Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 However , as the results of the first inspections started to come in the seriousness of the problem was realised and the US authorities eventually went so far as to call for the use of specially made ultrasonic probes for detecting cracks round the fastener holes .
2 Observers who have been taken by Paisley 's personal influence over his followers have often missed the point that those who supported Paisley only did so conditionally and the condition was that he continued to articulate traditional unionist positions .
3 Powered aircraft naturally flew more frequently and the consequent draughts were good for the aeroplane and bad for the fungi .
4 But that time must yet remain a few days ahead , while everywhere lay in the throes of a natural disaster — the nature of which had yet to be determined — and while the snow still fell as thickly as it did .
5 In a passage which reads very oddly indeed today and betrays his naïveté , Durkheim even went so far as to claim that such was the depressing degree of homogeneity in primitive society that its members were actually physically indistinguishable from each other !
6 The Scots then pulled away again and with 15 ends completed looked to be out of sight at 88-65 .
7 Once this chronological sequence had been established , a review of the excavation reports of similar work elsewhere showed quite clearly that in a good proportion of cases , town defences had previously been dated far too early , on the basis of residual pottery and coins .
8 Members of Darlington recreation committee yesterday heard how more than £3,500 worth of damage had been caused to art works in the Myles Meehan Gallery over the past few months .
9 Lectures often began as early as 5 or 6 a.m. in the summer ( 7 a.m. in the winter ) , and sometimes the first lecture went on for three hours , no provision being made for any food before 10 a.m .
10 And Glasgow City Council even went so far as to make the rave an official 1990 European City of Culture happening .
11 Everyone smiled at Suzi then looked hurriedly away as her mouth began to tremble .
12 Lady Thomson never came there now and his family had grown up .
13 He did n't quite because Ray had a 68 to Nick 's 69 , but our group again played well even though it was another tough day , with wind and rain all day .
14 Other species of both these groups also grew farther inland and there mingled with ferns .
15 Although troupes of Tiller 's dancers eventually appeared in more than twenty-four such shows , it was to mean more than any other Royal Command in that the acts were personally chosen by the King and Queen .
16 If Adam ever got as far as masturbating , and naturally he sometimes did , he always had the feeling afterwards that his teeth were loose .
17 Output thereafter went up so that the women were earning about the same as before the job was changed .
18 Sunday Today started alongside Today but made no mark .
19 King then moved ahead again when a last end 3 gave him the third set 7-5 , but then the Corsie fightback began .
20 King then moved ahead again when a last end 3 gave him the third set 7-5 , but then the Corsie fightback began .
21 So , er Nicola was born and er the court either came up just before your dad had the after Nicola was born , when she was a month old .
22 We do not know even today whether or not this is the case , but Pons certainly felt very strongly that it should be lithium deuteroxide , LiOD .
23 An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge .
24 And then , for the first time ever in my life , I what I normally do is I have sort of maybe some questions that I definitely pre-plan and if I 'm lucky one or two of them , and this paper all three of my prepared questions actually came up exactly as I 'd worded them , or near enough .
25 Tosh also revealed how once when he was selling a magazine for the homeless at Charing Cross station Diana drew up in her car and a man got out and gave him £5 .
26 Jacques Boussard , the leading French historian of the Angevin Empire , felt confident enough to write that Henry 's authority now extended as far as the Mediterranean !
27 The British War Cabinet even went so far as to create a special committee to guide Swinton during the talks .
28 Stockdale even went as far as praising Laurent for having surveyed , and a foreigner at that , without the knowledge of the language and ‘ by eye alone … without the use of instruments and in the coldest part of the year … in less than two months two towns for some miles in circumference , with all their intricate communications . ’
29 But at this meeting I went to , people there felt very strongly that services should not be awarded funding to go for investors in people .
30 Winston Churchill was to write : ‘ The conflict sank once more to the bloody but local struggles of two or three divisions repeatedly renewed as fast as they were consumed , and consumed as fast as they were renewed .
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