Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When that failed many activists became demoralized . |
| 2 | I 'd have them all on if I needed a confidence boost , or just for the sheer enjoyment of the sound , but it was fundamentally one AC30 that made that noise . |
| 3 | That made some sort of sense . |
| 4 | Bragad had brought quite a few men with him — a dozen or so though some , of course , were Mugeary 's , if that made any difference . |
| 5 | In fact we made rubber stamps for people in the office — the departments to go in , the bureau , and the stamp was the J because they were all photostated to that made this stamp just loved it . |
| 6 | On 21 January the Communists numbering up to 3000 made another assault on the Secretariat and were again repulsed . |
| 7 | Staining with ECCD-2 revealed several subpopulations of KC ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 8 | From that sprung another dilemma . |
| 9 | Patrick made sure the porter and the bell-boy each got another packet of Kent King Size . |
| 10 | Paris-based software and computer services company Generale de Service Informatique SA , or GSI , as it is better known , reported 1992 revenues up 8% to the equivalent of $460m , a rate of increase only half of that registered that year . |
| 11 | Sorry got some money in there , OK oh do your ballerina bit , we 'll have to wash your face , yeah it 's filthy , filthy face , breakfast face oh that 's that new twins is n't it ? |
| 12 | When it became apparent that he must be dead , Casey gave orders to recover the body for proper burial ; this became another item in the wish-lists exchanged with the Iranians . |
| 13 | He forgot for a moment that it was pot and thought of nicotine , and then of cancer , cells in delirium , the inroads that living would make one day even on this varnished little icon of the exempt : the flab of tiredness , children , overwork , sitting up too late at night listening to people , indulging buoyant childish appetites as a device to sustain good nature against foreshadows of the senile self . |
| 14 | Because German opposition was light in this sector , and because the Germans thought that , after their bleeding at Verdun , they were incapable of massed attack , the French made some gains . |
| 15 | This led several members of the Congress to question the Assembly 's moral right to initiate political reforms . |
| 16 | This led some writers to suspect that the Third World , like the First World , was not of a piece , but that there might be substantial differences of kind as well as the obvious differences of degree between countries . |
| 17 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 18 | This led some policemen to enjoy the sport which the court room offered ( Holdaway 1983 : 74 ) . |
| 19 | Senior officials of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) meeting in Finland on May 12 agreed that consent from the FRY was not needed to approve decisions on Yugoslavia and its former republics [ for April CSCE meeting on FRY see p. 38848 ] . |
| 20 | Few expected this year 's spring sales at Sotheby 's and Christie 's to do much to revive spirits , or prices . |
| 21 | In early October , as Mrs Thatcher — flanked by her Cabinet — received a nine-minute standing ovation at the close of a successful party conference , few expected any challenge to her in the leadership election which had to be held within 28 days of the start of the new parliamentary session , due to open on 7 November . |
| 22 | But when this produced little response , she brought the palm of her hand in short slaps on each side of the pale cheeks , and when Agnes gulped at the air , she cried at her , ‘ That 's it ! |
| 23 | When Paisley was later told about the woman 's remark , he immediately condemned it and rebuked her , but this made little impression on the basic loyalties of the audience . |
| 24 | The ‘ No Smoking ’ and seatbelt signs were on , although this made little difference to Myeloski who had clamped himself into his seat as soon as he had boarded the aircraft . |
| 25 | As far as the administration of relief was concerned , this made little difference ; the public assistance committees of the local authorities could be regarded as broadly the guardians under another name . |
| 26 | The one factor which might have altered this made little difference . |
| 27 | For most couples this made little difference in terms of tax actually paid , but , as feminists were quick to point out , it treated the wife as a dependant and not a separate entity . |
| 28 | Taking a share of the profits : Prior to s. 2(3) of the Partnership Act 1890 , the courts had decided that if a person took any share in the profits of a business this made that person a partner . |
| 29 | None of this made any sense — none of it . |
| 30 | e.g. " Combined with the NEP and the thaw in Russia 's relations with other countries , this made some Bolsheviks fear the onset of a creeping reaction ; they were haunted by fears of Thermidor " . |