Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But oddly enough , this failed to translate into a blistering network performance . |
| 2 | He saw a shadow moving through the kitchen window , and half turned to break into a shambling run . |
| 3 | Although this had begun as a joint Anglo-French operation , Britain had withdrawn her forces , leaving the French either to carry on alone or to withdraw . |
| 4 | This had led to a lengthy series of negotiations over the sort of contracts which should bind printers in his new plant . |
| 5 | This had led in a good deal of theology and piety to a concentration of attention on a vaguely unitarian ‘ God ’ , loosely identified with the Father , and to increasing difficulties in connecting that up in any coherent way with either the Trinity or the incarnation . |
| 6 | There has been a substantial cutback in the direct labour scheme operated by the Housing Executive ( NIHE ) ; this had resulted in an increased usage of contract firms . |
| 7 | As we have seen , this had occurred on a small but steady scale since pre-Roman times but new pressures forced a rapid growth in the sixteenth century . |
| 8 | This had originated in a Cossack military formation which withdrew from Russia to Yugoslavia at the end of the Russian Civil War in 1920 . |
| 9 | Partly because of French opposition to closer US-European links , the US abandoned this plan at the end of 1964 and in December the Six managed to agree on an important element of the CAP common cereal prices . |
| 10 | 1991 had benefited from a temporary lag in the fall of product prices compared with feedstock costs , in the period immediately following the Gulf crisis . |
| 11 | ‘ 57 people volunteered to visit an elderly person on Christmas day , 47 wished to visit on a regular basis ’ . |
| 12 | The low fertility families in social class III had courted for a long time , decided carefully about marriage , moved house seldom , and tended to be upwardly mobile in their jobs . |
| 13 | His starting point is the fact that we have three classes of receptors in our eyes , each tuned to respond to a different wavelength of light , one to ‘ red ’ , one to ‘ green ’ , and one to ‘ blue ’ . |
| 14 | Within a few weeks of setting eyes on Judith he had managed to supersede Zacharias in her affections , and the three had dwindled to a blissful two . |
| 15 | The AE at such firms as these had to get in a minimum number of clients per week . |
| 16 | Thus glagolitic became known as a Croatian script , although its origins were in Macedonia . |
| 17 | All were down on their luck , all had been drinking and all had decided on an easy way out . |
| 18 | Scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have said that the so-called ‘ Concorde ’ trial confirms what many had felt for a long time , namely that AZT taken on its own is likely to be limited in delaying the onset of AIDS . |
| 19 | He set up Whiddett for a header just wide of the mark before being booked with Ecchinswell 's Dean Nelson for retaliating after the latter had put in a late tackle . |
| 20 | As was often common after breech births , the afterbirth had not come away as it should have done , and Effie had been so torn during the birth , Dr Neil told her later , that she had started to bleed , and then the bleeding had turned into a violent haemorrhaging , the passage of the afterbirth completing the damage already done to Effie 's poor little body . |
| 21 | The human rights organization Amnesty International had called for a full investigation of the incident , thought to have been a reprisal for recent attacks by the rebel Popular Front for the Liberation of Azawad , which marked the collapse of a peace agreement signed in January 1991 [ see p. 37947 ] . |
| 22 | This is revealed in the latest figures from Barclays Bank , which said that sterling 's 15 per cent devaluation and the 4 per cent fall in interest rates following the UK 's withdrawal from the exchange rate mechanism in September 1992 had led to a sharp increase in business confidence in manufacturing in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 23 | i longed for my muse to appear and scatter the philistines with a wave of her magic wand , her third , all-seeing eye , but i made do with a scented geisha … |
| 24 | The SNS chairman Vitazoslav Moric , who on Oct. 25 had called for a civil disobedience campaign against the language law , was in consequence recalled from the Federal Assembly Presidium by the deputies on Nov. 26 . |
| 25 | This is , of course , no new process : rural depopulation first became identified as a social problem in the middle of the last century . |
| 26 | Six had minor gunshot wounds , the seventh had tripped over a fallen tree and broken an arm . |
| 27 | The year 1987 had arrived on a high note , but possibly a dangerous one . |
| 28 | Rupert Brooke died of blood poisoning en route to the Dardanelles where 25,000 Australian and New Zealand troops were killed , 76,000 were wounded and 13,000 reported missing in a bungled and mismanaged expedition against the Turks . |
| 29 | Her tables show that 16 per cent of the households containing a married couple with a partner aged 65–74 in 1971 and 23.5 per cent of married couple households with a partner aged 75 and over in 1971 had dissolved to a lone person household by 1981 . |
| 30 | In January 1990 the Senior Minister of Finance , Carl Greenidge , stated that the loss of earnings resulting from the strikes in the bauxite and sugar industries in April and May 1989 had contributed to an additional $20,000,000 in arrears , as yet not covered by pledges from the support group . |