Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Only six were noted away from the coast , and birds sometimes made prolonged stays in favoured coastal marshes , for example 35 days in 1965 .
2 Through such breaks , an enjoyable day became memorable .
3 Through such breaks , an enjoyable day became memorable .
4 The agreement covered industrial goods , processed agricultural goods and fish .
5 The group expected economic recovery in 1993 .
6 Looking ahead , Dr Ryan expected economic recovery , together with the cutback in production of aircraft and the retirement of old equipment to bring supply and demand back into balance .
7 Munich , Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain made enthralling reading in the Manchester but what Mr Douglas remembers was the spirit of friendship offered by the school towards the refugees of the Spanish Civil War and Hitler 's Germany .
8 In her letter she asked Gwenellen to ask me if my aunt had at last decided to put poor Old Red out of his misery ?
9 The talks , held on 23–30 October in Montreal , produced total agreement on the need for an international authority to administer civil aviation , or , if that was not possible , a regional operators ' conference .
10 During the period 1983-84 to 1989-90 , the scheme assisted 902 projects , disbursed £31.6 million of board funds at constant 1990 prices , and produced total tourism investment of £197.2 million at 1990 prices .
11 Control injections with preimmune serum produced normal embryos .
12 The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation .
13 I asked professional John Burns what the hazards were at Silloth .
14 They attacked specific measures such as tariffs which forced up the price of agricultural machinery .
15 About this time the Geomagnetism Unit and the Global Seismology Unit were incorporated into NERC and became component parts of IGS .
16 Henceforward the split between the Teller and Oppenheimer camps in the scientific community became total .
17 In 1663 an Act of Charles II had placed a partial ban on the importation of foreign cattle to England ; the ban became total in 1666 and permanent in 1680 .
18 To some extent this was natural , for , as economic mobilisation became total , finance took a back seat to the direct controls over labour and materials .
19 He is improving generally and his memory and concentration became normal during the 0/2 dosage .
20 It was only in the tenth and eleventh centuries that it became normal or common for giant churches to be built .
21 Her energy and enthusiasm for life returned , her sleep pattern became normal once more and she was able again to cope with life .
22 But of course the most important cases of the rise of the salaried professional in cultural production have occurred in the institutions of the new media , in which integrated social production became normal and necessary .
23 Somehow I managed to get Joe out of the house , and in the daylight he gradually became normal again .
24 Anne was surprised at how quickly all that seemed so strange became normal .
25 Accordingly it became normal to try to survey erosion terraces and their associated features in the field and this type of investigation illustrates well the desirability of fitting the punishment to the crime , or more prosaically reaching a compromise between accuracy and amount of data .
26 Our results also showed that plasma and urine cAMP and cGMP values were abnormally high in coeliac disease patients who had not been treated , and became normal only after treatment when clinical , biochemical , and histological remission was achieved .
27 Serial measurements of COHb ( IL 482 CO-Oximeter , Instrumentation Laboratory , USA ) were done hourly in all 6 patients until the index became normal , and arterial blood pressure , heart rate , and SpO were monitored ( peripheral oxygen saturation by M1020 module , Hewlett Packard , USA ) .
28 His Albert gleamed rich gold against the fine cloth of his waistcoat , the fine watch lifted now from its hidden pocket to be scrutinized for the hundredth time , a sure sign that Thomas Grenfell was nervous .
29 Harold Wilson 's words are remembered today , 25 years after he led Labour back to power , from 13 wilderness years .
30 But in the 1983 and 1987 elections the Conservatives averaged nearly 60 per cent and led Labour by 14.8 per cent and 11.5 per cent of the votes respectively in the two elections .
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