Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 17th had four Companies to begin with , recruited from the Royal Technical College , F.P.s of city schools , and from the businesses and trades of the city . |
| 2 | The two-way went dead and Gregson replaced it , pressing his foot harder on the accelerator , coaxing more speed from the Scorpio . |
| 3 | But only with the opening of the emancipationist campaign in the 1820s did local societies again become a major organisational feature of antislavery . |
| 4 | The Posh tackled hard and supported well . |
| 5 | The 60s brought two further landmark climbs : Kafoozalem ( E3 ) by Frank Cannings and Beowulf ( E2 ) by Pete Biven and Trevor Peck . |
| 6 | The two-wheeled carts that comprised the principal means of transporting the wounded on other French sectors proved quite useless over the pock-ridden terrain at Verdun ; the dogs used to sniff out the wounded went rabid under the shelling . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the patent died from septicaemia 11 days after TIPSS but postmortem examination of the stent showed internal epithelialisation and continued patency . |
| 8 | I consider that one of the great benefits of public investigation is that not only are the guilty found guilty but the innocent are exonerated if false charges are made . |
| 9 | The latter part of the thirties saw small triumphs amidst a larger failure . |
| 10 | As the weak became strong , they cast it aside . |
| 11 | He has pulled down princes from their thrones and exalted the lowly The hungry he has filled with good things , the rich sent empty away . |
| 12 | Some of the exchanges were rather less thoughtful : eat the rich read one window , kill the poor replied another . |
| 13 | It 's an income redistribution to make up for 12 years of Reagan and Bush in which the rich got richer and the poor got poorer . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They were convinced that equal allowances , financed out of general taxation so that the rich contributed more than the poor , should be given in all income groups because the responsibility of motherhood and the value of the child were the same whatever the status of the parents . |
| 16 | JGM shows the absurd made plausible |
| 17 | Official American Library Association publications in the 19305 paid regular tribute to the multi-media idea ( there is some evidence that British librarians maintained illustrations collections and by I 935 record collections without so much publicity ) . |
| 18 | I hope that the hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) will , in the House this afternoon , condemn the antediluvian attitudes of the TGWU , which sponsors him , and which turns its back on help for the unemployed made available by the Government . |
| 19 | The upward trend in the numbers of unemployed getting supplementary benefit , for example , continued in the 1980s ; the numbers trebled until two-thirds of all the unemployed received this benefit , despite the fact that it was never designed for them . |
| 20 | Otto 's brother-in-law King Athelstan appears to have called himself by a variety of high sounding titles , emperor ( if any of the documents are genuine ) and basileus , the Greek word for king and part of the official title of the Byzantine emperor ( though it is not clear whether the English realized this ) . |
| 21 | By sinking several Genoese vessels and taking others captive , the English made sure that the port remained in English hands , that ( for some while ) they would control the wide estuary of the Seine , and that they might , in the phrase of the day , ‘ sweep ’ the French off its waters by patrolling the sea . |
| 22 | The English took little note of the fantasy before about 1585 ; the favourite form was still the ‘ In nomine ’ . |
| 23 | On the battlefield the English took vast plunder . |
| 24 | It is true that in the late 1430s the English suffered some reverses and territorial losses . |
| 25 | They might have been supplied by sea , but the English had more ships than that first fleet driven off , and presently many vessels appeared at the mouth of Tweed , not to attempt attack this time but to patrol up and down , blockading the harbour . |
| 26 | Although tired and running out of provisions , the English had several advantages : a good defensive position ; a united command ; and the use of an army which had already proved highly successful against the Scots , a combination of archers and dismounted men-at-arms for which , in the conditions prevailing on the day , the French cavalry and the crossbowmen of their Genoese allies proved no match . |
| 27 | Even the English paid grudging tribute to this ; those who accompanied Margaret Tudor north in 1503 , for her marriage to Mary 's grandfather , James IV , were less than gracious about the elaborate and highly expensive entertainment provided by the king , but their contempt was mitigated , for they ‘ returned into their country giving more praise to the manhood than to the good manner and nurture of Scotland ’ . |
| 28 | In 1579 , when the Gaels attempted to forge an alliance with Spain , the English slaughtered thousands of Irish people , destroying their crops and livestock . |
| 29 | Support for the Irish as a means to liberate the English remained consistent . |
| 30 | Yes , it opened my eyes to the plight of socialists and Labour Party members in England and to the fact that not all the English voted Tory , particularly in the north . |