Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lay on the ground thrashing around in great pain , strange choked gurgling sounds escaping from his throat . |
| 2 | Hence , each made great efforts to achieve a dominant position . |
| 3 | 8.4 REPORTED SEXUAL ASSAULTS |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Instead some became tied agents . |
| 7 | Some became active burrowers , tunnelling through the mud in search of food particles . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | This housed oriental manuscripts , many of poetry , mysticism and jurisprudence , going back to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 13 | Members of Parliament did complain about poor radio reception in their constituencies , and some made occasional allegations of political interference and bias in the radio news . |
| 14 | This produced double sets of office-bearers in the same burgh , with the result that commissions were given to two different persons as commissioners for electing the burgess to represent the District in Parliament . |
| 15 | This made short-term gilts an attractive buy ( before any interest rate cut ) , because of their fixed interest payments , so the price of these rose , driving down their yield . |
| 16 | Mix with 90g of sweetcorn , 2 diced red peppers and 3 tablespoons of Weight Watchers from Heinz Mayonnaise . |
| 17 | 8.2 REPORTED PHYSICAL VIOLATIONS |
| 18 | This found insignificant levels of cyanide but ‘ very significant levels ’ of lead , averaging out at 5700 parts per million , a lead content of 0.57 per cent . |
| 19 | At the larger scale , this involved substantial differences in the basic organization of land use , with the open field system predominant in the ‘ Midlands ’ only ; at the smaller , local scale , there were substantial variations , as illustrated by Thirsk 's ( 1973 ) survey of the East Midlands in the same volume . |
| 20 | This involved long-term contracts and ceilings on increases . |
| 21 | This involved frequent absences from home , so that , even if he had wished it , he would not really have been able to run the estates himself . |
| 22 | Grant was withheld as a penalty if local authorities spent more than a specified amount and this involved detailed assessments of each authority 's needs for expenditure . |
| 23 | This involved initial tests of short and longer term random error and spiking recovery . |
| 24 | This involved British workers laying concrete near the war zone at the time of the Iran-Iraq war , the inquiry was told . |
| 25 | To rail at her meant opening a conversation , and this involved preposterous changes in his day . |
| 26 | None of this dampened German feelings of superiority . |
| 27 | Record manufacturers formerly pleased themselves as to the degree of attenuation or enhancement used and in the early '50s , an amplifier might have several switched replay positions whilst another provided plug-in networks to suit records and cartridges . |
| 28 | A measure of automation based on a computer and a punched-tape system was introduced and this helped cut costs and speed production . |
| 29 | When introduced in the 1840s this created new possibilities for shipping exotic species around the world , protected from changes in the environment . |
| 30 | And this weakness was almost automatically exacerbated in some instances by the alternative of episcopal jurisdiction for infringements of the Peace of God ; this created procedural uncertainties in the minds of plaintiffs and judges , to delay yet further the chance of obtaining justice . |