Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | During this period he became interested in the adulteration of tobacco , an issue of considerable importance in the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 32 | In 1894 Marconi became interested in the discovery of radio waves by Heinrich Hertz in 1887–8 and resolved to recreate the original experiments . |
| 33 | Pollen became interested in the problem of naval rangefinding after witnessing gunnery practice at sea in 1900 . |
| 34 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |
| 35 | I thus became interested in the school 's notion of ‘ deviance ’ . |
| 36 | They became interested in the peculiarities of the Celtic society they tried to control and subdue . |
| 37 | Dr Bob Woodward and his brother John became interested in the pavement when it was uncovered some years ago . |
| 38 | Now erm was it through this union activity you became interested in the Labour Party ? |
| 39 | But it was while at Silverstone to watch Nigel Mansell that he became interested in the role of the marshal . |
| 40 | Peter emigrated to Australia some 20 years ago from Leicester and at this time picked up an old copy of Bradshaws and became interested in the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 41 | They became interested in the Oakeley Family and did much research for their Introduction , when they published extracts of the diary in 1980 . |
| 42 | Since she became interested in the group Yvonne has now , consistently , become the highest House to House collector in Thurrock and raised , this year , £195.19p in her panda box . |
| 43 | During a period of extreme emotional distress , the ending of her first marriage , she became interested in the work of Philip Guston. these paintings ‘ Beggar ’ ( 1982 ) , along with Guston 's later work , are included in a period of art referred to as ‘ Bad Paintings ’ . |
| 44 | My father who was a er a clergyman taught me the piano from an early age and er I first became interested in the organ purely for money purposes in fact , when at the age of fifteen a local methodist church in Durham where we lived at the time said er , We need an organist . |
| 45 | As we made clear in the previous chapter , its definition of temporary workers might well include people whose jobs are available on other than a temporary basis , but who only intend to stay in these jobs for a limited period of time . |
| 46 | I made clear in the editorial that no randomised comparative trial is available and that there is an urgent need for such information . |
| 47 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 48 | Although the project was supported by many prominent politicians , the government bowed to growing environmental concerns , made clear in the March 1989 local elections in Le Puy in which the Greens obtained 22 per cent of votes , and to lobbying by European environmental groups . |
| 49 | That 's basically when I got in with a guy in Memphis and we started Fernwood Records , and I got interested in the engineering side of it . |
| 50 | ‘ I first got interested in the issue of access for off-road cyclists after two years ' National Series racing . |
| 51 | That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time . |
| 52 | Tricia Liggett got interested in the body 's structure initially because she was one of many sufferers from back pain . |
| 53 | Well I got interested in the trade unions because at that time more or less eighty five of the workers went to the trade union meetings . |
| 54 | Yes , that 's right , and in fact I , I was interested for erm even before I got interested in the Muddletonians in the way in which people in the early modern period were fascinated by the idea of Christ returning on earth a second time , on the millennium , and erm I wrote about that experience . |
| 55 | Renowned for his involvement in blue-chip developments like London 's Broadgate and the proposed King 's Cross scheme , Stuart Lipton 's Stanhope Properties rode high in the '80s . |
| 56 | Mr Wakenshaw 's parachute became tangled in the wheels of a plane and he was dragged along its fuselage . |
| 57 | He became tangled in the red strands of her hair . |
| 58 | REGRESSION therapy became popular in the 1960s and early '70s but was later largely discredited , mainly because it is so open to abuse , writes Victoria Macdonald . |
| 59 | For this reason there has been a great effort , over the years , to develop synthetic resin glues based , more or less , on the plastics which became popular in the 1930s . |
| 60 | Were the naturalists who studied adaptation doing real ecology before the modern name for the science was coined — or did something recognizably like modern ecology only come into existence when the term ‘ ecology ’ became popular in the 1890s ? |