Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I was twenty years old and had had some success in college debating societies , this possibility did not strike me as remote . |
| 2 | The kindness of Cinzia Miletti 's heart was a quality Zen had considerable difficulty in imagining where Ivy Cook was concerned , but he found it easy enough to believe that in her husband 's absence Cinzia had been feeling bored and had welcomed any excuse for going into Perugia . |
| 3 | She was menopausal and had begun hot flashes 18mths previously and took Dixarit . |
| 4 | In the UK , as compared with the state planning and support of enterprises carried out in , say , Japan and France , these state policies were half-hearted and failed to generate high rates of industrial growth by international standards . |
| 5 | The parents contended that the shortest route in the case of their 12-year-old daughter was not truly ‘ available ’ because it was isolated and unlit and involved crossing difficult terrain . |
| 6 | He patted a paunch that had swelled considerably since Gentle had last seen him , and was testing the seams of his shirt , which , like him , was florid and had seen better years . |
| 7 | He sounded coherent , but he was too ill and doped to have any idea what he was saying . |
| 8 | Telegrams calling for a substitute teacher at very short notice in some far flung place were not unusual and had to receive prompt attention . |
| 9 | She tried out the new offices , did not find them satisfactory and left claiming unfair dismissal . |
| 10 | It is possible , in response to these apparent counter-examples to a context-independent notion of linguistic competence , simply to retreat : the rules can be left unconstrained and allowed to generate unacceptable sentences , and a performance theory of pragmatics assigned the job of filtering out the acceptable sentences . |
| 11 | ‘ On reporting , ’ he recalled , ‘ I was given a piece of steel ( distorted ) , a hacksaw , a file and a square and told to make two sides square , which I quickly did . ’ |
| 12 | She found the whole thing very embarrassing and had tried several times to back out of it , but Felipe would not hear of such a thing . |
| 13 | He looked around from force of habit , but the spooks from the Mukhabarat were too disorganized and demoralized to pay any attention to a couple of middle-aged men crouched over a whisky . |
| 14 | The Committee decided that the law required thorough overhauling because it was complex and failed to tackle several instances of dishonest dealing with property . |
| 15 | Donald Findlay , QC , defending , said that Sommerville bitterly regretted his folly at becoming involved and had expressed genuine sorrow , regret and shock at what had happened . |
| 16 | Nevertheless it is an utterance of the Amis who has made himself known on other occasions , and it can be none the worse for being read by those who are able and disposed to pay intelligent attention to this range of information — which is not to imply that the information may not be disastrously misunderstood . |
| 17 | He was too wise and experienced a horseman to attempt to force them to go forward : instead he turned them short and proceeded to plough another stetch . |
| 18 | President , colleagues , I am so proud and honoured to receive this gold badge , more so because this is the award given to me by you President , I do want to thank a number of people I also want to thank the regional secretary , Steve , who thank you , Steven , for your support and guidance . |
| 19 | However , by this time I had outgrown my adolescent appetite for being shocked and had acquired some knowledge of parapsychology . |
| 20 | However , this process requires great care to get it right and not all printers are infallible — indeed , one printer I used was infallibly fallible and had to make three sets of cards when the first set were turned along the short axis and the second set were guillotined along the fold . |
| 21 | Lily had wanted to be kind and had arranged another grouping — herself dressed up again and as many of those originally present as possible . |
| 22 | Of even greater importance , however , the concept united and ordered so many different facets in observable behaviour of the young and claimed to provide such insight and understanding of their physiology and psychology , in particular the significance of ‘ instincts ’ , ‘ emotions ’ , and ‘ habits ’ , that everything about them , including their wage-earning capacity , could be made knowable and manageable . |
| 23 | The mere fact of being on the streets , ill-clothed and ill-fed makes such children criminals in the eyes of the police , and easy targets for death squads . |
| 24 | All the originals are locked to prevent accident but the elements can be ungrouped and manipulated to create new designs or , given a colour system , you can try adjusting the colours of the elements and backgrounds — often ending up with an entirely new feel . |
| 25 | By this he meant that the appeal to revelation upon which Barth laid such emphasis , especially in the 1920s and 1930s , was in the end all too arbitrary and served to evade genuine questions about the basis for theological affirmations . |
| 26 | The Dwarfs retreated from the field claiming that honour was satisfied and refused to answer any Elf petitions for the return of the crown . |
| 27 | Kennedy was understandably wary and disposed to explore other options . |