Example sentences of "[adj] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has that formed a satisfactory basis for planning ? |
| 2 | One surprising factor is that given a new case is only around £50 there is nothing stopping you from moving everything into a new box if the old one is n't big enough to take a standard size motherboard . |
| 3 | If I was to tell you that given a perfect world that has the highest earning potential of all our companies |
| 4 | This presupposes that given a low level of development of the productive forces , and a correspondingly low level of consumption by producers , a significant rate of growth not only depends upon the rate of investment but also upon an increase in the consumption of the direct producers . |
| 5 | But our experience has shown that given a modest toolkit and a few carving gouges , persistence and enthusiasm for the project , almost anyone can achieve a highly satisfactory result . |
| 6 | Clean changes were possible given a little patience , but moving from first to second was reminiscent of shovelling coal — sometime the lever slid into place , sometimes it jarred my whole body . |
| 7 | Ordinarily there are two marker beacons , the OM and MM , each situated a certain distance from the runway threshold . |
| 8 | For the first time since the Civil War , Industry and Commerce were not lumped together , but each given a separate ministry . |
| 9 | Was that considered a hard thing at the time ? |
| 10 | However , although theoretically this assigned a primary role to the struggles of colonial peoples ( a position which seemed to be at least partially vindicated by events in Turkey , Persia , India and China ) , Soviet foreign-policy considerations determined that discussion of colonial problems be suppressed at the 1921 Third Congress . |
| 11 | Italy on Oct. 2 requested a standby loan from the EC for balance-of-payments support and to assist its swift return to the exchange rate mechanism [ see p. 39080 for September suspension of lira 's participation as a result of European currency crisis ] . |
| 12 | I think some people they used to put a , I think some used a little sponge and put something on but I did n't . |
| 13 | Prime Minister Poul Schlüter on Nov. 22 called an early general election for Dec. 12 , after his minority centre-right coalition failed to reach agreement with the opposition Social Democratic Party ( SD ) over the 1991 budget and an economic programme including tax reforms . |
| 14 | For Brailsford , who had a tendency to overstate his case , this marked a decisive turning point in world history . |
| 15 | All this marked a significant break with the earlier history of medico-moral politics . |
| 16 | And behind all the ethnic and sociological and other religious elements , there is something very deep , and this struck a deep chord with me . |
| 17 | And er i , it , this caused a great deal of hurt , if I may say so ? |
| 18 | B , smoking status , alright , now this caused a little bit of upset , and I think we just like to clarify that . |
| 19 | I know this caused an immense amount of debate at Personnel sub-committee , and I thought that Personnel sub-committee had come to a reasonable solution . |
| 20 | In 1895 , the Royal Free appointed an official ‘ almoner ’ to ensure that patients were genuinely poor and that they contributed what they could afford to their treatment . |
| 21 | Later on , for example at the Party Congress of 1907 , the right-wing faction , of which Bernstein was one of the leading members , proposed to approve German colonial expansion on the grounds that this promoted a progressive capitalism and harmonized relationships between classes in Germany . |
| 22 | How often had this meant an edgy evening , when she had been unable to concentrate on what people were saying because of an ill-placed fabric rose or an over-embroidered antique shawl ? |
| 23 | Thus the arrival of the major US computer companies in mid-1985 consolidated an anti-IBM grand alliance which had begun in Europe and now included all the other leading computer companies of the western world , all the telecommunications authorities and government regulators , and all of the pioneering computer-user companies . |
| 24 | Cosio , 62 , had on April 30 taken a 12-month " leave of absence " , one of Mexico 's unwritten political courtesies allowing a public official to leave office voluntarily rather than be removed by presidential decree or through legal action . |
| 25 | They chose ‘ In the Sweet Bye and Bye ’ which is a Methodist hymn and this upset a High Church person in the audience . |
| 26 | To be French required a Western European faith . |
| 27 | Behind the scenes 1962 saw the reorganisation of university applications through a central clearinghouse — UCCA — and this required a confidential report of each candidate . |
| 28 | But this required a free trade in food . |
| 29 | The former England No 2 required a triple heart by-pass operation four years ago and was admitted to hospital last week for tests after feeling unwell . |
| 30 | The twenty sixth of January seventeen eighty eight the British established a small prison community at Sydney Cove on the east coast of Australia villain read the declaration and hoisted the Union Jack claiming the east coast of the entire Australian continent for the British crown . |