Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The insistence on the supremacy of the political has become a cliché of recent thinking . |
| 2 | In that time , the giant multinational has bought a 40 per cent stake in the company that runs south Crofty ( which also operates a small mine at Pendarves ) as well as 18 per cent of the shares in Geevor . |
| 3 | He criticised the backwardness of Islamic orthodoxy ; nevertheless he wrote on 17 October 1936 , ‘ a soul that was only superficially Islamic has become a soul convinced of Islam … a soul that daily rendered homage to HIM ’ . |
| 4 | PRUDENTIAL has launched a new range of flexible pensions products which can be converted to a free-standing additional voluntary contribution and vice versa , and allow contribution levels to be reduced or even suspended altogether for up to five years . |
| 5 | Although Labour has made a commitment to buy back the national grid , Williams argues that its policy on British Coal 's future has been left largely unsaid . |
| 6 | Paar Scientific has launched a liquid density standards service for density meter users . |
| 7 | From it I learn that a seven year old has achieved a satisfactory standard if he can tell the time accurately in units of five minutes ! ) . |
| 8 | The Centre for the Unemployed has done a great deal for us . |
| 9 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 10 | She thought that Elizabeth was foolish to have married a silent countryman and to have condemned herself to a life of boredom , and that she should have known better . |
| 11 | The most reasonable assumption was that the French had pushed a cavalry raid across the frontier . |
| 12 | Their prospects were hopeless because the British had developed a command of the sea that was much more effective than anything seen in earlier wars . |
| 13 | The British had launched a powerful attack , and first Mersa Matruh ( which Mussolini had planned to enter in triumph ) fell , then Bardia and Tobruk . |
| 14 | The French have gone a long way towards providing a road and water supply and members of the ‘ Pater Nostra ’ organisation are studying in Budapest , Vienna and Germany to obtain qualifications in medicine , physiotherapy , occupational therapy and other skills which will enable them to provide the day-to-day care of the residents in the future . |
| 15 | The French have invented a perfume spray , mostly lemon , which stops dogs barking . |
| 16 | In consumer electronics , the French have had a more than usually protected market because of the SECAM colour television standard . |
| 17 | ‘ The Sex Pistols ’ , he wrote , ‘ are very New York and it 's nice to see that the British have produced a band capable of producing the atmosphere created by the New York Dolls and their many imitators , even though it might be too late … ’ |
| 18 | The effect is that even if the liability remains in full the accused has secured a remission of it . |
| 19 | The young orang-utans are sold abroad ; in Taiwan , where a television series portraying them as cute and cuddly has created a demand for orang-utan pets , they fetch up to £6,000 . |
| 20 | To those brought up on E. alpinum , the viciously prickly glaucous sea holly , E. eburneum is novel if not a revelation and surprisingly easy to grow given a deep well-drained soil in sun . |
| 21 | Since then the condition of housing in rural areas seems on average to have reached a higher standard than that in many urban areas , even where renovation or renewal policies have been conducted . |
| 22 | Mr Wolski turned back to his bed content to have made a decision by which he would stand , and feeling that the tiredness he felt coming over him was decades old . |
| 23 | If so , it would have been splendid to have seen a small blue Ford Anglia spluttering along the road as I descended , with a tiny white face peering from a condensation-covered back window . |
| 24 | It was a new experience for her to want to open up to someone , especially a man ; but another part of her was relieved to have found a kindred spirit she could confide in . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm relieved to have got a run into Mukddaam , ’ Hern said . |
| 26 | The library is fortunate to have acquired a text book concerned with the details of a ) perfusing the tissues with agents to minimize freezing injury and b ) transporting to minimize the interruption of circulation and respiration after cardiac and respiratory arrest . |
| 27 | She was a sweet-natured girl of a placid disposition , and considered herself fortunate to have found a suitor . |
| 28 | Charlotte Campbell was more than delighted to have received a reply to her letter for the position of children 's nanny which she had seen advertised in The Times . |
| 29 | We waited patiently to see how the new Council would emerge , and we are now delighted to have established a Partnership Plan between ourselves and CCW . |
| 30 | Everyone is delighted to have had a glimpse of this most elusive and rare of British mammals , and there are smiles all round as we move on . |