Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what price do you place on the species made extinct in the rainforest ? |
| 2 | The moonlight splintered on the foaming water as they fought calf-deep in the river . |
| 3 | The youngest of a large family , who lived right in the book-printing district with Morrison & Gibb , Clark 's and Neill 's within walking distance , she had two elder sisters already in the trade . |
| 4 | Once more he was resolved upon a decisive breakthrough ; once more he was to be disabused and thousands of his men laid low in the mud of Passchendaele . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Now it was replaced by an administrative , legal , and organizational unity , which first became possible in the twelfth century as a result of the development of the administrative , legal and scholastic instruments of government . |
| 7 | Some historians argue that modern ecology only became possible in the post-Darwinian age in which all natural relationships were seen to be fragile . |
| 8 | Alter Judy became pregnant in the lower sixth at school , she left and found herself a tutor for her A-level English , and also attended maths classes at the local college . |
| 9 | Wood Walton 's ‘ speciality ’ , it became extinct in the nineteenth century , but was reintroduced from Holland in 1927 and can be seen on the wing in July . |
| 10 | Bears became extinct in the Austrian Alps over a hundred years , but in the 1970s a male bear from Yugoslavia wandered across the border to take up residence in the southeast province of Styria . |
| 11 | Arizona is reintroducing thick-billed parrots , which became extinct in the state in 1918 after being hunted for their meat . |
| 12 | She had never done so , of course , but all the same it was a possibility worth remembering , if things got sticky in the future . |
| 13 | Mr Goodson , who became interested in the sonar capacity of dolphins after hearing one while swimming off the Welsh coast , has experimented with various shapes of sound reflectors . |
| 14 | Ever since then , China in its many and varied aspects has been in my mind , and I believe it was on that Saturday morning in Aunt Janie 's potato patch that I first became interested in the Orient . |
| 15 | He also became interested in the breeding of goats to provide wool for shawls . |
| 16 | NASA and the then Science Research Council , in the UK soon became interested in the prospective infrared mission , and in October 1977 the three countries signed contracts formalising the collaboration . |
| 17 | Other members of the medical profession became interested in the winter climate , and the island began to be recommended for the treatment of and convalescence from a whole range of ailments from anaemia to gout . |
| 18 | Palmer originally specialised in acoustics but became interested in the physics of the Earth and in measuring ages by radiocarbon dating . |
| 19 | With the increased growth of tension in the East End in 1936 the Security Service became interested in the activities of the IFL . |
| 20 | I first became interested in the Cyclades in 1961 , after I went to work on the excavations at Nea Nikomedeia , the early Neolithic village in Macedonia . |
| 21 | He tried tar made from the distillation of coal and in the distillation process became interested in the gas given off . |
| 22 | It was in this context that Emily Faithfull and Bessie Rayner Parkes first became interested in the idea of opening the compositor 's trade to women . |
| 23 | Scholars like John Aubrey ( 1626–1697 ) became interested in the information they were collecting for its own sake , and not simply as evidence gathered to prove a particular point of view . |
| 24 | So Creggan became interested in the Sweeper , and wondered if he would ever come up to his cage and say something , in the way Men did . |
| 25 | Retrospectively , we became interested in the possibility that high alcohol intake , oral contraception , and obesity might be important and treatable causes under 40 . |
| 26 | At the same time the US Patent Office became interested in the possibility of using tropical plants to revive the agriculture of the southern states . |
| 27 | More recently , the lenders became interested in the professional . |
| 28 | Through this experience I became interested in the mechanisms of contemporary of Mori 's ‘ composite card ’ . |
| 29 | Sharp became interested in the morris dances himself , collecting dances in the midlands and lecturing extensively with Kimber demonstrating the dances and playing the concertina , frequently losing his bricklaying job as a result . |
| 30 | Koops then became interested in the long-standing problem of making paper from materials other than linen and cotton . |