Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [adv] [subord] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will have noted that this has more than doubled between 1983 and 1984 , and increased again in 1985 . |
| 2 | Spring is generally the season in which to sow , but some germinate better if sown in late summer or early autumn , that is , as soon as the parent plants have flowered and set seed , and the seed has ripened . |
| 3 | By 1979 this had more than doubled ( Social Survey Division , OPCS , 1981 ) . |
| 4 | These performed just as required , with pious platitudes followed by prevaricating and tut-tutting in a most gratifying manner . |
| 5 | Crookes took up Faraday 's work on the passage of electricity through gases , and was excited by a passage in an early lecture of Faraday 's where he had speculated that there might be a ‘ fourth state of matter ’ simpler than the gaseous , just as gases are simpler than liquids ; they all expand alike when heated , for example . |
| 6 | He would have been happier with a committee , but the owners , of whom several rented rather than owned their boats , were not of the substance from which committees are formed . |
| 7 | Both preserve well if glycerined ( see panel ) . |