Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My betrothed asked a question , ’ Philippa demanded . |
| 2 | Representatives from as many relevant agencies as possible met a few times a year , and devised an agreed strategy for the inner area concerned . |
| 3 | Now , I wonder if that made a difference . |
| 4 | That made a pleasant change . |
| 5 | That made a total of six people trying to sell me something . |
| 6 | That made a difference . |
| 7 | They maybe should have been booked for continuing to put the ball in the net … aswell as Lukic maybe not trying to save ( as if that made a difference ; - ) The Wallace incident at maine rd however is a different story . |
| 8 | That argued a very profound knowledge of the royal mind on Hotspur 's part , and an even deeper confidence in its infinite will to justice . |
| 9 | Each slung a tin collecting box over his shoulder and an attendant of the Company carried a receptacle for larger discoveries . |
| 10 | Modernisation of the station took place , and the ‘ Master Cutler ’ , introduced in 1948 became a Pullman train in 1958 , but running via Retford to Kings Cross . |
| 11 | THE THREE party leaders faced their most hostile audience of the election campaign last night when they each endured a 20-minute television grilling from 500 voters . |
| 12 | Each owned a weird splotch of colour in a white and silver frame , painted and framed by a local artist . |
| 13 | Baldwin had intended to resign at once if Labour got a majority and this was still his instinct , but now he retired to Chequers where on 1 June came Davidson , Eyres Monsell , Austen Chamberlain and Hoare . |
| 14 | That got a rapturous round of applause too . |
| 15 | That got a bit hard to take . |
| 16 | Although Labour fought a highly professional and glossy campaign — as in 1987 — it again failed to convince people that the party and Mr Kinnock were ready to govern . |
| 17 | The Consumer Concerns survey carried out by the National Consumer Council ( NCC ) in 1979–80 revealed a quarter of all respondents encountering problems walking in the previous year , over half of which were considered serious . |
| 18 | That produced a form of waste that was hot , highly toxic , radioactive ; that will remain dangerous for hundreds of years and that no-one has yet thought of a way of disposing of ? |
| 19 | Because it is not possible for more than four people to share a freehold , the owners of each of the six units formed themselves into a management company in order to buy the building ; each became a director of the company and was given a 999-year lease of his or her dwelling . |
| 20 | THE LENGTHY battle for control of New York 's cellular telephone franchise took an unexpected turn yesterday as McCaw Cellular announced a $1.9bn deal to acquire the half stake owned by the Metromedia group . |
| 21 | The unfortunate Capel Junior made a terrible hash of things and belted the ball yards over the bar . |
| 22 | After a fine spring , the summer of 1980 became a big disappointment and the weather reached something of a soggy climax for the fifth Test at Headingley . |
| 23 | Vaizey began writing art criticism for the Financial Times in 1970 and was delighted with the rate of 5 guineas an article ; in 1974 she signed a contract with the Sunday Times to produce forty-six articles a year for £4,500 and in 1980 became a staff member with pay pegged to NUJ rates . |
| 24 | A suitable yardstick of good practice has been provided by the OECD , which in its contribution to Road Safety Year in the European Community in 1986 produced a synthesis of road safety research , with aims that included ‘ identifying those safety measures that should be reconsidered in national and international road safety policy formulation . ’ |
| 25 | The pioneering wage data published by Dr Gilboy in 1934 revealed a very different trend in Lancashire after 1750 from that in London and the South . |
| 26 | For Christmas Brown Owl thought it would be a good idea if we each made a Christmas cracker for the children in our local hospital . |
| 27 | They each led a procession , one from the church and one from the school , but with the demise of the iron company and its band these two joined together in one procession . |
| 28 | Each produced a significant shift in course and within a short space of time wrought a substantial transformation in the direction of national policy and popular attitudes . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't you think all those people in 19th-century black playing old-fashioned music are irrelevant ? ’ one trend-setter asked a dedicated 17-year-old who was pouring her soul into a French horn . |
| 30 | An elected National Development Council ( CND ) , which in 1986 drafted a national charter to serve as the basis for a new Constitution , was superseded by a National Assembly elected in December 1989 , when the CND assumed the role of an economic and social council . |