Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made perfect sense of Miss Julie 's slightly tatty and irregular patrician origins . |
| 2 | I 'd have them all on if I needed a confidence boost , or just for the sheer enjoyment of the sound , but it was fundamentally one AC30 that made that noise . |
| 3 | That made some sort of sense . |
| 4 | Bragad had brought quite a few men with him — a dozen or so though some , of course , were Mugeary 's , if that made any difference . |
| 5 | In fact we made rubber stamps for people in the office — the departments to go in , the bureau , and the stamp was the J because they were all photostated to that made this stamp just loved it . |
| 6 | Cinema-going was also increasing , with 101 million tickets the highest figure since 1980 sold last year . |
| 7 | A faint smell , alien yet horribly familiar ; the sense of a recent presence ; the possible significance of that unlocked outer door ; the dark passageway . |
| 8 | Bills completed by 1980 laid special emphasis on recycling and energy conversion . |
| 9 | On 21 January the Communists numbering up to 3000 made another assault on the Secretariat and were again repulsed . |
| 10 | The course of agricultural and industrial development between 1919 and 1935 produced abundant evidence that Japan was closely tied to the fluctuations of the world economy and highly constrained in the resources at her disposal during a period of growing protectionism . |
| 11 | In the soft turf she turned his face to lie upon that grazed right cheek , and spread his arms above his head . |
| 12 | Of 32 planned gas-fired power stations , three-quarters are badly designed and likely to waste more than half the gas they use . |
| 13 | From that sprung another dilemma . |
| 14 | Patrick made sure the porter and the bell-boy each got another packet of Kent King Size . |
| 15 | Some of the exchanges were rather less thoughtful : eat the rich read one window , kill the poor replied another . |
| 16 | They each became Prime Minister after serving in two of the great offices of state . |
| 17 | Paris-based software and computer services company Generale de Service Informatique SA , or GSI , as it is better known , reported 1992 revenues up 8% to the equivalent of $460m , a rate of increase only half of that registered that year . |
| 18 | A potential failure of contraception had been recognised by 171 patients : 93 reported a split or leaking condom ; 13 reported a condom coming off during intercourse ; 32 admitted inconsistent use of condoms ; 32 reported forgetting to take contraceptive pills or taking antibiotics concurrently with the pill ; and one reported a late injection of medroxyprogesterone acetate . |
| 19 | Nick Skelton , on Burmah Serenade , and Germany 's Franke Sloothaak , on Walzerkoenig , could have taken the prize , for the rider clearing the highest course , but each made one error . |
| 20 | He was so very familiar on the streets of the town , with that zipped yellow jacket and his jeans , yet be looked like something from another world in the garden . |
| 21 | Sorry got some money in there , OK oh do your ballerina bit , we 'll have to wash your face , yeah it 's filthy , filthy face , breakfast face oh that 's that new twins is n't it ? |
| 22 | Somewhere in that clouded black sky there was a moon due to rise very soon now . |
| 23 | Despite the broad similarities of the changed market conditions which impelled organizational change , Pilkingtons , RX and Ford each pursued distinctive change strategies . |
| 24 | Ten years ago , only one young person in eight entered higher education . |
| 25 | The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829 provided further impetus . |
| 26 | ‘ Each reported manual handling injury results on average in 20 days off work — estimated at over three million working days per year in total . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |