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Examples of paved

paved

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

To the south, a paved area was required, where 'sitting/eating-out could occur', plus an adjacent verandah.
The curved bench and paved area are designed for outdoor meetings and school projects.
This paved the way for more acquisitions in the speech world.
Subsequently, administrative reasoning gradually paved the way to political reasoning in problem solving.
This paved the way for more vigorous and dynamic representations of the self and for a hither to undefined role model for women.
Not only did this make sickness insurance more effective, but it also paved the way for the administration of a future universal sickness insurance system.
Although technical and scientific developments were a necessary prerequisite for this development, cultural, sociological, and economic forces paved the way.
Such investigations paved the way for the development of the constructivist approach to identity, which gained headway in the 1980s.
Finally, to some extent, broader development tools such as primary schools, paved roads, higher wages and overall development complement the above approaches.
Roads were still very poor, and paved inter-urban highways simply did not exist.
This paved the way for legitimate privatization, beginning in the 1920s.
Visitors to the embassy: the gatehouse leads to the paved entrance court around which the embassy and residence are arranged.
This must have paved the way for social change and thus a change in attitudes conducive to fertility control.
These paved the way for development of the sector.
This avenue is paved with spiritual and moral demands on the ways in which persons conduct themselves.
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