Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is faith in our nation that has made us little people great , that has made us poor people rich , that has made us wavering , fearful , timid people brave and confident , that has made us erring wanderers clear-sighted and has brought us together ! |
| 2 | It is faith in our nation that has made us little people great , that has made us poor people rich , that has made us wavering , fearful , timid people brave and confident , that has made us erring wanderers clear-sighted and has brought us together ! |
| 3 | ‘ All kinds of typographical fireworks are now made possible by computers and that has generated its own trend : if this or that trick can be done , then it soon becomes fashionable to go ahead and do it . |
| 4 | The area cost adjustment which the er government takes out of the total S S A's of some two hundred million has gone to the south-east , I hope none goes to Westminster , and that has cost us one point three million . |
| 5 | This has given me extra motivation for the rest of the season . ’ |
| 6 | This — ’ he waved his hand — ‘ this has given me true inspiration . |
| 7 | They seem to be locked in a time warp but this has become their biggest selling point because , by remaining stubbornly unlike every other manufacturer , their instruments can not fail to be distinctive . |
| 8 | They both limit their coverage to Britain , and this has influenced my own selection of examples ; similar themes to those discussed do occur in other parts of the world . |
| 9 | This has taken me four years and I reckon the Atlantic 's the one to go for.I 'm sure it 's not that difficult . |
| 10 | The first part you need to complete , part A and this has got your personal details bank details it asks about your family details for family benefits and it asks if you are in receipt of any other oth other pensions . |
| 11 | This has transformed my initial excitement to disappointment and I find myself becoming disillusioned with the game to the point of considering giving up playing . |
| 12 | I do not think it can be said that the manner of death is any more horrific than it used to be ( although it may well be different ) but it may be that the way of reporting someone 's death has radically changed and that this has brought its own problems . |
| 13 | The gas fields in the northern part of the N.W. German Basin lie in a region where the coal bearing Carboniferous has reached its deepest level of subsidence at the present time ( Barnard and Cooper 1983 ) . |
| 14 | And even after that high point of drama and inspiration had passed , and the French had launched their successful attack on the Castalians , Protestantism survived in pockets throughout the kingdom ; it was a fallow period , but that in itself would prepare the ground for more spectacular growth . |
| 15 | She was beginning to realise that whatever Lydia felt for Beuno was different in kind from what she had felt for Finn , and this had eased her incipient unhappiness , for while it is one thing not to win the beloved it is another to see him swept off by somebody else , and far , far worse . |
| 16 | If some have found his wicket-keeping style too flashy , others see it as artistic ; he is a naturally graceful man who would be hard put to look clumsy . |
| 17 | He was so naturally modest ( some have described his so-called humility — ‘ the most difficult of Christian virtues ’ , as he put it — as an irritating pose ) that had he been aware of this silent hero-worship , he would no doubt have felt uneasy . |
| 18 | It may be that she commissioned the piece under the influence of the Norman history written for her brother Duke Richard II by Dudo of St Quentin , while some have thought it political propaganda intended to influence events after Cnut 's death . |
| 19 | French state and technocentric-inspired planning have had great successes in both telecommunications and space ; but the British have had their acknowledged successes also — most notably in the broadcasting field , where a traditional consensual policy has been modified step-by-step and channel-by-channel down the decades since 1922 . |
| 20 | Although statistics show that many benefits paid to the old , poor and unemployed have maintained their real value ( ie kept pace with inflation ) under the Conservative government during the 1980s , these calculations are based on the rate of inflation for the average person . |
| 21 | GREAT Yarmouth Cargo Handling Services Limited has moved its operational office from South Denes Marine Base to Ventureforth House — part of a streamlining programme to utilise the administration services of Ventureforth Marine Services Limited . |
| 22 | The poems ' particular mixture of the ordinary and the magical has entranced her many times , as it now entrances the children , whom she does not patronise , as her eyes widen over Elsie 's idleness . |
| 23 | If Christianity is true and if religion affects culture , then non-Christian religions , whose creeds must at some point involve the denial of some aspect of Christian truth , will reveal cultural problems resulting from inconsistencies which are impossible to reconcile given their religious postulates . |
| 24 | Francis , who is delighted to have tied his Swedish star to a new three-and-a-half-year contract , added : ‘ No amount of money would budge Roland from Hillsborough . |
| 25 | The imposition of a severe censorship and the sacking of all hostile editors ( there were almost no spetsy in the press ) immediately upon the seizure of power in October 191 7 had ensured its smooth running from the political and administrative point of view . |
| 26 | The private work she has undertaken in bereavement counselling and nursing the terminally ill has given her intense fulfilment . |
| 27 | YORK City goalkeeper Chris Marples and midfield Shaun Reid , two of the club 's mainstays in the last two seasons , are likely to have played their last games for the club . |
| 28 | Well , I 'm glad to have afforded you some amusement . |
| 29 | Talei said later : ‘ I was thrilled to have found my real parents but I did n't know how I could possibly get out there . ’ |
| 30 | She was never to think of that dream without some of its investing emotions , shame and irritation , even after a man at a party in 1969 had told her such dreams are dreamed typically by those unlikely to fail plausible and real exams . |