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Turning to Paul Le Guen was bold, imaginative and seemingly unrealistic but demonstrative of a degree of audacity that Murray has often matched with persuasiveness to great effect.
Since we allowed this, over 14,000 offences have been successfully matched to over 8,000 suspects including over 100 murders and 100 rapes - and as far as I am aware, no one is on the database for dropping litter!
He only admitted the murder of Roy Tutill more than 30 years later when he was caught drink-driving in 1999 and his DNA matched that of a sample found on the dead boy's trousers.
Morricone revolutionised the way music was used in westerns, creating a wild west soundscape of gunshots, eerie whistling, twanging guitars and dissonant harmonicas that matched the unsettling heat and tension of Leone's parched desert landscape, and its heroes and villains, portrayed through long shots and close-up cinematography.
Plaza de Cabildo 14, casabalbino.com El Lola, Tarifa You're spoilt for choice tapas-wise in old Tarifa but for a relaxed cafe atmosphere matched with top-class food, family-run El Lola is hard to beat.
But the increasing school rolls have not been matched with resources, despite ambitious government targets to cut the ratios of pupils to teachers, desks and books.
British delight at having scooped the Americans was matched by the NSA's desire to get its hands on the project; an internal US guide to using the system, which became fully functional in 2011, described it as "an exciting opportunity to get direct access to enormous amounts of GCHQ's special source data".
They're so well matched , in fact, that they're probably enacting a rom-com montage together as we speak; skipping through meadows, having pillow fights with sacks of money, tying women to trainlines and then twirling their moustaches and then high-fiving each other.
The wonder material graphene – a lightweight conductor 200 times stronger than steel – was discovered by scientists in Manchester, and yet the thousand-plus registered patents harnessing it in China, America and South Korea are matched by only a few dozen in Britain.
He matched one recent meal entirely to wine, another to sake, for about what it would cost to bring an additional person to the table for food alone.
Once you are matched with your child it's all worth it.
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The word "matched" functions primarily as a past participle of the verb "match". It often describes a state of agreement, equivalence, or suitability between two or more things. As Ludwig AI confirms, its use is grammatically correct and widely accepted.
Expression frequency: Very common
