Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Representatives from as many relevant agencies as possible met a few times a year , and devised an agreed strategy for the inner area concerned . |
| 2 | Each produced the three components , but did not get a successful overall result . |
| 3 | But I think the political climate on that changed a few years ago , when there was the big influx of heroin onto the market … . |
| 4 | This got a few whistles . |
| 5 | The more he thought about schoolgirls , the more distasteful became the forty-year-old debs that his mother had lined up for him . |
| 6 | This limited the economic incentives they were prepared to provide . |
| 7 | This contradicted the underlying intentions of the legislation which sees all young people as needing pedagogical support irrespective of their social condition . |
| 8 | This posed the complementary questions of ‘ do the activities exist ’ and ‘ who could be carrying them out ’ , leading to the normal enquiries about effectiveness and efficiency . |
| 9 | This created a few problems as intense rivalry was felt between the children from the two towns . |
| 10 | Queen Victoria and George V presided a dozen times over the formation of minority or coalition governments . |
| 11 | Goalscorer John Byrne , who broke a leg while playing for French club Le Havre three years ago which threatened to end his career , said : ‘ At that time , days like this seemed a million miles away . |
| 12 | This caused a few gasps , as well it might . |
| 13 | In the early stages of her marriage she kept her maiden name but when this caused a few rumblings in Arkansas and Clinton lost his bid for re-election as governor in 1980 , she took his name and he was returned to office two years later . |
| 14 | So long as both the computer 's screen fonts and the printer or typesetter fonts were from the same source this caused no great problems but if the two were mixed then real trouble could occur . |
| 15 | This ignored the energy-intensive consequences of its manufacture , FOE said . |
| 16 | On top of this came the sundry depredations of military and civilian authorities desperate to feed the armed forces and urban population in the face of totally inadequate harvests . |
| 17 | For just as the British rejected the multimillion-pound blandishments by Suchard three years ago on behalf of richer , more bitter European chocolate , so Continental consumers are largely unimpressed by UK products . |
| 18 | Every time he walked that 's him come back again and every time he stopped it stopped and this happened a few times and he was very scared and he thought he had better go and see what the noise was and anything well it was just a pet sheep tangled up in its tether . |
| 19 | This subordinated the lower levels of government directly to Yeltsin , and banned local elections until Dec. 1 , 1992 . |
| 20 | This allowed the senior referees to relax more with their refereeing and the games flowed accordingly . |
| 21 | The North Korean government on Jan. 30 signed a nuclear safeguards accord which would allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities . |
| 22 | Some developed the reticent traditions of Jesus ' infancy to provide stories about Mary 's parents , and her ( miraculous ) birth and perpetual virginity . |
| 23 | This followed the same lines as Woodruffe ( 1976 ) , who divided rural districts into six types depending on their history of population change : |
| 24 | This unnerved the three countries and confirmed their instinct to look westward . |
| 25 | Some walked the 3½ miles to and from Market Harborough each working day . |
| 26 | This was inevitable : partisan warfare is confined to rough country and the French governed the great towns with little difficulty . |
| 27 | If they moved within their own country , this raised no novel problems of technique . |
| 28 | This side-stepped the legal aspects of the coronation , for the combined nations of Europe might have chosen to elect an emperor by some other means — though undoubtedly this person would have been Charles . |
| 29 | Among other things , this established the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England ( HBMC ) which has taken over many of the functions formerly carried out directly by the DoE . |
| 30 | The differences in treatment of the authors was very apparent when we found that some selected a few headings and sub-headings and others sub-divided the subject much more . |