Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This produced the land-cover classification shown for a part of the area in Fig. 5.2 . |
| 32 | Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost . |
| 33 | This made the total cost of erecting the lift to be an estimated £27,000 . |
| 34 | All of this made the rural village an extremely close-knit society . |
| 35 | This made the local mob angry . |
| 36 | This avoided the usual data capture problems , and although the amount of data was less than ideal ( ie there were no job titles , qualifications , addresses etc ) the accuracy was likely to be of a high order . |
| 37 | This amused the Prime Minister . |
| 38 | The government condemned the attacks as the work of the enemies of democracy and on Dec. 12 announced the indefinite postponement of legislative elections , due on Jan. 9 , 1992 , " as a gesture of goodwill " . |
| 39 | This depicted the man-bull Eabani , seizing an ibex by the horn with one hand and flanked on the other by crossed rampant beasts , as well as a goddess wearing a Sumerian skirt . |
| 40 | This limited the economic incentives they were prepared to provide . |
| 41 | The forces of law and order were not constitutionally apparent , the apparatus of state power was hidden from view , and this provided the Revolutionary Command Council with an unregulated instrument of policy . |
| 42 | Although no energy was produced this demonstrated the technical possibility of the process and a serious commercial reactor is envisaged by 2020 . |
| 43 | This demonstrated the disturbed state of Russian industrial relations as the proletariat remained outside society — ; deprived of any stake in the existing order . |
| 44 | This demonstrated the uneasy nature of American policy from 1948 to 1950 — clear that south Korea was not essential to American strategy against the Soviet Union but equally unable to accept that south Korea might go communist . |
| 45 | In the same year , the Rumpers passed an Act for the Relief of Religious and Peaceable People ; this retained the legal requirement on the laity to take part in some form of Sunday worship , but released them from their obligation to attend the local parish church . |
| 46 | Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis , who faced dissent over his austerity policies and his moderate stance on the Macedonia issue , on Dec. 2 dismissed the entire Cabinet . |
| 47 | From 1917 onwards , many referred to the need for proportional representation and some charged the Labour Party with fomenting class warfare through its parliamentary and municipal campaigns . |
| 48 | Paragraph 12 pronounced the key requirement : the Government 's duty was , it said , to advocate a policy which would provide the best possible foundation for a further reduction in inflation , already reduced in the previous year from 17 per cent to around 8 per cent ; an increase in jobs and output ; and an improved standard of living . |
| 49 | The Middle East International of Feb. 22 described the anti-war movement as " relatively inactive " , although Marseille dockers from the communist CGT trade union refused on Feb. 13 to load arms , ammunition and equipment for the Gulf . |
| 50 | This involved the long-term use of American economic and military power to contain Russian expansionism , and to prevent the Soviet Communist system from gaining more ground . |
| 51 | This involved the interactive use of seismic and log data with palynological work . |
| 52 | This involved the whole group in seeing differences and matching similarities . |
| 53 | By the early 1 970s , the spread of urban influences and easier communications and telecommunications meant that a single culture began to emerge ( Mogey , 1976 ) with regional and urban-rural differences being much reduced , and this invalidated the century-old division of society by Tonnies ( 1887 ) into ‘ Gemeinschaft ’ ( rural ) and ‘ Gesellschaft ’ ( urban ) . |
| 54 | Much of this bore the unmistakable stamp of guild thought and policy . |
| 55 | This contradicted the underlying intentions of the legislation which sees all young people as needing pedagogical support irrespective of their social condition . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | This jerked the real Isabel back to the Queen 's solar with a vengeance . |
| 58 | Ernest Rutherford had discovered the existence of the atomic nucleus in 1911 and this reinforced the vague idea : bring nuclei of light elements together and build the nuclei of heavy ones . |
| 59 | This created the limited excitement that publication day can sometimes bring : broadcasts and reviews to search out . |
| 60 | The discoverer — reputedly Ingolfur Arnarson after whom a fine peak near Þingvellir and Ingólfshöfdi is named — called the country ‘ Iceland ’ because of the ice he found there ; this created the first half-truth about the islands of the north . |