Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Representatives from as many relevant agencies as possible met a few times a year , and devised an agreed strategy for the inner area concerned . |
| 2 | That made a pleasant change . |
| 3 | THE THREE party leaders faced their most hostile audience of the election campaign last night when they each endured a 20-minute television grilling from 500 voters . |
| 4 | Each owned a weird splotch of colour in a white and silver frame , painted and framed by a local artist . |
| 5 | That got a rapturous round of applause too . |
| 6 | The unfortunate Capel Junior made a terrible hash of things and belted the ball yards over the bar . |
| 7 | After a fine spring , the summer of 1980 became a big disappointment and the weather reached something of a soggy climax for the fifth Test at Headingley . |
| 8 | Each produced a significant shift in course and within a short space of time wrought a substantial transformation in the direction of national policy and popular attitudes . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't you think all those people in 19th-century black playing old-fashioned music are irrelevant ? ’ one trend-setter asked a dedicated 17-year-old who was pouring her soul into a French horn . |
| 10 | An elected National Development Council ( CND ) , which in 1986 drafted a national charter to serve as the basis for a new Constitution , was superseded by a National Assembly elected in December 1989 , when the CND assumed the role of an economic and social council . |
| 11 | An elected National Development Council ( CND ) in 1986 drafted a national charter to serve as the basis for a new Constitution which was adopted by referendum in September 1989 . |
| 12 | That became a public-relations disaster when anti-American mullahs grabbed power there . |
| 13 | That became a famous story , where they almost cancelled the record because they thought the Manson Family were after them or something ! |
| 14 | He looked at the other screens : each provided a different perspective of the same scene . |
| 15 | That drew a fiery glare from her and more resonant chuckles from the golden man , until — flushed and annoyed as well as uneasy — I got the floater away from there . |
| 16 | That created a little space and I just hit the ball . |
| 17 | That created a private right in Mrs. Keyte . |
| 18 | Does that beat a full house ? |
| 19 | That involved a fair amount of travel . |
| 20 | But I think the political climate on that changed a few years ago , when there was the big influx of heroin onto the market … . |
| 21 | That provided a large data set based on face-to-face interviews , self-completion questionnaires and physical surveys . |
| 22 | Mr Welt and Mr Walpit each built a special cage for the Bookman . |
| 23 | Mick Dunne landed three weighing 3lb 14ozs , 3lbs and 2lbs on a Bibio , and Mick Yeats and Sean Morgan each used a Black Pennell to take trout of 3lb 4ozs and 3lb 12ozs respectively . |
| 24 | The British produced a remarkable variety of stations in West Africa , all faithfully recorded in the photographic collection of the Crown Agents who were closely involved in their building . |
| 25 | Marko in real life succeeded his father as ruler of Prilep , but after 1385 became a Turkish vassal , served in the Turkish army during the battle of Kosovo , and was probably killed fighting for the Turks at Rovine in 1395 . |
| 26 | In the summer of the same year ( 1356 ) the English planned a threefold attack on France . |
| 27 | A few made a short journey , for most privately owned butchers , there were still over twenty of them in the city , operated their own slaughterhouses . |
| 28 | The British became a dominant influence in Persian life during the nineteenth century ; but to this day many Persians believe that Britain merely exploited Persia for the sake of India throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 29 | This became a forward base for the NPFL , and reports told of ships being diverted to Buchanan and their cargoes used to replenish the rebel supplies . |
| 30 | Dymo decided to change its approach before this became a serious issue . |