Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The insistence on the supremacy of the political has become a cliché of recent thinking . |
| 2 | He criticised the backwardness of Islamic orthodoxy ; nevertheless he wrote on 17 October 1936 , ‘ a soul that was only superficially Islamic has become a soul convinced of Islam … a soul that daily rendered homage to HIM ’ . |
| 3 | Although Labour has made a commitment to buy back the national grid , Williams argues that its policy on British Coal 's future has been left largely unsaid . |
| 4 | The most reasonable assumption was that the French had pushed a cavalry raid across the frontier . |
| 5 | Their prospects were hopeless because the British had developed a command of the sea that was much more effective than anything seen in earlier wars . |
| 6 | After the British had signed an armistice with the Vichy administration , a number of Gaullist " explosions " ( the most celebrated of which was a stormy interview between de Gaulle and the British minister of state in Cairo , Oliver Lyttelton ) forced a modification of the armistice terms so as to accommodate the General 's objections . |
| 7 | The French have invented a perfume spray , mostly lemon , which stops dogs barking . |
| 8 | ‘ The Sex Pistols ’ , he wrote , ‘ are very New York and it 's nice to see that the British have produced a band capable of producing the atmosphere created by the New York Dolls and their many imitators , even though it might be too late … ’ |
| 9 | The effect is that even if the liability remains in full the accused has secured a remission of it . |
| 10 | The young orang-utans are sold abroad ; in Taiwan , where a television series portraying them as cute and cuddly has created a demand for orang-utan pets , they fetch up to £6,000 . |
| 11 | Mr Wolski turned back to his bed content to have made a decision by which he would stand , and feeling that the tiredness he felt coming over him was decades old . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm relieved to have got a run into Mukddaam , ’ Hern said . |
| 13 | It would have been impossible to have brought an airliner into the gallery — they must remain at the Museum 's ‘ out-station ’ at Wroughton , Wilts , but the next best thing was achieved . |
| 14 | The library is fortunate to have acquired a text book concerned with the details of a ) perfusing the tissues with agents to minimize freezing injury and b ) transporting to minimize the interruption of circulation and respiration after cardiac and respiratory arrest . |
| 15 | She was a sweet-natured girl of a placid disposition , and considered herself fortunate to have found a suitor . |
| 16 | Charlotte Campbell was more than delighted to have received a reply to her letter for the position of children 's nanny which she had seen advertised in The Times . |
| 17 | We waited patiently to see how the new Council would emerge , and we are now delighted to have established a Partnership Plan between ourselves and CCW . |
| 18 | Everyone is delighted to have had a glimpse of this most elusive and rare of British mammals , and there are smiles all round as we move on . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps she 's his paramour , ’ said Julia , delighted to have found a use for the word . |
| 20 | She , speaking Slovene , had managed to understand their primitive Russian , and they were delighted to have found a civilian who was able to communicate with them a little , and who reminded them of their mothers . |
| 21 | She was crazy about these clothes , delighted to have found an outfit she could wear every day , wanting , like a Chinese peasant , never to have to think about what to put on . |
| 22 | The German chancellor beset with the economic burdens of absorbing the old East Germany is delighted to have found an ally , John Major . |
| 23 | Sometimes the measure would be evidence that the Japanese had changed a regulation ; sometimes that the number of distributors of foreign goods had grown , or the rate of acceptance of foreign bids for contracts . |
| 24 | During a three-day trial , the court had heard how a family argument flared into midnight violence in the hamlet of Aberargie , where the accused had occupied a caravan beside his brother 's cottage . |
| 25 | THE ABBEY National has started an Action Savers Club for children . |
| 26 | ‘ Cathal Crumley is a political activist of long-standing having served a sentence in the H-Blocks on the blanket protest . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It will not be satisfactory to have marched a lot of money up the hill , only to march it down again . |
| 28 | ‘ Vinny should count himself very , very lucky to have made a lot of money out of football without having any ability . |
| 29 | I think I was very lucky to have had a year in school , and therefore to know that ‘ real ’ teaching was not like School Practice . |
| 30 | At a time when what would seem to have been a ‘ Carolingian connection ’ can be identified in insular art , architecture and archaeology , a Carolingian emphasis on the importance of increasing the number of metropolitans and re-establishing metropolitan authority is likely to have created a context by the mid-780s for consideration of the situation in the Anglo-Saxon Church where the archbishop of Canterbury presided over as many as twelve suffragans . |