Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of this he often failed to bring about cures and eventually became disillusioned with hypnosis as a form of therapy . |
| 2 | The veins or ‘ lodes ’ of tin so formed varied in width between half a metre and six metres . |
| 3 | The whole character of the game has been changed by a goal which er suddenly has brought to life in a way which we did n't see at all for the first half . |
| 4 | The proportion of all adults living alone has risen from 9% in 1973 to 13% in 1988 ( General Household Survey 1988 ) . |
| 5 | Up to a point , because now we 've got the the go ahead for the new chiller , which is ordered , erm that 's only getting rid of part of the problem . |
| 6 | Until now , in most cases , the child will only have come into contact with those who are most concerned for his welfare — mother , father , grandparents and so on . |
| 7 | Apparently Ziegfeld spied on rehearsals by watching through a peephole in the wall . |
| 8 | The Security light by Siemens is supplied with a rechargeable batter that is constantly trickled charged in daytime by a detachable solar panel . |
| 9 | If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man , then wherever you go for the rest of your life , it stays with you , for Paris is a movable feast , Ernest Hemingway to a friend , 1950 . |
| 10 | She was not sensitive enough to have died in childbirth like the women in nineteenth-century novels . |
| 11 | The first major place we reached was a city called Oradea where we realised that not much had changed in Romania since our last visit . |
| 12 | Much had changed in Wales in the two hundred years since Llewelyn ap Iorwerth the Great ; but this was not changed . |
| 13 | After the war , it was estimated that , between February 21st and the end of June , 23,000 French alone had died in hospitals as a result of wounds received at Verdun . |
| 14 | He poured it from a Victorian coffee pot waiting on a hotplate and launched into a description of a case he 'd just won punctuated by blasts of laughter and big gestures . |
| 15 | Because women are largely con fined to jobs with low status and power , they will be relatively less able to engage in serious forms of white-collar and corporate crime . |
| 16 | This extends the earlier more general overview on education and training for online searching written by Wanger in 1979 . |
| 17 | In the absence of a contrary statement in the contract between X and Y Ltd. , property will normally have passed by virtue of sections 16–18 of the Sale of Goods Act ( paragraphs 3–07 to 3–24 ) . |
| 18 | Natural philosophy , or that part of it which is physics , will already have dealt with man to some extent , in considering the phenomenon of sense-perception . |
| 19 | It is unlikely to have been the work of Asclepiodatus , who can scarcely have worked for Chlothar before 613 , given his association with Childebert II , and is equally unlikely to have been active after that date . |
| 20 | Every newspaper in Punjab and many outside have fallen in line with the code of conduct . |
| 21 | It is the most widely used measured to PTSD in adults . |
| 22 | She had always felt insulated from pain with him , as if the condoms served to forever prevent them from getting unhealthily close . |
| 23 | Thus by 1930 , when a Roman would still have felt at home on an Andalusian estate , Catalonia contained some of the largest textile concerns in Europe and the immigrant labour , which poured into the Catalan towns in order to escape the wretchedness of rural life , brought into the labour movements of a modern industrial civilization the millenarian tradition of peasants and landless labourers . |
| 24 | How far laymen would have disapproved of his behaviour is another matter , for concubinage of a type whereby a married man could also have a relationship with a woman who had a recognised position and whose children might share in the inheritance had been common among Germanic peoples , and may still have existed in England in Cnut 's day . |
| 25 | Or should I say boys , because you do n't strike me as ever having come into contact with any men . ’ |
| 26 | Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) . |
| 27 | Psychology has recently gained the respectability it should always have had with respect to pain , for two completely irrelevant reasons . |
| 28 | More weed and a seed quickly becomes established in cracks on the asphalt In future years even willow trees will be in a foothold to these doomed power stations stands firm and proud as it slips and silently into decay |
| 29 | For it was the people of the three original founding cantons , Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden , who took the first steps to free themselves from external domination and start what was to become an independent confederation of communities , unified in a unique fashion , which in their early years were mostly called simply the Confederates but later became known as Schweizer after the name of one of the original component areas , Schwyz . |
| 30 | He was appointed controller of the printing business of Oxford University Press in 1883 : the position later became known as printer to the university . |