Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one will look askance if you have a makeshift wooden table disguised by a floor length tablecloth ( with interchangeable overcloths ) , painted or lacquered ex-kitchen chairs , and an old dresser for a sideboard , or an old Victorian or Edwardian wardrobe for glass and china storage . |
| 2 | Though there are a few anomalous features in this framing ( and the sceptic is well aware how often unscrupulous dealers have altered or exchanged such items for the sake of a sale ) it is nevertheless easier to believe that it is original than to contrive any coherent explanation . |
| 3 | Insulin doses were not altered throughout the study except to ensure ( on the basis of the home blood glucose test results ) that glycaemic control was not altered or to avoid unacceptable hypoglycaemia ( mainly during the run in phase ) . |
| 4 | You must wait until the current work has completed or perform this work in the package/packages where the active DC already exists . |
| 5 | With the best will in the world many cases have to be withdrawn or discontinued each year . |
| 6 | Altogether 149 respondents reported that they had never undertaken or funded any HIV prevention work specifically aimed at gay or bisexual men . |
| 7 | The court may give directions or vary or revoke an existing direction at any stage in the proceedings provided that the parties are given notice and an opportunity to attend and be heard or to make written representations . |
| 8 | It appears to be an inescapable fact that regardless of whether a nation is developing , developed or experiencing economic decline , the indigenous population will experience differing degrees of economic prosperity depending on their particular location in the economy . |
| 9 | The arguments about whether to join the European Community were won or lost two decades ago . |
| 10 | Reaching an appropriate sociability and the business to be won or lost short space of time and wanted to set the scene and make a right , a right impression at the right . |
| 11 | The local crab industry is lucrative and expanding , as are the dolphin kills , and an estimated several thousand are being harpooned or shot each year . |
| 12 | Until recently , they were killed in their thousands by Turkish hunters in the Black Sea and they are still being actively hunted in Greenland , where about 1000 porpoises are harpooned or shot each year . |
| 13 | Labour was no longer as efficient as machinery and new systems of agricultural organisation and , as a result , the peasantry ( who had owned or had common rights to work the land in their villages ) were gradually forced off the land to become wage labourers . |
| 14 | How many people have owned or handled this object ? |
| 15 | More than that : he had himself sprung from the upper working class and naturally despised as unclean the lower working class : his life was made a misery by their proximity , and he longed for them to be evicted or murder each other in one of their not infrequent rows . |
| 16 | She did n't face Christina when she said through clenched teeth , ‘ I 've never expected or received any help from you anyway , Christina . ’ |
| 17 | This is the most handsomely designed and arresting photographic book of the 1980s . |
| 18 | FOR OVER 25 YEARS ALITEX HAVE DESIGNED AND BUILT SUPERIOR STRUCTURES FOR THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GARDENS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY . |
| 19 | Having designed and built this boat , Nathan knew its capabilities better than anyone . |
| 20 | Within two years he had designed and installed electrical repeater devices , indicating to signalmen the position of semaphore signal arms which were outside their range of vision ; an automatic device recording on tape the bell-code communications between signal-boxes ; and the first track circuiting in which the presence of a train on a section of track was indicated electrically in the signal cabin . |
| 21 | IF BUSINESS were as simple as sport it would now be possible to present a league table for the 1989 season , showing games played and points won and leaving one company out on top . |
| 22 | In the stables , the horses on whom thousands of pounds would be won and lost that afternoon stirred as their lads unlocked their boxes , brought them their feed . |
| 23 | Claiming that although in the end ‘ their services had not been required ’ , he thought that nevertheless ‘ they would have expected and received some share of the proceeds ’ and it was presumably while Griffiths was being handed his share of the proceeds from Mr Ross 's safe that bits of brown paper and bits of white paper could have found their way into his overcoat pocket . |
| 24 | The six Concerti on this interesting release were published in 1742 , and were rearranged and reprinted many times , the composer actually rearranging the Sixth Concerto in an edition published 33 years later , such was its popularity . |
| 25 | Similarly , the colour of the paper provided may be varied and include dark colours as well as light ones . |
| 26 | Baxter 's subjects were remarkably varied and included sentimental treatments of religious and romantic themes , prints of typical London figures , and newsworthy events . |
| 27 | Multimedia Presentation Manager/2 is included and adds enhanced audio , basic image and software motion video playback capabilities . |
| 28 | Multimedia Presentation Manager/2 is included and adds enhanced audio , basic image and software motion video playback capabilities . |
| 29 | In the fifth century Rome was attacked and sacked three times . |
| 30 | Two youths attacked and robbed two members of staff as they went to bank the day 's takings from a fruit shop in Raby Street , Byker , Tyneside . |