Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We mentioned earlier that HWIM performed slightly better than RM1 in accessing the intended words correctly . |
| 2 | None of these eternal operators faired very well when they had a posting to a training unit . |
| 3 | Proper evaluation of the scheme requires more than the anecdotal accounts published so far if the true effects are to be monitored and the policy lessons learnt . |
| 4 | THE family of a kidnapped Israeli soldier wept openly yesterday after his body was found near a road in the occupied West Bank . |
| 5 | Our hypothesis was that hypoxaemia occurred more often than suspected clinically from the presence of cyanosis and that selected clinical signs , including respiratory rate , would be useful to predict its presence . |
| 6 | Indeed , some Keynesians went so far as to say that money is unimport-ant since it only exerts an influence on economic activity via interest rates , and then without much success . |
| 7 | In Italy traditional social cleavages survived more openly than in Germany . |
| 8 | The system was standardised in the early part of the sixteenth century , and some authorities went so far as to describe the cadency symbols for the ninth son of a ninth son ( an octofoil on an octofoil ) . |
| 9 | It is not perhaps generally realised that this practice began as early as the late seventeenth century and that many of the splendid coloured aquatint books of the nineteenth century first reached the public in this way . |
| 10 | Following announcement of the settlement , the government admitted that it had blundered in its handling of the affair , and on Oct. 30 Antall went so far as to suggest to parliament that he should resign ( no formal resignation offer was made , however ) . |
| 11 | The audience laughed nervously but Fleischmann remained serious : ‘ If this device worked as effectively as the small scale experiment we have done , it would be generating about 800 watts of power . ’ |
| 12 | English hearts sank even further than they already were , for it would not have needed a weather forecaster to predict that Hurricane Viv was about to strike . |
| 13 | I shall leave to one side the figure that the hon. Gentleman gave somewhat glibly when he said that women in this country were underpaid by £21 billion . |
| 14 | Henry 's poetic career began as early as 1215 . |
| 15 | And old centres expanded as rapidly as new . |
| 16 | Earlier this season completed double here when led entering straight , qknd clear and comfortably bt Swift Silver 3l ( 1m 3f , Sft ) . |
| 17 | This candidate did respectably rather than brilliantly . |
| 18 | If I should miss any , I shall write to the hon. Members concerned as soon as possible — if possible , before the commencement of the Committee stage so that any information that I can give may be used in Committee . |
| 19 | Quite often curricular problems were related to inadequacies in materials and some advisers went so far as to suggest radical changes in resourcing and accommodation . |
| 20 | Complaints about the behaviour of some tourists began as early as the 1850s . |
| 21 | To be sure there was still a strong response opposing Enoch Powell 's call for repatriation , from all shades of political opinion , but the racialization of public debate about the 1985 riots went much further than 1980–1 . |
| 22 | When they were asked to turn out and fight on behalf of king or queen and country , some regiments performed much better than others . |
| 23 | Also in relation to the United States , Brody ( 1981 ) offers evidence from a three-generation study of women that the youngest generation felt more strongly than the other two about ‘ grandfilial responsibility ’ , three-quarters of them saying that older people should expect help from their grandchildren , whereas less than a quarter of the oldest generation took this view . |
| 24 | The average price paid by industrial and commercial consumers declined only slightly if at all in real terms over the first ten years of nationalisation , but electricity usage in industry was probably less price-elastic than in most uses , and other factors were the main stimuli to sales growth . |
| 25 | The government 's budgetary deficit went up six- or seven-fold , its ability to back paper money with gold went down by more than 50 per cent , and in 1856 it spent 84 per cent of its income on debt repayments and the armed forces , but the private sector suffered less severely than the Treasury and people who engaged in industry or commerce positively benefited . |
| 26 | Our findings contrast with those of Campbell in South Belfast and Stott et al in Glasgow , since geriatricians in both Scotland and Northern Ireland have continued to provide long term care and the growth in the private sector began somewhat later than in England . |
| 27 | ‘ In the paint shops each coach received no less than sixteen coats of paint . ’ |
| 28 | Persons and private trusts held somewhat less than 10% of the total and the combined holdings of the banking sector and the building societies were around 5.5% . |
| 29 | This explicitly materialist framework of contemporary neurophysiology originated much later than Aristotle . |
| 30 | In 1757 Postlethwayt went so far as to argue that the national debt had had the effect of transferring property to the " money-mongers " at such a pace that , " Since our debts have taken place , not near one tenth of the land of England is possessed by the posterity or heirs of those who possessed it at the Revolution . " |