Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't until the fourth hide was reached that I met that extraordinary bird , the red-necked phalarope . |
| 2 | So was it any surprise that the Syrians we met that hot day in the Bekaa wanted only to maintain Lebanon 's Maronite-dominated institutions , to restore the sovereignty of the Lebanese government , to stay not one hour , not one minute longer than necessary ? |
| 3 | He also admitted that on the balance of their performances against Brazil , England and Argentina this autumn , his side clearly lacked that extra something . |
| 4 | Even with maximum efficiency , this plan , although otherwise the cheapest , produced 7.6 million tonnes of carbon per year ( see Figure ) . |
| 5 | teacher admitted fifty three victims . |
| 6 | With a strange cock of the head that made Ace certain he was grinning , the figure handed the card to the overweight , elderly man in the sedan chair . |
| 7 | increase , and he doubled that increased salary in the following year . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've got all that additional tension which readers are bound to recognize , ’ burbled that smug art-school voice on the telephone this morning . |
| 9 | In June ninety two the C E C recommended that local authorities manual , building and civil engineering , and engineering craft workers report to one forum for ninety three . |
| 10 | This must put the Canadian health minister in a similar position to Britain 's Kenneth Clarke , when his advisory committee recommended that last year Depo-Provera should get a licence . |
| 11 | And de Gaulle had , on each occasion , made strong personal appeals for a large " yes " vote , implicitly and sometimes explicitly indicating that he would resign if the vote went against him . |
| 12 | We made eight fifty that 's a hundred down but Joyce said their fare was a hundred down as well . |
| 13 | Moore made eight Under-23 appearances and his full debut was in 1962 against Peru . |
| 14 | He made eight consecutive pars , missing putts of 6ft and 4ft for birdies at the second and sixth respectively , before a bogey at the ninth gave him an outward half of 37 and took him back to level par overall . |
| 15 | Keen to work proactively , we asked eight local pharmacists what they could provide for our patients . |
| 16 | In language which retained the authentic ring of Robert Owen , it still sought far-reaching social and political change , ‘ a different order of things , in which the really useful and intelligent part of society only shall have the direction of its affairs ; in which industry and virtue shall meet their just distinction and reward , and vicious idleness its merited contempt and destruction . ’ |
| 17 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 18 | In explaining the fall in mortality , some weight must be given to the increasing wealth of Europe which made possible better feeding and better housing — however slight the improvements may have seemed to the poor . |
| 19 | After the end of the second world war , however , a series of technological developments in farming , preserving , packaging , distributing and presenting foodstuffs made possible radical changes in foodstuff consumption habits . |
| 20 | The Royal Navy created by Henry VIII was manned by merchant seamen who fought the great naval battles which cleared the seas and made possible future trade with the East , while these same seamen , under letters of marque , plundered the bullion and seized the vessels of the enemies of England en route from the New World . |
| 21 | There was , unlike Medieval stone vaults , no lateral thrust and this made possible great vaults such as the Pantheon dome , the largest example in the world . |
| 22 | Both were the direct results of the application of steam to transport , since for the first time in history this made possible regular and safe journeys for large numbers of people and luggage over any kind of terrain and water . |
| 23 | Even more important , the sale of public assets made possible large cuts in taxation in the 1985 and 1986 budgets . |
| 24 | Invented in the late 18th century , it made possible large schools with a wide range of age and ability , that could be run by a small complement of teachers . |
| 25 | Just as there is an imperative to express gratitude formally and publicly to Lord Darlington , who has brought us here and made possible this present spirit of unity and goodwill , there is , I believe , an imperative to openly condemn any who come here to abuse the hospitality of the host , and to spend his energies solely in trying to sow discontent and suspicion . |
| 26 | This practice of employing deputies made possible bureaucratic pluralism . |
| 27 | Murray had a shot stopped on the line and substitute Gary Peebles , one of four Scots in Ronnie McFall 's Tartan Army rattled the bar before Strain applied that 72nd minute coup de grace and Fraser had a goal disallowed for offside . |
| 28 | In March foreigners held 57.2 billion pesos of government paper , more even than Mexicans , who owned 53.5 billion pesos — just half their holdings at the end of 1991 . |
| 29 | Married to Jean Desforges , who became European long jump champion , Pickering leaves a son , Shaun , and daughter Kim . |
| 30 | ‘ A very bright 17-year-old pupil of mine got pregnant last year , the result of a one-night stand at a party . |