Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand that the Spanish have made a specific point of seeking to ensure that outcome . |
| 2 | The Centre for the Unemployed has done a great deal for us . |
| 3 | The British had launched a powerful attack , and first Mersa Matruh ( which Mussolini had planned to enter in triumph ) fell , then Bardia and Tobruk . |
| 4 | The French have gone a long way towards providing a road and water supply and members of the ‘ Pater Nostra ’ organisation are studying in Budapest , Vienna and Germany to obtain qualifications in medicine , physiotherapy , occupational therapy and other skills which will enable them to provide the day-to-day care of the residents in the future . |
| 5 | In consumer electronics , the French have had a more than usually protected market because of the SECAM colour television standard . |
| 6 | The Japanese have commissioned a British company to build a replica Elizabethan village to help its students appreciate English culture . |
| 7 | The accused had fixed a new glass fibre wing on his car the day after the accident , and he said he could n't remember what he 'd done with the old one . |
| 8 | Trading in the second has shown a clear improvement and since Boxing Day sales of fourteen per cent ahead of the previous year . |
| 9 | Roughly speaking , the country with the highest mortality rate in the 1940s had achieved a level comparable with that of England , but not as good as the lowest rate , in 1880 . |
| 10 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 12 reported that some 80 former student leaders who were active in the pro-democracy movement in the 1970s had formed a new political party , Pracha Dhamma . |
| 11 | Despite his humbling defeat for the governorship of California in 1962 , the latter had made a remarkable comeback . |
| 12 | Eventually he sent it to Baldwin immediately after the latter had received a further damaging and depressing blow . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the government filed a law suit against the Westinghouse Corporation claiming that the latter had built a defective 620-MW generating plant in Bataan after having first offered commission to the previous government in order to win the contract . |
| 14 | Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora reported that during his May meeting in Washington with US President George Bush the latter had shown a serious attitude to the drug problem ( the US government having agreed almost to double Bolivia 's anti-drug aid , to $33,000,000 ) . |
| 15 | The latter have shown a conservative judiciary interpreting legislation and developing the common law in ways which government and Parliament sought to reverse . |
| 16 | However , as it was formerly part of the University and wished to revert to that status , the former has merged with University College , Cardiff — with the exception of its Social Work courses and its Higher National Diploma in Institutional Management which have been transferred to the South Glamorgan Institute — and the latter has remained a separate institution . |
| 17 | Ian and Barbara meet — the latter having had a difficult time avoiding Nero 's amorous advances — and with the help of Tavius ( who is a Christian ) , they manage to escape from the city . |
| 18 | The new ethos of the '80s had had a positive effect on the character of the people , just as the ethos of the late ‘ 70s had a severely negative effect . |
| 19 | The Chinese have maintained a stable agriculture for 4,000 years and feed more than four times as many people per acre as we do . |
| 20 | The eight nations that circle the Arctic have taken a first step towards protecting the fragile environment of the far north from increased pollution , most of which originates outside the region . |
| 21 | But the YF-22 has won a long , hard dogfight against its rival prototype , the YF-23 , to become the air force 's next fighter . |
| 22 | Barth was deeply suspicious of this entire concern , which he had earlier tried to combat in Gogarten , who through the 1920s had developed a strong interest in the theology of ‘ the orders of creation ’ . |
| 23 | But at least the issue is now more lively and from 1974 the disabled have had a special Minister for the Disabled , at the Department of Social Security , to champion their cause and coordinate provision for their needs . |
| 24 | Radio Zambia reported on March 20 that defectors from the MMD had formed a new party , the National Party for Democracy ( NPD ) . |
| 25 | Help The Aged sale Help The Aged has started a two week summer sale in which all clothing and accessories will be offered at half price in its eight stores across the province . |
| 26 | The 17 exhibitors at the fair had bought a mixed bag of drawings , spanning centuries and price ranges . |
| 27 | The Nationwide has announced a five-year deal but at the higher fixed rate of 8.29 per cent , available on a repayment or endowment , but not interest-only basis . |
| 28 | The Northern has obtained a confidential report written by the authority 's director of estates Graham Oak . |
| 29 | The two had enjoyed a eight-month affair , but McAllister 's tour of duty in Ulster was ending . |
| 30 | Recently the larger of the two has developed a white nodule on its chin . |