Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand that the Spanish have made a specific point of seeking to ensure that outcome . |
| 2 | The Centre for the Unemployed has done a great deal for us . |
| 3 | The British had launched a powerful attack , and first Mersa Matruh ( which Mussolini had planned to enter in triumph ) fell , then Bardia and Tobruk . |
| 4 | The French have gone a long way towards providing a road and water supply and members of the ‘ Pater Nostra ’ organisation are studying in Budapest , Vienna and Germany to obtain qualifications in medicine , physiotherapy , occupational therapy and other skills which will enable them to provide the day-to-day care of the residents in the future . |
| 5 | The Japanese have commissioned a British company to build a replica Elizabethan village to help its students appreciate English culture . |
| 6 | The accused had fixed a new glass fibre wing on his car the day after the accident , and he said he could n't remember what he 'd done with the old one . |
| 7 | The Chinese have maintained a stable agriculture for 4,000 years and feed more than four times as many people per acre as we do . |
| 8 | But at least the issue is now more lively and from 1974 the disabled have had a special Minister for the Disabled , at the Department of Social Security , to champion their cause and coordinate provision for their needs . |
| 9 | The 17 exhibitors at the fair had bought a mixed bag of drawings , spanning centuries and price ranges . |
| 10 | The Nationwide has announced a five-year deal but at the higher fixed rate of 8.29 per cent , available on a repayment or endowment , but not interest-only basis . |
| 11 | The Northern has obtained a confidential report written by the authority 's director of estates Graham Oak . |
| 12 | The Portuguese had built a public gallows adjacent to the shrine 's tank , which itself survived until 1805 . |
| 13 | In one feeding centre the room for the dead had become a Koranic school for young children . |