Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your skin is being bombarded with sunrays which are scattered and reflected off other surfaces . |
| 2 | Plans for the forging and machining of shells at Wolverton Works were considered and discussed in early 1939 . |
| 3 | The Prince was becoming enthused , and as he grew more confident about the area he had targeted and took on more projects , he began to make increasingly serious and significant speeches . |
| 4 | In the past year , five electronics firms have either expanded or set up new factories in Glenrothes , creating extra work for a couple of hundred people . |
| 5 | An account written by someone participating in some event or controversy may give a far more partial view than the carefully researched , balanced interpretation of a later historian who has sifted and weighed up all available evidence . |
| 6 | In my view what is needed is not abolition of the audit but a simplified format , less compliance reporting and an audit certificate which enables auditors to explain in greater detail what they have done and to spell out those areas they are not satisfied with , and why . |
| 7 | Such progressions were termed ‘ job ladders ’ , and economists describe the way in which people are selected and promoted up these ladders as internal labour markets . |
| 8 | ‘ The missile was so close that the warning system in the cab illuminated and fired off defensive flares , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The warm ache had expanded and drowned out any reasoned responses . |
| 10 | For this reason , many people prefer to keep their camera originals as shot and carry out all their editing operations on a copy . |
| 11 | Bowyer 's troopers , as professional soldiers are wont , soon made themselves at home in the courtyard and outhouses : within an hour , Sir John was receiving complaints of food being stolen from the kitchen ; jugs of wine mysteriously emptying ; and chickens , full of life the night before , suddenly being killed , plucked and spitted over makeshift fires . |
| 12 | The shed windows were broken and stood out black and jagged by the reflected light of the moon . |
| 13 | Mr Patten said the Government was proposing tough new standards for the knowledge and skills new primary teachers needed and opening up new routes into teaching . ’ |
| 14 | For a bet , he had once broken into the flat where a certain Vice-Questore was entertaining a lady friend and removed the couple 's clothes so stealthily that the Vice-Questore thought something supernatural must have occurred and came over all religious for a while . |
| 15 | Draw a rectangle around it as shown and cut out all three triangles , ( numbered 1,2 , and 3 on the diagram ) . |
| 16 | The children chattered and squabbled as usual , and the puppy , pleased with its solitary status , snapped up all the food that was offered and licked out all the plates by itself . |
| 17 | The value of A 2 will tell us whether or not the size of the polymer coil , which is dissolved in a particular solvent , will be perturbed or expanded over that of the unperturbed state , but the extent of this expansion is best estimated by calculating the expansion factor α . |
| 18 | Being born and brought up next to a butcher 's shop in a Somerset town in the closing years of the 18th century may not have been the healthiest start in life for a child , but those who saw out the dangerous first two or three years seemed to have stood a good chance of survival thereafter . |
| 19 | You will find we have lit and put out all our fuses . |
| 20 | They should be either burnt or laid out flat to dry , or kept in an airtight tin . |
| 21 | Iris yawned , stretched and pushed up one sleeve to scratch an arm . |
| 22 | Now , leg stretched and r-o-l-l back those muscles . |
| 23 | Now during the war when we had to have all the windows sealed and blacked out that place became very warm and very uncomfortable to work in . |
| 24 | It was as though the river had suddenly died ; as though a mysterious lethal pollution had struck and wiped out all life . |
| 25 | The selfless pilots of Islam , on their return from their victorious mission , hit and shot down two enemy helicopters in the region . |
| 26 | Here the waters are split and piled up either side of a pathway across the sea bed . |
| 27 | Fresh mint is also good finely chopped and sprinkled over buttery new potatoes or peas . |
| 28 | None of these is intended simply to mollify reluctant staff : each is intended to provide more time , to allow a fresh look to be taken or to try out different approaches when there are setbacks . |
| 29 | Editorially in The New Age she had encouraged and brought on new poets and writers . |
| 30 | The first five minutes is to enable you to reflect on the candidate who has left and to jot down any opinions and comments which are fresh in your mind . |