Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't until the fourth hide was reached that I met that extraordinary bird , the red-necked phalarope . |
| 2 | So was it any surprise that the Syrians we met that hot day in the Bekaa wanted only to maintain Lebanon 's Maronite-dominated institutions , to restore the sovereignty of the Lebanese government , to stay not one hour , not one minute longer than necessary ? |
| 3 | increase , and he doubled that increased salary in the following year . |
| 4 | This must put the Canadian health minister in a similar position to Britain 's Kenneth Clarke , when his advisory committee recommended that last year Depo-Provera should get a licence . |
| 5 | In explaining the fall in mortality , some weight must be given to the increasing wealth of Europe which made possible better feeding and better housing — however slight the improvements may have seemed to the poor . |
| 6 | The Royal Navy created by Henry VIII was manned by merchant seamen who fought the great naval battles which cleared the seas and made possible future trade with the East , while these same seamen , under letters of marque , plundered the bullion and seized the vessels of the enemies of England en route from the New World . |
| 7 | This practice of employing deputies made possible bureaucratic pluralism . |
| 8 | Murray had a shot stopped on the line and substitute Gary Peebles , one of four Scots in Ronnie McFall 's Tartan Army rattled the bar before Strain applied that 72nd minute coup de grace and Fraser had a goal disallowed for offside . |
| 9 | Married to Jean Desforges , who became European long jump champion , Pickering leaves a son , Shaun , and daughter Kim . |
| 10 | ‘ A very bright 17-year-old pupil of mine got pregnant last year , the result of a one-night stand at a party . |
| 11 | Along the western coast , on the shores of island , rock and cliff he saw cushions of pink sea thrift on rocks where lichens of yellow and red and green made each ancient rock a beauty in itself . |
| 12 | The election produced little real change in the relative strength of the other three main parties . |
| 13 | Thus , for instance , Italy began building in a Romanesque style earlier than most nations — for its emergence from Roman work was a natural corollary — continued it later , produced little Gothic work and then burst forth into the Renaissance a century and more before the rest of Europe . |
| 14 | Appointed to review the pattern of full-time higher education in Great Britain , and advise on its long-term development , this committee commissioned extensive new research and examination of existing research . |
| 15 | He made that 1-iron talk , hitting it below the wind . |
| 16 | ‘ A Winter Too Many ’ was the elegiac end of a besieged life … the enthralling thing about Hannah , when Barry Cockcroft made that first documentary , ‘ Too Long A Winter ’ , was not the things she managed without : warmth , water , company , money . |
| 17 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 18 | so that we made that little place what was the bathroom into a little cookery place , I put , we put the cooker in there , then we had our bath , had our bath put upstairs you see |
| 19 | Well Bernie oh maybe twelve months , maybe six months , I do n't know , and er he , he made that big football pitch |
| 20 | Yes Mr , I made that very point . |
| 21 | In an attempt to prevent this slow creep the department asked each local office to set a maximum upper weekly limit for fees in their area . |
| 22 | Er just as we owned that famous street in New York I 'd like to think with the technology and the architecture that can deliver today we we 'll own the road to enterprise client server . |
| 23 | The end result made solid good sense . |
| 24 | He agreed that liberalising daytime drinking helped tourism — a policy the trust supported — but added : ‘ It is an entirely fallacious argument that licences extending into the early hours are essential to Edinburgh 's role in international tourism . ’ |
| 25 | Talking to other mothers I learn that , like me , they too were disgusted and we all agreed that next time we would ask for another consultant . |
| 26 | Several Conservative candidates in by-elections — egged on by Beaverbrook — went well beyond the official policy and as a result got little official support . |
| 27 | He was born sixteen years ago , and we realised that first winter that there was something wrong . |
| 28 | And then you 'd have a length of erm either you made little thinner straw ropes or erm what we called er it was a sort of a coconut twine . |
| 29 | The Omani Minister of State for Foreign Affairs , Yusuf al-Alawi Abdullah , had visited Iran on Sept. 12-13 for talks with senior leaders including President Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , and on Sept. 28 the GCC Foreign Ministers met Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Vellayati in New York , after which the GCC Secretary-General , Abdullah Yacoub Bishara of Kuwait , referred to " very hopeful " prospects of co-operation . |
| 30 | Exploratory work revealed little relevant research on this important and expensive area of social services provision . |