Example sentences of "[vb past] an [adj] [noun sg] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , in Madras , he demonstrated an alternative approach and it was rather like watching Norman Tebbit become Mahatma Ghandi . |
| 2 | The reasons for this puzzling association of money wage changes and real-wage changes in classical theory are not altogether clear , though we speculated in Chapter 2 that the influence of the quantity theory of money probably played an important part since it anchored the price level to the quantity of money in circulation , releasing the money-wage bargain to determine real wages . |
| 3 | On the same day Li Peng , told an Indonesian journalist that it would be " impossible " for China to have relations with the Indonesian Communist Party ( PKI ) because , he claimed , China had " no idea " whether the PKI still existed . |
| 4 | The cream silk backing seemed an obvious choice as it blended with the cream of the frame and helped to keep the colour combination very gentle . |
| 5 | The initial distribution between capitation and other expenditure followed an incremental approach as it was based on previous patterns of expenditure . |
| 6 | Mr. Philipson addressed an impassioned argument that it would be quite wrong for the court to vary the injunction at the behest of the defendants , seeing that they had flouted Morland J. 's order , as a result of which the documents had come into the hands of the Federal Reserve Board , who had in turn passed the information to the Bank of England ; and that it would be the antithesis of justice that the consequence of this misconduct should be the discharge of the very injunction which had been designed to protect the plaintiffs from these consequences . |
| 7 | It was steamed at the weekend and made an impressive sight when it was double headed with the line 's own former NCB No 20 . |
| 8 | This could occur if the project concerned an extractive industry and it was a condition of the contract that the site be landscaped upon completion . |
| 9 | Mr Johnson recorded an open verdict because it was not clear whether Mr Venables took the ecstasy himself , whether it had been placed in his drink or how many tablets he had taken . |
| 10 | By the turn of the century the Free Church Movement presented an imposing facade but it was only a facade . |
| 11 | He was looking for something which immobilised the car and gave an audible warning if it was broken into . ’ |
| 12 | Fairclough played a Batty-esque defensive midfield role as far as I could tell , marking Shearer might have been a better idea , though he did an OK job as it was . |
| 13 | He said Evans had an exemplary character and it was inevitable that his 31 years of public service would end . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal granted a limited injunction against the newspaper on the basis that Mr Kaye had an arguable case that it amounted to " malicious falsehood " to claim that he had voluntarily surrendered a valuable property right ( ie in his " exclusive " story ) in these circumstances . |
| 15 | The body in its stiff ungainliness , beginning already , or so it seemed to his over-sensitive nose , to emit the first sour-sweet stink of decay , yet had an inalienable dignity because it once had been a man . |
| 16 | But Breeze still had an uneasy feeling that it was something more . |
| 17 | This cannon , too , had been fired a great deal and although its muzzle had shown no distortion Harry had an uneasy feeling that it might soon be about to burst . |
| 18 | The paper 's student rival — the Cherwell newspaper — believes the Oxford Student had an ulterior motive when it published the article . |
| 19 | Young mothers who had kept their looks had an obvious advantage when it came to extracting vital documents from unhelpful bureaucrats . |