Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Between humdrum research and showpiece research , what the humanities scholarly community is really anxious to see is work which is both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 32 | However , of the studies I have mentioned it would be difficult to claim that more than a handful fulfilled the criteria I mentioned earlier : both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 33 | Although he qualified for a few regional events , in fact he was aiming much higher : he wanted a crack at the Open Championship . |
| 34 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 35 | In his later life he became for a few months nearly as famous as Ramsey , though in a different context . |
| 36 | Spain did not become a great mercantile nation because she failed as a naval power to retain political control of her great empire , and as a producer to supply cheap goods . |
| 37 | Mujjaddedi had on June 21 threatened not to hand over power ( as required by the Peshawar accord ) to Rabbani , whom he branded as a Khomeini-like Islamic radical . |
| 38 | — Also this week , BR branded as a fake a leaked document which claimed to reveal plans to close vital lines in Cleveland and County Durham . |
| 39 | For almost exactly nine years , from the late summer of 1980 to the late summer of 1989 , Poland lived through a political crisis . |
| 40 | • PSA 's R&D department is reportedly working on two new high-power engines — a V8 developing 250bhp and a 16-valve 2.1-litre turbo unit with 200bhp , slated for a future sporting Citroen ZX . |
| 41 | ‘ Was n't I the best prospect Bermondsey 'ad for a long time before I got me wound ? ’ he asked . |
| 42 | It was faith in a God Who cared for an individual , and spoke to him , lovingly and regularly . |
| 43 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 44 | He then fainted for a few seconds . |
| 45 | Their most outrageous step toward re-regulation is rigging the stockmarket , which officials once disdained as a mucky casino . |
| 46 | Early in the fifteenth century , the problem of what constituted a nation arose as a practical issue at the Council of Constance , and , as might be expected in an assembly which contained many distinguished academics , the issue was debated in theoretical terms , although the original cause of the debate was essentially political . |
| 47 | Christianity , as it arose as a messianic reform movement within Judaism in the first century AD , had some characteristics of an early reform Judaism . |
| 48 | Mrs Thatcher , however , claimed that the riots had nothing to do with unemployment and deprivation , but arose as a direct consequence of a lack of discipline within the family and in the schools . |
| 49 | The polling factor probably arose as a natural mutation which local farmers selected for preference in due course , as they did later with the Aberdeen Angus . |
| 50 | Anyhow it was like the sea and boats and everything else and I used to I was working in a shop and I use to get up early in the morning and go down and tally all the numbers and names of the boats and and there was an old man came in to shop while I was working in and asked about a certain boat , I says oh I can tell you , trek down . |
| 51 | The hon. Lady also asked about a public inquiry . |
| 52 | In June 's Tropical Answers D Benton asked about an antisyphoning device for his external filter . |
| 53 | Indream , Dana qualified as a real person among zombies anyway . |
| 54 | Mr Sheppard , who qualified as a chartered secretary at the beginning of his career , believes their skills will become highly relevant during the 1990s . |
| 55 | After studying MORSE ( Mathmatics , Operational Research , Statistics and Economics ) at Warwick University , Carl Stead qualified as a chartered accountant in 1987 with Spicer & Oppenheim . |
| 56 | I qualified as an enrolled nurse in 1977 in Northern Ireland . |
| 57 | Blackburn led through a sweet 43rd minute strike from the impressive Jason Wilcox , before Boro sub Jamie Pollock changed the game . |
| 58 | This might throw light on his uncomplimentary nickname too , and on how , as the charter S 933 of 1014 reveals , " the attacks and plunderings of the evil Danes " gave him possession of a Dorset estate of the church of Sherborne , which he eventually sold for a great price in gold and silver to a friend of the monks , who returned it to them . |
| 59 | Eighty lots sold for a respectable total of £4.19 million ( $6.29 million ) , with only nine lots failing to find buyers . |
| 60 | A KESTREL swooped for a refreshing stop at a waterfall in a little garden paradise high above a busy South London road . |