Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stafford 's Sutherland estates produced an annual income of £16,000 , but this was not enough . |
| 2 | The attempt Grumman made in the 1970s to reduce its dependence on Pentagon and NASA contracts produced an excellent delivery truck for the post office . |
| 3 | The Germans withstood an early flurry before creating chances of their own . |
| 4 | During their researches , however , the Canadians made an important discovery . |
| 5 | PEDIGREE Limousin bulls met an unprecedented demand at the annual spring show and sale at Carlisle yesterday , selling to a top of 14,000gn and producing a record average for the sale of £3,450 , £900 up on the year . |
| 6 | Boxers fought an enormous number of contests by modern standards to satisfy a working-class public who wanted to see regular bouts . |
| 7 | A few years ago I and my two sons made an amazing discovery — a discovery we shared with a few of our colleagues here . |
| 8 | On the following day doctors and medical personnel announced an indefinite strike , which was promptly declared illegal . |
| 9 | A strike by machinists at Boeing Co. in October 1989 [ see below ] and the resultant decline in exports produced an increased deficit in November , but the end of the strike in November and the resumption of the export sale of aircraft , coupled with a fall in oil imports , produced a deficit in December of only $7,200 million , the lowest in five years . |
| 10 | But there can be no doubt that the Boy Scouts made an extraordinary impact on the era . |
| 11 | Many authorities pursued an active policy of ‘ municipalization ’ . |
| 12 | Later plans involved an additional expenditure of about £150 million to take the railway into Bank , about half of which would be met by the Canary Wharf developers ( see below ) . |
| 13 | Instead , and linked with the Secretary of State 's easing — at the same period — in the number of attainment targets in mathematics and science , the reduction in subject compulsions created an uneasy vagueness about where the boundaries of new management now lay . |
| 14 | The careful diplomacy with which this point has been made was undermined when the New York Times reported an off-the-record comment at the Brussels meeting suggesting that Mr Clinton ‘ feels the compulsion to do something but does not actually want to get involved . ’ |
| 15 | The Times described an emotional scene : |
| 16 | It is now clear that the construction of the small-town defences provided an additional influence on their morphological development , depending upon the inclusion or exclusion of particular areas . |
| 17 | Lord Donaldson was suggesting that the parties made an informed decision that the matter had to be referred to arbitration on the basis that they had a formulated dispute where their rights and obligations were to be determined . |
| 18 | The following year , Plymouth and Devonport branches produced an enthusiastic review of their reclamation work in the association 's national journal , The Shield . |
| 19 | His eyes made an incredible journey . |
| 20 | Other countries where UK exporters experienced an above-average rise in overdue accounts included Belgium ( 60 per cent up ) and France ( 55 per cent up ) . |
| 21 | Enlarged by an escort of servants and porters and the sixteenth-century versions of groupies and hookers , the marchers made an impressive column half a mile long . |
| 22 | For instance , in December 1991 the seers made an average forecast for America 's GDP growth in 1992 of 2% ; this was almost spot on the actual growth of 2.1% . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's true I saw one die , ’ Cleo said , and her wistful words invoked an uncomfortable silence in the room . |
| 24 | Kitcher gives a good example of how a theory becomes accepted by the generality of scientists : Alfred Wegener 's theory of continental drift achieved acceptance after half a century of intermittent discussion only when the concept of plate tectonics provided an acceptable mechanism . |
| 25 | But just as his lips approached an inner voice ordered her to pull back . |
| 26 | My words created an eerie silence . |
| 27 | Modular catering cars retained an orthodox grill for that perennial favourite , the Great British Breakfast , which in 1987 accounted for 630,000 out of the total of 1.1 million main meals served . |
| 28 | Lesbian and gay speakers played an important part in the debate . |
| 29 | Moreover , their ability to make sense of the workers ' predicament and articulate their grievances played an important part in mobilizing less sophisticated ranks . |
| 30 | In Gloucester in 1831 all three candidates adopted an antislavery stance as a result of being questioned , one going so far as to have ‘ cards in his constituent hats with ‘ No Slavery ’ printed up on them ’ . |