Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The first few hundred that sold were probably bought by what we call technophiles — people who are crazy to get new stuff — but since then it 's moved out . ’ |
| 2 | Nineteen of the birds died and others among the 149 moved were mistreated . |
| 3 | The smoke this produced was so dense that it closed airports and smothered half the country . |
| 4 | Any euphoria this produced was very short-lived . |
| 5 | And what this produced was a fundamentally manichean view of the world . |
| 6 | What few realised was that diesels were more costly than their petrol-engine counterparts , and that the break-even point ( when the fuel savings outweighed the price difference ) did n't occur until very large mileages had been covered . |
| 7 | SEVEN of the past 12 Masters Tournaments have been won by European players and this stopped being a big surprise three Ryder Cups ago . |
| 8 | This involved being around , or hanging around , just watching , recording , holding conversations . |
| 9 | A chapter by Maxim Boyko ( a Russian working in the privatisation ministry ) and Andrei Schleifer ( an American from Harvard ) explains how the difficulties that this involved were overcome . |
| 10 | Precisely when this occurred is not clear , but from the sequence of events it was probably in 59 . |
| 11 | He observed normal development of the egg even though the number of times this occurred was much reduced . |
| 12 | The reason why this occurred er erm , the reason why this occurred was not due to some sort of er , due to emotional problems that he suffered within these repressed relations with his son . |
| 13 | And I presume the 2 disallowed were nt in that figure ? |
| 14 | That the rate of growth accelerated after 1945 is some measure of the impact of the Second World War ; but to the question of whether the institutional changes this embodied were enough to match the requirements of rapid economic growth , the answer is clearly no . |
| 15 | And once their physical usefulness was at an end , the Robemaker tore out the souls of his slaves and carried them to the Soul Eaters in the Cruachan Cavern , which some believed were the Gates of Hell . |
| 16 | Motions , right , black and smelly , okay , and according to how the different colour of the motion be there , or the different colour of the grains were there would give an indication of how long this 'd been going on or how far up the gut it was , and the damage was okay ? |
| 17 | Why and how this happened are the more difficult questions . |
| 18 | Exactly how this happened is intriguing . |
| 19 | How this happened is the subject of this chapter . |
| 20 | But that something like this happened is very probable . |
| 21 | An example where this happened is White ( Marion ) Ltd v Francis [ 1972 ] 1 WLR 1423 . |
| 22 | ‘ Bloody bridge , ’ Gerry said , ‘ the last time this happened was about five years ago , when Jack Thompson saw something . |
| 23 | The first place where this happened was Egypt . |
| 24 | But for decades to come the countries in which this happened were politically important as fields for the rivalries and ambitions of the European imperial powers rather than in their own right . |
| 25 | A further feature is the fact that the old trackbed was halved and a footpath follows the whole route . |
| 26 | A 600 yard narrow ( 2' ) gauge line following the old trackbed was opened by Meirion Mill in 1975 , but unfortunately it closed in 1977 . |
| 27 | What this meant was n't certain , but it sounded good at the time . |
| 28 | What this meant was that sitting MPs should no longer be reselected automatically by local parties just before a general election was held . |
| 29 | The Jerusalem , or Early Church model , began to predominate , and this meant being with people rather than apart from them . |
| 30 | The outcome of the Report and the following debate which this generated was a new ERDF Regulation which came into force on 1 January 1985 . |