Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made the Irish Sea the most radioactive stretch of water in the world . |
| 2 | Each time he was about to embark on a new affair , he bought Jessica an expensive present — as if that made the whole thing right . |
| 3 | The Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 restated the criminal offence of ‘ watching or besetting ’ but excluded from that activity ‘ attending at or near the house or place where a person resides , or works , or carries on business , or happens to be … in order merely to obtain or communicate information ’ . |
| 4 | That got the biggest cheer of the night . |
| 5 | Any trimming should be done in mid-spring , very lightly so as not to cut into growth older than that produced the previous year . |
| 6 | Lady Arran , who in 1980 became the first person to top 100 mph in an offshore power boat , set the world speed record for an electric boat at just over 50 mph . |
| 7 | Each produced the three components , but did not get a successful overall result . |
| 8 | Norman Cruickshank , Cleghorn , Lanark , chairman of the society , told members and guests at the annual general meeting in Carlisle last week that that demonstrated the continuing confidence of members in the long-term future of the breed — and the success of the carcase breed in meeting the demand from butchers for quality carcases and the demand from consumers for lean , tender and succulent beef . |
| 9 | He was educated at private schools in Kew and Maida Vale , and in 1866 entered the Royal College of Chemistry , presided over by Dr Edward Frankland . |
| 10 | A change of government in 1948 found the new administration equally committed to health reform . |
| 11 | It seems the French got the better part of the deal when the Eurodisney share price was announced in the City yesterday with all the overkill we have come to expect from the Americans . |
| 12 | One set wore the same number of rings , another shared the curious habit of flushing the lavatory before using it while others married on the same day , had the same jobs and had spouses of the same name . |
| 13 | This became the necessary London correspondent and support of the quite prosperous Taylors & Lloyds . |
| 14 | This became the saddest decision of all . |
| 15 | This became the Working Committee of the UGCC , but Nkrumah rapidly discovered that there was little else : there were only two branches , both inactive . |
| 16 | Then , when the first priest arrived , he wanted to live in Tala-Tala near the kirk , so this became the first hospital , and this , ’ he almost kicked the battered old trunk , ‘ became the first filing cabinet . |
| 17 | After his retirement this became the well-known pianoforte manufacturing firm of Collard & Collard . |
| 18 | The state of continual fear which Hobbes attributed to natural man outside society was , for Vico , a characteristic of emergent civilized man inside society , and this became the generative source for much of human culture . |
| 19 | After the war this became the British section of the Women 's International League for Peace and Freedom , a transnational organization which exists to this day . |
| 20 | They were imitated by their elders and again , the novel behaviour of the few became the accepted behaviour of the group . |
| 21 | The UWP , in power since 1982 , won nine of the 17 parliamentary seats in the general election of April 6 , 1987 ; fresh elections on April 30 produced the same result , and the subsequent defection of an SLP member increased the UWP 's majority to three seats [ see pp. 35187-8 ] . |
| 22 | It was Matilda , the only offspring of this marriage , who in 1181–2 became the unwitting cause of what the chronicler of the Limousin , Geoffrey de Vigeois , called " a great calamity for our country " . |
| 23 | The more he thought about schoolgirls , the more distasteful became the forty-year-old debs that his mother had lined up for him . |
| 24 | The low-energy predictions of this theory have agreed remarkably well with observation , and this led the Swedish Academy in 1979 to award the Nobel Prize in physics to Salam , Weinberg , and Sheldon Glashow , who had also constructed similar unified theories . |
| 25 | The decision may certainly be said to be out of line with the recent trend , that a defendant should be judged on the facts as he believes them to be ; and this led the Criminal Law Revision Committee to recommend that the rules should be harmonized and that the prosecution should prove that the man realized that the girl was under 16 . |
| 26 | This led the Indian judge in the Tokyo tribunal to issue a detailed and lengthy dissenting judgment , in which he asserted that the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was itself a war crime ( Pal , 1953 ) . |
| 27 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |
| 28 | Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov on Feb. 12 made the astonishing announcement that January 's sudden withdrawal of Rbs50 and Rbs100 banknotes had been prompted by the discovery of a Western plot to flood the Soviet economy with billions of roubles to create artificial hyper-inflation . |
| 29 | This produced the perfect job , and a metal copy was made down in the tool-room . |
| 30 | This produced the usual tangle of discrepancy . |