Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of this he often failed to bring about cures and eventually became disillusioned with hypnosis as a form of therapy . |
| 2 | The veins or ‘ lodes ’ of tin so formed varied in width between half a metre and six metres . |
| 3 | The whole character of the game has been changed by a goal which er suddenly has brought to life in a way which we did n't see at all for the first half . |
| 4 | The proportion of all adults living alone has risen from 9% in 1973 to 13% in 1988 ( General Household Survey 1988 ) . |
| 5 | Up to a point , because now we 've got the the go ahead for the new chiller , which is ordered , erm that 's only getting rid of part of the problem . |
| 6 | Until now , in most cases , the child will only have come into contact with those who are most concerned for his welfare — mother , father , grandparents and so on . |
| 7 | Apparently Ziegfeld spied on rehearsals by watching through a peephole in the wall . |
| 8 | The Security light by Siemens is supplied with a rechargeable batter that is constantly trickled charged in daytime by a detachable solar panel . |
| 9 | If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man , then wherever you go for the rest of your life , it stays with you , for Paris is a movable feast , Ernest Hemingway to a friend , 1950 . |
| 10 | She was not sensitive enough to have died in childbirth like the women in nineteenth-century novels . |
| 11 | The first major place we reached was a city called Oradea where we realised that not much had changed in Romania since our last visit . |
| 12 | Much had changed in Wales in the two hundred years since Llewelyn ap Iorwerth the Great ; but this was not changed . |
| 13 | After the war , it was estimated that , between February 21st and the end of June , 23,000 French alone had died in hospitals as a result of wounds received at Verdun . |
| 14 | He poured it from a Victorian coffee pot waiting on a hotplate and launched into a description of a case he 'd just won punctuated by blasts of laughter and big gestures . |
| 15 | Because women are largely con fined to jobs with low status and power , they will be relatively less able to engage in serious forms of white-collar and corporate crime . |
| 16 | This extends the earlier more general overview on education and training for online searching written by Wanger in 1979 . |
| 17 | But he was not going dressed as William of Orange . |
| 18 | There was grumbling that he may not have heard among tribesmen at al Hassaniyeh who are resentful at not being able to voice their grievances freely . |
| 19 | Had it been essential to inject , many ‘ new ’ users stated that they would probably not have experimented with heroin in the first place . |
| 20 | A sick Gooch should not have played in Calcutta with a debilitating virus which developed into a chest infection . |
| 21 | They possessed a certain plausibility in as much as Richard could not have gone on crusade without first ensuring that his position as his father 's heir was fully and publicly recognized in the most formal manner possible , while everything about Henry 's policy in the last four years indicated that he was reluctant to make any such announcement . |
| 22 | Lord Coleridge C.J. observed , at p. 457 , that the corporation would not have insisted on payment of the dues if they had known the facts . |
| 23 | He may not have returned to Paris in 1944 with all his answers to France 's problems fully formed , but he had at least decided what the problems were . |
| 24 | As we have already seen , a boy might not have got beyond typesetting at an equivalent stage either , nor did he automatically get much further anyway ; but the girls were almost all set to handsetting for the firm once they were competent at it . |
| 25 | Without it , when he was first called , God 's new plans for the redemption of his world would not have got under way at all . |
| 26 | But even if the note was deleted ( and Ramsey deleted it in a later edition ) , Raven could not have voted for Ramsey with enthusiasm . |
| 27 | Fifty years ago most people would not have thought of RE in such terms . |
| 28 | In the past the NZRFU might not have dealt with submissions from individuals ( such as Knight or even Mayhew ) but would have waited for the details to come , union-to-union , through the usual official channels . |
| 29 | She had nothing planned , unless it was to go to a cinema show with Jules , and even if she had , there was nothing she would not have cancelled in order to be with Harry . |
| 30 | Adoption should not be underestimated as a potential problem , and Howe ( 1990 ) estimated that there are approximately 600,000 relinquishing mothers in the UK — many of whom may not have come to terms with their loss . |