Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue rarely surfaced in the showery south-east until a string of droughts in the 1980s . |
| 2 | I he opportunity for doing so arose in the Middle East . |
| 3 | It worked out and then they only lived in the other half while they were doing it , was n't it ? |
| 4 | That child labour not only existed in the pre-factory economy but was strongly approved of does not of itself make blinkered sentimentalists of those who reacted so strongly to the " dark , satanic mills " . |
| 5 | It was by no means a simple set of feelings : many longed for the straightforward solutions that apparently lay in the golden-age reign of the Emperor Charlemagne when unity , conquest and expansion to the east had surely indicated racial superiority . |
| 6 | The next race was at Long Beach in California , billed as the US Grand Prix West , and though it ran through some streets , its relationship to Monaco , much hyped in the local press , was pretty tenuous . |
| 7 | At the same time , the Bishop of Rome began to become more important in the west , partly because the Emperor no longer lived in the old capital . |
| 8 | They thus shared in the human condition to the extent that inferior men did , and needed no special comment . |
| 9 | Erm , but I do , I mean if we were hogging another , I mean , if we got in the new , like you just got in the new software for the Mac |
| 10 | If those interests are engaged with the law respecting the poor wretches who were arraigned for sorcery and witchcraft , he will find the law and the social background most luminously expounded in the prefatory note to L.A. contra Agnes Finnie ( pp 627–636 ) . |
| 11 | By the time they finally arrived in the deserted car park behind the arcade she was trembling from head to foot , racked by every emotion from fear to rage . |
| 12 | But it soon faded in the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 13 | They just happened in the natural order of things . |
| 14 | Many of these were connected ultimately with traditions of pastoral care which already existed in the Early Church . |
| 15 | Political commentators noted that by aligning tactically with the LDP at this stage , Komeito anticipated holding the balance of power in the Lower House after the elections , a position it already enjoyed in the Upper House . |
| 16 | She scarcely took in the bloody mass that was a face . |
| 17 | After her reception in the village store , she was not keen to go back with further questions to establish that Veronica still lived in the Red House . |
| 18 | To these reluctant Dutchmen the invasion was a liberation , and even the weather matched their joy ; the sun was climbing into a cloudless sky and beginning to burn of the mist which still clung in the leafy valleys . |
| 19 | Gradually beat in the sifted icing sugar , adding a little at a time and mixing until well incorporated . |
| 20 | So , for example , Salah and Bil Hasan , brothers living with their wives in one household , with their own private rooms and kitchens , always ate in the common courtyard , on neutral territory ; and each wife in turn prepared the meal , rigidly observing the rota even if her husband was absent . |
| 21 | The wrecked Wellington bomber still smouldered in the open field . |
| 22 | At the end of the war , as one of the victors , we still believed in the absolute viability of the independent nation state . |
| 23 | The illuminated sail was reversible , so that it always sailed in the right direction to ensure authenticity . |
| 24 | He later became known as Magnus the Pious because of his unflinching devotion to the cult of Sigmar and to the ideals of nationhood which Sigmar still signified in the divided Empire . |
| 25 | Danish defender Bjorn Kristensen hit the second-half equaliser that gave Kevin Keegan 's side a point they hardly deserved in the Anglo-Italian Cup they won when it was last staged 19 years ago . |
| 26 | But doctors did notice that the epidemics usually happened in the hot months of the year ; and that was when the miasmic smells from primitive or non-existent sewerage were at their worst . |
| 27 | When the Frankish armies entered Saxony , the Saxons usually hid in the endless forests or untracked marshlands ; there they simply waited until the Franks had marched through , and emerged either to harry from behind or continue their nomadic life in another area . |
| 28 | That had never , ever happened in the whole history of the Corporation . |
| 29 | The Conservatives ' desperation to devise a counter-programme for the land , and the disagreements it provoked , demonstrate the degree of confusion which still existed in the Conservative ranks and the immense problems they still faced before the ‘ rampant omnibus ’ of the Great War rescued them by running down their opponents . |
| 30 | Much of this elaborate set-up hardly survived in the final cut , mainly for censorship reasons . |