Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some this had the additional attraction that the hospital trusts could , at a future date , be simply floated off as private bodies . |
| 2 | The old 911 had the worst laid-out cockpit of any new car . |
| 3 | AUGUST 2 1917 witnessed the first landing of an aircraft on a moving ship . |
| 4 | Under Elizabeth about 600 officers administered the Crown 's lands and a further 600 served the other departments of state . |
| 5 | That was until the 89th minute when yet another set-piece produced the third goal . |
| 6 | The youngest dead had the most flowers , |
| 7 | Its twelve articles covered military as well as economic collaboration , and the Soviet presence in Egypt in the early 1970s became the largest anywhere outside the communist bloc at this time . |
| 8 | The recession in the early 1970s caused the highest unemployment since the ‘ Great Depression ’ of the 1930s , and this increased dramatically from the late 1970s onwards . |
| 9 | In January 1991 United donated the first Boeing 727 built ( N7001U ) to the Seattle Museum of Flight and the airline has plans to donate further 727s to colleges as and when the aircraft end their flying careers . |
| 10 | The political upheavals in eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s shocked the Chinese leadership . |
| 11 | Having been parliamentary commissioner for the army in Scotland in 1646 , he was reappointed to that post 3 May 1651 , and by early 1652 held the equivalent post in Ireland . |
| 12 | Alongside the milder reforms of the 1950s and early 1960s surged the powerful forces evoked by the death penalty . |
| 13 | New curbs on wage settlements reminiscent of Selwyn Lloyd 's ‘ guiding light ’ of the early 1960s replaced the doctrinaire ‘ hands-off ’ policy of 1979–81 . |
| 14 | Couples married in the early 1950s produced the same family sizes in 4 years and 7.4 years respectively ( table 4.7 ) . |
| 15 | The early 1860s saw the first of a whole series of underground organizations designed to spread populist propaganda and prepare for revolutionary action against the regime . |
| 16 | A superficial illustration of this view would be that while the collapse of the UK 's steel industry , car industry and others at the end of the 1970s and early 1980s affected the whole economic landscape of the UK , generating mass unemployment in the north , the midlands and in all inner cities , the Stock Market crash in the international financial crisis of October 1987 had an impact on few people . |
| 17 | These 12 made the main experimental subjects . |
| 18 | These latter had the lowest biomass and the lowest nutrient standing crop . |
| 19 | Most people when confronted by that kind of thing pretend it is not happening , hide themselves behind newspapers , show an unwarranted fascination in reading advertisements , but these four watched the drunk man 's progress , they seemed to monitor it . |
| 20 | The Kennedy round of cuts in the later sixties saw the average level of tariffs on manufactures falling by one-third , and by half on machinery and vehicles . |
| 21 | The Kremlin therefore wanted to pursue competition short of armed conflict , and the mid-to-late 1950s saw the Cold War take on new dimensions and a truly global nature as Khruschev adapted to changed circumstances , proving ready , for example , to ally with groups in the emerging ‘ Third World ’ who opposed the capitalist and colonial West . |
| 22 | On the Sunday , a crowd of eight thousand cheered the Royal Family on their way to church and Baldwin was given a most cordial reception . |
| 23 | A packed courtroom far from all seated heard the former Recorder of Teesside recall his early days in the area during his speech to mark the opening of the Middlesbrough-based court centre . |
| 24 | Behind all this lay the American , British and continental European bank interests , such as Lazard 's . |
| 25 | All this increased the natural confusion and suspicion . |
| 26 | All this prompted the local Bridgewater Mercury to run a rare editorial . |
| 27 | The late 1940s witnessed the general operation of a system of bilateral arrangements for trade and payments . |
| 28 | Other developments during the late 1940s included the Yak–14 assault glider and the Yak–15 , the first jet aircraft completed in the Soviet Union and derived from the Yak–3 . |
| 29 | Such new , articulate expression may have derived from the fact that older people in the late 1930s comprised the first fully literate generation and were also members of a cohort which had ‘ acquired trade union habits and organisation ’ . |
| 30 | The fall in family size made childbearing a more youthful activity and the reduction in age at marriage from the late 1930s reduced the average age at first birth even further so that it reached a minimum of 23.8 from 1968 to 1970 . |