Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Pius XII 's encyclical Mystici Corporis brought back the concept of the Church as the body of Christ to the centre of Catholic teaching , it most remarkably avoided the slightest reference in this to the relationship between the Eucharistic body and the ecclesial body , and omitted the slightest notice of the basic Pauline text for that relationship , 1 Corinthians 10.17 . |
| 2 | From somewhere below came a great rending and echoing squeal of torn metal . |
| 3 | It was through his West Indian interests that his career most obviously spanned the great divide of 1660 . |
| 4 | Only slowly did the various industries realise that they had to better the ‘ lot ’ of their workers and reduce the occupational risk . |
| 5 | I suppose I was defending a monarchy that had in the past seen some unsuitable sovereigns , while he somewhat deftly applied the same argument to unsatisfactory prime ministers . |
| 6 | That is also why it so much welcomed the successful outcome of the Maastricht agreement on those lines . |
| 7 | The old party structure , which for so long guaranteed the evolutionary character of our society , seems to me to have broken down … |
| 8 | First , the Macintosh was designed as a graphical computer and so already possessed the necessary hardware to provide a typographically ‘ accurate ’ WYSIWYG display and then print it out onto the new LaserWriter printer . |
| 9 | The foregoing should help to explain why the British so persistently entertained the improbable notion that the Masai were ‘ loyal ’ : the wish was father to the thought . |
| 10 | But she could n't do it , could n't turn away from him now when she so desperately needed the reassuring warmth and strength of his embrace . |
| 11 | So easily did the rational fear of not being able to exchange their products so advantageously merge , for a whole generation , into the absurdity of supposing that they could somehow have access to a source of wealth other than their own production . |
| 12 | Noah 's family so quickly spoiled the new creation that God then made , and after Babel God began a third time with the calling of Abraham . |
| 13 | Only gradually did the commercial preoccupation with the projector and the venue shift to a greater interest in the films themselves and then very much the same kind of people who had struggled to control the machines and theatres began to make and distribute the films . |
| 14 | ‘ Actually I only ever drank the odd beer , ’ he says . |
| 15 | Known as ‘ Fizzer ’ to his colleagues and our fans , Phil played in every game of Palace 's promotion season of 1988–89 and only an injury , sustained on his 1st Division debut at Queens Park Rangers , prevented him from completing full appearances in 1989–90 , although he was an ever-present member of the team that reached the 1990 FA Cup Final and so nearly seized the famous trophy . |
| 16 | Somewhat later came the present owner , John Matta , who now takes great pleasure in greeting Citalia guests and welcomes them on arrival with a gift of the wonderful Chianti Classico from his excellent cellars and offers them a typical Tuscan dinner at a reasonable price , which is taken most weeks in the castle 's impressive banqueting hall . |
| 17 | Of the manual occupations , hosiers , cappers , founders , and barbers , to mention but a few , all had the minimum assessment of £5 for median ; so also had the various building trades , with the exception of the marblers who averaged £50 on a small sample . |
| 18 | So also did the governmental structures of the Merovingian kingdom . |
| 19 | Margo went from strength to strength , with bigger and better parts , but after a few years turned to acting and much later married an Australian singer/actor , Rod McLennon , and went to live in Melbourne . |
| 20 | Official results are not expected until Wednesday but Serb radio said ballots counted so far showed a massive turnout and a ‘ no ’ vote of between 95 per cent and 99pc . |
| 21 | Though they have not so far emulated the economic success of other Asians , they share many of their qualities . |
| 22 | CZECHOSLOVAKIA 'S Communist Party , in its latest round of musical chairs , has appointed Mr Ladislav Adamec , the man who so angrily relinquished the prime ministership two weeks ago , as its new leader . |
| 23 | The primitive mammals that happened to be around in the three areas when the dinosaurs more or less simultaneously vacated the great life trades , were all rather small and insignificant , probably nocturnal , previously overshadowed and overpowered by the dinosaurs . |
| 24 | It grew colder still as the night fell , a crackling frost under a sickle moon , but the coldness did not reach into the Norderns ' flat and it would not have done so even had the central heating broken down , the joy and relief of the family generating enough warmth to melt the polar ice-cap if necessary . |
| 25 | Because the leaflets are the enquiries are going to be answered today because only today did the second leaflet come . |
| 26 | He had long ago got the whole business of Ecalpemos under tight control and lived in high hopes of never having to refer to it again in word or thought — and then there had appeared this paragraph . |
| 27 | As Daphne said this there flashed into Cecilia 's mind that conversation with Tina , that terrible thing Tina had said , and another thought , one that seemed to swim up out of the deep waters of her unconscious , the idea that she , Cecilia Darne , yes , she , had once long ago met the right girl , and here was that right girl talking to her now of something , oh , so akin to what Tina meant … |
| 28 | He had long ago accepted the feudal organization of Church and baronage as an adequate way of organizing the world : the real questions of salvation lay in a quite different area of experience , and on these he spoke with the simple and clear authority of a personal vision and prolonged thought . |
| 29 | Two-Dogs had long ago found the real place , an abandoned monastery in the desert . |
| 30 | Sir Arthur Evans long ago recorded a Sumerian cylinder seal made from this material from a deposit sealed by a Middle Minoan IIIA layer at Knossos . |