Example sentences of "[noun] matched the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If types of industry could be defined more sharply then it seems likely that although by 1970 British industry matched the international pattern , this had occurred as the result of some substantial relative shifts in employment in the UK over the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 2 | The young policeman from Bromley reported that he had seen a young couple whose description matched the wanted pair and they had gone towards the pier . |
| 3 | It was a perfect summer dawn and the red flames matched the red disc of the sun as it rose over the misty hedges . |
| 4 | Fabia awakened and , as she recalled her non-achievement of the previous evening , her mood matched the dull morning . |
| 5 | In contrast , cells in MT only responded when the perceived direction of movement of the chevron matched the preferred direction assessed with simple stimuli . |
| 6 | Historiography arose when an event occurred which in its magnitude matched the greatest events celebrated in legend . |
| 7 | Their end-of-term hilarity matched the bright sky and light frolicking tufts of cloud . |
| 8 | But the home looked directly out upon the life of the High Street and seemed clean and well-run , although its appointments and furnishings by no means matched the magnificent brass door-knocker or the gracious proportions of the house itself . |
| 9 | The pink chintz curtains matched the pink chintz bedspread ; underneath it , prostrate yet fully dressed in a woman 's blouse and man 's dhoti , sprawled the figure of Chaman , the guru of the household . |
| 10 | The note of laughter in his voice matched the rising gurgle in herself and it came over in her voice as she said , ‘ Kitty McKenna ? |
| 11 | Just how little the opening of a new Front in the east matched the widespread desire for a rapid end to the war , and how risky the extension of the conflict was felt to be , can be seen in the admission , a few months later , by Adolf Wagner , Gauleiter of Munich and Upper Bavaria , at a meeting of Party functionaries , that if Hitler had consulted the German people before the start of the war in the east about its readiness for the Russian campaign , the vast majority of the population would have said : ‘ My God , keep your hands off , my dear Adolf Hitler . |