Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact , however , that they have designed a language to fulfil these functions does not necessarily mean that these functions could not be fulfilled in other ways , nor that their language is intrinsically connected with them , nor that the language has necessarily been proven to succeed in achieving these ideals . |
| 2 | Formed only 18 months ago , the Faculty has already attracted a membership approaching 7,000 — and rising . |
| 3 | The two Constables … in a further neglect of duty went down a back entry , where they were caught smoking together , and later one of the Constables and the Acting Sergeant falsely concocted a story to disguise these infractions … |
| 4 | France had claimed a zone extending 200 miles from the islands , while Canada had advocated a 12-mile limit . |
| 5 | Like her they were teenagers , like her they had enjoyed a smash hit first single , like her they had happened to have come from somewhere other than Britain . |
| 6 | The last business completed by both houses , besides passage of the continuing resolution on the budget , the Constitution ( 75th Amendment ) Bill and resolutions to extend president 's rule in Punjab and Assam [ see below ] , also included a measure increasing parliamentary pensions by 150 per cent . |
| 7 | She should have known — should have expected a scorpion to use subtle tactics . |
| 8 | China 's initial response was that the speech could not be considered as a basis for talks " because it has not at all relinquished the concept of the independence of Tibet " , but on Sept. 23 disclosed an offer to hold direct negotiations to which the Dalai Lama responded positively . |
| 9 | Less than one-fifth of offenders imprisoned during 1988 had committed an offence involving sexual or physical violence ( Prison Statistics 1988 ) . |
| 10 | However , in the world of Orwell 's 1984 there may be people who although sure that the events abolished by official historiography did happen , are not so sure that the experiences treasured in memory keep the value which official propaganda degrades ; they might be happier for the assurance that , in the sense that it remains true that an event happened even if universally forgotten an experience remains good even if in universally shrinking awareness there will never again be anyone capable of appreciating it . |
| 11 | Daube argued several years ago that ‘ it is time to revise our legal construction … of surgery in general ’ , and criticized the fact that it was still considered an assault rendered lawful by consent . |
| 12 | Lynn Boyle , a social worker from area 2 , told how the Inland Revenue had scuppered a plan to get unemployed women to provide informal care in return for expenses and small payments . |
| 13 | As it happened , just before reading Mr Aitcheson 's article , I had attended a Tribunal involving five unemployment benefit cases where not one of the five appellants attended and indeed one did not even acknowledge receipt of his set of Tribunal papers . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We 've done a lot to make sure that our equipment is safe ( it complies with British Standards 5750 and 5696 ) , but you do n't want the playground to be too safe or there 's no fun or adventure involved . |
| 15 | In 1934 the Home Office twice re-drafted a bill banning political uniforms , but concluded that the difficulties involved in definition , and the need to protect the civil liberties of other groups who wore distinctive clothing , together with the expected nit-picking objections of MPs like A.P . |
| 16 | Lord Vansittart , a former Foreign Office official , had written a pamphlet entitled Black Record blaming the Germans for a record of barbarism going back to the era of the Roman Empire . |
| 17 | TWO academics , who clearly did not do much of their research in the North-East , have written a book called Bad Language . |
| 18 | One of their number has just written a book questioning this kind of control and spilling the beans of angst rather as American and British feminist writers did in the Seventies . |
| 19 | The USA and Canada had sought a commitment to dismantle all agricultural subsidies over the next 10 years on the grounds that such subsidies distorted world trade and formed a major impediment to the further liberalization of world trade being currently negotiated under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) within the " Uruguay Round " [ see pp. 37227-28 ] . |
| 20 | The management of the company had prepared a report showing certain data concerning the two products made Mox and Tox . |
| 21 | The country 's supreme policy-making body , the national executive committee ( NEC ) of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi ( CCM — Party of the Revolution ) , met on Jan. 17-21 and unanimously accepted a proposal to end 27 years of one-party rule . |
| 22 | He also claimed that Senegal had imposed trade sanctions and embargoes , damaging Gambian companies and parastatal organizations ; Senegal had imposed a restriction limiting each person crossing into the Gambia to an allowance of 20,000 francs CFA ( about US$75 ) . |
| 23 | A health authority chairman has said a hospital facing substantial cutbacks is unlikely to lose its emergency departments . |
| 24 | On Jan. 30 the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet had adopted a law allowing private , state or co-operative ownership of land . |
| 25 | The European Parliament has adopted a resolution urging both sides to accept arbitration from the International Court of Justice in The Hague . |
| 26 | On April 17 the nationalist-dominated Armenian Supreme Soviet had adopted a resolution nationalizing Armenian CP property . |
| 27 | When Shanti had been with us for a few days , a friend said to me , ‘ I saw Michael out with the baby in the pram , and I do n't think I 've seen a man look happier in my life . ’ |
| 28 | I went to see the semi-finals of the Midland Bank Championships in Brighton — the first time I 'd ever seen a tennis match live . |
| 29 | Er , I I do apologise but erm I 've never known a fox yet drop a cattle , a stock , er something that big , when , when you said farmers and their cattle , their d mostly dairy farmers and all the rest of it I 've never seen a fox do that . |
| 30 | Taubmans ( PNG ) had just secured a contract to supply specialised protective coatings for a US$24 million project for OK Tedi Mining when the rain stopped . |