Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , demand for board level products has increased , but the Sparcbook has taken off more slowly than Tadpole hoped , so that by September 30 it had sold 647 of the things , bringing in £3.5m . |
| 2 | Patrick earl of Bothwell made two bonds of manrent , one to Mary in August 1543 for a yearly pension of £1000 , the other to her great rival regent Arran in January 1546 , not for the normal term of his life , but for as long as Arran remained governor . |
| 3 | He glimpsed the short white-haired figure heading for the back gate but did not say so until much later when Merlyn asked where she had got to . |
| 4 | As we have seen , in so far as Washington valued the special relationship it was essentially for hard-headed reasons of self-interest , and in the mid-1960s three issues in particular were to bring about a marked weakening of the old ties . |
| 5 | In so far as Ferdinand had a system it was the restoration of the machinery of government and the society that he had known in 1808 : ministerial despotism superimposed on the old Councils , the very system the Persians professed to abhor . |
| 6 | In so far as Whitehall had considered these matters it had been vaguely assumed that a status quo ante would be established and the Dutch in the Netherlands East Indies , the French in Indochina , and the Colonial Office in Burma and Malaya would resume their rightful sway . |
| 7 | In so far as Anselm had a policy as archbishop beyond the pastoral duties outlined in Gregory the Great 's Regula Pastoralis , the defence of the Canterbury primacy formed its foundation and the legislation of his two primatial Councils were its crowning achievement . |
| 8 | In so far as Preobrazhensky claimed that there was a law of primitive socialist accumulation in the Soviet economy which operated along with the law of value , he denied that there could be one , single , regulator for the whole economy . |
| 9 | In so far as Freud thought he had done psychology as a natural science , he has been vulnerable to critics within psychology who have applied natural scientific criteria to his work and found it wanting . |
| 10 | In so far as Derek thought at all about who had murdered Maurice Abberley — or why — he supposed a crazed hitch-hiker must have been responsible . |
| 11 | In so far as Jupiter survived he was the personification of Providence or Destiny . |
| 12 | They were knocking the ball around very nicely and Blackburn looked poor . |