Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council or Boule , which met daily and prepared the agenda for meetings of the citizen assembly , was enlarged from 400 to 500 members . |
| 2 | However professional and manly and disciplined the stance taken on their subject matter , English academics continued to be worried by their inability to account rationally for the intrinsic value , style , spirit , and mood of the literary work . |
| 3 | This technique was highly dangerous and required the skills that Cheshire had certainly acquired over a long period , but was equally within Gibson 's exceptional abilities . |
| 4 | The train resembled a site from the late 50s–early 60s when numerous tours were staged on branch lines in this manner and with 75069 in a slightly weather worn condition it certainly looked authentic and fitted the part well . |
| 5 | THE WORLD OF CHAS ADDAMS — ( Hamish Hamilton , £25 ) The original cartoons featuring Morticia and family — sophisticated and witty and given the big-screen treatment in this massive tome . |
| 6 | The writers of the nineteenth century who first created the cult of the picturesque and peopled the Dales with " awful caverns and frightful ravines " were only impressed by waterfalls that had height or were " raging spouts " in flood . |
| 7 | F—in' red wine on the carpet , that was bad , white wine on the walls so you get like a nice green tinge and they 'd been sick and broken the toilet seat and they 'd shit in the toilet and not flush it , fags in the coffee cups , I do n't let them come round any more … ’ |
| 8 | I then counted three needles each to the right and left and transferred the next stitch to adjacent needles as well , leaving the empty needles in non-working position . |
| 9 | The interest was again chiefly rhythmic and required the most meticulous playing by all sections in the orchestra . |
| 10 | There is plenty of skilled labour available and given the short-term view nobody will train . |
| 11 | Bolt Beranek & Newman Inc 's plans to get out of its current financial hole have left Standard & Poor 's Corp unmoved and seen the company 's subordinated debt downgraded to a dire CCC+ with the outlook negative ( CI No 2,111 ) . |
| 12 | Then further enemy aircraft arrived and bombed and strafed the patrol for several hours . |
| 13 | Now the political culture of the time was such that the political system which actually emerged is rather different from that which some of the people who went to Philadelphia thought would emerge and that really reflects a number of changes , one that America has grown from four million to two hundred and fifty million , two , from being isolated , remote and scattered the population has consolidated and grown , America has become a vast industrial power as opposed to a , an agricultural nation and all these have had their impact upon the importance and scope of government . |
| 14 | However local and limited the awareness to which the words testify , I have identified a spontaneous reaction to which , since it is provisionally approved by ‘ Be aware ’ , it is rational to seek means as an end good in itself ; if you disagree , the burden of proof has shifted to you , to make me aware of something overlooked which will redirect my response . |