Example sentences of "[subord] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The List will now be available in areas e.g. ‘ Norfolk & Suffolk ’ ‘ London ’ ‘ Home Counties ’ etc. or where required a complete set of the whole country on receipt of a SAE or at Q.T. Day on 15th March . |
| 2 | Although considered a useful lithological discriminator for tracing individual horizons during geological mapping , little systematic study of grain size characterization and measurement occurred before the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Although considered a key element , motivation training is just a part of the Celomer programme . |
| 4 | One is simply that you do n't need to have made a record or done anything very much except earned a local reputation as a watchable band playing original material . |
| 5 | It can be argued that mass communications have simply speeded up the whole process of change enormously , rather than imposed a massive and rigid uniformity . |
| 6 | In most of the territories they occupied , the Prussians , by putting pressure on the peasantry to Germanise themselves , concentrated rather than diluted a Polish identity . |
| 7 | This viewpoint seems to have prevented him from doing more than cast a supercilious eye over the book . |
| 8 | But the Sperrbrecher , unidentified before the raid although moored a few hundred yards from the east jetty ( see diagram p. 41 ) was a strong ship . |
| 9 | Some individuals can take up the suggestions of the hypnotist to the extent of becoming deaf or blind or unable to smell ; they may withstand pain without a murmur , re-experience being a six-year old , or even forget everything that happened , after hypnosis , until given a prearranged ‘ release ’ signal . |
| 10 | No sensible designer would have conceived such a monstrosity if given a free hand to create a flatfish on a clean drawing board . |
| 11 | Previously , if dismissed a qualifying worker would normally have lost his home , but the Act now provides security of tenure that extends to a surviving spouse and , under certain circumstances , to some other family members . |
| 12 | All the above chords , if transposed a fifth lower , are suitable for the viola , and , if transposed an octave and a fifth lower , for the cello also . |
| 13 | The second part of the poem was written at Stockburn-on-Tees in 1799 , and by the end of that year the two-part poem was transcribed into fair copy as if considered a completed work . |
| 14 | Now what 's happened , what would happen if we were to follow the same type of line there would be that the airfield would stay open as if needed a small commuter airfield . |
| 15 | She achieved the crest of the road and saw it spill over , and the village in the bottom of the valley , silent as if drowned a hundred years beneath a lake . |
| 16 | At one point during the campaign , he said he would appoint a peace envoy to Northern Ireland if elected a controversial idea which drew a sharp response from Ulster Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew . |
| 17 | America has ever since remained a staunch bastion of manualism . |
| 18 | Sheffield Wednesday 's makeshift striker has all but clinched a big money move to Ewood Park at the second attempt just three weeks after signing a new four-year contract at Hillsborough . |
| 19 | However , when given a downward loading , this tie-off gives an outward pull on the chest and shoulders , which is painful and liable to pull the leader off . |
| 20 | There is a wide interindividual variation , however , in breath H 2 excretion , when given a constant dose of lactulose repeatedly . |
| 21 | Crabs that live in areas where empty shells are scarce select relatively large shells when given a free choice , compared with crabs living where there is an abundance of empty shells . |
| 22 | Wedding photographs also look lovely when given a floral border , and particularly if you can press some of the flowers from the wedding bouquet . |
| 23 | There are few better punishers of poor opposition than Rick Smith , who when given a freer role and told to forget about defending , responds by slaughtering teams single-handed . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Harp Lager who have been behind the new building all along , are to be congratulated on their commitment to Down Royal and also for making sure that the flagship of racing on the track , the Ulster Harp Derby , has been boosted financially as well as given a new look . |
| 25 | In the 1962 election he stood against McAteer , making it clear that he was just as committed a nationalist but criticising the MP for the narrowness of his appeal and calling on him to send his election literature to all voters , not just to Catholics . |
| 26 | Though considered a floating plant , it frequently puts down roots to the tank bottom , and relies on nutrients both from the water and the substratum . |
| 27 | ( Remember that , though considered a good beginner 's community fish , Angels grow big enough to eat fish the size of Neon Tetras . ) |
| 28 | Laboratory rodents that spontaneously develop autoimmune type I diabetes did so at a much lower frequency when fed a synthetic chow free of cows ' milk protein , and recently a peptide antigen called p 69 was identified on rat insulinoma cells which cross reacts immunologically with a similar sequence present in bovine , but not human or rat , albumin . |
| 29 | Liquitex as produced a whole range of Technique Sheets with extremely useful guidelines for most applications . |
| 30 | I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed . |