Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The insistence on the supremacy of the political has become a cliché of recent thinking . |
| 2 | I understand that the Spanish have made a specific point of seeking to ensure that outcome . |
| 3 | The Centre for the Unemployed has done a great deal for us . |
| 4 | The island was a small one in the this has got a heart middle of the pond I could n't find the right line that 's why I did that . |
| 5 | Their prospects were hopeless because the British had developed a command of the sea that was much more effective than anything seen in earlier wars . |
| 6 | The British had launched a powerful attack , and first Mersa Matruh ( which Mussolini had planned to enter in triumph ) fell , then Bardia and Tobruk . |
| 7 | ‘ The Sex Pistols ’ , he wrote , ‘ are very New York and it 's nice to see that the British have produced a band capable of producing the atmosphere created by the New York Dolls and their many imitators , even though it might be too late … ’ |
| 8 | The most reasonable assumption was that the French had pushed a cavalry raid across the frontier . |
| 9 | The French have gone a long way towards providing a road and water supply and members of the ‘ Pater Nostra ’ organisation are studying in Budapest , Vienna and Germany to obtain qualifications in medicine , physiotherapy , occupational therapy and other skills which will enable them to provide the day-to-day care of the residents in the future . |
| 10 | In consumer electronics , the French have had a more than usually protected market because of the SECAM colour television standard . |
| 11 | The French have invented a perfume spray , mostly lemon , which stops dogs barking . |
| 12 | Sometimes the measure would be evidence that the Japanese had changed a regulation ; sometimes that the number of distributors of foreign goods had grown , or the rate of acceptance of foreign bids for contracts . |
| 13 | The overriding conclusion was that the Japanese have made a much better job of winning the commitment of their employees at all levels . |
| 14 | The Japanese have commissioned a British company to build a replica Elizabethan village to help its students appreciate English culture . |
| 15 | The accused had fixed a new glass fibre wing on his car the day after the accident , and he said he could n't remember what he 'd done with the old one . |
| 16 | During a three-day trial , the court had heard how a family argument flared into midnight violence in the hamlet of Aberargie , where the accused had occupied a caravan beside his brother 's cottage . |
| 17 | The effect is that even if the liability remains in full the accused has secured a remission of it . |
| 18 | Trading in the second has shown a clear improvement and since Boxing Day sales of fourteen per cent ahead of the previous year . |
| 19 | The pain in my stomach was because the swelling had caused a nerve to be trapped . |
| 20 | Roughly speaking , the country with the highest mortality rate in the 1940s had achieved a level comparable with that of England , but not as good as the lowest rate , in 1880 . |
| 21 | Although the many pages of Mayhew are positively crammed with evidence that the poor had created a culture of their own , he seems none the less to share Godwin 's view of art ‘ as a social bridge of no ordinary size and strength ’ . |
| 22 | While I fully accept that the poor have become a cause by which many politicians and intellectuals can further their personal ambitions , I do nevertheless find that the Hayekian case is deficient . |
| 23 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 12 reported that some 80 former student leaders who were active in the pro-democracy movement in the 1970s had formed a new political party , Pracha Dhamma . |
| 24 | It is also believed that none of the injured has made a complaint to the police . |
| 25 | Despite his humbling defeat for the governorship of California in 1962 , the latter had made a remarkable comeback . |
| 26 | Eventually he sent it to Baldwin immediately after the latter had received a further damaging and depressing blow . |
| 27 | The latter had formed a Master Printers " Association in 1846 , with the explicit aim of keeping out unionists and outlawing strikers . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the government filed a law suit against the Westinghouse Corporation claiming that the latter had built a defective 620-MW generating plant in Bataan after having first offered commission to the previous government in order to win the contract . |
| 29 | Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora reported that during his May meeting in Washington with US President George Bush the latter had shown a serious attitude to the drug problem ( the US government having agreed almost to double Bolivia 's anti-drug aid , to $33,000,000 ) . |
| 30 | The latter have shown a conservative judiciary interpreting legislation and developing the common law in ways which government and Parliament sought to reverse . |