Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition there were regional and county federations : by 1901 these had risen to thirty-six , with each centred on a major town to enable the stronger , urban Councils to help the weaker , rural ones . |
| 2 | It is difficult to believe these comments refer to the same Report as that evaluated in a balanced leader in the Independent ( 16 November 1988 ) under the headline ‘ A blow for literacy ’ . |
| 3 | Is that agreed as a fair way of proceeding ? |
| 4 | Breathlessness , cough , sputum , abdominal discomfort , and fatigue were each rated on a five point scale ranging from none to very severe , and a summary score was calculated as the average of these five symptoms . |
| 5 | There were fears that if the date for stabilisation was altered from that promised in a recent government white paper , the privatisation of the electricity industry would be jeopardised . |
| 6 | In order to test these predictions we need to compare the size of the latent inhibition effect found after a long exposure — test interval ( which we may take to be 24 h or more ) with that found after a short interval ( when conditioning follows exposure immediately or after a few minutes ) . |
| 7 | The defence that an " offer of amends " had been made failed on two counts : it had not been made " as soon as practicable " ( seven weeks had elapsed since publication ) and " reasonable care " had not been exercised , because a check with current stage directories would have revealed that the name chosen for the fictitious actress was the same as that used by a leading West End lady . |
| 8 | It angered her that he appeared to think this amounted to a great concession . |
| 9 | In the case of Nos. 13 , 25 , 34 and 35 , this amounted to a complete rebuild , including strengthened solebars . |
| 10 | Together with advice and guidance on housing , neighbourhood development and the layout of roads , this amounted to a total visualization of urban form at a regional scale . |
| 11 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal was not satisfied that this amounted to a binding agreement , but held that even if it did , it would have been rendered void because it would have been an agreement purporting to preclude the employee from presenting a complaint to a tribunal . |
| 12 | Even allowing for the investment risk of personal pensions , this amounted to a guaranteed gain for younger people and a fairly sound proposition for anyone aged up to about 40 for women and 45 for men . |
| 13 | This led into a Victorian style kitchen with a tiled floor and copper skillets hanging in the middle of the room . |
| 14 | This led to a substantial increase in platelet cholesterol concentration , the bulk of this increase being associated with the platelet membrane . |
| 15 | This led to a constructive discussion in which the employee volunteered to give up his supervisory role and instead concentrate on other activities at which he was better and actually preferred . |
| 16 | Behaviour was subject to the decrees of custom and this led to a strong emphasis on pragmatism and the averting of any confrontation . |
| 17 | This led to a good deal of overlapping and interdepartmental rivalry , notably between the foreign and war offices : propaganda in the neutral states which it was most important to influence was in fact carried on largely by the British diplomatic missions there , often supported by groups of expatriates and local anglophiles . |
| 18 | This led to a certain amount of friction between the Gardener ( Hortulanus ) and the Keeper of the Garden ( Praefectus Horti ) , Isaac Rand , who , in accordance with his office , published in the same year Index Plantarum officinalium quae in Horto Chelseiano . |
| 19 | This led to a certain amount of friction , as Matthew was in the habit of practising on his flute when he went to bed , and this was not appreciated by the men trying to sleep over his head , let alone those in the next room to him , and one day in the Mess they protested strongly and threatened to flatten him if this continued . |
| 20 | This led to a real Sunday morning 's devotion , singing new stanzas to the song I had started a few days before : ‘ Thank you for sore legs ; thank you for the pain ; I wan na thank you , Lord . |
| 21 | This led to a general disillusionment with house-planning which today means that the Council planning policy is honoured more often in the breach than in anything else . |
| 22 | A great many civil posts — postal officials , customs officers , policemen , street cleaners — were duplicated and this led to a serious imbalance between the non-productive bureaucracy and the private sector production workers . |
| 23 | Ministers also hoped that employers would cut out overmanning and root out inefficiency , even if this led to a temporary surge in unemployment . |
| 24 | This led to a circuitous discussion with Paul Lexington about whether it was sound equipment or not , which was only settled after much wrangling ( and , almost definitely , money changing hands ) . |
| 25 | This led to a great setback for the Company ; by the early 1680s it seemed to have established itself , and paid its first dividends , at about 50 per cent a year , but it was then caught up in England 's wars against France , the bases were captured , and no regular dividends could be paid until after it had got its property back under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |
| 26 | This led to a deep conflict within himself which carried with it the handicap that he did not really understand the ordinary world , was remote from everyday life , and so lacked balance . |
| 27 | According to Koenig , this led to a month-long orgy involving virgins and she-asses garlanded for the occasion . |
| 28 | Perhaps this led to a greater emphasis on the other economic incentive . |
| 29 | In Butler 's case this led to a radical campaign against the Contagious Diseases ( CD ) Acts of the 1860s ( under which prostitutes were subject to compulsory medical inspection and detained if found to have venereal disease ) , which she saw as part of the double moral standard oppressing all women and debasing family life . |
| 30 | This led to a heated family argument , the daughter not wanting to leave her family , the husband not wanting to lose his wife , and the father indicating that this was not what he intended . |