Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a caucus meeting on May 31 , Hawke tried to force an open vote on the leadership issue but was eventually forced by Keating 's supporters to concede a secret ballot on June 3 . |
| 2 | The United States sought to maintain an atomic energy monopoly — both military and civilian — as a God-given right ; but for the purposes of conventional warfare they needed the support of allies and were prepared to buy international collaboration with superficially altruistic aid programmes . |
| 3 | Tony Greenbank returned to clean an obvious corner groove line and made the mistake of asking me to test a hold . |
| 4 | ‘ Third , ’ the Doctor said , as Bernice whirled to see an open doorway where only seconds earlier there had been a flat wall , ‘ I imagine those androids would prefer us not to attempt to escape , in the TARDIS or in any other way . |
| 5 | Freud preferred to help an individual work out a set of goals and norms for himself , within the psychoanalytic setting , rather than propose a return to a tightly structured civilization . |
| 6 | Within the troika of providers , the WEA appeared to occupy an intermediate position through its Chapter III courses . |
| 7 | The right-wing Hindu-backed Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) formed the state government in Uttar Pradesh , and BJP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh had invited an all-party delegation to visit the site after coming under criticism from nearly all political parties for allegedly violating court orders regarding the disputed plot . |
| 8 | Cunningham had spent an agreeable week in the country with his friend Van Cheele . |
| 9 | Creed had requisitioned an open car , and he stood for the entire procession , as a mark of his own personal respect for the deceased . |
| 10 | Fakrid and Jinkwa had spent an anxious hour waiting for the Doctor . |
| 11 | Gorbachev had made an official visit to India in November 1986 , concluding with the signature of a ‘ Delhi Declaration ’ in which both sides pledged themselves to the peaceful resolution of international disputes . |
| 12 | Scottish Television 's Managing Director Gus Macdonald said Mr Scott had done an outstanding job in strengthening the news and current affairs programming . |
| 13 | It had been claimed that Mrs McWilliams had had an allergic reaction to the drugs and she had alleged negligence by the anaesthetist . |
| 14 | Ann had met an old boyfriend , and she and Charles had been able to discuss their feelings about this without animosity . |
| 15 | What appealed to both partners was that by doing so well in the revue , Ken had become an established comedy actor — not comedian , but comedy actor — and that was the kind they were looking for . |
| 16 | MacArthur wished to establish an enduring democratic system representing the ascendancy of the ‘ centre right ’ , that is , those Japanese politicians who were firmly opposed to communism and to old-style militarism . |
| 17 | Our older daughter Rebecca had left an unlikely farrago of peas , cottage cheese , baked beans and pasta in a tomato sauce . |
| 18 | Despite the growing pressure for a slowing of expenditure on SDI , Cheney had requested an additional $866,000,000 ( i.e. an increase of 23 per cent on the 1990 allocation ) for SDI research in the 1991 budget . |
| 19 | Muliro had played an important role in trying to bring together two factions within FORD led respectively by Kenneth Matiba and Oginga Odinga . |
| 20 | Rowntree tried to devise an objective definition of poverty based upon the minimum income required to maintain individuals in a state of ‘ physical efficiency ’ . |
| 21 | So Giles decided to make an all-day excursion to a place on the other side of the mountains , about ten miles away . |
| 22 | But Darwin did draw an explicit analogy between this teleology — of population pressure and sorting , as ensuring adaptation of plant and animal structure to changing conditions — and Malthus 's theistic teleology of superfecundity , as ensuing the energetic dispersal of ancient tribes beyond the original Asian seat of the human species . |
| 23 | Such measures are often not independent , for many lawyers advise clients what it is ‘ reasonable ’ to want , and thus supply the criterion by which they are to be judged ( although Rosenthal did construct an independent measure ) . |
| 24 | Though pond fidelity was what the researchers were primarily interested in , the marking and measuring of individuals in Dorset did provide an unexpected bonus : the largest toads ever recorded in the UK , a male 85mm long , and a giant female 113mm long , almost 15 per cent larger than the previous record . |
| 25 | Scotland had made an encouraging start , never giving the world champions time to settle on the ball . |
| 26 | Scotland had made an encouraging start , never giving the world champions time to settle on the ball . |
| 27 | Before the war Lionel Curtis had published an ambitious book entitled Civitas Dei ( 1934–7 ) in which he sought to prove in three volumes that the British Commonwealth was no less than the ultimate expression in the international social order of the basic principles of Christianity , or , to summarize , ‘ simply the sermon on the mount translated into political terms ’ . |
| 28 | Beside him , Anwar had become an old man . |
| 29 | Unlike so many other top sportsmen , Austin Rawlinson continued to play an active part after his retirement . |
| 30 | Hope had written an evasive reply which he would frank and give to George Wood to post for him but he doubted that he could deter him for much longer . |