Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made the Irish Sea the most radioactive stretch of water in the world . |
| 2 | Each time he was about to embark on a new affair , he bought Jessica an expensive present — as if that made the whole thing right . |
| 3 | The Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 restated the criminal offence of ‘ watching or besetting ’ but excluded from that activity ‘ attending at or near the house or place where a person resides , or works , or carries on business , or happens to be … in order merely to obtain or communicate information ’ . |
| 4 | He put money into the Scots Observer ( which in 1891 became the London-based National Observer ) . |
| 5 | At a time when important people wore swords as a matter of course , the assumption that the strong ruled the weak was natural enough . |
| 6 | Any trimming should be done in mid-spring , very lightly so as not to cut into growth older than that produced the previous year . |
| 7 | Norman Cruickshank , Cleghorn , Lanark , chairman of the society , told members and guests at the annual general meeting in Carlisle last week that that demonstrated the continuing confidence of members in the long-term future of the breed — and the success of the carcase breed in meeting the demand from butchers for quality carcases and the demand from consumers for lean , tender and succulent beef . |
| 8 | ‘ The strong helped the weak , then the weak helped the strong , ’ said Noel and Sylvia Dunne . |
| 9 | That stopped the pleasant floating . |
| 10 | He was educated at private schools in Kew and Maida Vale , and in 1866 entered the Royal College of Chemistry , presided over by Dr Edward Frankland . |
| 11 | A change of government in 1948 found the new administration equally committed to health reform . |
| 12 | ‘ The strong helped the weak , then the weak helped the strong , ’ said Noel and Sylvia Dunne . |
| 13 | In turn , each caught the other , avid in front of the cheval looking-glass , tilting on its mahogany frame ; their reflections lighted by the obscure flattery of fresh candles in swivelling brass holders . |
| 14 | One set wore the same number of rings , another shared the curious habit of flushing the lavatory before using it while others married on the same day , had the same jobs and had spouses of the same name . |
| 15 | This became the necessary London correspondent and support of the quite prosperous Taylors & Lloyds . |
| 16 | This became the Working Committee of the UGCC , but Nkrumah rapidly discovered that there was little else : there were only two branches , both inactive . |
| 17 | After his retirement this became the well-known pianoforte manufacturing firm of Collard & Collard . |
| 18 | The state of continual fear which Hobbes attributed to natural man outside society was , for Vico , a characteristic of emergent civilized man inside society , and this became the generative source for much of human culture . |
| 19 | This became the organizational , intellectual and social centre of the BUF . |
| 20 | After the war this became the British section of the Women 's International League for Peace and Freedom , a transnational organization which exists to this day . |
| 21 | Another asked the National Pharmaceutical Association , which said that there is no medicinal product licensed for sale but referred to one small firm 's product , a 400 µg folic acid tablet , licensed only as a food supplement . |
| 22 | They were imitated by their elders and again , the novel behaviour of the few became the accepted behaviour of the group . |
| 23 | It was certainly far being in evidence in 1992 , the season that the Fighting Irish of old became the Docile Irish . |
| 24 | This eclipsed the previous best sale achieved by the magazine with the Wales Centenary issue of October 1980 by some 23,000 . |
| 25 | It was Matilda , the only offspring of this marriage , who in 1181–2 became the unwitting cause of what the chronicler of the Limousin , Geoffrey de Vigeois , called " a great calamity for our country " . |
| 26 | The more he thought about schoolgirls , the more distasteful became the forty-year-old debs that his mother had lined up for him . |
| 27 | The low-energy predictions of this theory have agreed remarkably well with observation , and this led the Swedish Academy in 1979 to award the Nobel Prize in physics to Salam , Weinberg , and Sheldon Glashow , who had also constructed similar unified theories . |
| 28 | This led the Chilean Communist party to lose substantial support by its opposition to the short-lived Socialist Republic declared by Colonel Marmaduke Grove in June 1932 . |
| 29 | The decision may certainly be said to be out of line with the recent trend , that a defendant should be judged on the facts as he believes them to be ; and this led the Criminal Law Revision Committee to recommend that the rules should be harmonized and that the prosecution should prove that the man realized that the girl was under 16 . |
| 30 | This led the Indian judge in the Tokyo tribunal to issue a detailed and lengthy dissenting judgment , in which he asserted that the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was itself a war crime ( Pal , 1953 ) . |