Example sentences of "[subord] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Open complexes formed at P A3 were resistant to the heparin challenge at superhelical densities as low as -0.006 , although became sensitive when the plasmid was either relaxed by topoisomerase I or nicked by a mild treatment with DNase I ( Figure 6 ) . |
| 2 | Its strange , lowered vista , for instance ( which now reminds the adult more than anything else of George Herriman 's Krazy Kat , where buildings disappear and reappear from frame to frame " ) is an obvious representation of London in the late forties and fifties : all the houses had gaps in between , because of the bombs , and the sky came closer to the ground than seemed right . |
| 3 | One memory will certainly be of the running of far more steam trains than seemed possible in the seventies , not all of them successful … |
| 4 | Not only did the Tories win more votes than seemed possible when the election was announced , but they improved their position relative to Labour on 13 of the 14 issues that Gallup monitored during the campaign . |
| 5 | Closer than seemed possible , striking against an almost purple sky , we saw Kanchenjunga with a bright plume of snow standing out like a triumphal flag . |
| 6 | The house was big and old , with a lot more corridors and rooms and unexpected turns than seemed necessary , but she had done enough of these ‘ entertainments ’ to be familiar with the lower storeys . |
| 7 | Their hands touched more often than seemed necessary . |
| 8 | Almost every major work of scholarship written in the past six or seven years on recent British political history has taken a far more balanced view of him than seemed likely at the time of his death . |
| 9 | For Pound may have been wrong in selecting Fascist Italy as the modern society than came nearest to satisfying his Ruskinian demands , and yet right in thinking that societies should be judged according as they met , or failed to meet , that standard . |
| 10 | Of course these trends may not continue , or new trends may emerge ( for instance higher female unemployment , greater participation of men in caring ) but the long-term trend appears to be towards a smaller pool of potential informal carers than existed 50 or even 20 years ago . |
| 11 | Was n't , it was n't that supplier than went bankrupt , that was another case . |
| 12 | On almost ail counts there was no evidence that the project achieved greater success in sustaining people at home than did normal services ( in fact the reverse appeared to be the case ) . |
| 13 | The separation of spheres was less rigidly prescribed for working class women and it appears that working class suffragists aroused less ire on the part of politicians than did middle class women . |
| 14 | In one of these , the Clonard , she found that younger women used more nonstandard forms on certain variables than did young men . |
| 15 | An inspection of the results for individual questions shows that although fewer pupils in the bottom third obtained the correct answer in each case than did other pupils , a substantial proportion did so in many cases . |
| 16 | 167 ) says that the Corinthians despised craftsmen less than did other Greeks ( note the negative formulation ) and a recent survey of Corinthian territory confirms the exceptional variety of goods manufactured there . |
| 17 | The investigation conducted by Inkeles and Bauer among Soviet émigrés in the 1950s , for instance , found that the nationality of most respondents had less influence upon their political beliefs and values than did other variables such as social class and education . |
| 18 | The company had more titles at higher levels than did other publishers . |
| 19 | One will be concerned with their legitimacy and whether their writ carries more weight with higher authorities , the local community and providers than did that of their predecessors . |
| 20 | In most respects , Britain spent a smaller proportion of the annual budget on welfare than did continental European countries with a system financed from contributory sources or with a greater mix of public and private provision . |
| 21 | Hearing people distorted the temporal sequence much more than did deaf people , with bilinguals coming somewhere between . |
| 22 | And indeed I would argue that Linnaeus , in his role as classifying naturalist , did a better job at putting the varieties of mankind into their mutual relationships than did idealist philosophers like Rousseau and Jefferson . |
| 23 | The movement of cattle , legal and illegal , had a much greater influence on Border life , particularly in its less amenable wilds and wastes , than did agricultural developments . |
| 24 | Chart 10 further shows that these industries also enjoyed much stronger growth in pre-tax profits in 1982–89 than did cyclical ones . |
| 25 | These measures , derived from the basic data , contrasted the two groups much more clearly than did simple counts of frequency of behaviour in the original catalogue of 120 categories . |
| 26 | In a survey conducted in the middle of March , a greater percentage of financial directors from the country 's biggest companies expressed satisfaction with Norman Lamont 's measures than did chief executives or financial directors of owner-managed businesses . |
| 27 | This was not supported by the results of the ICS , whose authors claim that their male interviewers actually uncovered more cases of sexual assault than did female interviewers . |
| 28 | Monastic worship shaped the religious feeling of early medieval society more than did any other single factor . |
| 29 | With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them . |
| 30 | The Department obtained more grants from the SOED in competitive tendering than did any other institution . |