Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Social imperialism ’ suggests that the main beneficiaries of this policy were British consumers , and indeed one writer has gone so far as to argue a direct link to the Attlee government 's social reforms : ‘ The nationalisations , medical provision and expansion of education so magnanimously legislated by the Labour Ministry were largely achieved because the Bank of England kept the Sterling Area show on the road . ' |
| 2 | I think that 's why the play has survived so long because it has this peculiar charm . ’ |
| 3 | Moreover , the North American Securities Administration Association has gone so far as to accuse the South Pacific micro-states of Nauru , Vanuatu , Tonga and the Marshall and Northern Mariana Islands of being ‘ international centres of prostitute banking ’ . |
| 4 | Kevin McKenna , from Manchester Wythenshaw , said : ‘ No industry has failed as comprehensively as the prison industry . |
| 5 | I have been lucky that my condition has progressed more slowly than is often the case . |
| 6 | As the years unfold , the penny will drop in the general council of the CBI , as much as on the commuter trains from Basildon , that the whole market-based experiment has gone as far as it can — and the new need is for a government and policies that actively manage the instability and short-termism of the British economy . |
| 7 | Our business investment has increased more rapidly than in any other major economy except Japan . |
| 8 | One afternoon a nurserymaid from the castle had appeared with Richard , and her distress had melted as quickly as it had grown . |
| 9 | Furthermore , some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhanced knowledge of processes . |
| 10 | She had never been pushed academically , although there is no doubt she had the intelligence to have done far better than she ever did . |
| 11 | Moves for peace had begun as early as summer 1904 , when it was becoming apparent that the struggle would be long drawn out . |
| 12 | The entire plot had worked even better than he had dared to hope . |
| 13 | His plan had misfired as badly as mine . |
| 14 | Yet they , too , complain of aches and pains , of being squeezed by a ‘ credit crunch ’ under which borrowing has become harder even while interest rates have been falling . |
| 15 | The hit-squad 's leader had kept below rather than find himself in confrontation with Louis or be seen by his men to be subservient to or afraid of the Latino leader . |
| 16 | The tracker had ridden ahead more than once during the day , and to the rear and flanks also , though Riven could not imagine them being followed in cold such as this . |
| 17 | When we finally reached the top of the Bouton Straits the rain had ceased as completely as the wind and it was only the current which carried us eastwards into the luminous open sea . |
| 18 | Some translators of the Bible have gone so far as to postpone the main verb until the divine fiat : And God said , Let there be light . |
| 19 | Librarians point out that for their part they receive fewer volumes for their money , since the prices of books over the same period have risen distinctly faster than retail prices as a whole . |
| 20 | As the morning mist had risen long ago when I first left the forge , so the evening mist was rising now , and in the clear moonlight I saw no shadow of another separation from her . |
| 21 | By the 1980s the prevailing agenda had shifted yet again as Latin America , Africa and Asia came increasingly to the centre of Catholic concern with liberation theology upon the one side , inculturation upon the other . |
| 22 | The restrictions of office life might have formed a permanent barrier to any expression of their feelings for each other , but their relationship had grown appreciably closer when they had both stayed for part of one summer at the home of a friend , Margaret Behrens , in Mentone — although even here Valerie Fletcher still called him " Mr Eliot " . |
| 23 | In most countries , the governmental and political concern with the environment has come somewhat later than that of scientists or concerned lay people : the early development of the Green Party in the Federal Republic of Germany is something of an exception . |
| 24 | Traffic has grown steadily rather than spectacularly during the twenty-nine years the preservation company has been operating . |
| 25 | His aunt had lived as privately as any woman he knew , but even she had visited and tried to help the Blaneys . |
| 26 | By the following winter Michael Horovitz 's New Departures magazine had advanced so far as to put on a live performance at the same venue . |
| 27 | Lacuna 's anger had disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived . |
| 28 | One former American Secretary of State has gone so far as to characterise the Armed Forces as an institution ‘ operating entirely outside Party control ’ . |
| 29 | The government has spent more heavily than its predecessors on promoting its policies . |
| 30 | Indeed one commentator has gone so far as to describe the DTI 's performance in these cases coupled with its sloppiness in the Barlow Clowes affair and failure to press prosecution over the House of Fraser takeover as ‘ part of a lengthy and dishonourable supine tradition ’ ( Alex Brummer , Guardian , 28.8.90 ) . |