Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tempted the women by treats and presents , and when that failed by psychological means . |
| 2 | Dressed in a sea-blue gown with matching head-dress , each studded with small mother-of-pearls , she looked so beautiful ! |
| 3 | Ten people lived on ordinary wards at the beginning of the study , and eight lived in special units reserved for those with the most challenging behaviour . |
| 4 | Attempts to identify a murine homologue of LFA-3 led to the unexpected finding that mouse CD2 interacts with a different molecule , BCM1 ( CD48 ) 49 . |
| 5 | The Dolgarrog Dam disaster of 1925 led to the passing of this legislation . |
| 6 | In recent times gilt has been widely used to create the effect of gold , but during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a fashion in Europe for silver thrones , like that made for the coronation of the Queen of Denmark in 1731 . |
| 7 | By making crowns of the most precious metal , gold ( and in the case of that made for Queen Alexandra platinum ) , and setting them with the most resplendent stones available , a combination of the most precious substances proclaimed the supremacy of the state and its titular head . |
| 8 | A journey to the capital in the late 18th century can scarcely have been as harrowing an affair as that made to Kent by William the Emigrant in 1711 . |
| 9 | He turns to his deputy and says , ‘ Is that made of steel ? ’ |
| 10 | Can any conductor , though , be said to have made the same impact on recent musical history as that made by Bach or Beethoven or Wagner in the past ? |
| 11 | Current proposals for further action have yet to be implemented , including that made by John Major ( as chancellor of the exchequer ) at last September 's Commonwealth meeting of finance ministers . |
| 12 | However , this was a different point to that made by Minister for the Disabled , Nicholas Scott , who commented that it was unwise to view all older people in the survey as disabled because ‘ … many consider the relatively minor limitations of hearing vision or movement recorded by the survey as in fact normal for their age . ’ |
| 13 | When she lowered herself into the chair , there was a loud squelching noise similar to that made by a hippopotamus when lowering its foot into the mud on the banks of the Limpopo River . |
| 14 | I would allow the appeal only to such extent as may be necessary to enable the order which , in a changed situation , this court made on 30 June to be substituted for that made by Thorpe J. |
| 15 | One would go too far in saying that by Civizade 's time a scholar could achieve greatness solely through office ; but at the least , such a distinction as that made by Karamani Mehmed Pasa had become almost impossible to make , since greatness ' and " office " had grown so closely intertwined as to be inseparable . |
| 16 | For example , the tin-glazed pottery made in Europe from the Renaissance onwards was produced in many styles : that made in the Low Countries ( known as Delftware ) is of a specific range and type which varies from one production centre to another and is different again from the maiolica of Italy and the lustreware of Spain . |
| 17 | The distinction is analogous to that made in chapter 6 with respect to the unemployed — the number of new people who join the claimant count ( the flow ) versus the number unemployed at any one time ( the stock ) — and in chapter 5 with respect to income versus wealth . |
| 18 | Every buyer , lessee and mortgagee of property bounded by or adjacent to a canal should search before exchange of contracts by letter , with a plan , for information similar to that sought in the case of rivers . |
| 19 | He said LIFE did not support direct action either to prevent abortions by camping outside clinics to stop women entering or by bringing prosecutions like that sought by Father Morrow . |
| 20 | The view taken was that in order to get the best allocation of investible resources between public and private industries , the discount rate used in the public sector should be similar to the return which private firms would consider acceptable on new investment … it seemed sensible to set a rate for public enterprises which corresponds broadly with that sought by large private firms of good standing engaged in low-risk business . |
| 21 | The rise to power of Saddam Hussein and the subsequent outbreak of the Gulf war in 1980 led to a revival of the Iraqi claim to the islands . |
| 22 | Royalty paid by Atkinson & Hall during the years 1759–66 amounted to £403 : 15s . |
| 23 | The artist for this year was Helen Chadwick whose exhibition Of Mutability held at the ICA in 1986 led to her nomination for the Turner Prize in 1987/ The critic selector was Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton , formerly editor of Artscribe International . |
| 24 | But the Brazilian debt crisis in December 1986 led to a collapse in the perpetual FRN market . |
| 25 | There were no windows ; only skylights , each spattered with rain drops and lined with little rivulets of running water . |
| 26 | This means that in most ( almost all ) cases the Provisional Banding notified in December 1992 will be the same as that notified on the Demand in April 1993 . |
| 27 | From the outset of the march , the demonstrators observed a different route to that notified to the police . |
| 28 | Teachers in ‘ difficult ’ schools received an extra 75 annually ( as against 120 recommended by Plowden ) . |
| 29 | Three raids alone in 1736 led to the loss of 1,026 head of cattle . |
| 30 | If your sum insured is less than that recommended for your type of home , we strongly recommend that you increase it . |