Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Papert asks why half the population are maths phobics , afraid of numbers , and woolly headed about abstract concepts , ’ the narrator announced Any suspicion that this was the preface to yet another attempt to instil numeracy via some twist of new math , quickly disappeared . |
| 2 | I honestly think that it 's time the English got off this notion , which after all has nothing to do with the original meaning of the word ‘ amateur ’ , which means having a passion for something , erm got off this notion that the amateur , the gentleman , as Geoffrey said , is necessarily more truly engaged with the activity than somebody else . |
| 3 | This strange rare and peculiar led to Nitric Acid which covered everything , I gave the 6c potency since again I did n't have the LM and after 4 weeks she reported improvement of the anal discomfort and a return of the old stomach symptoms . |
| 4 | Given these premises , then , and Moffat 's distaste notwithstanding that it would imply ‘ democracies reduced resort monarchy as weapon against Communism ’ , one wonders what else , apart from outright rejection , the US might have done when the French turned towards ex-Emperor Bao Dai : at least as a rallying point for non-communist Vietnamese nationalists and , of course , as someone who might be expected to be more amenable to French influence than Ho Chi Minh . |
| 5 | The seventy seven year old collapsed after five police officers clambered in through the window to arrest her grandson . |
| 6 | Many of the French laughed at such antics , or felt disgusted at being allied with so ‘ primitive ’ a people . |
| 7 | Why the French insisted on this condition was obvious : supranationalism was essential in order to create strong institutions which could limit Germany 's industrial independence in future . |
| 8 | He must have found it very tiresome , although I did sing in tune , and I 'm afraid went through several verses . |
| 9 | The French stood in sharp contrast to all this ; their main energies were directed at expansion in Europe , with the Netherlands marked down as a particularly attractive target , but they were so rich , so dynamic , and so confident in the second half of the seventeenth century that they were quite willing — as asserted in the motto of their great king , Louis XIV , nec pluribus impar — to fight several enemies at once . |
| 10 | Serve warm swirled with soured cream and garnished with fresh herbs . |
| 11 | The failure to keep the categories of life and literature distinct led to all kinds of heresy and nonsense : to ‘ liking ’ and ‘ not liking ’ books for instance , preferring some authors to others and such-like whimsicalities which , he had constantly to remind his students , were of no conceivable interest to anyone except themselves ( sometimes he shocked them by declaring that , speaking personally on this low , subjective level , he found jane Austen a pain in the ass ) . |
| 12 | One of the most graphic came from experienced Paul Futcher after a Rush treble against Barnsley . |
| 13 | But something very serious happened in mid-Cretaceous times after the deposition of the " Urgonian " . |
| 14 | When the Japanese counter-attacked on other occasions they made a great hullabaloo , often shouting to each other as they came forward . |
| 15 | The er original timber here which is the dias beam and it points up something very o odd happened in this building . |
| 16 | This can be soft previewed at any time to ensure that the output matches with the designers intention . |
| 17 | Augusta National went for major winners from a burgeoning cast of Aussies who just may be hungrier than any of their contemporaries . |
| 18 | Growth , standing crop and metabolic rates of lichens are difficult to measure , but these unusually tough plants seem particularly well preadapted to polar conditions . |
| 19 | SO SOME GOOD CAME OF THIS PERIOD , THEN . |
| 20 | In one of these three patients the bleeding started in another ulcer not seen during the first endoscopy and therefore not treated with heater probe . |
| 21 | Thirteen of the 14 Nottinghamshire collieries require low-chlorine coal from opencast sites to sweeten their product , on a ratio of 6 tonnes deep mined to 1 tonne open cast , before it is accepted by the power generating companies . |
| 22 | Something comparable , and no less surprising , had happened a century earlier with the art-criticism of John Ruskin , and there is often something unnerving in the spectacle of an activity once thought of as specialist and tedious catapulted into sudden acclaim . |
| 23 | Lastly , the residence requirement did not apply to the whole of the national territory but was limited geographically : it was only fulfilled — also in the case of Irish nationals — if the persons concerned lived within three miles of the land in question . |
| 24 | He explained the detailed attention which was paid to the background of a child appearing before the Panel and pointed out that it was often revealed that the children concerned came from large families , which were poor and in which there was an absence of adult male guidance . |
| 25 | The question then arises , ‘ Would this fear be there if the individual concerned knew for absolute certainty that no-one will ever know that he is guilty ? ’ . |
| 26 | MICHAEL KNIGHTON 'S faltering attempt to take over Manchester United looked in deep trouble last night after Martin Edwards , United 's controlling shareholder , began legal procedings against 37-year-old Knighton for alleged breach of confidentiality . |
| 27 | First home to the Medway at the end of a 30-mile beat and despite damage to the top section of her mast track was ‘ Crusader ’ ( Richard Matthews ) but an hour 's lead was not quite sufficient to see off ‘ Blush ’ and ‘ Sensor ’ ( Mr & Mrs David Chatterton , WMYC ) and the 12-metre slipped to third place . |
| 28 | She also read the message in italics printed beneath the cartoon , to the effect that the cartoonist responsible had for many years been officially connected with a provincial newspaper and was now , in the sunset of his life , himself the recipient of twice-weekly Meals on Wheels . |
| 29 | The war came first , though anti-Chinese sentiment flared up periodically as the numbers of Chinese engaged in British ports continued to rise to 8,182 in 1914 and 14,224 in 1915 , increased by the diversion to the west of ships normally operating east of Suez . |
| 30 | ‘ Till that her garments , heavy with their drink , Pull 'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy doom . ’ ’ |