Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years nobody saw a dislocation in the flesh , or perhaps ever expected to , but their hypothetical movements ( dislocations of like sign repel each other etc. ) and breeding habits ( when the union of two dislocations is blessed about five hundred new dislocations are suddenly released upon the crystal ) could be theoretically predicted and provided a superb intellectual exercise like three dimensional chess . |
| 2 | He said the school which has 70pc of ethnic minority pupils provided a first-class educational establishment in an ‘ inner-city ’ area . |
| 3 | He said the school which has 70pc of ethnic minority pupils provided a first-class educational establishment in an ‘ inner-city ’ area . |
| 4 | It provided a perfect roomy family den , and it even had its own door sign — a large red disc used by canoeists for navigation . |
| 5 | This provided a revised general state factor equation where ecosystem properties ( l ) , soil properties ( s ) , vegetation properties ( v ) and animal properties ( a ) are combined in an equation in the form : |
| 6 | Rayon and celanese ( artificial silk ) became the basis of the latter ; bakelite , widely used in the radio and electrical industries , heralded the arrival of plastics ; cellophane provided a hygienic transparent wrapping material . |
| 7 | In spite of the reduced and indeed reducing turnover that we have had in the past 12 months , 1992 provided a better financial result than the previous year . |
| 8 | " Culture " provided a powerful countervailing force to those by now discredited attempts from the left during the 1930s to introduce " class as a category bearing on literature.a Liberty and individual freedom could now be defined in cultural rather than social or political terms as the free play of the human critical and evaluative impulse . |
| 9 | The latter type provided a wide central opening for vehicular traffic and two smaller side ones for pedestrians . |
| 10 | The structures created between 1963 and 1988 provided a new administrative framework for local government but such structures in themselves reveal relatively little about the practice of local administration . |
| 11 | To circumvent an entrenched clergy and arouse the spirituality of those whose livings were so poor that they combined their priesthood with farming , shoemaking or fishing , he brought in ‘ lecturers ’ , unbeneficed clergy who provided a new preaching tradition , and organised sympathetic clergy into ‘ classes , or ‘ prophesyings ’ where the tenets of the new faith were discussed . |
| 12 | The decay of older loyalties with the onset of the colonial era provided a new social context in which these limitations on entrepreneurs no longer applied . |
| 13 | Even so , the final forty seconds of the film provided a fascinating little coda on all that had happened . |
| 14 | Tree growth is possible and , until the depredations of humans and goats destroyed much of the forest cover , timber cutting provided a much-needed additional source of income to supplement the meagre subsistence of the peasants . |
| 15 | The building 's shape provided a real technical challenge for the 16 bricklayers who worked in teams of four to complete the job . |
| 16 | The coalescence of the Mercians across the first half of the seventh century into a powerful midland kingdom radically reshaped the patterns of power among the Angles and provided a serious long-term challenge not only to the authority of the northern Anglian kings but also to any hopes of a revival of eastern Anglian power . |
| 17 | Portraiture has been a focus of interest in coins since the Renaissance , for the portraits which had survived on Roman coins provided a profound moral paradigm to Renaissance rulers . |
| 18 | The floral display at Newcastle provided a delightful finishing touch . |
| 19 | Coade stone is a kind of fired ceramic , whose recipe was secret and is still not entirely understood , which provided a hard smooth surface that was resistant to frost . |
| 20 | In this diagram , if a centralized regime provided a single uniform level of the good , the level of output provided could be shown as a compromise between the demands of the individuals in each locality , i.e. a level of . |
| 21 | A glow-globe on stand-by provided a dim orange light . |
| 22 | In particular , the Act of 1988 provided a four-month transitional period . |
| 23 | But they provided a vital social service and their closure was a disastrous token of things to come . |
| 24 | Then fear overcame curiosity and he scrambled down from the tree with such haste that he skinned his knees and gouged a long deep gash along the inside of his forearm . |
| 25 | And when a psychologist analysed her drawing , he cast a fascinating new light on Kylie , the amateur artist . |
| 26 | She cast a last fleeting look around the room . |
| 27 | She cast a last anguished look around , imprinting the details of the woodland glade on her memory . |
| 28 | Behind Moloch , the vast sphere of Lucifer cast a malignant crimson glare . |
| 29 | According to an Army communiqué Salvadorean " subversives " ( i.e. guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front — Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional — FMLN ) had on May 27 , 1989 , entered a small Honduran town in the border area but had been forced back to El Salvador by a patrol ; Salvadorean aircraft and a helicopter gunship had fired into Honduran territory in pursuit of the rebels ; and a Salvadorean aircraft had flown over Honduran territory on May 29 . |
| 30 | Trouble broke out when Mr de Klerk entered a big candy-striped marquee in the Mitchells Plain town centre to address about 3,000 people . |