Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the patent died from septicaemia 11 days after TIPSS but postmortem examination of the stent showed internal epithelialisation and continued patency . |
| 2 | Some of the exchanges were rather less thoughtful : eat the rich read one window , kill the poor replied another . |
| 3 | The upward trend in the numbers of unemployed getting supplementary benefit , for example , continued in the 1980s ; the numbers trebled until two-thirds of all the unemployed received this benefit , despite the fact that it was never designed for them . |
| 4 | The English took little note of the fantasy before about 1585 ; the favourite form was still the ‘ In nomine ’ . |
| 5 | On the battlefield the English took vast plunder . |
| 6 | It is true that in the late 1430s the English suffered some reverses and territorial losses . |
| 7 | They might have been supplied by sea , but the English had more ships than that first fleet driven off , and presently many vessels appeared at the mouth of Tweed , not to attempt attack this time but to patrol up and down , blockading the harbour . |
| 8 | Although tired and running out of provisions , the English had several advantages : a good defensive position ; a united command ; and the use of an army which had already proved highly successful against the Scots , a combination of archers and dismounted men-at-arms for which , in the conditions prevailing on the day , the French cavalry and the crossbowmen of their Genoese allies proved no match . |
| 9 | Even the English paid grudging tribute to this ; those who accompanied Margaret Tudor north in 1503 , for her marriage to Mary 's grandfather , James IV , were less than gracious about the elaborate and highly expensive entertainment provided by the king , but their contempt was mitigated , for they ‘ returned into their country giving more praise to the manhood than to the good manner and nurture of Scotland ’ . |
| 10 | We also managed to get tins of the famous , unappreciated Spam and bully beef back from the looters and , knowing that the English liked strong tea , we boiled up more of their mixture for them , producing something of an indescribable colour that was more like a meal than a drink . |
| 11 | My father said Eden should have kept the troops in Suez and only the British had moral integrity . |
| 12 | As long as the British had numerical superiority in ships , as long as Nelson 's unbroken string of victories remained unblemished by subsequent defeats , the authority of the Royal Navy was a generally accepted truth . |
| 13 | They did not : the Canadians had one sort of sovereign , and the British had another sort . |
| 14 | The EC summit in June 1989 agreed to achieve this first stage in July 1990 but set no dates for further progress and , yet again , the British had important doubts about the proposal . |
| 15 | Here too the British misinterpreted American intentions . |
| 16 | Only English-educated politicians participated in the legislative institutions through which the British devolved political power in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 17 | If the Shah and the British showed good sense , he remarked , " we may really give a serious defeat to Russian intentions and plans in that area " . |
| 18 | The British lost 1,654 officers and men , including Cradock ; the Germans a mere two men wounded . |
| 19 | Despite such criticisms , the British found these courts useful and by the end of the century they had jurisdiction over most rural areas . |
| 20 | Although the British needed this route to support Egypt , many of them saw Pan American as opportunistic and poised to exploit its advantage in the postwar years . |
| 21 | Even at the end of the 1980s , while the British left was now largely reconciled to membership of Community , the British remained hesitant Europeans . |
| 22 | The simple truth is that if the British withdrew this country would become an economic wasteland and whether there is a Catholic voting majority at some point in the future or not there will not be a united Ireland as no one would want to pay the enormous costs involved . |
| 23 | The French made countless varieties of goats ' milk cheeses which are often small and wrapped in a chestnut leaf and then tied with raffia ( see p67 ) . |
| 24 | Because German opposition was light in this sector , and because the Germans thought that , after their bleeding at Verdun , they were incapable of massed attack , the French made some gains . |
| 25 | She was , therefore , simply being treated in the way in which the French thought royal children should be brought up . |
| 26 | By 28 November the French had total control of Haiphong and its airport and harbour . |
| 27 | Above all , however , the French had two objectives . |
| 28 | The French had little room for manoeuvre , and in May 1358 a treaty known as the ‘ First Treaty of London ’ was drawn up , under which Edward was to have a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty , together with Calais , Ponthieu and Guînes . |
| 29 | Again , in the case of Vietnam , this was accompanied by bitter political acrimony , at least on the operational level , between the Americans on the one side , the British and French on the other , about whether or not the French fighting in Vietnam were to be regarded as allies and whether or not the French had any entitlement to resume their pre-war position in Indochina . |
| 30 | He no longer thought the French had any intention of leaving Vietnam . |