Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However corporacy became strained when the acute unit wanted to apply for self-governing status . |
| 2 | The scramble to partition Africa into colonies — made possible once the wide availability of quinine solved the problem of fever — typified this more militaristic phase of imperialism . |
| 3 | The separate Norfolk Red and Suffolk Dun gradually became extinct and the Red Poll was East Anglia 's dominant breed for many years . |
| 4 | ‘ But the smiles and the applause became prolonged when the familiar face stood up to acknowledge his reception like a conquering hero . |
| 5 | Following the defeat of the 1981–86 Socialist government , the new culture minister Fraņois Léotard made clear that the new administration would maintain the r.p.m. system on books — provoking a ringing counter-attack from the Fnac 's then chairman , Michel Baroin , calling for the ‘ spirit of democracy , freedom and consideration for ordinary citizens ’ to prevail . |
| 6 | Census data , for instance , made clear that an increasing proportion of the more numerous national groups had been choosing to live in their ‘ own ’ union republic , with the greatest increases in Central Asia , the Baltic and Armenia ( Russians , by contrast , had become more dispersed throughout the USSR ) . |
| 7 | Finally , it became clear that no preliminary conference would be possible without widening the discussions unduly , and it seemed best to hold bilateral discussions first . |
| 8 | Greeted that evening by our charming host Eduard de Nazelle , Sales Director of Champagne Veuve Cliquot , it soon became clear that a special night lay ahead . |
| 9 | In fact it became clear that a considerable part of the defence was going to be that of justification , that the laws and usages of war permitted reprisals to be taken against hostages . |
| 10 | But it became clear that an outright sale was the best way forward , its spokesman said yesterday . |
| 11 | Twice growing confidence has been dashed ; once in the aftermath of the Jennifer 's Ear broadcast ; then late on Wednesday when it became clear that the crucial poll breakthrough had not , after all , taken place . |
| 12 | With time it became clear that the new region was too distant from Tornsk to be controlled with ease . |
| 13 | It became clear that the relevant government ministers were deliberately hindering the progress of the necessary bill . |
| 14 | A self-consciously strict conventionalist judge would lose interest in legislation and precedent at just the point when it became clear that the explicit extension of these supposed conventions had run out . |
| 15 | The Paris–Bonn axis , it is true , was about to be formalized , with the signing of the Franco-German treaty in January 1963 , but it quickly became clear that the Federal Republic was not willing to make this axis the basis of its foreign policy . |
| 16 | It gradually became clear that the technological sequence was only a broad outline — the real situation was much more complex . |
| 17 | McDaid denied any links with the IRA and withdrew after it became clear that the junior partner in the government , the Progressive Democrats ( PDs ) , would not vote for a reshuffle including him . |
| 18 | The process went so far in Algeria earlier this year that the army cancelled the results of general elections when it became clear that the Islamic Salvation Front would win an overwhelming victory . |
| 19 | However , despite the ingenuity of Shklovsky 's efforts , it became clear that the differential principle behind poetry could not be very extensively or very effectively applied to prose , and the functional opposition had to be constructed on rather different lines . |
| 20 | Also it became clear that the local currency was a problem . |
| 21 | popular anger against inequalities in the distribution of food could be swiftly transferred into a grim determination to defeat the Hun , as became clear when the military stalemate broke in March 1918 . |
| 22 | The man is said to have gone into the post office , brandishing what appeared to be a handgun , then fled empty-handed when the female assistant ran into the rear of the premises . |
| 23 | The man is said to have gone into the post office , brandishing what appeared to be a handgun , then fled empty-handed when the female assistant fled into the rear of the premises . |
| 24 | After a dispute over whether the current agreement would end in 1991 or 1992 , an issue which remained unresolved , the talks quickly became rancorous as the Filipino delegation accused the USA of reneging on a 1988 base review agreement which included a commitment to provide $481,000,000 in annual US aid to the Philippines . |
| 25 | It seemed odd that a military organisation could have the power to change your entire identity . |
| 26 | Thus it seemed clear that the lexical representation used for matching should already include a great deal of information about the word 's possible phonetic realisations . |
| 27 | It was also known that Mrs Thatcher 's closest advisers , Charles Powell and Bernard Ingham , were implicated in the leak , and it seemed improbable that the Prime Minister should have been totally ignorant . |
| 28 | He no longer had men like Harold Nicolson who had accompanied him to Rome , but it seemed likely that the new deputation to Germany might include William Joyce . |
| 29 | As the vote approached , it seemed likely that the favoured version would not actually stop spending if it went over a cap , but merely require a special vote to approve or disapprove it . |
| 30 | It seemed inconceivable that a mere punt trip could end in death . |