Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [noun prp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In pre-Tom Watson days , this made Thomson the greatest British Open champion of the era . |
| 2 | And so Maldita the malevolent became Fantasma the fantastic . |
| 3 | In 1351 Edward III granted John the woodward of Raskelf a pension of 3d. a day ‘ for good service and especially because his eyes were torn out and his tongue and his fingers cut off by malefactors in the Forest of Galtres in the time when he was one of the King 's foresters there ’ . |
| 4 | When Mariner 10 reached Mercury the following data on planetary magnetic fields were to hand : the Earth rotates quickly , almost certainly has a large molten iron core , and has a strong dipole field ; Mars rotates quickly , but probably has no molten iron core , and has no detectable dipole field ; Venus probably has a sizeable molten iron core but rotates slowly , and has no detectable dipole field ( perhaps also because it has no solid inner core — see section 4.2 ) ; the Moon rotates slowly , probably has no liquid iron core , and has no detectable dipole field . |
| 5 | Solihull referee Vic Callow showed Pascucci the red card and booked Aspinall and Oliver Bierhoff during an 80th-minute clash . |
| 6 | 11 ) called Corinth and Chalkis the handcuffs of Greece , and the importance of Corinth to Macedon , which this comparison indicates , goes back to 338 when Philip II made Corinth the physical centre of his new Greek league ( though whether the meeting-chamber has been identified on the ground is disputed ) . |
| 7 | He received military training in the Soviet Union and Egypt in the 1970s , fought the Israelis in Lebanon in 1982 and first entered Sweden the following year after obtaining a visa through its Damascus embassy . |
| 8 | The Revolution of 1688 lost D'Urfey the courtly connections he had developed , so that he had to turn to other means of support . |
| 9 | A poet in the 870s imagined Charles the Bald controlling the wheel of fortune , throwing down one man , and raising up another . |