Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This 26-year-old married businessman was beaten up , burned and sexually assaulted by a torture gang ‘ and the six-man gang tried to tear out their victim 's toenails with pliers — then ripped off adhesive tape they had stuck to his genitals … |
| 2 | Whenever a fast is undertaken for selfish ends it must be resisted . |
| 3 | Professional designers will come out with all sorts of advice but as this is intended for normal people I 'll suggest that you just go with what looks right to you . |
| 4 | Coach Keith Richardson has named his team but its being treated as classified information he wants to keep Northampton guessing … 007 has the day off but morese code from Kingsholm tells us skipper Ian Smith will be back in the team … |
| 5 | Similarly , in medieval Europe , it was ‘ common sense ’ that one could determine the guilt or innocence of an accused person through ‘ trial by ordeal ’ , e.g. accused people carried a red-hot iron bar for ten paces , and if their wounds were healed after x days they would be declared innocent — again , this method is noticeably absent in modern trials ! |
| 6 | It scared her , but as she glanced secretly across at the face she had never forgotten for one moment she realised she was more excited than scared . |
| 7 | Besides those grants taken out of context or distorted , the endowment was blamed for many things it had nothing to do with . |
| 8 | Gorbachev had no doubt that the socialist choice in October 1917 had been the right one ; nor could Marx be blamed for subsequent developments he had obviously been unable to foresee . |
| 9 | About leaving a place when I felt torn between two people I loved . |
| 10 | If I had to Oxford my finger might have come off bythe time I got there |
| 11 | When the powder is mixed with cold water it first of all dissolves to a creamy white paste and then slowly sets to a hard solid . |
| 12 | But if , by manipulation , some of the yellow cytoplasm is squeezed into adjacent cells they too will develop muscle , something they would never do normally . |
| 13 | The conventional hip replacement is designed in one piece it 's rigid and made in standard sizes.But the new design called the Oxford Universal Hip is made up of three components , each component is available in different sizes . |
| 14 | Since almost all those on death row come from impoverished backgrounds they lack the funds to hire their own attorney and will be appointed counsel by the Court . |
| 15 | When referrals have come from other professionals it is important to get back to the parents ' view rather than working from the information in the referral letter . |
| 16 | When the values of the differentials at y are substituted in this expression we have at y . |
| 17 | That 's probably a set of tyres or something - it 's not a great deal of money in this day and age - but then failure is limited to actual breakage , wear and tear is excluded , it does n't cover the cost of working materials such as gaskets , if the vehicle has been modified in any way it 's excluded , it excludes any personal injury resulting from the breakdown , it covers erm the schedule is invalid if you have not covered the servicing aspects on page ten , the servicing aspects on page ten require you within ten days or two hundred and fifty miles of three thousand miles intervals — most cars now are six thousand mile intervals — to have the oil changed , so there 's a built-in additional service , and so it goes on . |
| 18 | Decorated in Venetian style it is close to all the major city sights — St. Mark 's Square — but also neighbours the less frequented old quarter of Venice full of picturesque ancient houses , tiny bridges and canals . |
| 19 | So there 's me like I 'm sat in first lesson we have P E last lesson sat in the first lesson and I 'm th , I 've thought God my bra strap feels really lose ! |
| 20 | that the candidate knows which outcomes or units are included in any assessment he or she is undertaking . |
| 21 | The permitted energy states in such a system form a so-called ‘ surface sub-band ’ , and when all the mobile electrons are contained in one sub-band we have reached the electric quantum limit . |
| 22 | After being educated in private schools he was apprenticed to a mechanical engineer , and before the age of twenty-one had attained a position of responsibility in the works . |
| 23 | The travelling showman William Haggar 's The Life of Charles Peace ( 1905 ) may be less achieved but the sympathy it elicits for the ingenious villain who had been hanged in 1879 marks it out as a piece of genuine popular entertainment . |
| 24 | At the stepping rates considered in this Chapter we are justified in regarding the rotor velocity as constant ; the system inertia is sufficient to maintain a steady speed , even if the motor torque varies slightly during each step . |
| 25 | Given the amount of calls and the fact that they 're telephoned in different areas it seems a lot of trouble to go through if it was a hoax . |
| 26 | ‘ They 'd told me that as I was caught in civilian clothes I was going to be treated as a spy , and every time I heard those shots I thought ‘ My turn tomorrow ’ . ' |
| 27 | ‘ No , it means that once you 're caught in those waves you might as well give up . ’ |
| 28 | At first glance they realised that the specimen differed from any meteorites they had ever seen . |
| 29 | Given that the EC is committed to economic convergence it would be counterproductive if resulting from the operation of the budget , economic divergence was reinforced rather than reduced . |
| 30 | Unless you are very strongly attracted to private practice you would be well advised to prefer one of these careers in salaried employment . |