Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among these are its smoothness and coolness to the touch , a degree of translucency , and colours ranging from the white most highly esteemed by the Chinese to the various shades of green , yellow , orange , red , blue , mauve and black imparted by mineral components . |
| 2 | On one occasion a friend of mine , resplendent in new sports jacket and flannels , rather unwisely walked across the diagonal market path . |
| 3 | Perhaps the only thing to do is to make her dance as Elizabeth von Rosen so memorably did for the Royal Danish Ballet decades ago . |
| 4 | But afterward that Royall and princelie pleasure being not so much esteemed by the late King Edward the Sixt ( by reason of his minoritie ) and by the two succeeding Queenes ( by reason of their sexe ) , the lesse care of the due execucon of the forest lawes consequentlie ensued , and the keeping of the Courts of Swainmote and justice Seate i.e. , the Forest Eyre became almost totallie neglected and disused ; whereof the inhabitants of the said fforest … taking advantage , did by degrees , especiallie towards the end of the raigne of the late Queene Elizabethe , encroach upon the said fforest lawes by commoning with sheepe . |
| 5 | In the Far East substantial territory had been more or less peacefully wrested from the embattled Chinese Empire . |
| 6 | John Clarke of Swinden , for one , must have been a gentleman , with his income of £10 a year , yet his moveables were valued at no more than 30s. , with which he only just scraped into the top 20 per cent . |
| 7 | And how would such an affixation cope with the evident fact that the techniques , modes of expression and performers claimed by the counterculture as their own were apparently so easily appropriated by the established music industry interests , and the music spread into every social corner and function ? |
| 8 | There were still traces of ethnocentrism in the nationalist viewpoint elsewhere in the report : for instance , they still referred to ‘ the historic integrity of Ireland ’ ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : i. 28 ) , implying an almost naturalistic concept of Irish unity , when as a political unit Ireland only ever existed as a British-administered territory . |
| 9 | And I only ever went to the first reunion after graduation . ’ |
| 10 | Except in the press room and hospitality suite , on the fifteenth floor , the festival only really existed during the twice-daily theatre events and at dinner . |
| 11 | Elton claims that the ‘ scientific , ordered , systematic study of history only really began in the 19th century ’ and he particularly mentions Namier and Maitland as two historians who ‘ brought a scientific and intellectual approach to the study of history ’ . |
| 12 | Here the answer must be found through small-scale sustainable business initiatives — difficult to foster without the huge scale of corporate funding so often avalanched into the developing world , but modestly emerging never the less . |
| 13 | ‘ I wish I had red hair , ’ Samantha said to her mother , inspecting herself as she so often did in the tarnished mirror surrounded with gilded laurel leaves and intertwined cherubs . |
| 14 | This position was long ago determined from the slight motion of the Earth around this point . |
| 15 | The walls had long ago disappeared under a solid mass of posters and playbills , some of them so old that they 'd faded completely . |
| 16 | Scores of lives were narrowly saved after the IRA car-bomb at the Chimney Corner Inn only partially exploded in the early hours of yesterday morning . |
| 17 | The transformations effected by the second Vatican Council of 1962–5 in liturgy , sacrament , scripture , and so on led to the accelerated decline of traditional rituals such as wakes and pilgrimages to local shrines . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ' |
| 19 | Poor Harry , so incongruously yoked in the forced democracy of death , whose stiffening body would receive far more attention in its dissolution than it had ever received in life . |
| 20 | It compounds still further those two legacies so actively conjoined since the previous summer of 1837 : the historical , biogeographical ( including ecological ) concerns that he had inherited from Lyell , and the generational concerns deriving from his study with Grant and subsequent reading in Erasmus Darwin . |
| 21 | To crown this important exhibition of French sculpture , Bellanger has come up with something quite exceptional : Clodion 's ‘ Sacrifice à l'amour ’ , originally shown at the 1773 Salon , which only recently surfaced on the international market and has been brought back to France for this occasion . |
| 22 | If those interests are engaged with the law respecting the poor wretches who were arraigned for sorcery and witchcraft , he will find the law and the social background most luminously expounded in the prefatory note to L.A. contra Agnes Finnie ( pp 627–636 ) . |
| 23 | He talked for a little longer then fell into a heavy sleep , and I left him . |
| 24 | She hardly ever spoke in a normal voice . |
| 25 | ‘ I am unable to be confident from Mr. Eliot 's writings , ’ iris Murdoch once reproachfully wrote in a theoretical defence of realism , ‘ that he has ever enjoyed and admired any novel . ’ |
| 26 | And therefore , you begin to question whether it ever really happened in the first place , do n't you . |
| 27 | The threat of papal taxation once again receded from the English clergy for some years to come . |
| 28 | Hence the reaction of fear and hatred was all the more hysterical when the spectre of social revolution once again irrupted into a confident capitalist world . |
| 29 | Hope once again went through the elaborate mechanism of lighting the pipe , looking about him for wind , but the day was utterly calm . |
| 30 | In the mid-1980s the Daily Telegraph probably still spoke for the great bulk of Middle England , when , after Britain had yet again resisted international calls to reduce pollution , it announced : |