Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bigger country , not one tight little prejudiced clapped out topheavy society , less breathing down one 's neck . |
| 2 | But , on a slow wicket , their partnership of 97 used up 29 overs , and 217 off 55 overs did not look enough . |
| 3 | The administration in the United States ( which had never formally recognized the incorporation of the three Baltic republics into the Soviet Union ) on March 12 ruled out such recognition until independence had been properly negotiated with the Soviet authorities , and it called on the latter to respect Lithuania 's declaration , and on all parties to avoid violence . |
| 4 | But because this ruled out all danger or adventure , Eternity became destructive to the spirit , and the bureaucrats had themselves to be destroyed . |
| 5 | This laid down specific objectives for each party in A Squadron in three phases , specifying that the squadron would come under the command of the Eighth Army on 16 October . |
| 6 | Er , and this came up several years ago , when this council went into conversation with the Goddard Estate , and the Goddard Estate wishing to dispose of our assets . |
| 7 | This brought in new allies , particularly from inland Karia , and new revenue . |
| 8 | This brought in new people such as Robert Hunter as head of the Department of Energy Office of Basic Research , and one of his first acts was to reorder some of the research funds.l This caused some research activities to be trimmed at Oak Ridge , Los Alamos and Princeton , where the dt experiment was postponed for at least another three years . |
| 9 | As they were fanatically tidy this took on enormous importance . |
| 10 | Early references give the names of Richard Longman , Robert Mitchell and John Mitchel who in 1493 gave up eleven shillings for a chalice . |
| 11 | Very significantly , in comparing his study with another carried out 19 years before , Gorer found there had been a marked increase in this expressed appreciation of the sexual factor in marriage — even more marked in women than in men . |
| 12 | This sparked off two days of rioting , with widespread looting and burning : it was put down only after the declaration of martial law . |
| 13 | Six charged over human torch attack |
| 14 | The growth of an overtly moralizing genre of English painting from the 1840s staked out similar representations of female purity and immorality . |
| 15 | Manufacturing support executive Mark Shingler said : ‘ Alexandra came first because of their very high standards and Imperial ran out joint winners because of their great improvement in standards . ’ |
| 16 | And she says , ‘ Come off it , my man , who d' you think you 're talking to , a mere jumped up commoner princess . ’ |
| 17 | Nearly 30pc of directors who received bonuses in 1991 missed out this time round . |
| 18 | That opened up whole chains of other thoughts which he put resolutely away . |
| 19 | The Russian revolution of 1917 drove out many Russians . |
| 20 | A pipeline network in the 1940s brought about significant growth in usage , and , aided by government restrictions on gas prices to the consumer , consumption increased ninefold between 1945 and 1973 . |
| 21 | India 's young idealists of the early Seventies gave up bright futures to work with the poorest . |
| 22 | It emerged in May that a Commission ruling signed in February 1990 banned the export to other member states of live calves born to cows with BSE , but Gummer on May 17 ruled out any restrictions on such calves for use in Britain . |
| 23 | Why get all steamed up this winter ? |
| 24 | The room immediately buzzed with activity as we all scribbled down voluminous notes . |
| 25 | Increased mobility has reduced the feeling of attachment to neighbourhoods ; the redevelopment of old housing estates in the 1950s and on into the 1970s broke up established communities . |
| 26 | Croatia on Aug. 4 broke off all relations with Serbia . |
| 27 | ‘ No , ’ said Lucy , ‘ it all blew up last weekend . |
| 28 | The thing , story in the Land Army magazine is about remembering the new recruited went out first day to go muck-spreading and she was going about it and she stuck her fork in and she landed flat on her face in a heap ! |
| 29 | Haslemere thirds ran out deserved winners of a competitive match . |
| 30 | King Henry II carried out legal reforms and , in 1162 , persuaded Thomas Beckett to become Archbishop of Canterbury in the hope that he would help to bring the ecclesiastical courts into line with the royal courts . |