Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The can chair was then put in and where the dark plants in the garden met the paler grass . |
| 2 | Curtis met the younger man 's eye and held it . |
| 3 | Fewer than 30 of Britain 's 450 designated bathing beaches passed the tougher standard last summer . |
| 4 | Senna desperately needed to beat Mansell at the start but the Williams made the better getaway . |
| 5 | Lauda made the better start and led for about half the race , but Hunt 's car , suffering from severe understeer , was catching up fast . |
| 6 | Even though they were against the wind , Colleges made the better start and after Thomson had missed two penalties and John Mackenzie had had a ‘ try ’ disallowed for a foot in touch ( signalled by the Colleges touch judge Bert Barclay ) the home side went 10-0 up . |
| 7 | In spite of the more sophisticated pleasures of town life the period spent at Number Five made the greater impression on us and provided the picture of Lewis that we shall always retain . |
| 8 | Sub-section ( 4 ) provided that the power to re-hear should be exercisable only within 28 days of the order/sentence/finding of guilt as the case may be and only by a court constituted in the same manner as that which made the earlier decision . |
| 9 | The ICA saw ‘ no great merit ’ in the suggestion ; but Touche Ross supported it and made the further recommendation that each firm appoint a finance partner . |
| 10 | In the same interview with the two journalists , Wilson made the further point that he believed that a faction in DI5 had pursued a vendetta against himself and his close colleagues . |
| 11 | Other buttresses to Bismarck 's system were an alliance between Austria-Hungary and Serbia , which virtually made the smaller country a Habsburg satellite during the reign of King Milan , and the accession of Rumania to the Triple Alliance , which guaranteed that country against Russian attack . |
| 12 | On an eerily quiet night at Celtic Park — wind and driving rain had done little to add lustre to a low-key occasion — it was Hibs who made the brighter start . |
| 13 | On an eerily quiet night at Celtic Park — wind and driving rain had done little to add lustre to a low-key occasion — it was Hibs who made the brighter start . |
| 14 | ‘ Once they were a proud people and ruled the greater part of Scotland but the Celts , the Angles , the Saxons and the Normans drove them from their lands into the dark vastness of the forests . |
| 15 | It registered the further damage being done to him . |
| 16 | ‘ Did they only save her because she was good ? ’ asked the bigger girl . |
| 17 | ‘ Was the king killed by a sheep , or by a clock ? ’ asked the bigger girl . |
| 18 | ‘ Was she pretty ? ’ asked the smaller girl . |
| 19 | ‘ What colour were the pigs ? ’ asked the smaller girl . |
| 20 | used a sample of elderly resident in the community , identified those who required help with adl activities and then asked the older person to identify his or her ‘ main helper ’ . |
| 21 | Searching for something to keep the conversation going , Luce asked the older woman , ‘ Have you always lived in New York ? ’ |
| 22 | On March 12 the government announced the further postponement of the presidential elections [ see p. 38754 ] to allow candidates sufficient time to campaign throughout the country . |
| 23 | It seems the French got the better part of the deal when the Eurodisney share price was announced in the City yesterday with all the overkill we have come to expect from the Americans . |
| 24 | But if the public expected from the Berliners memorable Beethoven and even more memorable Brahms ( a Brahms cycle appeared in 1964 ) , they were perhaps less prepared for the miraculously fluid Debussy record that appeared in 1964 — La Mer and Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune coupled with the Second Suite from Ravel 's Daphnis et Chloé — or recordings of Sibelius 's Fourth or Fifth symphonies that quite eclipsed the earlier Philharmonia recording , and the Shostakovich Tenth . |
| 25 | It did not prevent infection ; it only checked the later multiplication of the parasite after infection had taken place . |
| 26 | On appeal , the Supreme Court affirmed the Lower Court 's ruling , but not without some controversy . |
| 27 | With those I returned at speed to the boathouse and attacked the lower door , first hammering the toe of the tyre lever into a nonexistent crack between the wooden door frame and the surrounding brickwork at a level just below the keyhole , then bashing the far end of that iron , to put heavy leverage against the door frame , then wrenching out the lever and repeating the whole process above the lock , this time with fury . |
| 28 | Equally , it is not uncommon to find such introductions or extensions of temporary working labelled by those who are critical of them as the introduction or extension of " casualisation " ( see , for instance , the report of a motion passed at the 1986 conference of the engineering workers union ( AUEW ) which " attacked the greater use of casual workers by employers " in Financial Times , 23/4/86 ) . |
| 29 | A good example of this is the way in which " casual " is used as a pejorative for " temporaries " ( for example , the 1986 conference of the engineering workers union , AUEW , passed a motion which " attacked the greater use of casual workers by employers " ) . |
| 30 | The marchers avoided the Lower Ormeau on their way back home in the afternoon . |