Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just after the agreement was announced , Sarajevo Radio reported that Yugoslav fighter jets had launched new attacks on Croat-populated villages in western Bosnia and that army units had surrounded a strategic Muslim-populated town east of the Neretva river . |
| 2 | At the end of the gallery Mr Molloy has designed a tall wooden column inspired by the vertical nature of hangul , the Korean script , which has been inscribed with part of a Korean poem cycle . |
| 3 | To give more effective stripping , 3M has designed a special Stripping Tool which , unlike wire wool , will not stain wood with rust spots , while also speeding up stripping on flat surfaces . |
| 4 | Caterers from Lexington were providing a banquet , and the local bakery had designed a huge oval birthday cake . |
| 5 | Delving into the local history of the area , I discovered with amusement that in the early 1850s a certain superintendent of the then London & Birmingham Railway works at Wolverton had designed a fast new locomotive . |
| 6 | Those doubts and attacks have been allowed to return in the modern era following the dissolution of theocratic ideas that have supposed a particular religious belief to be an essential ingredient of sound political organisation . |
| 7 | But the Welsh , because they have n't won a Major professional event , keep proving themselves by winning Amateur Championships . |
| 8 | Before the second Test in Trinidad , England actually won a one-day international thanks to a superb unbeaten century from Gooch . |
| 9 | The situation had begun to deteriorate markedly after the elections of February 1936 returned an coalition of Liberal republicans , socialists , anarchists , communists and Trotskyists to power , even though the right-wing parties had won a small popular majority . |
| 10 | On 8 May 1429 the English abandoned the siege ; France , through Joan , had won a great moral victory . |
| 11 | The Open Software Foundation 's Research Institute has won a three-year multi-million dollar research contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Air Force Material Command to develop a distributed operating system for high-performance computing . |
| 12 | Cork Gully , appointed provisional liquidator of Kingscroft , El Paso , Lime Street and Mutual Reinsurance , has won a temporary freezing order on all their American assets and a stay on all litigation . |
| 13 | A NORTH West teacher has won a Gold International Award after completing an arduous series of sporting and community tasks . |
| 14 | Since then , Labour has never won a secure working majority at any election . |
| 15 | Worse , for Balestre , that wretched Englishman Mosley had won a massive psychological advantage in the election battle . |
| 16 | The city of Leicester in central England has won a national energy-saving competition . |
| 17 | STUDENT and part-time chef Michael Pearson has won a top national prize in the first competition he has entered . |
| 18 | Odonata have never attacked a living human being . |
| 19 | Further detention can only be authorised in the case of a person who is suspected of having committed a serious arrestable offence . |
| 20 | Many commentators claimed that the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , and more specifically Yassir Arafat , the PLO leader , had committed a grave tactical error by openly supporting Iraq throughout the Gulf war . |
| 21 | ‘ I did wonder , ’ said Sophia at last in desperation , ‘ whether I had committed a grave social error in asking you to dinner alone when you may very well have a mother , wife or fiancee who should have been invited too . ’ |
| 22 | Having read that I immediately repent me in dust and ashes for having committed a dreadful grammatical error . |
| 23 | The byplay with Bouilhet was just teasing , the outer edge of vivid male friendship : Gustave never committed a single homosexual act in all his life . |
| 24 | A friend of mine was unhappy at university some years ago , and may — or may not — have committed a minor sexual indiscretion . |
| 25 | In other words , they preferred , when they had earned a certain basic sum of money sufficient to meet their immediate needs , to spend the rest of their time in leisure rather than in work to increase their earnings . |
| 26 | There is also some evidence that Mrs Thatcher has attracted a particular electoral constituency . |
| 27 | The entrance and main public areas are spacious and tastefully furnished , and in the gardens are located a large outdoor swimming pool , snack bar and tennis courts . |
| 28 | Other animals described in this book have occupied a specific ecological niche where they can quietly pursue their own speciality without embarking on any spectacular radiation in the manner of the ammonoids . |
| 29 | Mr Barnes 's firm occupied a small Georgian house on the south side of St Clement 's . |
| 30 | Are there no other types of thing for which Moore might have claimed a similar high value in isolation ? |