Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All schools will be free to manage their day-to-day budgets , with local education authorities given a new strategic role . |
| 2 | All schools will be free to manage their day-to-day budgets , with local education authorities given a new strategic role . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , during these years many statesmen placed a higher value than ever before on public feeling as voiced by newspapers , and made unprecedented efforts to court and shape it . |
| 4 | Hobeika and Jamei ( 1985 ) describe the MASSeVACuation ( MASSVAC ) simulation software designed to analyse and evaluate traffic evacuation plans given a natural disaster in an urban area . |
| 5 | Inside , the potentially uplifting light and space of the skylit rotunda are obstructed by four incongruous non-structural piers painted a peculiar faux-bronze green . |
| 6 | Slate quarries given a new lease of life |
| 7 | In this it is related to the heads of the Two Nudes painted a few months earlier , but as opposed to them , it is more completely mask-like , and every area or section of it is clearly defined and forms a self-contained unit . |
| 8 | The soft-bodied Ediacaran animals occupied a wide range of Vendian ( Latest Proterozoic ) marine environments and are now known from all over the world . |
| 9 | About half of both sectors operated a whole school no smoking policy . |
| 10 | And we asked them to tie it up , the lads made a bloody job I think they tied it up for coming round . |
| 11 | Following a preliminary examination of these new inward investors by means of a postal questionnaire survey , the authors selected a matched sample ( controlling for employment size , sector and production process ) of old and new manufacturing firms . |
| 12 | Saddam 's latest concessions marked a significant improvement over those offered in letters to Rafsanjani dated July 31 and Aug. 3 , in which he reportedly " stepp[ed] back " from Iraqi claims over the Shatt al-Arab waterway and proposed Iraqi troop withdrawals within two months . |
| 13 | The new styles marked a major change of direction at the time of the Civil Wars ; although they often impinged only indirectly on local farming life , the upheavals of the 1640s were enough to halt the great rebuilding almost entirely . |
| 14 | Whether Diana 's interest in Birthright was planted by her obstetrician George Pinker , who was then its president , or by several of her friends who have had problems and become involved , her decision to add Birthright to her list of patronages marked a turning point in its history . |
| 15 | Drivers faced a tricky journey to work . |
| 16 | On this basis the Siberian peoples achieved a certain balance with nature . |
| 17 | Colleagues who used unusual avoidance and resistance tactics achieved a certain folklore status with their colleagues . |
| 18 | Speakers required a certain formality and elaboration , even explicitness , if the audience were to seize a point . |
| 19 | ‘ I have several times noticed a certain … animosity between him and Dieter Erdle . |
| 20 | My Lords , er , er , er no doubt that all of your Lordships have throughout the last hour and forty minutes felt a great deal of sympathy with the Noble Earl Lord |
| 21 | Some mines operated a two-shift system , others had three shifts . |
| 22 | A huge backlog of unfit dwellings was apparent , and in the event the period between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s wrought a major transformation . |
| 23 | Hardly had her damson-dripping fingers scooped a long white furrow from her thigh to her breast before the blackness would swirl back over it . |
| 24 | Shuttle 's foes given a second chance |
| 25 | Their findings were that parents regarded a good school as being one where : |
| 26 | Suing Fischer rats given a total dose of 90 mg/kg azoxymethane , Williamson et al found no increase in tumours in the group that had 85% enterectomy and attributed this to poor weight gain , since body mass influences carcinogenesis . |
| 27 | The old man 's fine grey hair had been brushed and plaited , his cheeks delicately rouged , his beard brushed out straight , his nails painted a brilliant pearl . |
| 28 | In the uplands , National and Regional Parks have been designated ; there are also more specific sites given a certain degree of protection . |
| 29 | The Sioux Indians placed a high value on generosity . |
| 30 | ‘ Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey ’ is a poem in Wordsworth 's loftiest philosophical manner , and a triumphant affirmation of God 's creative and restorative power at work in nature . |