Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the key actors mentioned had close connections with Dicey , as a pupil or colleague , and to some extent they formed a fairly distinctive group of conservative libertarians . |
| 2 | Yet the schools in which this coming together of parent and teacher in the service of children occurred had immense benefits . |
| 3 | Indeed certain specimens of O. abyssicola studied showed intermediate characters between the two . |
| 4 | Freud had always supposed that the various forms of innate behaviour he explored had biological bases to them . |
| 5 | The local authorities surveyed had outstanding debt in excess of £100 million ( as a proxy for capital intensity ) and the health authorities were those that had ( then ) recently undertaken major capital projects . |
| 6 | Out popped a very strange gentleman from this aircraft that I noticed had American markings , but I still did not know what the aircraft was , I had a vague idea but I was not sure . |
| 7 | The Iraqi government submitted a 300-page report which it claimed gave full details of its arms of mass destruction . |
| 8 | The onset of war and the urban destruction that followed breathed new spirit into a flagging crusade . |
| 9 | But you can imagine my surprise when I angled said state-of-the-art bins to the street , watched the long black car as it rolled up and saw the self-same guy step out of it . |
| 10 | None of the organisations we contacted had large ranges to choose from but they might be able to help you out with information charts and publicity posters for a small or no charge . |
| 11 | ‘ No regular soldier I ever knew wore cross bandoleers , or had long hair held back by a headband . |
| 12 | But also , he was drawn towards Bernard , whose vision and single-mindedness he greatly admired , and a business which he felt had great potential for further growth . |
| 13 | At night a light had to be on all the time and Blake 's prison clothes had to be placed outside his cell while , during the day , the clothes he wore had distinctive patches of coloured cloth on them to show that he was on the escape list . |
| 14 | Here we had a man who we knew had serious problems that constituted a danger to himself and others , and we sat back , simply because we were waiting for him to admit he had a problem . ’ |
| 15 | Three of them he thought had special gifts but five were " dangerous " . |
| 16 | This money was initially paid out to distributors as a stimulus to set up a network of satellite producers but , after the corporation had trouble recovering the £3 million invested in Korda 's British Lion , money was directed into individual projects which they thought had commercial potential , as the percentage of the budget ( usually 30 per cent ) that could n't be raised from a distributor . |
| 17 | Both newspapers he bought had big articles on the murder of Nicola Sharpe . |
| 18 | Second , the solution they sought had serious implications for civil liberties since sections would effectively deprive individuals of their liberty . |
| 19 | peasant and that that had had adverse consequences in terms of maybe economic output , certainly in terms of mobilization , certainly in terms of , of political effect on , on the middle peasant and therefore there had to be the , the correcting bit to this and that correction comes either very late forty seven but particularly early nineteen forty eight when the excesses of the , the campaigns and excesses against the middle peasants have to be , be corrected and there are very clear statements from Mao that the middle peasant must not be encroached upon . |
| 20 | When we came overseas that metal trailer that we had had heavy wheels on it . |
| 21 | Naturally you expect to find the highest quality construction in the world in a Mercedes , but the 500SL we tested had numerous faults that we thought ‘ undermined Mercedes ' quality image and appearance ’ . |