Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a last bid for survival the programme had more recently tried to pick up social realism , taking on subjects such as bisexuality , suicide and abortion in a Catholic family . |
| 2 | It would have been unbearable in Chertsey without her , but Fate had once more intervened to bring them close together . |
| 3 | Although the council had so far managed to hold a balance , its ability to do so once the king was crowned was more doubtful . |
| 4 | Although the council had so far managed to hold a balance , its ability to do so once the king was crowned was more doubtful . |
| 5 | Sir Russell Johnston , MP for one of the UK 's largest constituencies , Inverness , Nairn and Lochaber , said the Chancellor had once again failed to make any differentiation between the situation of urban and rural car owners . |
| 6 | Thirty-one of my trial team had never previously attempted to slim yet 25 of them said they lost inches from areas they considered a real problem and particularly wanted to reduce . |
| 7 | At its Bristol Conference in April the League had once again refused to become involved in the United Front . |
| 8 | The logic — that the Treasury could not be expected to control something that was for local councils ' electorates to decide finally sank in , not least because the Treasury had so regularly failed to keep them to their limits . |
| 9 | The party had also recently sought to distance itself from its Vietnamese patrons and had reportedly refused to provide Do Muoi , general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ) , with a full , pre-congress briefing . |