Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven teachers of widely differing experience each taught five one-hour lessons to an individual pupil while being recorded on videotape . |
| 2 | The Earl of Radnor and Lady Windsor each gave ten guineas ; John Thornton the notorious City speculator and gambler , twenty pounds . |
| 3 | The privilege from self-incrimination is abrogated in bankruptcy proceedings not by the opening words of section 31 of the Theft Act 1968 , but by rule 6.175 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 made pursuant to section 412 of the Act of 1986 : |
| 4 | On the second ballot on February 1l , Margaret won 146 votes , Willie Whitelaw 79 , myself and Geoffrey Howe each won 19 votes , and John Peyton 11 . |
| 5 | The remainder each had ten sentences with a line underneath where a continuation was to be written . |
| 6 | A meeting of the 16 Land ( state ) governments on March 12 demanded constitutional changes reinforcing their role in EC decision-making as a precondition for their approval . |
| 7 | It was intended that he should enter the medical profession but for financial reasons this became impossible , and when only seventeen he joined the office of the district superintendent of the line of the London and North Western Railway at Euston . |
| 8 | Like every other ruler of a great State , the empress was the captive of the historical situation in which she found herself , and in her case this forbade any radical change in the social structure of Russia or any far-reaching amelioration from above of the position of the peasant . |
| 9 | In the first trial year the Project material was used by ten schools , and in its improved form was used the following year by eleven schools ; and in most cases this involved some 120 children at a time . |
| 10 | Part 2 covered three central aspects of behavioural intervention . |
| 11 | The government on March 2 announced severe economic and austerity measures following talks with the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank . |
| 12 | Reacting to what the government claimed was an unsuccessful military coup against the regime of President Idris Déby on Feb. 21 , the Foreign Minister Mahamat Saleh Hamat on March 2 asked foreign diplomats to ensure that their staff did not " intervene in the internal political affairs of Chad " . |
| 13 | Those released on March 2 included military officers and civil servants who had been accused of taking advantage of the campaign for the December 1990 municipal elections to organize an attempted coup against the regime of President Moaouia Ould Sidi Mohamed Taya . |
| 14 | In part this reflected religious scruples since mechanical explanations for our behaviour were incompatible with religious teaching . |
| 15 | Finding he had an inadequate amount of carpeting and the shop could no longer supply the same colour , he simply ordered another shade and was oblivious to the clash of reds this created half way up the stairs . |
| 16 | Antislavery , temperance , teetotalism and Sunday Schools each had international conferences normally either in America or in England . |
| 17 | In the general election of Feb. 26 , 1988 , the government and the opposition each won 23 seats ; the remaining seat was the subject of numerous recounts . |
| 18 | Independents obtained a majority in 106 municipalities and in the province of Tindouf , and three parties each won two municipalities — the Social Democratic Party , the National Party for Development and Solidarity , and the Algerian Renewal Party . |
| 19 | Lost remittances 400 Undisbursed Kuwaiti development aid 397 Lost Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil supplies 259 Lost budget and project support from Iraq 145 Lost exports to Iraq and Kuwait 157 Lost budget and project support from Kuwait 28 Indirect costs ( i.e. balance of payments difficulties , rising unemployment ) 300 Total 1,686 |
| 20 | After postings to the cars and station offices this left 2⅔ men ‘ on the ground ’ per sub-division , or one man for every 26,838 of the population . |
| 21 | When in 1787 a new hymn book in German was introduced by a reforming elector this aroused bitter popular hostility . |
| 22 | In both trials , at each dosing round , children aged less than 6 months were not eligible , children 6–11 months old received 100,000 IU retinol equivalent or placebo , and children 12 months or older were given 200,000 IU retinol equivalent or placebo . |
| 23 | The account of habituation offered in Chapter 2 held that dishabituation would occur after a retention interval when the input failed to match the ( partly forgotten ) representation of the stimulus — when the subject failed to recognize the test stimulus . |
| 24 | St Bartholomew 's church at Covenham was declining to the state of danger when a parish in California asked if they might have it and ship it stone by stone to the U.S.A. This caused much controversy for a while but finally it was decided that it should remain and be safely maintained on its original consecrated site . |
| 25 | In practice this meant medieval mystery plays at York , madrigals on the river at Cambridge , and the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 26 | In practice this included compulsory attendance at either company Bible class or Sunday school , but the unique feature of the BLB was its adherence to life-saving drills ( fire , water , and stretcher ) , with an emphasis on gymnastics , swimming , first-aid and hygiene , in order to ‘ prepare for helpful service to others ’ , while simultaneously training the body in ‘ healthful vigour ’ and ‘ moral discipline ’ . |
| 27 | In January 1990 ( i ) two people were on Jan. 22 shot dead and nine injured in the gold-mining town of Carletonville , 60 km south-west of Johannesburg , when police opened fire on a crowd of 5,000 blacks who were protesting at the death the previous week of a 16-year-old boy while held in detention ; and ( ii ) using razor wire , water cannon and plastic bullets , the police on Jan. 23 dispersed an illegal gathering of 8,000 demonstrators in Cape Town who were supporting the National Education Crisis Committee 's protest against the black education system . |
| 28 | For a few months this carried all before it . |
| 29 | By contrast , the English seem to have had fewer ships at this period , although Edward III had some royal ships , and vessels were built for largely defensive purposes . |
| 30 | By 1347 Edward III had re-afforested also the royal forest of Bere Porchester in Hampshire . |