Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made perfect sense of Miss Julie 's slightly tatty and irregular patrician origins . |
| 2 | That made some sort of sense . |
| 3 | Bills completed by 1980 laid special emphasis on recycling and energy conversion . |
| 4 | It was sold by Violet 's trustees to Marcus Wickham Boynton who in 1948 sold 154 acres to the Air Ministry for Carnaby airfield . |
| 5 | On 21 January the Communists numbering up to 3000 made another assault on the Secretariat and were again repulsed . |
| 6 | Staining with ECCD-2 revealed several subpopulations of KC ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 7 | Patrick made sure the porter and the bell-boy each got another packet of Kent King Size . |
| 8 | They each became Prime Minister after serving in two of the great offices of state . |
| 9 | A potential failure of contraception had been recognised by 171 patients : 93 reported a split or leaking condom ; 13 reported a condom coming off during intercourse ; 32 admitted inconsistent use of condoms ; 32 reported forgetting to take contraceptive pills or taking antibiotics concurrently with the pill ; and one reported a late injection of medroxyprogesterone acetate . |
| 10 | The appellants , who each made repeated sales at the shop , pleaded not guilty to indictments charging burglary and handling stolen goods as alternatives . |
| 11 | Six salmon were reported from the River Moy for the week while both the Druncliffe River and the Ballisodare River each produced two salmon to rod and line . |
| 12 | Sorry got some money in there , OK oh do your ballerina bit , we 'll have to wash your face , yeah it 's filthy , filthy face , breakfast face oh that 's that new twins is n't it ? |
| 13 | Though we each traced individual patterns in our cars , the range of experiences and purposes ( shopping , going for a drive , getting to work ) gave the ‘ content ’ of our journeys much in common . |
| 14 | This sold 90,000 holidays in 1984 and claimed 45 per cent of the market . |
| 15 | In short , rapid population growth was a result of poverty and this asked fundamental questions about access and control over the means of production as well as the technical means by which they were developed . |
| 16 | When it became apparent that he must be dead , Casey gave orders to recover the body for proper burial ; this became another item in the wish-lists exchanged with the Iranians . |
| 17 | He forgot for a moment that it was pot and thought of nicotine , and then of cancer , cells in delirium , the inroads that living would make one day even on this varnished little icon of the exempt : the flab of tiredness , children , overwork , sitting up too late at night listening to people , indulging buoyant childish appetites as a device to sustain good nature against foreshadows of the senile self . |
| 18 | The French made countless varieties of goats ' milk cheeses which are often small and wrapped in a chestnut leaf and then tied with raffia ( see p67 ) . |
| 19 | Furthermore , this presumed strong association between crime and social class has been the basis for most of the leading sociological theories of crime . |
| 20 | This led several members of the Congress to question the Assembly 's moral right to initiate political reforms . |
| 21 | Senior officials of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) meeting in Finland on May 12 agreed that consent from the FRY was not needed to approve decisions on Yugoslavia and its former republics [ for April CSCE meeting on FRY see p. 38848 ] . |
| 22 | Members of Parliament did complain about poor radio reception in their constituencies , and some made occasional allegations of political interference and bias in the radio news . |
| 23 | In early October , as Mrs Thatcher — flanked by her Cabinet — received a nine-minute standing ovation at the close of a successful party conference , few expected any challenge to her in the leadership election which had to be held within 28 days of the start of the new parliamentary session , due to open on 7 November . |
| 24 | This produced complete deadlock in the conference , which now went to the highest governmental level , showing the importance attached to the matter by both the USA and the UK . |
| 25 | Among other findings , this produced five cases of young leukaemia within eight miles of the plant over the period 1979–84 , where less than one would have been expected on the basis of national rates . |
| 26 | This produced differential status between older and younger sons and between sons and daughters . |
| 27 | This produced double sets of office-bearers in the same burgh , with the result that commissions were given to two different persons as commissioners for electing the burgess to represent the District in Parliament . |
| 28 | While this made eminent sense for production efficiency in wartime , it was very much apparent to the British that this would give the United States a natural advantage when the war ended . |
| 29 | When Paisley was later told about the woman 's remark , he immediately condemned it and rebuked her , but this made little impression on the basic loyalties of the audience . |
| 30 | The ‘ No Smoking ’ and seatbelt signs were on , although this made little difference to Myeloski who had clamped himself into his seat as soon as he had boarded the aircraft . |