Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [conj] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was run then by Henry Thomas , who owned this and a number of other local mills . |
| 2 | But when the Assembly met for its first session on 5 January 1918 it immediately became clear that a majority of the deputies were hostile to the government and the Assembly was forcibly disbanded . |
| 3 | Furthermore , it became clear that a number of the parties would be arriving some time before the three days set aside for the conference , thus giving themselves time to prepare their ground and gauge the mood of fellow guests , though their exact arrival dates were , again , uncertain . |
| 4 | In the extensive research undertaken for the book it became clear that a number of particular issues posed the greatest challenges to potential returners and to prospective employers . |
| 5 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 6 | But it seemed likely that a scandal of some sort would eventually break . |
| 7 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 8 | A recent survey of the plight of peasants by China 's Economic Daily showed that taxes and fees consumed less than a quarter of their average incomes , compared with the 35-40% Mrs Fu claims . |
| 9 | The director had a knack of giving elegant voice to exactly the thought that was currently in poorish shape at the back of Arthur 's head , and this was infuriating , though to feel resentment at having your skull so stylishly looted seemed small-minded and a blunder of taste . |
| 10 | Peacock scored more than a quarter of United 's goals last season — many of them from midfield . |
| 11 | The door of the tavern banged open and a crowd of men entered with rain sheening their steel helms and the mail shirts under their cloaks . |
| 12 | It hardly seemed fair that a kid of — what would she be ? |
| 13 | The form of the elevated blood pressure may be isolated systolic , isolated diastolic or a combination of both . |
| 14 | I made sure that a couple of books were left at home so that there was more room . |
| 15 | A weekly competition at DPR awarded 1100 and a bottle of champagne to the AE who got in the largest amount of money over the five days . |
| 16 | Sadly , he enjoyed less than a year of his retirement before he died in February 1973 . |
| 17 | This phenomenon is even more marked in the case of the SDP/Liberal Alliance : in 1983 it achieved more than a quarter of the votes cast in the general election , yet won only 3.5% of the seats in Parliament . |
| 18 | The door behind him swung open and a blast of chill air swept into the room . |
| 19 | More important , James IV lived in what J. R. Hale has described as a new age — the age when European wars became more than a matter of ‘ violent housekeeping ’ . |
| 20 | The Oxford-based charity Oxfam made more than a quarter of a million pounds last year from second-hand and home-made toys . |
| 21 | Some 16 per cent of trees lost more than a quarter of their leaves or needles last year , although Swiss forests are better off than their German neighbours , where the figure was 27 per cent [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 22 | With the engines as well , this train covered more than a quarter of a mile standing still . |
| 23 | In the 1960s it became apparent that a revision of the features was needed , and the new set was introduced in Chomsky and Halle ( 1968 ) , pp.293–329 , rather pretentiously called ‘ The Universal Set of Phonetic Features ’ . |
| 24 | It also became apparent that a means of removing hardness salts in water was necessary , particularly for steam raising boilers . |
| 25 | At the prearranged signal the screen went dark and a beam of light shone out from above , spot-lighting the table and the map on the far side of the room . |
| 26 | Suddenly the skip , even though it was empty , felt heavier than a cartload of corpses being heaved off a battlefield . |
| 27 | With Oliver Cromwell 's approval he took his seat on 7 February , bringing his legal and administrative experience to the task , and he attended all but a handful of recorded meetings between 7 February and 5 December . |
| 28 | Zambia achieved political independence without a prolonged conflict , but in Zimbabwe it took more than a decade of military and political struggle to overthrow white minority rule . |
| 29 | Branson 's standing joke that ‘ I believe in benevolent dictatorships — provided I 'm the dictator ’ contained more than a germ of truth . |
| 30 | Three people have been charged with handling stolen goods after police seized more than a quarter of million pounds worth of luxury cars hidden in farm buildings . |