Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In 1991 Darren started a job that involved covering a huge business mileage but did n't provide a company car . |
| 32 | If the damage occurred following a specific storm , the Policyholder should be asked : |
| 33 | For Laura , work had now become an end in itself ; although some of her colleagues began to describe her as a workaholic it was more that she found working a pleasurable state . |
| 34 | Piggie involved hitting a wooden wedge with a type of hockey stick . |
| 35 | The following cases were dealt with by Thirsk magistrates : David Philip Robson , 25 , of Topcliffe Road , Thirsk , admitted damaging a flashing amber traffic warning beacon , fined £50 plus £25 costs and £21 compensation . |
| 36 | The oral shield is very distinctive with a rounded proximal edge and the distal edge produced resembling a deformed light bulb in profile . |
| 37 | Only the Foreign Ministry , still occupied by Serrano Suñer , retained its position as a pro-Falangist stronghold , for the continued dominance of the Axis in the European war advised maintaining a pro-Axis stance in external affairs . |
| 38 | After being washed in distilled water , the slides were counterstained with 0.1% nuclear fast red in 5% aluminium sulphate for five minutes , dehydrated , and mounted using a synthetic mounting medium ( Vitro-Club , Langenbrink , Emmendingen , Germany ) . |
| 39 | The extracted supernatants were pooled , in a clean round bottom flask and dried using a rotary evaporator . |
| 40 | ‘ for years before her paper pica appeared , the patient recalled eating a special type of mud which contained a distinctive smell and could only be obtained by digging in a certain area of a particular field . ’ |
| 41 | Through the crepuscular afterglow , from behind the marble pineapple , there came skipping a true-light figure . |
| 42 | Eleanor came wearing a red suit , and he felt so turned on that he forgot to put the water in the teapot . |
| 43 | The United Kingdom opposed sending a peacekeeping force because it represented a long-term commitment but suggested an oil embargo . |
| 44 | The Serbian Democratic Party ( SDP ) was formed on Feb. 17 , as a breakaway group from the Independent Democratic Party which had , according to the SDP , opposed having a Serbian leadership . |
| 45 | To her annoyance the bottle was empty — belatedly she recalled making a mental note weeks ago to buy new supplies . |
| 46 | As the D-mark weakened following a poor election result for Germany 's ruling Christian Democrats , the dollar hit a 16-month high . |
| 47 | The Ipswich equaliser came following a disputed corner , but Dalglish 's fury was directed at his own defence rather than the match official . |
| 48 | People came anticipating a double feature . |
| 49 | The game was set for the second goal-less draw at the ground in four days , when Andy Melville scored following a free kick . |
| 50 | Yesterday Bland , 35 , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted possessing a prohibited weapon and two offences of possessing a firearm without a certificate . |
| 51 | Bland , 35 , now of Prior Dene , Darlington , admitted possessing a prohibited weapon and two offences of possessing a firearm without a certificate . |
| 52 | He admitted remaining a staunch supporter of the Meat and Livestock Commission which had done excellent work over the years . |
| 53 | The centre shows a map of the receptive field of a particular ganglion cell obtained using a stationary spot . |
| 54 | If the sample was cooled rapidly ( 0.02 h ) to each temperature the value of T g derived from the resulting curve was some 8 K higher than that measured from results obtained using a slow cooling rate ( 100 h ) . |
| 55 | Health Secretary , Kenneth Clarke has insisted in continuing with the case , arguing that the government risked establishing a dangerous precedent if it paid compensation when the N H S was not to blame . |
| 56 | When in 1769 at a ball in St James 's palace the French ambassador in London , the comte du Châtelet-Lomont , risked provoking a diplomatic incident by pushing forward to assert precedence over his Russian colleague , Count Chernyshev , he was felt by most contemporaries to have been rude and indiscreet rather than to have shown a proper concern for the honour of Louis XV . |
| 57 | Maire Carroll arrived wearing a proper party dress . |
| 58 | But in 1921 the King 's personal physician , Lord Dawson , stunned his profession alike and delighted the press by praising the morality of family limitation and warning Church leaders that they risked losing a whole generation by their unrealistic pronouncements ; an example followed in 1925 when the next King 's physician , Sir H. Rolliston , Regius Professor of Physick at Cambridge , became president of a new family-planning clinic . |
| 59 | The exoskeleton opened evicting a moaning Ed McEd , his face a ghastly white . |
| 60 | A DICTATOR 'S widow last night admitted slashing a rival socialite 's face with a champagne glass . |