Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group expected economic recovery in 1993 . |
| 2 | Looking ahead , Dr Ryan expected economic recovery , together with the cutback in production of aircraft and the retirement of old equipment to bring supply and demand back into balance . |
| 3 | Munich , Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain made enthralling reading in the Manchester but what Mr Douglas remembers was the spirit of friendship offered by the school towards the refugees of the Spanish Civil War and Hitler 's Germany . |
| 4 | During the period 1983-84 to 1989-90 , the scheme assisted 902 projects , disbursed £31.6 million of board funds at constant 1990 prices , and produced total tourism investment of £197.2 million at 1990 prices . |
| 5 | The talks , held on 23–30 October in Montreal , produced total agreement on the need for an international authority to administer civil aviation , or , if that was not possible , a regional operators ' conference . |
| 6 | His Albert gleamed rich gold against the fine cloth of his waistcoat , the fine watch lifted now from its hidden pocket to be scrutinized for the hundredth time , a sure sign that Thomas Grenfell was nervous . |
| 7 | Harold Wilson 's words are remembered today , 25 years after he led Labour back to power , from 13 wilderness years . |
| 8 | Anyway , my ole man 'ad pissed orf an' I was a bit short o' money . |
| 9 | It was found that some of the Scottish women made outstanding progress in French language as a result of this approach . |
| 10 | The local authority , which shared parental responsibility for J. in consequence of a care order made under the Children Act 1989 , obtained leave under section 100 of the Act to invoke the court 's inherent jurisdiction to determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be administered to J. if he were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 11 | By an order dated 30 March 1992 Waite J. granted the local authority 's application under section 100(3) of the Children Act 1989 for leave to invoke the court 's inherent jurisdiction to determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be given to J. , an infant for whom the local authority shared parental responsibility pursuant to a care order made under the Act of 1989 , if he were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 12 | They accordingly obtained leave to invoke the High Court 's inherent jurisdiction and by their summons , directed to W. and to her aunt who shared parental responsibility for her , sought the court 's leave for such transfer and treatment without her consent . |
| 13 | Although laser gain has been observed at a shorter wavelength — 18–2 nanometres by Geoff Pert 's group at the University of Hull — no claims have been made that those experiments produced coherent light ; the emission included radiation generated by other processes . |
| 14 | A society consisting of educated people , like a society of healthy people , made economic sense . |
| 15 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 16 | Another place of worship was built in 1828 for the Methodists but as attendances dwindled in the 1970s it was decided to share with Christ church , a facility which made economic sense . |
| 17 | It also made economic sense , he said . |
| 18 | It made economic sense . |
| 19 | In Britain the revelation that the correspondence of Mazzini , the Italian nationalist leader then a refugee in London , was being opened and read in this way produced strong criticism in parliament and the press . |
| 20 | So , the experiments produced strong evidence of a rhodopsin-like mechanism in the mites ' extraocular receptors . |
| 21 | The first six months produced strong growth in compound feed sales , led by a recovery in pig tonnage and our continued success in the dairy sector . |
| 22 | Several of the calculations which produced low success rates could probably be undertaken with a good deal more success in the actual context concerned . |
| 23 | Questions looking at this sort of relationship , explicitly mentioned in the foundation list , produced low success rates . |
| 24 | Throughout this time , prison staff and managers passed the various ‘ crisis ’ totals , got on with the task , absorbed everyone sent to them by the courts and , somehow , despite a crumbling prison estate , avoided total chaos . |
| 25 | The Romans , too , avoided total absorption in Hellenistic modes of thought , but after all they were politically independent and soon became more powerful than any Hellenistic kingdom . |
| 26 | Paddy Ashdown would certainly agree with Peter Mandelson that the ‘ nudging and winking ’ during the final week of the campaign about a Lib-Lab arrangment made Labour look weak and muddled and John Major principled . |
| 27 | In 1845 Huxtable passed liquid farm manure through a bed of Dorset loam , the emerging liquid being clear and free of any offensive smell . |
| 28 | The organization lacked coherent leadership and purpose and was little more than a patriotic group with a foreign-sounding name . |
| 29 | For the discontented populations , the fact that the state outlawed political opposition and ruthlessly crushed popular uprisings served as a handy , and not altogether unconvincing , alibi for their political conformism . |
| 30 | Brian Pearse FCIB , Deputy Chairman , responded and made strong reference to the need for a return to high standards of banking education . |