Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made perfect sense of Miss Julie 's slightly tatty and irregular patrician origins . |
| 2 | He lay on the ground thrashing around in great pain , strange choked gurgling sounds escaping from his throat . |
| 3 | A faint smell , alien yet horribly familiar ; the sense of a recent presence ; the possible significance of that unlocked outer door ; the dark passageway . |
| 4 | Bills completed by 1980 laid special emphasis on recycling and energy conversion . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the soft turf she turned his face to lie upon that grazed right cheek , and spread his arms above his head . |
| 7 | Of 32 planned gas-fired power stations , three-quarters are badly designed and likely to waste more than half the gas they use . |
| 8 | They each became Prime Minister after serving in two of the great offices of state . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Hence , each made great efforts to achieve a dominant position . |
| 11 | The appellants , who each made repeated sales at the shop , pleaded not guilty to indictments charging burglary and handling stolen goods as alternatives . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Somewhere in that clouded black sky there was a moon due to rise very soon now . |
| 14 | Despite the broad similarities of the changed market conditions which impelled organizational change , Pilkingtons , RX and Ford each pursued distinctive change strategies . |
| 15 | 8.4 REPORTED SEXUAL ASSAULTS |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Each reported manual handling injury results on average in 20 days off work — estimated at over three million working days per year in total . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Instead some became tied agents . |
| 20 | Some became active burrowers , tunnelling through the mud in search of food particles . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 " . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Premier is desperate to mark his EC presidency with a British led Euro-recovery plan . |
| 28 | Furthermore , this presumed strong association between crime and social class has been the basis for most of the leading sociological theories of crime . |
| 29 | This housed oriental manuscripts , many of poetry , mysticism and jurisprudence , going back to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 30 | This pooled concentrated urine was then centrifuged at 10000 g for five minutes and 1 ml of supernatant chromatographed on a Sephadex G-25 column ( 0.9×43 cm ) in TRIS buffered saline ( TBS ) containing 50 mM TRIS/HCl , 0.15 M NaCl , 3.1 mM NaN 3 at pH 7.3 at a flow rate of 39.5 ml/ hour and 1.056 ml fractions collected and assayed using the APGPR ELISA . |