Example sentences of "the [adj] [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rising level of real national income in the long-run is called economic growth and this is yet another policy objective of governments . |
| 2 | Since a python 's skin begins to deteriorate in quality once it has grown to about fifteen feet the largest are left alone , which is just as well as each one must be caught at night , alive and by hand , with a lamp to attract them from their lairs , and at least four men to get them into the sack afterwards . |
| 3 | Easy categorisation about the literary and the historical are rendered impossible . |
| 4 | Some lawyers in the Soviet Union advocated the adoption of the Western principle that the accused is presumed innocent until proved guilty , but met with little success until the Gorbachev period . |
| 5 | If not , the accused was pronounced guilty and the priest might , therefore , be associated with a sentence of death . |
| 6 | Each individual hearing lasted only a few minutes and none of the accused was allowed legal representation . |
| 7 | The second is called heuristic , which is an exploratory approach to problem solving and simulation that uses repeated ( iterative ) trial and error , each solution being assessed and used to modify successive attempts , until a final solution is achieved . |
| 8 | The policy of the 1870s was relaxed due to awareness of the hardship inflicted — those reduced to the extreme of applying for poor relief even in 1870 were those with no other resort , and their numbers could be further reduced only by increasing their hardship . |
| 9 | Our route had silver bolts , while the bolts for the route on the left were painted red and the ones for the route on the right green ! |
| 10 | Accordingly , the concept of matters relating to tort , delict or quasi-delict must be regarded as an autonomous concept which is to be interpreted , for the application of the Convention , principally by reference to the scheme and objectives of the Convention in order to ensure that the latter is given full effect . |
| 11 | Since they were chosen by the landowners of the county , the latter were held responsible for their conduct in office . |
| 12 | Feeble recovery in the 1590s was cut short by the famines of 1601–03 and the prolonged disruption of the Time of Troubles . |
| 13 | As Fig. 4 shows , the relationship , of course , is negative : the earlier women marry in a country the more are found infecund at age 20–24 years ; a clear suggestion of long lasting infecundity as a consequence of early , premature marriages and conjugal unions . |
| 14 | The second is an untidy surgical exposure , the more convincing and moving for its incompetence , of the first 's withheld human inwardness , while the first is a theological drama in which the must of ‘ a man absolutely must go somewhere ’ gets tortured on the rack of faith . |
| 15 | The first is called algorithmic , which comprises a procedure or series of instructions used to solve a specific type of problem . |
| 16 | The second QLF , if any , will only be considered if none of the reference resolution possibilities for the first is deemed acceptable . |
| 17 | The work was divided into various sections , the first being headed General remarks : The villa ‘ La Felicità ’ can only be enjoyed by the observance of strict rules and a certain discipline . |
| 18 | The Sinhalese were thought lazy because of their reluctance to work for planters , but the poor living conditions of estate labourers are ample explanation of the failure to recruit Sinhalese workers . |
| 19 | The force of this argument was recognised to some extent by the OFT , who went on to state that a limit on each claim was preferable to an overall limit , providing the extent of the former was made clear to clients . |
| 20 | But even the much richer Soviet collections issued in the twenties were given scant attention in the West . |
| 21 | If after 1 year of a 2 year contract the insured is made unemployed cover under the policy exists until the end of the 2nd year subject to the terms and conditions of the policy . |
| 22 | Coleman apparently refused the offer of the professorship unless Moorcroft became his colleague , and the two were appointed joint professors of the College on 18 February ( proposed by Stone , seconded by Perkyns ) . |
| 23 | The new is made comfortable by being made familiar since it is seen as having evolved from the forms of the past . ’ |
| 24 | But we shall mistake its real substance if we begin with the cult of saints and relics seen , as they were seen in the Reformation , in terms of channels through which a distant , concealed world of the holy is made present and accessible . |
| 25 | The bodies of the dead are left unburied , so the plain is covered in the bones and skulls of Elf and beast . |
| 26 | Harking back to the ‘ terrible Winter of Discontent ’ under the last Labour government , the 10-minute film recalled patients being turned away from hospitals , rubbish going uncollected and the dead being left unburied . |