Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However corporacy became strained when the acute unit wanted to apply for self-governing status . |
| 2 | Industrial relations became strained when the post office abolished a flexible shift system at the SWindon branch . |
| 3 | He became stuporous but a full neurological exam . |
| 4 | The scramble to partition Africa into colonies — made possible once the wide availability of quinine solved the problem of fever — typified this more militaristic phase of imperialism . |
| 5 | The power to negotiate , which is central to compliance systems , is one which exists by implication only but one made possible because the law is not made concrete or specific . |
| 6 | The inland areas became lower than the silty areas near the coast and lower than the river channels . |
| 7 | The drug produced little or no Parkinsonism ( tremor ) , acute dystonia ( abnormal face and body movements ) or akathisia ( restlessness ) . |
| 8 | Previously people were as likely to talk of a ‘ public broadcasting system ’ ; , but this became confusing when the distinctive US Tv network with that name was established , often using British programmes . |
| 9 | She says she got little or no response when she reported her missing . |
| 10 | She says she got little or no response when she reported her missing . |
| 11 | In a Financial Times poll of senior businessmen , 70% said the budget made little or no difference to their companies or their view of government policy . |
| 12 | In the 1960s and 1970s a substantial body of evidence emerged which claimed that schools made little or no difference to pupils ' outcomes . |
| 13 | The middle school which both her older boys attended was a long walk from her home and made little or no attempt to involve parents . |
| 14 | In North Worcestershire also industrial growth made little or no visible impact on the structure of wealth , possibly because a man 's position in the rural hierarchy determined his choice of trade , In Yardley tile making had evolved as a major activity early in the fifteenth century ; along with tanning , which may still have been the principal industry in nearby Birmingham , it was practised by farmer-craftsmen , who mostly had well under £20 in goods , the £3 — £9 range forming a good two-thirds of the list : Thomas Walton , whose £11 was the highest assessment , made tiles and practised cooperage in winter . |
| 15 | Although Preston still referred to it privately as the God slot , as he had indicated to Kate it made little or no reference to the Almighty . |
| 16 | Pointing , at best , some sixty degrees off the wind , and drifting downwind at an alarming rate , we made little or no progress during the next three days . |
| 17 | When her food arrived , she appeared to eat without appetite , made little or no response to any attempts at conversation and left the table without taking dessert or coffee . |
| 18 | The early versions of this package were subject to quite a lot of criticism , mainly because the user interface of dBFast made little or no use of the fact that you were working in Windows . |
| 19 | This made little or no sense to them . |
| 20 | Relatively few have survived from antiquity , since silver became scarce and a much sought after commodity in the late Empire . |
| 21 | After a brief , acid interval , the terms became right and the bargain was struck . |
| 22 | The stamps got intercepted but the watch |
| 23 | When it became possible that the assailants might be other children , the fiend could only be collectivised : an anti-society of the dispossessed , those beneath Christian morality whose drugged souls are already forfeit . |
| 24 | Worst of all was the four-year reign of terror when a female chimp , Passion , turned killer ; during this gruesome time only one infant survived Passion and her daughter 's cannibalistic attacks , until they both became pregnant and the deaths stopped . |
| 25 | Happily , I became pregnant and the hair disappeared . |
| 26 | At age 20 she became pregnant and the pregnancy was complicated by episodes of small and large bowel obstruction . |
| 27 | Gower and Lamb both produced sixties and actually managed a century stand , but no other batsman passed eight and the total was no more than 176 . |
| 28 | The separate Norfolk Red and Suffolk Dun gradually became extinct and the Red Poll was East Anglia 's dominant breed for many years . |
| 29 | Jitters knew she was doing two people a favour , because Fat Juanita got depressed when the johnny-passing-throughs left her downstairs in the parlour with her knitting and gave all the custom to Gretchen , Connie Calzone , Margaret Running Deer and the Games Mistress . |
| 30 | but she said there were n't many people there actually and I got that but the proceeds |