Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all duly sentenced , those villagers of Snodland , were to walk bare foot after the procession on the following Sunday , each charged to carry a taper worth a halfpenny which they should offer up to the Holy Cross . |
| 2 | Apart from straightforward fountains , ornaments depicting cherubs , mermaids and similar characters can be purchased , each designed to take a pump outlet so that water can spout from its mouth ( Fig. 6 ) , or a shell , or any similar object that they might be holding . |
| 3 | The Chamber of the People of the Federal Assembly had on May 30 failed to endorse a resolution ( which had already been passed by the Chamber of Nations ) requesting that the names of all former StB agents be published . |
| 4 | When this failed to elicit a response he turned directly to the larger . |
| 5 | Many professionals said this failed to plug a gap in the Children Act . |
| 6 | This sought to demonstrate a concept of surplus which , taking besides labour other inputs — land , skill and ability , capital — into account , did not rely upon Ricardo 's labour theory of value ; but went on to conclude that , under Capitalism , the inputs are not rewarded by reference to the parts they play in the creation of wealth and that labour in particular did not get its fair share . |
| 7 | This proposed empowering a summary court to order , on application by the medical officer of that Corporation , the removal and detention and maintenance , in an institution infirmary , of elderly , infirm , or physically incapacitated persons living in insanitary conditions , or who were suffering from any grave chronic disease . |
| 8 | This involved writing a sentence on the board , and getting the children to form similar sentences . |
| 9 | This involved designing a questionnaire and applying it to quantitative observations of a sample of companies in the same type of industry in each country . |
| 10 | This involved presenting a priming word just prior to a target letter string . |
| 11 | During the treatment his back was x-rayed and this involved injecting an oil based substance into his spine to help show up the nerves . |
| 12 | This helped to prevent a price slump but it also led to ‘ butter mountains ’ and ‘ wine lakes ’ which were expensive to store . |
| 13 | This helped to avoid a recession and the ‘ real ’ economy continued to grow strongly . |
| 14 | This seemed to give a sense of his priorities . |
| 15 | The New Delhi High Court on Sept. 2 intervened to quash an application by the Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) , which was seeking powers to pursue information on alleged pay-offs related to the 1986 Bofors armaments deal [ see pp. 35336 ; 35382 ] . |
| 16 | This came to create a rift between insiders and outsiders . |
| 17 | However , an understanding of how and why this happened requires a frame of reference much wider than one limited to the discipline of English . |
| 18 | And as the Men broke through into his cage and reached up to grab him , and as another started to throw a net over the hole in the cage above , so Creggan flexed his wings , thrust forward and up and surged out above his friends and the Cages into the wild forbidding sky , and freedom . |
| 19 | This included taking a sample from each section of files to identify the type and quantity of file contents and the level of time-expired material , and also analysing daily activity rates for file creation , up-dating , movements in and out , weeding/culling and file transfer or destruction . |
| 20 | First I had to be cleansed — this meant drinking a lot of medicated water and throwing it up again . |
| 21 | The clothes , the buildings , the pitch and intonation of voices speaking Amharic ; the smell of rancid butter , of red peppers and burning cow dung that permeated the town ; the packs of savage dogs that roamed the streets and whose howling rose and fell through the night ; an occasional corpse hanging on the gallows-tree ; beggars who had lost a hand or foot for theft ; debtors and creditors wandering round chained together ; strings of donkeys bringing in firewood ; caravans of mules ; the crowded market where men and women squatted on the ground , selling earthen pots , lengths of cloths , skins , cartridges , bars of salt , silver ornaments , heaps of grain , vegetables , beer — all this combined to create a scene and an atmosphere unlike any other in the world . |
| 22 | This did present a problem , as of the three services which the L.C.C . |
| 23 | Yet some did take a step of great courage . |
| 24 | This appeared to represent a backlash against its recent campaign of nationalist protests , which had included a rowdy pro-independence demonstration disrupting celebrations in Bratislava ( Slovakia 's capital ) of the Nov. 17 anniversary of the start of the 1989 revolution . |
| 25 | This appeared to contradict a statement issued by the ANC 's Johannesburg headquarters on Feb. 5 . |
| 26 | This appeared to resolve a controversy in which the USA had expressed misgivings about the effect of the new corps on NATO . |
| 27 | In practice this appeared to mean a break with the French and , like many Americans engaged in day-to-day dealings in Vietnam , Blum 's frustration had reached the point where he would recommend withdrawing US assistance altogether rather than endlessly humouring the French . |
| 28 | The most reasonable assumption was that the French had pushed a cavalry raid across the frontier . |
| 29 | This had caused a ripple of protest . |
| 30 | This had necessitated a rerouting of most rail traffic from France or the Netherlands into Germany . |