Example sentences of "[noun] admitted [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The hardline leadership admitted for the first time it regretted the exodus , admitted there were problems and conceded it might be partly to blame .
2 In a long statement read out on television after the evening news programme , the Politburo admitted for the first time that it was ‘ not indifferent ’ to the mass exodus of its people to West Germany .
3 In a long statement read out on television after the evening news , the Politburo admitted for the first time that it was ‘ not indifferent ’ to the mass exodus of its people to West Germany .
4 Nevertheless , as can be seen in Table 13 , a small proportion of patients admitted to the general hospital after self-injury have used very dangerous methods ( e.g. jumping from buildings , jumping in front of vehicles , hanging , and drowning ) and yet have survived .
5 The Supreme Court 's July ruling admitted for the first time in 16 years the right of individual states to restrict abortions during the first six months of pregnancy .
6 THE most powerful man in world cricket admitted for the first time last night that he is frightened of being sued over the Lambgate Scandal .
7 In February 1990 the Chinese government admitted for the first time that HIV infection had spread to China in significant numbers , particularly to the south-western province of Yunnan , which because of its proximity to the " golden triangle " of drug production in Thailand and Burma had a relatively high number of intravenous drug users .
8 Afghanistan was one of seven new states admitted to the Economic Co-operation Organization ( ECO ) at an extraordinary meeting held in Islamabad on Nov. 28 .
9 There was a trough in the number admitted in the third quarter of the fifteenth century , and a rise in the 1480s was short-lived ( 70 ; 71 ) .
10 Certainly the children admitted to the first asylums were those most in need .
11 She sat with her back to the window and Lee felt somewhat at a loss faced , at last , by the elderly woman in the opaque , black-lensed spectacles and the expensive , rather drab suit , framed by sun-rays admitted through the tall crimson-curtained opening .
12 As the number of places available on the intercalary year is restricted , it may be necessary to limit the number of students admitted to the American Studies strand in the second year .
13 In March 1924 the presence of 198 inmates was noted ; the number of vagrants admitted during the previous fortnight had risen to 437 .
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