Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In official games , Platt has been on the mark twice in 13 appearances for the Italian giants and that represents a dramatic decline in his career ratio . |
| 2 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The main ‘ mistakes ’ were : the Communist Party 's forcible suppression of opposition in 1948 to establish a political dictatorship in Hungary ; the Stalinist era 's ‘ unrealistic pace of military preparation , ill-conceived industrialisation and the forced collectivisation ’ ; Stalinist ‘ harassment of millions of people , the mass violation of rights and intimidation ’ ; the violent Soviet suppression of the 1956 Hungarian revolt , which is now now officially defined as a popular uprising ; and the party 's inability from the mid-1970s to continue the decentralisation of economic reforms launched in 1968 . |
| 5 | That created a private right in Mrs. Keyte . |
| 6 | There are at least three different types of screw threaded necks on bottles , and each needs a specific closure in order to form a seal with the top of the bottle , otherwise the bottle leaks . |
| 7 | Where liability is admitted , or it is acknowledged that liability is likely to be established , then it may be sensible to try and agree an interim payment because it will probably be possible to secure a lower sum in interim damages than would be awarded by the Court if matters were so to proceed . |
| 8 | From the surviving documentation , annotations on meeting papers , careful notes made of verbal exchanges and copies of correspondence it is possible to reconstruct the broad sequence of events and the serial proposals and counter-proposals which marked a period of intensive and difficult negotiation with neither side being prepared to risk an open breach in relationships which would have been publicly damaging . |
| 9 | The British became a dominant influence in Persian life during the nineteenth century ; but to this day many Persians believe that Britain merely exploited Persia for the sake of India throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 10 | Green also made much of Claude 's ‘ Air ’ and this became a paramount feature in the Ambleside painter 's work . |
| 11 | She was told that there was slippage of some support among backbenchers ; that the 1922 Executive was divided , with some preferring a wider choice in the second round ; and that there was some disquiet in the Cabinet . |
| 12 | Lethal Weapon 2 got a U certificate in France , but the British censor would n't even pass it for over-18s without some of the violence being cut . |
| 13 | The Committee was prepared to support a similar event in 1993 if this was agreed . |
| 14 | Most of the contending candidates for the presidential nomination and 18 of the 30 state governors indicated that they were prepared to support a limited delay in the establishment of a civilian adminstration in order to ensure a smooth of handover of power . |
| 15 | Morrison East with sales of $41 million , closed 312 homes an sold 427 reflecting a substantial improvement in its sales rates and the popularity of its products . |
| 16 | At the negotiations , the English made an important concession in saying that the claim to the French crown might be traded for a sovereign Normandy . |
| 17 | Accumulating data indicate that heterozygosity at codon 129 plays an important part in the phenotypic expression of familial prion diseases . |
| 18 | This plays a vital part in achieving results and the weight of clubhead will be relevant to the flexibility of the shaft . |
| 19 | The introduction of inflationary expectations into the Phillips relationship created what is known as the expectations-augmented Phillips curve and this plays an important role in the monetarist approach to inflation . |
| 20 | Coming from an administration whose leader laid claim to effective action on global issues such as the hole in the ozone layer and the greenhouse effect ( see Chapter 11 ) , this revealed a remarkable weakness in the position of the DoE . |
| 21 | This involves a major change in shape , for the cells that will form the gut are a small patch on the outside and so must move inwards ; this infolding of the wall will move right across the hollow interior to meet the wall on the other side where the mouth will form . |
| 22 | This involves a slight drop in picture quality , but the copying can be done as a part of the editing routine ( see page 82 ) and the loss in quality is then offset by improvements in presentation that editing inevitably brings . |
| 23 | This involves a medical solution in so far as GPs seek medical care in a hospital environment . |
| 24 | This produced a spectacular decline in the number of birds successfully reared and eventually in the total population of adult birds . |
| 25 | This made a promising start in preparing a report for publication during 1993 . |
| 26 | This represents a great achievement in the middle of a recession and says much for the hard work of everyone involved . |
| 27 | This represents a new departure in both the study of public transport operators and the derivation and application of concepts relevant to organisation studies . |
| 28 | Complementary evidence that this represents a wider shift in management practice , not confined to one country , company or sector , is drawn from published accounts of similar developments elsewhere . |
| 29 | Reported rapes have increased considerably in the 1980s , but it is difficult to tell to what extent this represents a real increase in the number of rapes or an increase in the reporting of them . |
| 30 | For many couples , this represents a real saving in tax , in consequence of a wife 's income no longer being aggregated with that of her husband . |