Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The homework was interesting and demanded more investigation and some discussion with parents : she - the teacher — provided some useful clues for those who could not find names in an encyclopaedia . |
| 2 | Tony Wright was in the wrong and landed this into the safe hands of Barnett . |
| 3 | Teaching is formal but the children seemed interested and responsive and managed some surprisingly good writing despite immense disabilities . |
| 4 | Rack renting combined with taxes and tithes — according to the abolitionists of the thirties these alone consumed a quarter of the peasants ' net income — drove out the enterprising and condemned those who remained to one of the most hopeless forms of subsistence farming . |
| 5 | Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators . |
| 6 | He was paid an annual sum by the British and tried any cases where there was a problem between them and the Portuguese . |
| 7 | The Centre was very popular and attracted many people with similar demographic characteristics , including marital and social difficulties , to those who attempt suicide . |
| 8 | While Mr Gould said membership of the ERM was ‘ not in play ’ , he nevertheless believed the rate at which sterling was taken in was indefensible and gave little room to develop a coherent economic strategy . |
| 9 | Some large examples in important towns such as Rome , Constantinople , Milan , Trier and in the Holy Land were complex designs ( pages 94 , 96 and 173 and XVII ) which might possess more than one hall , or were multi-aisled and had several apses . |
| 10 | Like Mum , they were good and meek and deserved more love . |
| 11 | Life in a cenaculum was overcrowded and lacked many basic amenities , hence the popularity of the bathing establishments . |
| 12 | It became even more individualistic and displayed few signs of the closely knit and hierarchically organized structure of the previous era . |
| 13 | It asked the participants to stop haggling in public and permitted each bishop to take a decision either way for his own diocese ( Murphy 1959 ) . |
| 14 | Communication with a roving agent was always fraught with difficulties , but Leone was dilatory and displayed little sense of urgency as the new season approached : Giardini impulsively began to open up negotiations himself , resulting in an increasingly frenetic tone to the correspondence . |
| 15 | She was not smiling now , but her look was full of a benevolent curiosity , and the soft island voice , with the lilt of the Gaelic moving through it like a gentle sea-swell , warmed me as palpably as if the sun had come into the dim and cluttered little shop . |
| 16 | The present Lady Hamilton was English and had some private money . |
| 17 | He was an ardent Presbyterian and supported all church activities , especially the Womens ' Christian Temperance Union ( WCTU ) , the Down With Drink Society , the YMCA , the YWCA and St Andrews 's Church . |
| 18 | She says they were very relieved and thanked those who had helped the family . |
| 19 | in fact he was downright dangerous and ate some of the poor little things . |
| 20 | In certain societies , formal education may attempt to make explicit and controlled some of these processes of learning , and it is no coincidence that Bourdieu is otherwise known as a writer on the French educational system ( e.g. Bourdieu and Passeron 1977 ; 1979 ) . |
| 21 | Others were less fortunate and spent more than a week exploring the delights of the Senegalese capital before completing their journey . |
| 22 | After the arrest of Chatichai and Arthit the coup was swift and bloodless and caused little disruption in Bangkok where the key installations were all placed under military control . |
| 23 | Mujaheddin attacks on Kabul in October 1989 killed and injured many people including at least 30 when a surface-to-surface missile struck a bus shelter in a busy shopping district of old Kabul on Oct. 10 . |
| 24 | Once the contraceptive pill ( invented in 1952 ) had become available and accepted and made any further baby boom unlikely , years of frustrated and dammed-up feminism were ready to burst in the new wave of women 's liberation . |
| 25 | Mr Pilkington was delighted and became such an enthusiast for air travel that he went on to make many more business trips by air , some of them as far afield as Australia . |
| 26 | Moreover , when these societies become industrialised and urbanised another set of values begins to undermine these time-honoured traditions . |
| 27 | They exposed , ridiculed and humiliated that party , doing each day in their pages the job that the politicians failed to do from their bright new platforms . |
| 28 | It is important to select a vet in whom you have confidence however , because if you are nervous and worried these sensations will be transmitted to the dog . |
| 29 | This was a curious phenomenon that perplexed and exasperated those involved in running the scheme . |
| 30 | And I got a frail and thrashed that . |