Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rather got lost in the rush . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The discussions have been taking place for such a long time that I rather got used to the idea that I should be leaving . |
| 3 | Crossman eventually became convinced of the need for more radical action : the Boundary Commission was dissolved and the Royal Commission appointed ( Alexander 1982b:18 — 19 ) . |
| 4 | Through her daze she slowly became aware of the sergeant 's voice . |
| 5 | As his eyes slowly became accustomed to the half-light , he began to make out row upon row of brown tents stretching as far as the eye could see . |
| 6 | On 4 May Parliament endorsed the declaration of war on France and Spain , thereby becoming involved in the War of the Spanish Succession , which had followed the attempts of Louis XIV to install his grandson on the throne of Spain , and his invasion of Holland . |
| 7 | Its concern with problems equivalent to those of solving polynomial equations , especially those of degree 2 , led to the word algebra eventually becoming synonymous with the science of equations . |
| 8 | Dusk was falling swiftly , as it always does in the tropics , and the silence that had so impressed me by daylight suddenly became noisy with the night life of the jungly-type trees in the mountains behind-the bull frogs , strange bird cries , the never-ending background of the cicadas . |
| 9 | He suddenly became aware of a volley of shots from behind him , and all three bodies fell back like tin ducks on a rifle range . |
| 10 | Rupert suddenly became aware of the danger signals and quickly tried again . |
| 11 | Perhaps Philippa or the femininity of her chamber had reminded Cranston of Maude for the coroner suddenly became bellicose with the girl . |
| 12 | She looked about her vaguely , trying to envisage the future , and suddenly became conscious of the wonder of a life which contained such a precious element as sure joy to come . |
| 13 | For example , the placing of the head : a dynamic , powerful man should be made to fill the canvas , whereas children 's heads are better placed low on the canvas . |
| 14 | A PART FROM a few dedicated individuals who preferred to do it the ‘ hard way ’ ( we 'll discuss that in a moment ) , the flying of a model helicopter upside down became possible with the introduction of the ‘ invert switch ’ . |
| 15 | Finally I managed to get out of the harness and , luckily for me , the parachute that was dragging me along got tangled in a camel thorn bush . |
| 16 | So Mr Chris Patten , if he hangs on at Bath , and Mr William Waldegrave , who has a safe seat , had better stay clear of the bar . |
| 17 | There was also the practical reason to provide convincing reasons why so many men were possessed of so little or no assessable ‘ substance ’ , and in the subsidy to justify the assessments of wages which only became effective in the absence of taxable goods , and , moreover , masters were responsible for the payment of their servants ' taxes . |
| 18 | It would need to be replaced overnight , in time for another test flight — and , because insurance cover only became active on the granting of a certificate , it would cost £600,000 to do it . |
| 19 | Christ 's birthday only became important for the Church when infant baptism replaced adult baptism . |
| 20 | I only became aware of the truth when in July Grace wrote from the front to let me know that Charlie was being sent home following the second battle of the Marne . |
| 21 | From the 1860s onwards the Commons , Open Spaces and Footpaths Preservation Society campaigned to save Britain 's rural heritage so that city-dwellers could be revitalized through contact with Nature ( a campaign that only became realistic in the era of rapid transportation by rail ) . |
| 22 | The head of the House of Niccolò , who had considerable reservations himself about Father Ludovico da Bologna , was content enough to remain unmolested through the Mass , and the procession back to the Palace , and even the banquet itself , although that presented different pitfalls . |
| 23 | The Gamay was rightly considered inferior for the production of Champagne when AOC laws were introduced in 1927 and its cultivation was restricted , but a generous transitory period of 18 years was allowed for growers heavily dependent on the vine , because the authorities recognised the financial burden of replanting with the authorised varieties . |
| 24 | However , another typical feature of octamer-binding POU-domain factors , such as Oct-1 , Oct-2 , Oct-6 and the recently cloned brain-4 factor ( identical with N-Oct 4 ; A. Tobler and E. Schreiber , unpublished results ) , is that they can also bind to the heptamer sequence CTCATGA which is naturally located adjacent to the octamer sequence in the immunoglobulin heavy chain promoter [ 28 ] [ 29 ] [ 30 ] . |
| 25 | It was as if the windows had flown open and all the winds of winter had suddenly come sweeping into the room . |
| 26 | In geology , only causes active in the present , human period are accessible in principle , although often not in practice , to direct observation . |
| 27 | If your baby only has colic in the evening , then a temporary deficit in lactase , due to the morning feed being larger than usual , is a possibility ( see p 202 ) . |
| 28 | Come to think of it , his Viking ancestors had n't exactly been famed for their chivalrous treatment of women , and the traits had obviously come undiluted down the line to him . |
| 29 | That he opposed Winchelsey earlier only aligned him with popes and realists ; that his appointment to Canterbury involved both the exclusion of a saintly scholar and expedient intervention by the pope was hardly of his doing or proof of his unsuitability ; that he readily undertook to secure taxes from reluctant clergy only looks unprincipled against the background of thirteenth-century prelates who had yet to adjust to the vast needs and new methods of kings everywhere . |
| 30 | If you are younger , perhaps living alone after the death of an elderly parent , and you are in the same situation of having a large house or flat that is too much of a financial burden for you , then you must either sell or take in lodgers . |