Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [conj] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After a brief , acid interval , the terms became right and the bargain was struck . |
| 7 | The stamps got intercepted but the watch |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Happily , I became pregnant and the hair disappeared . |
| 11 | At age 20 she became pregnant and the pregnancy was complicated by episodes of small and large bowel obstruction . |
| 12 | The separate Norfolk Red and Suffolk Dun gradually became extinct and the Red Poll was East Anglia 's dominant breed for many years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ But the smiles and the applause became prolonged when the familiar face stood up to acknowledge his reception like a conquering hero . |
| 15 | More people became interested and the field expanded rapidly once the exact composition of the prostaglandins was known . |
| 16 | Mr Ashdown made clear that the Liberal Democrats would prefer to be ‘ locked together in a partnership ’ with a minority government . |
| 17 | Mr Douglas Hurd , Foreign Secretary , made clear that the sanctions were only a first step , to be followed if necessary by a ban on oil exports , source of 95 per cent of Col Gaddafi 's revenue . |
| 18 | And he made clear that the other 10 nations are determined to press ahead whatever Denmark does . |
| 19 | The conditions of employment which accompanied Mr. Claydon 's letter of engagement made clear that the Authority reserved the right of transfer . |
| 20 | Following the defeat of the 1981–86 Socialist government , the new culture minister Fraņois Léotard made clear that the new administration would maintain the r.p.m. system on books — provoking a ringing counter-attack from the Fnac 's then chairman , Michel Baroin , calling for the ‘ spirit of democracy , freedom and consideration for ordinary citizens ’ to prevail . |
| 21 | The resolution made clear that the Commission ‘ also expresses its grave concern that there are continuing threats to the life of a citizen of another state which appear to have the support of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and whose care is mention in the report of the special representative ’ . |
| 22 | He would like it made clear that the line is not a public right of way , but he does not object to access under suitably controlled circumstances . |
| 23 | While the communiqué made clear that the alliance needed to confront " new security risks and challenges of a global nature " which threatened " common interests " , it was understood that France had expressed strong reservations about NATO extending its responsibilities beyond European frontiers . |
| 24 | The declaration made clear that the Union Treaty need only be signed by the nine republics which were party to the Novoye Ogarevo meeting . |
| 25 | Neither the U.S. nor Russian statements made clear whether the crash occurred on or beneath the surface . |
| 26 | John Lennon dropped in on it , and got embarrassed when the poet , naked except for a pair of underpants draped round his head , kissed him on the cheek . |
| 27 | The civil servants watched with barely concealed glee as the ruling party became embarrassed when the North Koreans demanded compensation not only for Japan 's colonial rule but also for all the years since . |
| 28 | Whereas country life had before been relatively quiescent , it now became unsettled and the foci of dissatisfaction altered ; protests against taxes were regularly staged from about 1540 , and after 1550 gave way to larger-scale insurrections such as those at Romans in 1580 , in the south west during the 1590s , and , much later , the Camisard rebellion in the Cévennes which began in 1688 . |
| 29 | Bartlett 's ideas on schemata became popular when the development of computers meant that theories of this type could be programmed ( e.g. Minsky , 1975 ; Rumelhart , 1975 ; Schank , 1976 ) . |
| 30 | It became clear that the relevant government ministers were deliberately hindering the progress of the necessary bill . |