Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council or Boule , which met daily and prepared the agenda for meetings of the citizen assembly , was enlarged from 400 to 500 members . |
| 2 | We are told CBR = 330 and given the starting population in 1987 , the bold figures are projected . |
| 3 | However professional and manly and disciplined the stance taken on their subject matter , English academics continued to be worried by their inability to account rationally for the intrinsic value , style , spirit , and mood of the literary work . |
| 4 | Sylvie , the actress , rearranged her broad-brimmed hat , crossed one tapering leg over another and smoothed a stocking . |
| 5 | The train resembled a site from the late 50s–early 60s when numerous tours were staged on branch lines in this manner and with 75069 in a slightly weather worn condition it certainly looked authentic and fitted the part well . |
| 6 | That evening you visited your GP who told you to take it easy and prescribed a course of tranquillizers . |
| 7 | We 're , working on an hotel project I think and we 're up to week thirteen on the programme and I think you might be able to see on week thirteen and given the information we 've got at the moment as well , it means we 're gon na be working on three floors at once so it was the first thing to identify . |
| 8 | Kalchu went down to the stable and selected a he-goat . |
| 9 | But by formulating the central questions ( sometimes subconsciously ) the production is made coherent and given a focus . |
| 10 | I cleared that and fixed the vice up and they said I could do that and I used the and that in their place and er then they had to quit the premises completely , did n't they ? |
| 11 | A US Embassy profile commented , " partly in order to counteract his playboy image , Zahedi drove himself and his staff extremely hard and achieved a reputation as a leader with impressive knowledge . |
| 12 | Touch and Go ( Published by the Author , 128pp , illus , sbk ) by R G Fletcher is the story of one particular Telegraphist/Air Gunner ( TAG ) course , No 35 , which began training in late 1941 and qualified a year later . |
| 13 | F—in' red wine on the carpet , that was bad , white wine on the walls so you get like a nice green tinge and they 'd been sick and broken the toilet seat and they 'd shit in the toilet and not flush it , fags in the coffee cups , I do n't let them come round any more … ’ |
| 14 | Following an armed uprising , the emergence of the Irish Free State was recognized in 1922 and given the status of a self-governing dominion . |
| 15 | The Committee was impressed and placed a bulk order for 37 cars , comprising 11 more toastracks , 12 open-toppers and 14 double-deckers with railcoach features . |
| 16 | The factor that may be decisive in explaining why the oil industry produced in west Thurso so great and prolonged an excess at ages 5–24 is the large number of incomers already associated with the nuclear industry . |
| 17 | Although the Gnostics claimed to offer a higher knowledge than the simple faith of the church , their teachings were highly mythological and encountered an opposition , no less vehement than that of the church , from the late pagan Platonists , such as Plotinus ( mid-third century ) and his successors . |
| 18 | Jack Kahn graduated with honours at the University of Leeds in 1928 and achieved an MD from the same university . |
| 19 | Water was considered most important and given a weighting of 10 . |
| 20 | The Association had been first instituted in 1380 and given the status of Corporation in 1555 by Mary of Lorraine who founded Trinity Hospital . |
| 21 | Nevertheless these suspicions resulted in his being removed from his position as president in 1844 and given the post of judicial assessor , which meant , in effect , becoming second-in-command to a governor appointed by the Colonial Office . |
| 22 | Bolt Beranek & Newman Inc 's plans to get out of its current financial hole have left Standard & Poor 's Corp unmoved and seen the company 's subordinated debt downgraded to a dire CCC+ with the outlook negative ( CI No 2,111 ) . |
| 23 | I 'd only been there about five minutes when they came to escort me off down to Bleak House , where I was stripped naked and given a blanket and put into a cell . |
| 24 | Then further enemy aircraft arrived and bombed and strafed the patrol for several hours . |
| 25 | From so blotched and cramped a creature |
| 26 | Now the political culture of the time was such that the political system which actually emerged is rather different from that which some of the people who went to Philadelphia thought would emerge and that really reflects a number of changes , one that America has grown from four million to two hundred and fifty million , two , from being isolated , remote and scattered the population has consolidated and grown , America has become a vast industrial power as opposed to a , an agricultural nation and all these have had their impact upon the importance and scope of government . |
| 27 | It was felt that was totally contradictory as community care was more expensive and required a lot more time and resources if it was to be quality care . |
| 28 | Italy 's new agriculture minister , Giovanni Goria , unmasked the Federconsorzi 's frightful financial and appointed a troika to administer the group . |
| 29 | It is far too weighty and achieved a piece of writing for any such hasty response . |
| 30 | However local and limited the awareness to which the words testify , I have identified a spontaneous reaction to which , since it is provisionally approved by ‘ Be aware ’ , it is rational to seek means as an end good in itself ; if you disagree , the burden of proof has shifted to you , to make me aware of something overlooked which will redirect my response . |