Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hobeika and Jamei ( 1985 ) describe the MASSeVACuation ( MASSVAC ) simulation software designed to analyse and evaluate traffic evacuation plans given a natural disaster in an urban area . |
| 2 | Slate quarries given a new lease of life |
| 3 | The soft-bodied Ediacaran animals occupied a wide range of Vendian ( Latest Proterozoic ) marine environments and are now known from all over the world . |
| 4 | About half of both sectors operated a whole school no smoking policy . |
| 5 | And we asked them to tie it up , the lads made a bloody job I think they tied it up for coming round . |
| 6 | Following a preliminary examination of these new inward investors by means of a postal questionnaire survey , the authors selected a matched sample ( controlling for employment size , sector and production process ) of old and new manufacturing firms . |
| 7 | Saddam 's latest concessions marked a significant improvement over those offered in letters to Rafsanjani dated July 31 and Aug. 3 , in which he reportedly " stepp[ed] back " from Iraqi claims over the Shatt al-Arab waterway and proposed Iraqi troop withdrawals within two months . |
| 8 | The new styles marked a major change of direction at the time of the Civil Wars ; although they often impinged only indirectly on local farming life , the upheavals of the 1640s were enough to halt the great rebuilding almost entirely . |
| 9 | Whether Diana 's interest in Birthright was planted by her obstetrician George Pinker , who was then its president , or by several of her friends who have had problems and become involved , her decision to add Birthright to her list of patronages marked a turning point in its history . |
| 10 | Drivers faced a tricky journey to work . |
| 11 | On this basis the Siberian peoples achieved a certain balance with nature . |
| 12 | Colleagues who used unusual avoidance and resistance tactics achieved a certain folklore status with their colleagues . |
| 13 | Speakers required a certain formality and elaboration , even explicitness , if the audience were to seize a point . |
| 14 | My Lords , er , er , er no doubt that all of your Lordships have throughout the last hour and forty minutes felt a great deal of sympathy with the Noble Earl Lord |
| 15 | Some mines operated a two-shift system , others had three shifts . |
| 16 | A huge backlog of unfit dwellings was apparent , and in the event the period between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s wrought a major transformation . |
| 17 | Their findings were that parents regarded a good school as being one where : |
| 18 | Suing Fischer rats given a total dose of 90 mg/kg azoxymethane , Williamson et al found no increase in tumours in the group that had 85% enterectomy and attributed this to poor weight gain , since body mass influences carcinogenesis . |
| 19 | The old man 's fine grey hair had been brushed and plaited , his cheeks delicately rouged , his beard brushed out straight , his nails painted a brilliant pearl . |
| 20 | In the uplands , National and Regional Parks have been designated ; there are also more specific sites given a certain degree of protection . |
| 21 | The Sioux Indians placed a high value on generosity . |
| 22 | And by er nineteen twenty six the engineers suffered a calamitous drop from about er four pound odd down to this two pound sixteen . |
| 23 | The large dividends paid by the more successful companies incorporated a substantial element of monopoly profit . |
| 24 | Secondly , workers and trade unions in most industrial countries exercised a high degree of wage moderation . |
| 25 | Trusts marked a great advance in the enforcement of obligations in favour of third parties . |
| 26 | Quite rightly strategies to cope with the problems of electronic records are being implemented from the top down , with the various national archives taken a leading role ( Higgs 1992 ) . |
| 27 | Each of the four areas achieved a different level of success in the development of a system of multidisciplinary assessment . |
| 28 | After the First World War the town thrived briefly , but in later decades achieved a near-dormitory state , having been discovered by couples wishing to retire from the frenetic life in the larger urban conurbations . |
| 29 | Party strife undoubtedly reached a peak of intensity under Anne ; the death of Anne 's sole-surviving child , the Duke of Gloucester , in 1700 raised once more questions about the security of the Protestant succession ; religious tensions achieved a new height with the sitting of Convocation in 1701 and the campaign against occasional conformity ; and England 's re-entry into war that year renewed conflict on that front . |
| 30 | Well my free kick , he actually got a touch on that as well , he tipped it onto the post for the free kick yes , but I mean even when he bounced out to Mickey Lewis , one of their defenders got a great block from about two yards out to send it out for the corner , which luckily we scored from the corner , so that we got away with it then . |