Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was both a majority and a minority report , and the latter provided a well argued critique of the system . |
| 2 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |
| 3 | It provided a much needed patch of light in an otherwise sombre room lit only by two silk-shaded sidelamps . |
| 4 | In the two ballots held on May 17 it was discovered that some voters had voted twice , and Scalfaro , the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies since April [ see p. 38870 ] , ordered that the voting regulations should immediately be amended ; deputies would be handed a single voting slip as they entered a specially constructed voting booth . |
| 5 | The mass of silver hair framed a perfectly formed face , though the lips seemed thinner , the eyes above the high cheek bones cold and unsmiling . |
| 6 | His finger found a precisely outlined section delineated in red marker . |
| 7 | This was surmounted by a gilded griffin and bore a crudely painted canvas of hell 's mouth . |
| 8 | Initially to examine the effects of differentiation on the relative levels of ATF1 and CREB we used a previously described assay in which CREB and ATF1 present in heat denatured nuclear extracts are 32 P-labelled using protein kinase A and immunoprecipitated ( figure 2B ) . |
| 9 | It is as inadequate to argue , for example , that the PCF was simply the institutional terrain in which Nizan pursued a carefully orchestrated campaign of political and literary self-advancement and careerism , as it is to argue that for the majority of the ten years that he spent in the PCF Nizan remained unaware of the imperfections of Stalinist Soviet communism . |
| 10 | The last two releases in the Kings Quest series received a fairly mixed reception , and since the heady days when Sierra WERE GRAPHIC ADVENTURES there have been some very strong releases from the likes of Lucasfilms ( Loom , Secret of Monkey Island I and II , Indiana Jones ) , Westwood ( Legend of Kyrandia ) , and even some of the Role Playing Games from Origin ( Ultima VII and Ultima Underworlds ) and Sir Tech ( Crusaders of the Dark Savant ) . |
| 11 | SCOTLAND 'S vehicle industry received a much needed boost yesterday with the opening of Volvo 's new bus assembly hall at Irvine alongside the existing truck-making facilities . |
| 12 | Roth supported himself by freelance writing until in 1939 he received a specially created readership in post-biblical Jewish studies at the University of Oxford , where he was also mentor and host to Jewish students . |
| 13 | Eleven year old Lisa Morley suffered a badly damaged eye in incident near Grange School in Banbury in May , after which police interviews a boy , who was also aged eleven . |
| 14 | Eileen suffered a similarly induced trauma . |
| 15 | Physically she resembled a smoothly groomed Pekinese with large lambent eyes , a silken haired little bitch . |
| 16 | ‘ I am sad we have not been afforded the same welcome given to the Beirut hostages , ’ he told a deeply moved audience at the AGM last month . |
| 17 | Martin Brundle drove a superbly measured race in his Ligier Renault to come home fifth for his third points-scoring finish in four races . |
| 18 | Others , led by the liberal nobility of Tver province , believed that security lay in a more radical break with the past and envisaged a broadly based assembly which would help reduce tension in the countryside . |
| 19 | The agreement , like those that had preceded it , envisaged a directly elected presidency , and a bicameral legislature made up on a republican and a population basis , respectively ; central authority would be limited to those spheres of activity that had been specifically delegated by the members of the union . |
| 20 | A few drops of urine on the floor by his slop pail merited a scientifically aimed punch at his kidneys from the guard . |
| 21 | I threw a carefully modulated tantrum . |
| 22 | Her cheeks made minute undulations until , without so much as a quiver throughout the rest of her body , she fired a perfectly formed spitball which smacked my lip , swelled , slid down to my mouth . |
| 23 | The view from the picture window showed a carefully landscaped garden , a swimming pool , a tennis court , and a field where a wiry old gardener in baggy peasant clothing and a felt hat was tending his master 's vines and olives . |
| 24 | NCp7B , which lacks both zinc fingers but retains the three regions of basic amino acids , was found to bind to and protect DNAs from nuclease digestion about as efficiently as NCp7 while NCp7C showed a slightly reduced ability to protect the DNAs . |
| 25 | At time T the intraepithelial lymphocyte count was normal in all patients ( normal values 8 ( 3 ) ) but it showed a clear cut increase at time T 1 in both group A and group B patients . |
| 26 | That evening some 70,000 people , ignoring a military order halting demonstrations , joined a visibly weakened Chamlong at a rally on the Sanam Luang parade ground in central Bangkok . |
| 27 | We recently paid a well known converter of diesel engines to Land Rovers and Range Rovers a handsome sum to convert our 1960 Land Rover to a Rover V8 . |
| 28 | Hey , do you eat like this all the time ? ’ replied a fully refreshed Billie . |
| 29 | The postcard depicted a crudely drawn picture of Harold Wilson in bed with a particular lady , with Mrs Wilson looking through the door , and various other offensive allusions . |
| 30 | Thus the Free Presbyterians ( and other conservative Christians ) who picketed a newly opened sex shop on the Castlereagh Road in Belfast ( so successfully that it closed ) saw themselves , not as denying anyone their basic right to sin , but as preventing further incitement and encouragement to sin . |