Example sentences of "the [adj] [vb -s] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Centre for the Unemployed has done a great deal for us . |
| 2 | Trading in the second has shown a clear improvement and since Boxing Day sales of fourteen per cent ahead of the previous year . |
| 3 | However , as it was formerly part of the University and wished to revert to that status , the former has merged with University College , Cardiff — with the exception of its Social Work courses and its Higher National Diploma in Institutional Management which have been transferred to the South Glamorgan Institute — and the latter has remained a separate institution . |
| 4 | But the YF-22 has won a long , hard dogfight against its rival prototype , the YF-23 , to become the air force 's next fighter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Northern has obtained a confidential report written by the authority 's director of estates Graham Oak . |
| 7 | Recently the larger of the two has developed a white nodule on its chin . |
| 8 | The so called ‘ new man ’ of the nineties has taken a conscious decision to split childcare with his working wife/partner . |
| 9 | just as the reduced level of import controls during the post Second World War period saw a substantial increase in world trade , so the increasingly liberal attitude to capital controls during the 1980s has seen a marked increase in cross-border investment — both to establish new factories and to engage in takeovers of existing firms . |
| 10 | But the greater professionalism of the top search consultants and their measurable success in the business by the 1980s has influenced a significant number of clients to go beyond a basically negative attitude ; and in the words of one regular user of search , to see headhunting not just as a convenient time and money saver , but as an objective , imaginative , innovative , creative and even indispensable management tool . |