 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |