Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By making crowns of the most precious metal , gold ( and in the case of that made for Queen Alexandra platinum ) , and setting them with the most resplendent stones available , a combination of the most precious substances proclaimed the supremacy of the state and its titular head . |
| 2 | A journey to the capital in the late 18th century can scarcely have been as harrowing an affair as that made to Kent by William the Emigrant in 1711 . |
| 3 | He turns to his deputy and says , ‘ Is that made of steel ? ’ |
| 4 | However , this was a different point to that made by Minister for the Disabled , Nicholas Scott , who commented that it was unwise to view all older people in the survey as disabled because ‘ … many consider the relatively minor limitations of hearing vision or movement recorded by the survey as in fact normal for their age . ’ |
| 5 | I would allow the appeal only to such extent as may be necessary to enable the order which , in a changed situation , this court made on 30 June to be substituted for that made by Thorpe J. |
| 6 | Can any conductor , though , be said to have made the same impact on recent musical history as that made by Bach or Beethoven or Wagner in the past ? |
| 7 | One would go too far in saying that by Civizade 's time a scholar could achieve greatness solely through office ; but at the least , such a distinction as that made by Karamani Mehmed Pasa had become almost impossible to make , since greatness ' and " office " had grown so closely intertwined as to be inseparable . |
| 8 | Current proposals for further action have yet to be implemented , including that made by John Major ( as chancellor of the exchequer ) at last September 's Commonwealth meeting of finance ministers . |
| 9 | The distinction is analogous to that made in chapter 6 with respect to the unemployed — the number of new people who join the claimant count ( the flow ) versus the number unemployed at any one time ( the stock ) — and in chapter 5 with respect to income versus wealth . |
| 10 | He said LIFE did not support direct action either to prevent abortions by camping outside clinics to stop women entering or by bringing prosecutions like that sought by Father Morrow . |
| 11 | Royalty paid by Atkinson & Hall during the years 1759–66 amounted to £403 : 15s . |
| 12 | There were no windows ; only skylights , each spattered with rain drops and lined with little rivulets of running water . |
| 13 | Teachers in ‘ difficult ’ schools received an extra 75 annually ( as against 120 recommended by Plowden ) . |
| 14 | It envisaged expansion of higher education considerably beyond that recommended by Robbins , whereby student places would be increased to 750,000 by 1981 . |
| 15 | There was no equivalent to the judgement passed in the Garden , or to that passed on Cain in the field howling with his brother 's blood . |
| 16 | The Edmonton plants opened 11 years ago , is the same size as that planned for Corby . |
| 17 | THE CLAY lowlands of southeast England should prove suitable for burying the operating wastes from pressurised-water reactors like that planned for Sizewell , says the National Radiological Protection Board in a report published today ( Thursday ) . |
| 18 | In the SE corner lies a ciborium in the form of a Gothic steeple , perhaps even a model of that planned for St Vitus ' . |
| 19 | A worried Bank of England used the weekend to negotiate for the Portuguese currency to start at a higher level than that planned on Friday , but it clearly was not high enough for the pound . |
| 20 | In the latter case , Lord Diplock pointed out , at pp. 382–383 , that the decision in Anisminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission [ 1969 ] 2 A.C. 147 applied to decisions of administrative tribunals or other administrative bodies made under statutory powers : in those cases there was a presumption that the statute conferring the power did not intend the administrative body to be the final arbiter of questions of law . |
| 21 | YOUR income for 1991-92 amounted to £5,820 before tax . |
| 22 | For latent damage , the three year period commences on the " date of knowledge " of the plaintiff ( s14(1) ( A ) of the Limitation Act 1980 inserted by CPA 1987 , Sched 1 ) . |
| 23 | The devastating bloodletting at Wang Laboratories Inc is not over yet , with its third quarter figures ( in page five ) , the company said that the cut in its global workforce to 7,800 from 9,300 made on March 16 is not the end . |
| 24 | It can sometimes engender a state similar to that experienced by meditators . |
| 25 | That led to TV appearances on Carrott 's Lib and Saturday Night Live , but her career took an unexpected turn when she spent 16 months with Robert Lindsay in the West End musical , Me And My Girl . |
| 26 | That led to Africa and to Kitchener 's campaigns . |
| 27 | that led to Hela 's drear abode . |
| 28 | Aquib shrugged off the flashpoint at Lord 's that led to Allan Lamb exposing Pakistan as cheats . |
| 29 | That led to warfare for about three months in our house . |
| 30 | That led in turn to the expectation ( already raised by Mr Clinton 's past political record ) that he would be pro-business and fiscally conservative . |