Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Some of the exchanges were rather less thoughtful : eat the rich read one window , kill the poor replied another . |
3 | Sorry got some money in there , OK oh do your ballerina bit , we 'll have to wash your face , yeah it 's filthy , filthy face , breakfast face oh that 's that new twins is n't it ? |
4 | 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 ) . |
5 | Because German opposition was light in this sector , and because the Germans thought that , after their bleeding at Verdun , they were incapable of massed attack , the French made some gains . |
6 | The Premier is desperate to mark his EC presidency with a British led Euro-recovery plan . |
7 | The French used this period of waiting to obtain up-to-the-minute intelligence about Portsmouth . |
8 | However , in Ronbar Enterprises Ltd v Green Jenkins LJ , having reviewed some earlier business sale cases in which severance had taken place viz Goldsoll v Goldman [ 1914 ] 2 Ch 603 and British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Co Ltd v Schelff [ 1921 ] 2 Ch 563 , said that Attwood v Lamont could be distinguished because it concerned an employment contract . |
9 | The reactor buildings , and pond and bunker area , will then be surrounded by 9 m. high reinforced concrete wall with stainless steel cladding above that . |
10 | Despite such criticisms , the British found these courts useful and by the end of the century they had jurisdiction over most rural areas . |
11 | Most people who lived on the south-western littoral consumed imported rice , while the plantation workers and those who provided services for the plantations were almost entirely dependent on it . |
12 | It is true that in the late 1430s the English suffered some reverses and territorial losses . |
13 | Only English-educated politicians participated in the legislative institutions through which the British devolved political power in the 1920s and 1930s . |
14 | Here too the British misinterpreted American intentions . |
15 | The French suffered enormous casualties , including Ring John of Bohemia , the Duke of Lorraine and the Counts of Blois and Flanders , and Froissart suggests that only Edward 's decision not to pursue the remnants of the French forces saved them from even more serious losses . |
16 | Despite the truce of 1748 , England and France were continually at war and , in due course , George II decided to allow William Pitt to become Prime Minister so that he could leave Britain and campaign against the French , as a result the French suffered notable defeats , losing against Clive in India ; also in America and at Quebec in Canada in 1759 . |
17 | In both trials , at each dosing round , children aged less than 6 months were not eligible , children 6–11 months old received 100,000 IU retinol equivalent or placebo , and children 12 months or older were given 200,000 IU retinol equivalent or placebo . |
18 | The upward trend in the numbers of unemployed getting supplementary benefit , for example , continued in the 1980s ; the numbers trebled until two-thirds of all the unemployed received this benefit , despite the fact that it was never designed for them . |
19 | The most direct came last week in a survey conducted by academics for stockbrokers Bell Lawrie White among the business community . |
20 | Even the English paid grudging tribute to this ; those who accompanied Margaret Tudor north in 1503 , for her marriage to Mary 's grandfather , James IV , were less than gracious about the elaborate and highly expensive entertainment provided by the king , but their contempt was mitigated , for they ‘ returned into their country giving more praise to the manhood than to the good manner and nurture of Scotland ’ . |
21 | Harriet pushed back the cuff of her ski jacket and glanced at her watch — the clear faced leather-strapped Patek Philippe man 's watch that she always wore in preference to the elegant Cartier her father had given her , unless of course circumstances forced her into an evening gown . |
22 | If the Shah and the British showed good sense , he remarked , " we may really give a serious defeat to Russian intentions and plans in that area " . |
23 | The simple truth is that if the British withdrew this country would become an economic wasteland and whether there is a Catholic voting majority at some point in the future or not there will not be a united Ireland as no one would want to pay the enormous costs involved . |
24 | From their balconies , the Christian Lebanese threw rose water and rice at the Syrians , a phenomenon which we journalists archly described as ‘ a traditional Arab greeting ’ . |
25 | By contrast , samples from animals with PSBR and saline showed incipient vacuole formation in the rough endoplasmic reticulum of many acinar cells , associated with marked degranulation ( Fig 7 ) . |
26 | CORE was launched in 1980 to oppose the importing of foreign spent nuclear fuel through the docks at Barrow-in-Furness , forty miles to the south of the site . |
27 | It is our long-held view that foreign spent nuclear fuel should not be sent to Dounreay for storage , let alone for reprocessing , because it breaches what is for us a fundamental principle : that the responsibility for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel should lie with the reactor operators . |
28 | Motion Picture Herald described him as ‘ just too , too coy ’ and The Hollywood Reporter wrote , ‘ As the overaged adolescent clerk , Michael Crawford contrives a high pitched American accent that soon strains , particularly under the constant reminders that he is 28-years-old . |
29 | The British lost 1,654 officers and men , including Cradock ; the Germans a mere two men wounded . |
30 | Although the British needed this route to support Egypt , many of them saw Pan American as opportunistic and poised to exploit its advantage in the postwar years . |