Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | We met that evening and she asked me straight out if I 'd be interested in an exclusive story : a scandal affecting a government minister . |
2 | The agreement covered industrial goods , processed agricultural goods and fish . |
3 | Anyway , my ole man 'ad pissed orf an' I was a bit short o' money . |
4 | The organization lacked coherent leadership and purpose and was little more than a patriotic group with a foreign-sounding name . |
5 | I had the great advantage of being brought up by a really traditional , old-fashioned nanny , who saw us through numerous disasters , one of which was the very memorable moment during the blitz when we were taken to a very smart tea shop in Curzon Street , a place where nannies met each other and their charges were just kept in tow . |
6 | Rather , it evolved in fits and starts as its various components were deployed in a variety of areas producing what quickly became classic studies and the base line for a growing corpus of social research findings . |
7 | For the discontented populations , the fact that the state outlawed political opposition and ruthlessly crushed popular uprisings served as a handy , and not altogether unconvincing , alibi for their political conformism . |
8 | The second wicket , like the first , produced 109 runs and he made 85 of them off 77 balls . |
9 | Two Swedes came to a town near here with a grant , and started a factory that made micro-electric parts or something — anyway , it would supposedly employ hundreds of local people . |
10 | Work by Kettler ( 1967 ; 1975 ) , Frisby ( 1983 ) , Kettler , Meja and Stehr ( 1984 ) and Loader ( 1985 ) has explored original German writings , studied and translated unpublished notes and lectures ( e.g. Mannheim 1982 ; 1985 ) and criticism to build up a fuller and more subtle context in which to understand Mannheim 's sociology of knowledge . |
11 | He was made assistant tutor , proceeding MA in 1812 , when he became sole tutor and vice-principal . |
12 | It had surrounded her at her progressive private school , it surrounded her still at her fashionable newish university , but she herself lacked economic grasp and was uncomfortably aware of having lost , of late , a few arguments with outsiders , of having been thrown back on arguments about personalities . |
13 | After a four year first team career was ended by injury he became reserve player-coach and progressed to become Lyall 's first team coach . |
14 | In addition to the above work , BGS staff made short-term training and consultancy visits . |
15 | Cowden , from Kilburn , North London , admitted attempted robbery and was given a suspended two-year prison sentence . |
16 | I like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian , we 've been hearing and seeing and been challenged and accepting Christ as our saviour and over the week in Harlow a number made that response and not only in Harlow and in Earls Court but right across the country and into Europe and into Africa as well , through the , through the life link , men and women who have been challenged into accepting Jesus Christ as their saviour and I 'd like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian now obviously as we perhaps know er , and , and , and God work clearly shows to us that it is not in being religion , somebody well said that religion is man 's attempt to find God but the gospel is God 's method of seeking out and finding men and so just as the same as you 've seen that bridge of life illustration and we try with our planks to get across to God we ca n't make it , |
17 | The round black seed germinated that autumn and the following spring the plants developed long , woody tubers . |
18 | For diverse and often disparate groupings , the language of scientificity stood as a metaphor and a referent , which condensed specific anxieties and signified different solutions to different people . |
19 | He was subsequently appointed director , Reprocessing Engineering Division , and became technical director and also a main board member in 1984 . |
20 | In those days , marriage was mainly a matter of economy and family ; it was not normally possible to marry for love , and indeed the Courts ruled that love and marriage were incompatible . |
21 | A trial excavation in 1981 with his YOP team revealed preserved shrimps and complete fossil sharks previously unknown in Britain . |
22 | The rule applies in all preconsonantal environments including those that would have a long vowel in monosyllables ( fricative and voiced obstruent environments and liquids ) , except apparently before [ s ] clusters ( as in hospital ) . |
23 | The costs associated with collaboration include : i Where national bureaucracies are involved there are delays in procedures and high transaction costs ; ii Generally inefficiencies arise through the work share arrangements , duplicated administrative costs and delays caused by the need to harmonise requirements and delivery schedules . |
24 | 1988 ) the government agreed that attendance and financial-loss allowances should be replaced by a basic flat-rate allowance , but not at rates proposed by Widdicombe . |
25 | The two leaders also agreed that visa and currency exchange-free travel to East Germany for West Germans and West Berliners , planned to come into force next January , would be brought forward to December 24 . |
26 | Many people argued that , as the polytechnics had moved out of local government , two separate funding bodies made little sense and hindered the development of an integrated system of higher education . |
27 | But the league made little impact and there was more success with the Derry Unemployed Action Committee ( DUAC ) which involved NILP leftists as well as republicans . |
28 | The South African-born striker made little impact and is still out in the cold . |
29 | They made little impact and at the end of the decade some of them resorted to terrorist attacks on senior officials in an effort to destabilize the government . |
30 | Ligachev argued that collective and state farms were still the backbone of the system and that most peasants did not want to leave them to set up on their own . |