Example sentences of "[vb past] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strong features , the massive head — the man radiated an extraordinary sense of inner strength . |
| 2 | In Iowa the state 's House Speaker Don Avenson , an abortion-rights advocate , defeated an anti-abortionist colleague to secure the Democratic nomination for governor . |
| 3 | The 46th Regiment of Foot ( which became The 2nd Battalion The Duke of Cornwall 's Light Infantry ) while engaged in the American War of Independence in 1777 , defeated an American force at Brandywine . |
| 4 | Ford dismissed an immediate meeting with the unions but did not rule out talks after Christmas . |
| 5 | The Directorate of Public Service Management dismissed an estimated 12,000 strikers on Nov. 6 , after some 60,000 to 70,000 government and public-sector workers had taken industrial action in support of a 154 per cent wage rise , originally agreed between the National Amalgamated Union and the government , but which government officials now said could not be met in view of the budget deficit . |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal dismissed an Inland Revenue challenge to a High Court ruling that £75,000 paid to England and Derby County goalkeeper Peter Shilton by Nottingham Forest when they sold him to Southampton in 1982 should be treated as a ‘ golden handshake ’ . |
| 7 | She then dismissed an originating summons under the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 , Schedule 1 ( the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction ) , declining to order that two children , who had been wrongfully removed from Australia to this country by their mother , should be returned to the jurisdiction of the State of Victoria , Australia . |
| 8 | They reportedly dismissed an Iraqi proposal inviting a " committee of wise men " composed of UN Security Council members , including China and some non-aligned states , to visit southern Iraq . |
| 9 | Nothing is known about his employment from 1815 to 1830 , when Messrs C. , H. , and G. Enderby proposed an Antarctic sealing voyage , and appointed him master of the brig Tula ( 150 tons ) , which was not a good sea boat , with the cutter Lively and twenty-nine men and boys in all . |
| 10 | The Senator also proposed an interim bureaucratic manoeuvre to head off the seminar : ‘ I genuinely fear that if the seminar is held the VEC will put itself at risk because you are giving a platform to people who are not sincere . |
| 11 | It proposed an international convention on air transport under the auspices of an international authority . |
| 12 | On Dec. 12 Australia proposed an overall reduction of at least one-third in trade barriers to natural resource products , Bangladesh called for special treatment of the natural resource-based exports of the least developed countries ( LDCs ) , while proposals relating to phosphates and fisheries products were submitted by Senegal and to aluminium by the USA . |
| 13 | And Carlo Rubbia , from CERN , along with David Cline , from the University of Wisconsin , and Peter McIntyre proposed an ingenious way to convert existing accelerators such as the 450 GeV Super Proton Synchroton ( SPS ) at CERN , to operate as particle colliders . |
| 14 | Speaking at the Congress of People 's Deputies in December 1990 , Gorbachev proposed an all-union referendum to resolve the future of the Soviet state . |
| 15 | Thorneycroft , therefore , proposed an alternative solution at the NATO Council meeting in July 1964 . |
| 16 | When Shinwell discussed the men from the industry to be appointed to the senior positions , he had at first wanted two deputy chairmen , one to look after generation and the other to oversee distribution and the Area Boards , but Citrine proposed an alternative division between operations and administration , feeling that it was ‘ essential to have someone familiar with the operation of large-scale organisations ’ . |
| 17 | Cardinal Lienart of Lille proposed an alternative plan . |
| 18 | Appalled at the annual wakes week , with its general exodus to Morecambe and Blackpool , and what he saw as the mindless spending of hard-earned wages on inane amusements , Leonard proposed an alternative form of holiday . |
| 19 | Congressional criticism of Bush 's proposals concentrated on the limited additional funding provided ; Democrats proposed an alternative plan , calling for total spending of $10,100 million , the additional $2,200 million to be provided by across-the-board reductions in federal programmes . |
| 20 | The campaign to save Oxleas Wood , the ancient woodland in southeast London , from a road-building scheme [ see EDs 70 , 69 , 61 ] has been given an unexpected fillip because the British Road Federation has switched sides and proposed an alternative plan . |
| 21 | He also proposed an electoral law , details of which remained unspecified . |
| 22 | Pollitt , speaking in October 1934 , proposed an electoral agreement with the Labour Party and the ILP in the approaching municipal elections . |
| 23 | Speaking at an ILP Summer School , Maxton proposed an electoral agreement : The ILP is prepared to consult with the Labour Party , the Co-operative Party and the Communist Party , regarding the General Election , with a view to avoiding conflicting candidatures in order to ( a ) defeat the National Government candidates and ( b ) secure the return of candidates nominated by the Parties taking part in the consultations . |
| 24 | This proposed an enlarged Article 19 which concerns ‘ specific measures to assist agricultural holdings in environmentally sensitive farming areas ’ and is an attempt to provide a clear basis for supporting whatever type of farming is necessary to conserve designated areas ‘ to protect the countryside , including traditional landscapes , and wildlife . ’ |
| 25 | Prime Minister Petre Roman on April 29 proposed an extensive government reshuffle which he portrayed as the introduction of dynamic personalities to maintain the pace of economic reform , and which was interpreted by commentators as an assault on bureaucratic opposition to reform being encountered in several ministries . |
| 26 | The latter proposed an 18-point austerity plan but this was rejected by the council , and on Oct. 2 some 5,000 municipal workers went on strike in protest at the non-payment of their salaries . |
| 27 | Instead , Merleau-Ponty proposed an open dialectic which would concede Marxism 's equivocalness , and give up the claim to the dialectical logic of History as a process of objective truth . |
| 28 | Instead , it proposed an all-party coalition . |
| 29 | When they were in control of the council , Tories proposed an underground car park beneath the market square and a multi-storey car park in Beaumont Street but this was rejected by the Labour administration as impractical . |
| 30 | Finally Ms Cann proposed an unorthodox and possibly unique solution : publication rights as part of merchandising would be retained by the publishers jointly , to be pooled and then shared out in the most appropriate way . |