Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other cells especially sensitive to light became vestigial eyes , and those susceptible to vibrations became hearing organs , and so on . |
| 2 | But the council said the Government 's decision to repatriate had profound implications for asylum seekers all over the world and added that it was ‘ utterly appalled ’ by the action taken furtively in Hong Kong . |
| 3 | Choosing what to include took some time , though I wanted to give it an artistic flavour . ’ |
| 4 | For me , the moment of realisation that something more must be done to identify the aggressor and to hold him to account came last week , when I was invited to open an exhibition of photographs at the building centre in Store street , London , of some of the Croatian buildings destroyed over the past few months . |
| 5 | The answer is that managerial hierarchy is and will remain the only way to structure unified working systems with hundreds , thousands or tens of thousands of employees , for the very good reason that managerial hierarchy is the expression of two fundamental characteristics of real work . |
| 6 | Chiltern District Council v. Keane [ 1985 ] 1 W.L.R. 619 was an appeal from the High Court in which it was held that ( 1 ) the notice of motion to commit lacked sufficient particularity to enable the alleged contemnor to meet the charge , ( 2 ) there had been no personal service of notice of an adjourned hearing date and ( 3 ) the committal order failed to give particulars of the facts found to constitute the contempt . |