Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] ' [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Those in the second section asked about teachers ' general perceptions of school self-evaluation and were virtually identical to those asked earlier in Solihull ( Turner and Clift , 1985 ) .
2 As a result , the journal came under Crookes ' complete control , and in 1870 he published in it the first of a series of four papers on spiritualism .
3 The final accolade came in Barnes ' closing speech , when he announced that never in his experience , ‘ and I think rarely if ever in anybody 's experience , has a local group without legal representation appeared and presented their case so consistently over an enormously long inquiry such as this . ’
4 The increasing demand for medical care on the part of the middle classes combined with a growing perception of medical attention as a status symbol by those below , also added to doctors ' social power .
5 Very similar to the Uvaq units , but finished in Lotus ' grey colour casing to match their filter tanks .
6 He shows commendable " guile " not far from deplorable " trickery " , the force of lordly authority belied by followers ' barely-controlled violence .
7 In a rare Fareham attack Taylor fell over Williams ' outstretched leg and a penalty was awarded .
8 An article by him advocating a national Nonconformist congress appeared in Hughes ' Methodist Times on 20 February 1890 and was written at Hughes ' request .
9 At that meeting Dr K. Bradley of the Dublin Institute of Technology spoke of the dangers of water pollution associated with mining and stressed the need for an environmental impact assessment before mining be allowed to go ahead ; TD Michael D. Higgins drew comparisons between the current situation in Conamara and that in Tynagh in the 1960s when Northgate carried out initial prospecting without a licence , while Patrick Gageby , a barrister , spoke on landowners ' legal rights .
10 None the less , the press still showed a moderately powerful influence on voting even when we controlled for voters ' initial partisanship and ideology ( Table 8.13 ) It had most effect upon those who were initially undecided or were Alliance identifiers .
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