Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Torrential rain greeted England 's first appearance in Wales for eight seasons , but the visitors made light of the slippery conditions . |
| 2 | But Miss Patricia Rawlings , Tory Euro-MP for Essex South-West , made light of the ideological distinctions . |
| 3 | Ridden by Peter Scudamore , Nigel Twiston-Davies 's seven-year-old took over from the ill-fated Combermere at the 13th of the 27 fences and , staying on strongly approaching the last , drew clear of the top-weight Dalkey Sound to record an impressive eight-length victory . |
| 4 | Mr Large proposed changes to make the system work better ( see page 15 ) ; but he stopped short of the obvious answer , which is to revise the act itself . |
| 5 | He waited ‘ till the tram drew abreast of the silent jeep and leaped on to the running board beside the driver . |
| 6 | The case had received massive publicity and became symbolic of the institutionalized racism and brutality alleged by many to exist within the LAPD [ see pp. 38091 ; 38139 ] , and led to an independent commission of inquiry [ see pp. 38329-30 ] . |
| 7 | So the very act of searching became symbolic of the drastic changes that have recently shaken Bolivia . |
| 8 | Diphtheria , scarlet fever , measles , and whooping cough attacked older children just when they seemed clear of the terrible hazards of infancy . |
| 9 | He also seemed unaware of the great progress in laying fibre optic cable around the country , mainly between cities . |
| 10 | The local authorities who approved such acts seemed unaware of the immense capital sums , not to mention years of work , that had gone into creating these libraries since their foundation in Victorian times , and their complete loss by the simple act of dispersal . |
| 11 | The writer both of that editorial and the weekly Sunday Times TV feature was an expatriate who seemed unaware of the cultural gap between the content of TVZ programmes and the environment of Zambia . |
| 12 | The Intelligent Bus Interface Module is a data acquisition engine with a 40MHz 68030 processor , which resides on the VMEbus , enabling high volumes of data to be transmitted or received independent of the central host processor when it is used with the new input-output board . |
| 13 | A wolf howled again , and then others joined it until the very cage he was in seemed full of the lonely howls of lost trapped animals . |
| 14 | She looked at the grandma , who although willing seemed full of the resigned acceptance of disaster which had ruled the women downstairs . |
| 15 | It also made sure of the two points . |
| 16 | Nigel Mott made sure of the three points two minutes from time , and he could see Milton going back to the top of the table this evening . |
| 17 | I eventually got tired of the sad lady and the mantenuta and started once again to look for something different . |
| 18 | The term is generally taken to denote that section of the educated élite — an élite deliberately nurtured by the tsarist regime to man the civil and military establishment — which became critical of the existing order . |
| 19 | He then taught in a higher elementary school , but became critical of the local Bolsheviks ' lack of progress in educational and social affairs . |
| 20 | He kept clear of the sanded clearing and the alarm beams and bypassed all the inhabited areas . |
| 21 | The community planning approach fell foul of the extensive county-district rivalries referred to in Chapter 3 . |
| 22 | The show 's popular Detective Constable Tosh Lines fell foul of the real boys in blue after parking on zebra crossing zig-zag lines in a recent episode . |
| 23 | And then if that was n't exciting enough , Swindon fell foul of the new back pass rule , although Swindon would n't agree this panic clearence constituted a back pass ? |
| 24 | This is a story of a misunderstanding that reduced a man to suicide , also the love affair that fell foul of the postal system and tragic circumstances , the combined forces of fate culminating in the tragedy . |
| 25 | However , this deal , like the Leyland DAF deal , fell foul of the European Commission 's rules banning subsidies which are likely to distort competition , and the EC judged that £253 million should be reduced from the cash injection and that there should be no further government aid for Rover . |
| 26 | ‘ Sorry to interrupt , but are you saying that the Bonnards fell foul of the secret service ? ’ |
| 27 | When he was winning all the time , people spoke of his alleged meanness and refusal to communicate ; when he fell foul of the Inland Revenue they carefully looked the other way . |
| 28 | Again , it fell foul of the divergent views within the Council of Europe on integration . |
| 29 | Initially Roy Porter chased hard in his Westfield , but when the pair came round to lap the Metro class for the first time , Porter fell foul of the squabbling saloons and dropped back . |
| 30 | But others fell foul of the unusual weather this year : a very snowy and stormy spring , with avalanches and generally poor conditions , replaced suddenly by a hot summer . |