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Examples of proceeded

proceeded

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

We next proceeded to determine the pharmacological properties of this retrograde suppressive effect.
We then proceeded to see how these agents affect the bipolar cells' dynamics.
On finding that the activation of nicotinic receptors seemed to depress visual responses, we proceeded to investigate the mechanism of this effect.
The marriage ceremony itself was perfunctory and, in this instance, the whole process of juba'ing seems to have proceeded smoothly.
In the past, the concepts and practices of wild-living-resource conservation proceeded as if the human population problem can be ignored in day-to-day planning and actions.
Evolution might have proceeded faster had these geophysical processes been faster.
Interviews then proceeded along the thematic structure outlined above.
As such, the construction of the participation variable proceeded as follows.
Thus, typically of a chain reaction, either interstellar panspermia has proceeded to completion or it has not taken place at all.
Such essentialising attempts proceeded in spite of the death thrashers' anti-essentialist gestures elsewhere.
To test this prediction we proceeded to investigate the impact of informativeness features selectively.
The severity of famine gradually increased in the east which slowly proceeded from west through the decades.
Each family then proceeded to construct upon the modest plot its own home out of its own resources and according to its particular needs.
The point from which the commission proceeded was that it is.
The work proceeded with bulldozers and manual labour.
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