Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] they [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His new Food and Beverage Manager is in favour , but the idea was resisted by the original departmental heads , who made it clear that they preferred the old system . |
| 2 | If indeed they were prehistoric , it is doubtful that they crossed the open downland after the later Bronze Age . |
| 3 | Apart from anything else she was unemployed and they needed the two thousand pounds prize money . |
| 4 | WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1934 , 1962 The Czechoslovaks have only been seen twice in the tournament proper since they reached the 1962 final and on neither occasion were they able to win a match . |
| 5 | Presumably its ancestors were not so different when they shared the marine habitat with the trilobites . |
| 6 | There is documentary evidence that considerable numbers of Garonnais cattle went to England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and it is possible that they influenced the big , yellow-red South Devon . |
| 7 | Conservative politicians were over-confident that they knew the right policies , and to a large extent they were contemptuous towards the professional teacher . |
| 8 | In Merkur Island Shipping Corporation v. Laughton the defendants were in fact given a copy of the charter of the trapped vessel before the application for an injunction , but the House of Lords held that they had the requisite knowledge independently of this . |
| 9 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
| 10 | Russianization was pointless while they kept the lower orders in their place and went on providing generals for the Russian army . |
| 11 | Corbett urged him to keep quiet and was more than relieved when they entered the narrow , winding , rutted streets of Leith and made their way to the small market square . |
| 12 | And it surely is som something that the people of Wiltshire can be glad that they made the right decisions in May , that they have n't got that administration , |
| 13 | The Pentagon must be glad that they added the faint possibility that there was one chance in ten thousand that security might be breached . |
| 14 | Then the Bonn government leaned on Germany 's aerospace industry chiefs so hard that they scrapped the whole event . |
| 15 | She said a majority of women had voted Tory since they got the right to vote , but a profound shift was now taking place . |
| 16 | Paula was tense as they approached the German frontier post beyond Echternach in Luxembourg . |
| 17 | There was some light left as they motored the few miles to The Towers . |
| 18 | Much emphasis was put on the importance of identifying the key decision-takers and making sure that they had the right information — much was made of the necessity of their getting a balanced picture on which to take their decisions . |
| 19 | From the nut up is unmistakably PRS , and while one or two people around the office were n't sure if they liked the standard PRS headstock shape on this design I think it looks fine , instantly identifying the instrument . |
| 20 | In the 1920s , the incidents were a little more prosaic — but useful if they gave the patrolling constable something to chuckle over for an hour or two . |
| 21 | Well yeah the wind fell but I 'm not really sure whether they went the next day or the day after that I ca n't remember . |
| 22 | It was late when they reached the great house , but the moon was full , and the night air was warm and still . |
| 23 | Margaret had to be anaesthetised for the birth , and she was hardly well when they sent the two of them home . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , another option became available to the poor as they joined the growing number of emigrants to the New World . |
| 25 | Market researchers were astounded when they took the thick green liquid abroad to test the reaction . |
| 26 | As long as they passed the necessary assessments for each course , they would get their degree at the end of three years . |
| 27 | We 'd rather lose some riders than have any dissatisfied because they chose the wrong holiday . |
| 28 | The countryside became more deserted , farmsteads and villages more sparse as they approached the green mass of trees on the far horizon which Corbett knew must be the great Forest of Ettrick . |
| 29 | There is a tacit acceptance that , because men are generally more successful in material terms than women , women could become more successful if they made the same educational choices as men . |
| 30 | Firelight glinted off satiny flesh as they moved , their bodies like molten gold , fluid and changing as they sought the ultimate fusion . |