Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That coupled with an away win over Connacht champions Mayo was a timely boost for morale . |
| 2 | That amounted to a separate and independent cause of action . |
| 3 | In addition there were regional and county federations : by 1901 these had risen to thirty-six , with each centred on a major town to enable the stronger , urban Councils to help the weaker , rural ones . |
| 4 | It is difficult to believe these comments refer to the same Report as that evaluated in a balanced leader in the Independent ( 16 November 1988 ) under the headline ‘ A blow for literacy ’ . |
| 5 | Is that agreed as a fair way of proceeding ? |
| 6 | Breathlessness , cough , sputum , abdominal discomfort , and fatigue were each rated on a five point scale ranging from none to very severe , and a summary score was calculated as the average of these five symptoms . |
| 7 | There were fears that if the date for stabilisation was altered from that promised in a recent government white paper , the privatisation of the electricity industry would be jeopardised . |
| 8 | But it failed to recognize that the challenge of running an individual company was very different to that posed by a large public organization with a multiplicity of purposes whose owners were n't shareholders but taxpayers who felt entitled to demand access to those things the nation already owned . |
| 9 | In order to test these predictions we need to compare the size of the latent inhibition effect found after a long exposure — test interval ( which we may take to be 24 h or more ) with that found after a short interval ( when conditioning follows exposure immediately or after a few minutes ) . |
| 10 | The prevalence of HLA-B8 , however , was similar to that found in an earlier study of primary sclerosing cholangitis in an Australian population . |
| 11 | Viable eubacterial biomass in the host-mud , measured as the PLFA per g dry weight of sediment , was similar to that found in an active subtropical estuary mud flat ( Table 1 ) . |
| 12 | The defence that an " offer of amends " had been made failed on two counts : it had not been made " as soon as practicable " ( seven weeks had elapsed since publication ) and " reasonable care " had not been exercised , because a check with current stage directories would have revealed that the name chosen for the fictitious actress was the same as that used by a leading West End lady . |
| 13 | These are each framed by a swallow-tailed black line . |
| 14 | This enabled them once again to draw up a profile of those high-risk subjects who developed schizophrenia , which turned out to be similar to that reported at an earlier stage of the research . |
| 15 | That said , the prevalence of NSAID intake was not significantly lower than that reported in an Australian community prevalence study after correction for a lower proportion of women in the present study . |
| 16 | It angered her that he appeared to think this amounted to a great concession . |
| 17 | In the case of Nos. 13 , 25 , 34 and 35 , this amounted to a complete rebuild , including strengthened solebars . |
| 18 | The County Hall Department are spending from nineteen ninety-two , ninety-three , this amounted to a hundred and eighty thousand four hundred and ten pounds . |
| 19 | Together with advice and guidance on housing , neighbourhood development and the layout of roads , this amounted to a total visualization of urban form at a regional scale . |
| 20 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal was not satisfied that this amounted to a binding agreement , but held that even if it did , it would have been rendered void because it would have been an agreement purporting to preclude the employee from presenting a complaint to a tribunal . |
| 21 | Even allowing for the investment risk of personal pensions , this amounted to a guaranteed gain for younger people and a fairly sound proposition for anyone aged up to about 40 for women and 45 for men . |
| 22 | This led into a Victorian style kitchen with a tiled floor and copper skillets hanging in the middle of the room . |
| 23 | This led into a technical and commercial appraisal of European competition and the anticipated market changes over the next ten years . |
| 24 | This led to a substantial increase in platelet cholesterol concentration , the bulk of this increase being associated with the platelet membrane . |
| 25 | This led to a constructive discussion in which the employee volunteered to give up his supervisory role and instead concentrate on other activities at which he was better and actually preferred . |
| 26 | Behaviour was subject to the decrees of custom and this led to a strong emphasis on pragmatism and the averting of any confrontation . |
| 27 | This led to a good deal of overlapping and interdepartmental rivalry , notably between the foreign and war offices : propaganda in the neutral states which it was most important to influence was in fact carried on largely by the British diplomatic missions there , often supported by groups of expatriates and local anglophiles . |
| 28 | This led to a certain amount of friction between the Gardener ( Hortulanus ) and the Keeper of the Garden ( Praefectus Horti ) , Isaac Rand , who , in accordance with his office , published in the same year Index Plantarum officinalium quae in Horto Chelseiano . |
| 29 | This led to a certain amount of friction , as Matthew was in the habit of practising on his flute when he went to bed , and this was not appreciated by the men trying to sleep over his head , let alone those in the next room to him , and one day in the Mess they protested strongly and threatened to flatten him if this continued . |
| 30 | This led to a real Sunday morning 's devotion , singing new stanzas to the song I had started a few days before : ‘ Thank you for sore legs ; thank you for the pain ; I wan na thank you , Lord . |