Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This survey disclosed a considerable disparity in levels of unmet need in subjects whose sole regular contact was with health professionals ( subgroups A to D ) compared with those reassessed on a multidisciplinary basis by health and social services personnel . |
| 2 | Gloucestershire County Council has won a partial victory in its appeal against poll tax capping . |
| 3 | John Prescot has won a key post in the new shadow cabinet , moving from transport to employment . |
| 4 | On June 11 the Central Electoral Board announced that the incumbent President , Joaquín Balaguer , had won a narrow victory in the May 16 presidential election [ see p. 37448 ] . |
| 5 | Edinburgh 's Douglas Watson , who has already won a major award in the US for his three dimensional illustration work has created his study from a clay panel . |
| 6 | THE West Somerset Railway have won a major prize in the Ratcliff Mobility Awards . |
| 7 | The largest of the groups , the Lombard League , which had won a small percentage in the 1989 European Parliament elections as the Lombardy Regional Party [ see p. 36876 ] , took 19 per cent of the vote in Lombardy and became the second largest party in the region , while separate local leagues in Veneto and Piedmont won between 5 and 7 per cent of the vote each . |
| 8 | The Tribune Company had already won a similar battle in Chicago in 1985 and seemed confident that it could repeat this profitable victory in New York . |
| 9 | A mother has won a temporary victory in her battle for custody of her two young children . |
| 10 | The arrest was widely seen as the response of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamed to the PBS 's defection from the ruling coalition before the October 1990 elections [ see pp. 37780-81 ] ; the PBS had won a comfortable majority in the Sabah Assembly [ see p. 37612 ] . |
| 11 | Although ZANU-PF had won a comfortable victory in the March general election , voter turnout had been low ; the forcing of the one-party issue had led to strains within the party . |
| 12 | The platform had won a comfortable victory in the afternoon 's debate on policy . |
| 13 | The CDU parliamentary group had accused Gies ( who had headed the CDU list but had not won a direct seat in the October 1990 Landtag election ) of obliging three other CDU delegates to resign after that election by alleging that they had worked for the former East German " Stasi " security police . |
| 14 | Further indications that vegetables had won a respected place in the English diet can be found in Hannah Glasse 's delightful The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy , published in 1747 . |
| 15 | But that does not mean he has yet won a conclusive victory in the debilitating war between president and parliament . |
| 16 | More than three months after it had won a parliamentary majority in a multiparty general election , the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the renamed Bulgarian Communist Party ) finally abandoned in September its efforts to build a grand coalition government including the main opposition Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) . |
| 17 | Willie has big chances in the other televised races — on in-from After The Last and Jahafil who has won a big race in Ireland since losing to Spinning at Goodwood . |
| 18 | To this end the CPL has won a little victory in its efforts to ensure that the cat is not put out with the milk bottles . |
| 19 | With the help of a similar system , the right-wing Union for France has just won a sweeping majority in a French general election . |
| 20 | The result was seen as a sign of continuing support for the liberal factions which had won a sweeping victory in elections to the Legco in September [ see p. 38436 ] . |
| 21 | Begin won a slim victory in the Knesset for his foreign and defence policy , though having to concede an inquiry into the Beirut massacres . |
| 22 | What is more , much of government expenditure is committed a long time in advance and can not easily be cut . |
| 23 | His Majesties Printers , at or about this time , had committed a scandalous mistake in our English Bibles by leaving out the word NOT in the Seventh Commandment . |
| 24 | He had committed a grave error in lending his approval , together with that of the Church he represented , to the Exhibition . |
| 25 | One of many arrests that occurred on Labour Day when police dispersed a peaceful rally in Istanbul , May 1988 . |
| 26 | The ES has earned a good reputation in responding to new opportunities . |
| 27 | The ES has earned a good reputation in responding to new opportunities . |
| 28 | Specialization in weaponry has attracted a large following in the West . |
| 29 | Dockworkers occupied a crucial place in the economic process , which they exploited to raise their earnings considerably above the average for manual workers . |
| 30 | It is not surprising , then , that the vocational uses have occupied a central position in the assessment of education for all sectors of the political spectrum . |