Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Despite the broad similarities of the changed market conditions which impelled organizational change , Pilkingtons , RX and Ford each pursued distinctive change strategies . |
| 32 | 8.4 REPORTED SEXUAL ASSAULTS |
| 33 | Burns and Lockhart each provided ten works , and Wordsworth four . |
| 34 | Ten years ago , only one young person in eight entered higher education . |
| 35 | Though we each traced individual patterns in our cars , the range of experiences and purposes ( shopping , going for a drive , getting to work ) gave the ‘ content ’ of our journeys much in common . |
| 36 | The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829 provided further impetus . |
| 37 | The argument is the same as that used 150 years before by Alexander I — and just as impossible for us to test . |
| 38 | Second and third places were shared by J Wing and C Hitchcock who each caught 11 oz . |
| 39 | ‘ Each reported manual handling injury results on average in 20 days off work — estimated at over three million working days per year in total . |
| 40 | ( Medau Soc member ) and I each swam 100 lengths non-stop as ‘ the Medau Duo ’ in the British National Swimathon ( in aid of NSPCC , Red Cross , Spastics , and Sports Council Promoting Sport for People with Disabilities ) and raised £100 each in sponsorship money . |
| 41 | This sold 90,000 holidays in 1984 and claimed 45 per cent of the market . |
| 42 | Others we chatted with when we met them around the grounds , and some became temporary friends who asked us in for coffee or drinks , invitations which we pleasurably returned . |
| 43 | Instead some became tied agents . |
| 44 | Some became active burrowers , tunnelling through the mud in search of food particles . |
| 45 | They were desperate for solid information rather than rumour , and a few made veiled threats to scale down their coverage of another case for which the Yard was desperate for publicity unless there was a press conference . |
| 46 | In short , rapid population growth was a result of poverty and this asked fundamental questions about access and control over the means of production as well as the technical means by which they were developed . |
| 47 | When this became general knowledge later , there was general unease at this way of measuring the background ; the neutron flux 50 metres away from the cell measured for 50 hours could be very different than that at the cell site , even if the cell had been absent , measured for a different 50 hours . |
| 48 | When it became apparent that he must be dead , Casey gave orders to recover the body for proper burial ; this became another item in the wish-lists exchanged with the Iranians . |
| 49 | Reacting to what the government claimed was an unsuccessful military coup against the regime of President Idris Déby on Feb. 21 , the Foreign Minister Mahamat Saleh Hamat on March 2 asked foreign diplomats to ensure that their staff did not " intervene in the internal political affairs of Chad " . |
| 50 | He forgot for a moment that it was pot and thought of nicotine , and then of cancer , cells in delirium , the inroads that living would make one day even on this varnished little icon of the exempt : the flab of tiredness , children , overwork , sitting up too late at night listening to people , indulging buoyant childish appetites as a device to sustain good nature against foreshadows of the senile self . |
| 51 | The French made countless varieties of goats ' milk cheeses which are often small and wrapped in a chestnut leaf and then tied with raffia ( see p67 ) . |
| 52 | Because German opposition was light in this sector , and because the Germans thought that , after their bleeding at Verdun , they were incapable of massed attack , the French made some gains . |
| 53 | In 1990 there were probably around 12,000 CD-ROM drives sold in the U.K. This doubled last year and could rise to over 30,000 this year . |
| 54 | He was helped by Josef Heinsch , who found further alignments , particularly some oriented six degrees north or south of due east , which he called a ‘ solar year line ’ , linking a ‘ holy hill ’ in the west , dedicated to the moon , with a solar site in the east . |
| 55 | The men were close personal friends and after Disraeli 's resignation in 1880 , Salisbury , as he had then become , took over the leadership of the Conservative Party , and in 1885 became Prime Minister as well as Foreign Secretary . |
| 56 | The Premier is desperate to mark his EC presidency with a British led Euro-recovery plan . |
| 57 | Early in the 1950s , Richard Titmuss pointed out that the average working class woman marrying in her teens or early twenties during the 1890s experienced ten pregnancies and spent fifteen years in pregnancy and nursing compared with an average of four years so spent by her counterpart in the years following World War II . |
| 58 | Furthermore , this presumed strong association between crime and social class has been the basis for most of the leading sociological theories of crime . |
| 59 | This led several members of the Congress to question the Assembly 's moral right to initiate political reforms . |
| 60 | This led some writers to suspect that the Third World , like the First World , was not of a piece , but that there might be substantial differences of kind as well as the obvious differences of degree between countries . |