Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence from the few areas that have been bored or surveyed geophysically supports this view , but other evidence does not fit so well . |
| 2 | Commanders who undervalued or ignored Ultra get short shrift . |
| 3 | In seven cases there was acknowledged to have been a deterioration in the dependant 's condition , so that the principal carer accepted or had even requested institutional care . |
| 4 | ‘ Especially to those under the enchantment of love , ’ he answered , and Fabia experienced a need to discover if Ven himself knew or had ever known that enchantment . |
| 5 | The attendant promotion of civic identity secured the alliance around a complex discourse articulating notions of localism , utilitarianism , paternalism and individualism into a unified whole that came subsequently to lead working-class opinion when it mounted its most concerted opposition . |
| 6 | Brest-Litovsk and the German offensive that followed finally shattered these hopes . |
| 7 | They neither cared nor dared explicitly to challenge this picture , as the pro-imperialists among the Germans had done . |
| 8 | No patient had a coexisting medical complaint likely to affect bile acid metabolism nor had any undergone previous bowel surgery other than appendicectomy . |
| 9 | After all , here was a company that had just performed unparalleled feats . |
| 10 | Official encouragement , genuine popularity and a sense of purpose helped further heal the self-doubt and hesitation that had previously constrained British filmmakers . |
| 11 | One authority in the Brazilian Mineral Institute claimed that ‘ Congress felt that foreign mining companies that had already made huge investments here should be differentiated from newly arrived companies ’ . |
| 12 | It would be the ultimate in the corruption of a people by paternal kindliness — a corruption that had already taken great hold in the country . |
| 13 | As far as William was concerned , seizing the English throne was just one move in his struggle to resist the growing power of France that had already lasted twenty years and would take up the whole of the rest of his life . |
| 14 | It was a sturdy affair that had once contained twelve bottles of South African sherry . |
| 15 | The decade ended with Standards for school media programs , published jointly by the American Library Association and the National Education Association in 1969 , embodying what was undoubtedly the most advanced and breathtaking model of the role of the school library media centre that had ever received official imprimatur . |
| 16 | She heard the amazement , as if what she 'd suggested had to be beyond all rational consideration ; certainly not anything that had ever merited any thought on his part . |
| 17 | We set up a phone hotline for businesses and charities that had unwittingly signed unfair contracts . |
| 18 | His head was still chewing over the problems he had discussed with his young students at the polytechnic , but his feet — as though contemptuous of all such academic preoccupations — had taken him by chance to a long , shabby street of bow-fronted houses that had obviously known better days . |
| 19 | The Board of the Admiralty asked the College of Physicians to investigate the possibilities of such a cure against scurvy , a disease that had hitherto lost naval engagements , without a fight . |
| 20 | But all that had really happened that evening , he thought , was that he had developed something that was very nearly envy of Dave Fernie . |
| 21 | The solution was relatively easy partly because what was required by society as a whole fitted in very closely with what the showmen believed themselves and partly because the new social awareness was really only a refinement of those old nineteenth-century platitudes that had always underpinned popular fiction . |
| 22 | Now the sons , dominated by their love for and estimation of the primal father could maintain the altruism and cooperativeness of their way of life because of their guilt regarding the one thing that had always threatened that cooperation — their lust . |
| 23 | He knew , in his heart , that he had always been a little bit frightened of it really … opening out the throttle … he remembered the feeling of queasiness that had always accompanied that burst of power . |
| 24 | Whoever wrote that had never had unpleasant memories to drown , thought Huy , or been confronted with truths too horrible to face . |
| 25 | No further information seemed to be forthcoming and Rose still had tight hold of the ring . |
| 26 | Scottish kings were rarely powerful enough , or could muster an army large and united enough to keep permanent guard along the frontier against major English invasions . |
| 27 | Instead of playing a leading role in the new monetary union , we shall be semi-detached from it — robbed of our full chance to shape its institutions , suffering economically because of the uncertainty , and condemned always to follow monetary union , never to lead it . |
| 28 | Teachers using Fast Forward find the material is already under control and organized ideally to ensure rapid progress . |
| 29 | The Dutch sellers now relied upon a clause ( clause 13 ) in their contract of sale with the buyers and claimed therefore to have proprietary rights entitling them to have priority over the buyers ' other creditors . |
| 30 | But what Sue saw and heard there bore little resemblance to the popularly-held view of the Spencer family . |