Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a 20 hour day , this soon became a real struggle . |
| 2 | It is important to grasp birth control very much within the context of the particular customs and needs of groups of workers , and it is notable , for instance , that the poor and the unemployed generally had a high birthrate . |
| 3 | We did notice the old just had a late night on the town . |
| 4 | The Manor Ground faithful always had a strained relationship with the Maxwells — United supporters would n't take lightly revelations that some of them had their pensions used to pay players ' wages . |
| 5 | On 6 February there was a spontaneous strike by the stevedores , and this quickly became a general strike , with the mills being attacked . |
| 6 | This also permitted a closer coupling of the leading edge bridle attachments , while at the same time the ‘ cat 's cradle ’ cross-linking of the inner bridle lines served under flight tensions to restrain the leading edges from spreading apart . |
| 7 | This also created a fundamental conflict between the exchange 's role as guardian of the interests of the market as a whole , and its position as a participant in that market . |
| 8 | No one just passes through Baldersdale , and this clearly played a major part in preserving its isolation in the days when it was a full and vibrant community , as , indeed , it certainly was . |
| 9 | This clearly provided a major incentive to the other two districts to achieve the development of new services . |
| 10 | Because inflation at the time was about 16% , this inevitably meant a sharp cut in the workforce . |
| 11 | This even brought a ghostly chuckle ; Dr Neil 's being the Master again was enough to bring McAllister back , she thought , if only to provoke him to further jokes . |
| 12 | Some simply made a private gesture and went on a walk of their choice . |
| 13 | Studies of jejunal fluid revealed the coeliac like intestinal antibody pattern in 16 of 98 non-coeliac cases , of whom six also had a high count of intraepithelial lymphocytes ( Arranz and Ferguson , submitted ) . |
| 14 | The plaintiff sought a declaration that the use of Bridge Road and the section of Medway Road between Bridge Road and its junction up to its junction with Mill Road by heavy goods vehicles coming to and from the premises of the fourth and fifth defendants at the Chatham Dockyard between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. constituted a public nuisance ; an injunction prohibiting the fourth and fifth defendants from causing or permitting heavy goods vehicles coming to or from their premises at Chatham Dockyard to use those roads between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. ; an injunction prohibiting the dock company from permitting heavy goods vehicles to enter or leave the Chatham Dockyard by the Gillingham Gate between those hours ; and a mandatory injunction requiring the dock company to take all steps within its power to prevent the use of those roads by heavy goods vehicles of the fourth and fifth defendants between those hours . |
| 15 | Rather , pluralist approaches stress the need to establish that a group or individual consciously wanted a particular policy outcome and took successful measures to secure it . |
| 16 | The new Conservative government in 1979 then made a deliberate switch away from direct income taxation towards indirect taxation , cutting the standard rate of income tax from 33 to 30% , and raising VAT from 8 to 15% . |
| 17 | The sound died down to a deep rumbling , a mummummummum that still had a feel-it-in-the-bone quality . |
| 18 | These generally had a larger proportion of advertising , and the higher the circulation , the greater was the amount of classified rather than display ads , which was the opposite of the nationals . |
| 19 | ABBEY NATIONAL yesterday announced a one-point rise in its ordinary mortage rate to 14.5 per cent . |
| 20 | Tasted in 1980 , the Fred Leroux 1920 still had a vigorous mousse , even if the palate was well into the ‘ cheesy ’ stage of old age . |
| 21 | These both had a large circulation far beyond CAB circles : 1,500 copies of the report , for example , went to the Army Education Department ; 21,000 copies of the leaflet were bought by a Scottish county council ; and many copies of both were taken by youth organisations and clubs and societies of many kinds as a basis for informal discussion . |
| 22 | Between 1820 and 1870 there occurred a rare moment of historical calm , Nizan argues , during which French economic , social and political structures stabilised . |
| 23 | They all just got a little bit wet . ’ |
| 24 | It 's the end of a great chapter in both our lives — we have I 'm sure both played a great part , each in the other 's . |
| 25 | The Great Eastern then pioneered a new development , annotated timetables designed for tourist use and pamphlets detailing local trips with train times and fares for each of the Great Eastern seaside resorts . |
| 26 | Germany between the wars felt a sharpening of the internal contradictions by which it lived , but it is doubtful that the people concerned ever had a clear understanding of what was happening because the tensions were buried deep within the very fabric of the Reich and because the form and pattern of struggles that resulted from these tensions were always far removed from the real heart of the matter . |
| 27 | Patients who presented between midnight and 6 am had a higher rate of unnecessary operations ( 30/83 , 36% ) than those who presented at other times ( χ 2 , p<0.05 ) : 21/118 ( 18% ) presenting between 6 am and noon , 50/192 ( 26% ) presenting between noon and 6 pm , and 43/185 ( 23% ) presenting between 6 pm and midnight . |
| 28 | In addition , until 1568 there seemed a good chance that Elizabeth might have married Philip 's cousin , Charles of Austria , and have thereby returned England both to the Catholic church and the Hapsburg interest . |
| 29 | The repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 clearly had a great influence upon the increase in grain arrivals at Gloucester . |
| 30 | The 1930s also saw a vigorous campaign for better pensions for women , which led to the introduction of a state pension for women at the age of sixty in 1940 . |