Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intricacies of this had almost defied analysis since the early years of the century when Balfour had deliberately muddied the waters . |
| 2 | ‘ Our centre half had just taken part in an all-night ice skating event for charity . |
| 3 | So far , these totalled about one million , of whom more than half had already developed AIDS , Dr Merson told an international conference on HIV in children and mothers , to be opened tomorrow by the Princess of Wales . |
| 4 | The arable side of the local economy had been destroyed and whereas many had once found employment in growing corn only a few people were now needed to tend the flocks and herds . |
| 5 | Citing the cases of Indonesia , Malaysia and Thailand , the report noted that the adoption of labour-intensive development and the provision of social services for the poor had actually reduced poverty in these countries . |
| 6 | In Kalimantan ( Borneo ) , fires believed to have been smouldering in underground coal seams since 1986 or even 1982-83 had now taken hold across many thousands of acres of secondary forest growth ( i.e. the re-growth after clearance ) , often fuelled by the debris from logging operations , and were approaching the primary rainforest of Kutai national park . |
| 7 | The Scottish Conservatives in general had also attracted criticism for their refusal to discuss devolution , giving rise to fears that a constitutional crisis might overtake the country if the Conservatives were defeated in the next general election . |
| 8 | ( The House of Commons social security select committee report published on March 9 had strongly criticized supervision of pension funds by various regulatory bodies including the Investment Management Regulatory Organization ( IMRO ) , whose chair George Nissen resigned on June 29 . ) |
| 9 | An Act of 1485 had already made hunting in disguise or by night a felony ; it was re-enacted several times so that Forest offenders could be prosecuted at Quarter Sessions or at Assizes . |
| 10 | By the end of February 1940 , out of 3 million people in the priority classes ( of which only 1,165,000 had actually taken part in the evacuation ) a mere 477,000 remained in the safe reception areas . |
| 11 | Six patients were receiving treatment with oral or enema steroids , or both and two had recently finished treatment with steroids . |
| 12 | Gaithersburg , Maryland-based Penril DataCommunications Network Inc bought privately held Datability Inc of Carlstadt , New Jersey for about 1m new Penril shares , and assumption of some Datability debts . |
| 13 | The men were volunteers who had undergone a long and thorough training , and most had also had battle experience in South Africa , India and Egypt . |
| 14 | Both had immediately boycotted Cabinet meetings . |