Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former Darlington manager Brian Little has done a superb job in his first season , but Leicester face three promotion rivals in their four-match finale . |
| 2 | Little has done an excellent job at Filbert Street since he left Darlington last summer . |
| 3 | But neither has found an authentic expression in the institutions of representative democracy . |
| 4 | The Administration of Estates Act 1925 has provided a uniform method for the administration of all the property of a deceased person . |
| 5 | The long-wave , world-systems and regulationist theories are broad frameworks to which several writers have contributed and each has given a new twist to the framework they use . |
| 6 | Several groups of them specialise in this diet and each has evolved a long sticky tongue entirely independently : a marsupial , the numbat , in Australia ; a distant relative of primitive antelopes , the aardvark in Africa ; the pangolins of Asia and Africa which are covered in a mail of horny plates so that they resemble giant animated fir-cones ; and the three very different ant-eaters of South America , the gazelle-sized giant of the savannahs , the squirrel-sized pygmy from the forest canopy , and the monkey-sized tamandua from its mid-storey . |
| 7 | Each has had a significant impact on the other . |
| 8 | They may have many detailed conversations without realizing that each has attributed a different meaning to the ‘ it ’ or the ‘ that ’ they are talking about . |
| 9 | That has made a huge difference , and in terms of the response to the issues among so-called ‘ decision-makers ’ it is this increasing ability on the part of the environmental organisations to marshal good accurate evidence behind them that has begun to tilt the balance of opinion in their favour . |
| 10 | That has made an enormous difference , and has replaced a lot of penpushing with bricklaying and planning . |
| 11 | That has aroused a great deal of fear and was referred to in a recent Health and Safety Executive report . |
| 12 | And it is not insignificant that the quarterly of which he is the editor is the first British journal which has attempted to relate the British mind to the total European mind ; that has attempted a rational synthesis of the traditions of Roman culture ; that has , in a word , contemplated order . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's fine in the Ryder Cup , although that has got a little bit out of hand when nerves are stretched like the note of a piano . |
| 14 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 15 | Well , I have done the photography for the front cover and er of this particular book , but countryside books , who are the publishers , were asked a number of years ago to republish the old Berkshire village book and that has started a whole series of countryside village books , which now cover , I think , about thirty five different counties . |
| 16 | PRUDENTIAL has launched a new range of flexible pensions products which can be converted to a free-standing additional voluntary contribution and vice versa , and allow contribution levels to be reduced or even suspended altogether for up to five years . |
| 17 | Here , Dr Dick Hobbs , one of Britain 's foremost criminologists , believes Labour has learnt an important lesson from the Conservatives . |
| 18 | Luckily in all three of the situations outlined above , the carers have eventually discovered that support for them is available and this has made a great deal of difference to their lives . |
| 19 | Ron Spill , pension controller with Legal & General , said : ‘ This has made a big difference in people 's behaviour . |
| 20 | The number of stock under the supervision of a single worker has increased considerably and this has placed an additional burden on the skill of the stockman to face the new challenges which have resulted . |
| 21 | This has placed an excessive burden on industry , and on the people of the country as a whole , and has also overloaded the government machine itself . |
| 22 | " This has placed an excessive burden on industry , and on the people of the country as a whole , and has also over-loaded the government machine itself … |
| 23 | This has determined a no-loan policy for the UK clearinghouse ( although duplicate material is available for users to keep ) . |
| 24 | Finkelstein ( 1991 ) has argued that this has created a hierarchical view of disability , with groups higher up the hierarchy adopting alienistic attitudes to those seen to be lower down . |
| 25 | This has created a widening gap between the leaders and their electorate . |
| 26 | This has created a long period of uncertainty , but in fact it now appears that they do not grant core funding ( and inside information indicates that the NCC element is the dominant one ) . |
| 27 | This has created a new sense of potential fluidity in political attitudes . |
| 28 | This has created a new sense of potential fluidity in political attitudes . |
| 29 | Almost every eventuality has been foreseen , but this has necessitated a complicated set of forms which , although simple in principle , are so detailed as to be regarded by many as impractical . |
| 30 | This has spawned a fragmented movement of new religions which worship a female divinity . |