Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chief Constable fussed around the Bishop , the press had been shut up , or anyway given a damn sight less than they would have been if it had n't been a priest 's body , or rather , head . |
| 2 | Agreement is sought and where not reached a fair statement of disagreement is provided . |
| 3 | To anyone who has been in the Army or detained at Her Majesty 's pleasure , or even attended a public school ( and there are a disturbing number who have managed all three ) , the dining room at Plas y Benenin is a familiar place . |
| 4 | Rarely have researchers extended their analysis to consider inequalities within older age groups , possibly because they have implicitly or explicitly adopted a biological/medical framework which considers that old age is characterized by universal and inevitable ill health . |
| 5 | These later towns might then have been either assisted in their development by their royal or ecclesiastical lords or owners , or actually given a regular street pattern and/or a market place to encourage them to grow and expand . |
| 6 | Five little words that only raised a whole pile of other questions . |
| 7 | In his Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina ( 1615 ) , Galileo argued that the language of the Bible had been accommodated to the minds of the uneducated , with the consequence that texts that superficially implied a stationary earth and a moving sun were not to be treated as literal scientific descriptions . |
| 8 | There was nothing in the Parliamentary debate , in fact , to suggest that the pistol cases were particularly serious and the Bill was easily thrown out — although it must be admitted that the gentlemen of Westminster have more than once shown a remarkable capacity for getting things wrong . |
| 9 | In a recent well-publicised controversy a group of scientists claimed to have obtained results whereby water that once had a certain substance in it continued to behave as if the substance was present even after the substance had been removed ; as if the water retained a ‘ memory ’ of the substance . |
| 10 | In fact , to Lisa 's relief and surprise , her reception from her new workmates was fairly friendly — though tinged with that nervous wariness that always greeted a new broom . |
| 11 | This finding is in line with a study from Sweden that also found a significant increase in incidence during the shorter period 1970–84 , resulting in twice the incidence in women as in men . |
| 12 | Thucydides also underlines the strategic importance of the place : an enemy like Sparta , if she held Amphipolis , could strike at Athens ' north Aegean allies , provided that Thessaly allowed a safe passage to the Strymon area . |
| 13 | Marketing too underwent a revolution ; old names — the ‘ Tournament ’ at Paddington , the ‘ Golden Frame ’ at Sheffield — were out , while in came the snappy new ‘ Quicksnack ’ or ‘ Station Tavern ’ that proudly proclaimed a new image nationwide . |
| 14 | The gentlemanly proprietorships and relaxed chairmanships that historically supplied a large bulk of presidents have become rarities . |
| 15 | The evidence from the Leicestershire textile village of Shepshed , as he puts it , ‘ supports the argument that the acceleration of economic activity after 1750 was the prime agent breaking down the traditional social controls that previously maintained a demographic equilibrium in which population size was kept in line with resources . ’ |
| 16 | Putnam showed subjects a video tape of a car/bicycle accident and then asked a series of leading questions that subtly suggested a wrong answer . |
| 17 | Many felt sympathy with Morrissey 's stance over this , but many did n't , preferring instead to follow Julie Burchill 's line that Bands Aid was the first record in the history of popular music that actually achieved a positive result ; that Band Aid made the likes of The Redskins quake in their Doc Marten 's and feel totally inconsequential . |
| 18 | The first was meant to unseat Digital Equipment Corp 's PDP-11 on the glow of the IBM name alone , but was sent naked into the market with no software and became the ultimate dogsbody product , a computing resource for any whim that needed one , a computer without portfolio that never found a central role . |
| 19 | If God can not be identified with man as a product of evolution , and thereby given a credible definition , then any effort to create a new and successful conception of God will founder on the same rocks of contention that have wrecked every religion that was ever believed in . |
| 20 | The bear became extremely angry with the fly , and eventually seized a huge stone and succeeded in killing it . |
| 21 | I caught a soldier 's harassed glance , and suddenly remembered a modern Ulster saying : ‘ There were more helicopters than at Crossmaglen . ’ |
| 22 | Two-thirds of the schools had no boarders , and most were situated in the towns — especially in the North of England , where many were Roman Catholic and so represented a useful variant of the religious settlement which Butler incorporated in the 1944 Act . |
| 23 | He immediately married a Suabian noblewoman called Hildegarde , and so gained a new wife and the unrelenting hatred and opposition of his ex father-in-law . |
| 24 | We had recently finished with the Douglas car company but wanted to keep the series topical and so developed a new setting in which our hero uses his amoral cunning to preserve part of Britain 's disappearing heritage ’ . |
| 25 | It was the ‘ second line ’ , ‘ support ’ and ‘ facility ’ squadrons which took the UK Canberra squadrons into another twenty years of service with a variety of roles and mark conversions , and so brought a continued need for the services of 231 OCU , albeit on a decreasing scale over the years . |
| 26 | If they had said no help would be forthcoming and no stock of food had been set aside and no extraordinary public works would be undertaken , they might have provided all three by stealth and so avoided a great nuisance . |
| 27 | They were still unsure about what to put on the B-side , and only made a final decision as they travelled to the recording studio on the bus . |
| 28 | She ate her meals alone , and only caught a fleeting glimpse of him all day as he disappeared through a far doorway . |
| 29 | I was comfortably warm using the main bag and bivvy bag for an outdoor bivvy ( lowest temperature +5°C ) and only found a small amount of condensation on the inside when I woke up . |
| 30 | On Friday it only niggled , as if the chief had departed from a conquered place , and merely left a small garrison behind , or as if he had evacuated the Corsica , and a few straggling pains only remained . |