Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 : |
| 2 | That made two of us . |
| 3 | That became available to the parties on 19 January 1992 . |
| 4 | As far as small schools are concerned , erm one of the things that that became clear during the debate on Banbury School was that the school itself is funded according to the formula that is allocated for all the other Oxfordshire eleven to eighteen schools and it is not something additional . |
| 5 | A later catalogue of 1755 listed more of Gray 's stock , ‘ a greater Variety of Trees , Shrubs , Plants and Flowers … than can perhaps be found in any other Garden , for Sale , not only in England , but also in any other part of Europe ’ . |
| 6 | The research centre provides specialist coursework , in parallel with that provided Faculty-wide on research method and design . |
| 7 | The same oppositional balance is expressed in more prosaic language by two men who each described one of the two polarities : |
| 8 | The fact is that the rich retained most of their income and wealth , although there was , quite clearly , some transference of wealth and income from the very rich to the middling rich sections , as indicated in Table 6.3 . |
| 9 | At McDiarmid Park on Saturday , the 22 year old made light of his excellent midweek showing for Scotland and played some football which was a delight to the eye . |
| 10 | Some became pregnant through contraceptive failure , such as missing taking the Pill for a day , or a faulty condom , but most do it through not using any kind of contraception at all . |
| 11 | Some became larger with heavy lime shells . |
| 12 | Devlin and O'Cathain found that of 122 children consecutively referred , 22 became dry after a structured interview ( with the child alone as well as with a parent ) , advice on personal hygiene and cleanliness training , daily bladder exercises , and provision of a ‘ star chart . ’ |
| 13 | This assuaged some of the fears expressed by managers and engineers in the existing supply undertakings about possible over-centralisation of power in a nationalised undertaking . |
| 14 | Ha face was pale , her eyes dark-rimmed , and this assuaged some of my pain at the nun 's silly chatter . |
| 15 | He found he could dowse the ‘ charge ’ in a stone , the wavelength being in the radio section of the electromagnetic spectrum , that this became fixed by electromagnetism , and that the germination of plants could be affected if they are on one of the ‘ charge lines ’ . |
| 16 | This became apparent to others before it did to MacDonald himself . |
| 17 | This became famous under the brand name of Gossage . |
| 18 | In the end , this became critical to the industry 's survival . |
| 19 | Consequently , it was necessary to introduce more daylight into the broader interiors and this became possible in the 1890s with the use of reinforced-concrete floors and steel girders . |
| 20 | Shamir would have preferred to have formed a broad coalition government with Labour , but this became impossible for him in view of statements made by Labour Ministers suggesting that they supported contacts with the PLO , and in view of pressure from hardline Likud members such as Ariel Sharon to form a right-wing government . |
| 21 | After Hensley Henson 's death this became one of Ramsey 's favourite quotations . |
| 22 | This became one of the weirdest and most requested Peel session tracks ever . |
| 23 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 24 | With the downturn in North Sea drilling rig activity there was a corresponding reduction in site survey activities and this became one of the most fiercely competitive business sectors of 1992 . |
| 25 | Stories like this became commonplace in Manchester clubs were Morrissey gained a ‘ Pope of Pop ’ image that did little to maintain the stability of his early followers . |
| 26 | This became evident in their attitude to the comrades ’ courts . |
| 27 | In that great clean ceaseless world towards the Antarctic , all this became clear to me . |
| 28 | This became clear to Fenella during the Liverpool run . |
| 29 | Secondly , and this became clear in the negotiations that followed , machines were the real key to the whole question . |
| 30 | This became clear in Interfoto Picture Library Ltd v Stiletto Visual Programmes Ltd [ 1988 ] 1 All ER 348 . |