Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When govt. adopted free trade in the middle of the 19th Century , the people got cheaper grain to buy , & larger choices , & also relations with other countries were improved , so that the risk of wars were reduced , & this meant less taxes for the people , because the country was spending less . |
| 2 | Clinical trials in which comparable patients received either one kind of treatment or another confirmed this belief . |
| 3 | The area health authority and Department of Health and Social Security on the other hand contended that under the common law a minor of sufficient intelligence and understanding could always consent to treatment and that the effect of section 8 was to produce an irrebuttable presumption that a child of 16 or 17 had such intelligence and understanding . |
| 4 | The other men snored , talked in their sleep — one or two shouted incomprehensible words — farted , belched , coughed , sneezed , swore , hawked and spat . |
| 5 | It was not only that enclosures forced some small-holders into the ranks of the landless and into wage-dependency for the first time ; it was also the case that many who had been able partly to support themselves from small-holdings supplemented by access to common grazing for a beast or two lost that element of independence . |
| 6 | We looked at variations in perceptions across the electorate to see whether television , the press , or both had any influence . |
| 7 | In 1987–8 there were 1908 special schools in the United Kingdom , including 80 hospital schools and 92 assisted independent schools , attended by 118,000 pupils . |
| 8 | A trilogy of cases in 1979 and 1980 reflected this development of a clearer rule . |
| 9 | It was a happy working relationship and each had complete trust in the other 's abilities — until Johnnie 's happy-go-lucky attitude changed to an unusually quiet and sombre mood . |
| 10 | So , not counting the initial Strombolian activity in the North-East Crater , there were three separate sites of activity during the course of the eruption , and each showed different behaviour : Strombolian , Hawaiian and Vulcanian . |
| 11 | The top layer was built , that you saw in the photograph , was built later , so 31 and 32 had two rooms , erm on the ground floor , and 2 on the first floor , 33 , which was smaller , but it does have a fair sized room , and another upstairs , and then the very small one is 34 . |
| 12 | Two weeks ago 24.6 people per 100,000 were reporting flu , and 51.7 had flu-like illness . |
| 13 | The course of agricultural and industrial development between 1919 and 1935 produced abundant evidence that Japan was closely tied to the fluctuations of the world economy and highly constrained in the resources at her disposal during a period of growing protectionism . |
| 14 | And some wore black pants to bed cos they did n't recognise them ! |
| 15 | Members of Parliament did complain about poor radio reception in their constituencies , and some made occasional allegations of political interference and bias in the radio news . |
| 16 | The majority contained inadequate amounts of alcohol and dried fruit and some had artificial flavourings or were cloyingly sweet . |
| 17 | Some were more active than any predecessor against some particular organism , and some had special merits in use , such as working when given by mouth , or acting for a longer period than usual . |
| 18 | Others we chatted with when we met them around the grounds , and some became temporary friends who asked us in for coffee or drinks , invitations which we pleasurably returned . |
| 19 | They needed bricks , they told him ; and some needed more time to pay . |
| 20 | A nearby lightning strike sent a surge through the local electricity supply system and this blew eight fuses and two diodes which control signals and points on the Welsh Highland . |
| 21 | In short , rapid population growth was a result of poverty and this asked fundamental questions about access and control over the means of production as well as the technical means by which they were developed . |
| 22 | Finally , and this returns us to Kumar 's statements , it is unlikely that with the elimination of the scarcity of resources — and this made cultural direction incredibly simple — and the internationalization of media productions a nation can ever maintain its defensive walls unbreached . |
| 23 | One of them asked another if he remembered how the Magistrate Sahib had tried to make them strengthen the embankments and this caused such merriment that one of the landowners almost fell into the water . |
| 24 | The flat-rate system of payment was , by definition , independent of the ability to pay and this caused great controversy . |
| 25 | Although in the event the old lady died first , towards the end it looked as if she would need to be taken in by one of her descendants and this caused distinct tension : ‘ we had least room and everything — and least money ’ , but ‘ there was a bit of squabbling in family . |
| 26 | The left wing sustained localised leading edge damage and this caused significant rupture of the left wing fuel tank and major fuel release . |
| 27 | The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were proved to be a forgery by The Times in 1921 and this went some way to defuse the growth of anti-semitic tendencies within the wider political culture . |
| 28 | Later , the introduction of pointes and the ‘ ballerina ’ skirt led to the dominant role of the ballerina at the expense of the male dancer and this brought further changes in the patterns . |
| 29 | And this had profound consequences for the functioning of each system . |
| 30 | The Egyptian Moses was murdered , Freud claims , and this had profound implications for Jewish religion . |