Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Morley/Penman project had a negative thrust — ‘ rockist ’ duly became a term of abuse as casually applied by pop fans as ‘ selling out ’ had been by 1960s rock fans — but its tone was relentlessly optimistic and Morley was duly rewarded for his faith in market forces ( and in Dollar in particular ) by being invited into Trevor Horn 's record label plans . |
| 2 | Much more seriously , the House of Lords in Grunwick Processing Laboratories Ltd v. ACAS ( 1978 ) effectively made the resolution of recognition disputes dependent on the co-operation of employers . |
| 3 | On the other hand , Whitaker avidly devoured the kind of Boy 's Own adventures typified by such heroes as Bulldog Drummond and any of John Buchan 's creations . |
| 4 | The band , who promised to be massive after an effortless rise to the top during the Manchester thingy in 1990 , eventually became a figure of fun in the music Press . |
| 5 | This form developed bipedalism and other adaptations to the newly opening arid savannah landscape and eventually became the ancestor of man . |
| 6 | he never took much part in college life and eventually became an object of derision among medical students , who called him ‘ Mummy Jones ’ . |
| 7 | In fact , the supposed readiness of Russians to ‘ accept ’ baptized or otherwise assimilated natives as Russians is in itself a manifestation of the national arrogance of the Russians , which eventually engendered a sense of inferiority among many of the indigenous peoples . |
| 8 | Right Got a roll of film for the camera ? |
| 9 | The Conference is the forum where Resolutions which were submitted last December and which were discussed at over 50 District Meetings around the country since then were finally put to the vote of the delegates and , if passed , thereby became a cornerstone of Association policy . |
| 10 | The Palestinians eventually boycotted the meeting in protest at the US and Russian decision to abide by the so-called " Madrid formula " which stipulated that the Palestinian delegation would include no PLO members , no East Jerusalem Palestinians and no Palestinians from the diaspora outside the occupied territories . |
| 11 | We saw a total of 8,500 people — youth and adult — in training throughout the year , and 4,000 youth and adult trainees successfully made the transition from training into employment . |
| 12 | I eventually described the discipline of anthropology to certain colleagues as ‘ the study of old bones , prehistory , and human evolution you know ; David Attenborough and all that ’ . |
| 13 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 14 | Shelley skilfully created a method of pop lyricism which , basking in intelligence , not only connected with the punk hardcore and the hip-intellects but also the young , lightweight Top Of The Pops viewers . |
| 15 | The Italian government , concerned that the better things should remain in Italy , were delighted to hear that many of them only made the journey by canal from the Cannareggio to the piano nobile of the Palazzo Malpiero . |
| 16 | The 1921 Act revoked this unworkable requirement and so condoned the concept of test auditing and , in more recent times , the adoption of a systems-based audit . |
| 17 | All of these choices , it was felt , not only avoided the sense of incompleteness generated by ( b ) , but also rounded the story off more neatly with a short descriptive statement devoid of any actional content . |
| 18 | Yet Louth-born Wilkinson was a midfield player as a schoolboy and only became a forward by accident . |
| 19 | The railway none the less became the symbol of progress without which national aspirations had no hope of achievement . |
| 20 | She only admitted the offence as part of plea bargining and just because you plead guilty it does n't mean you did it . |
| 21 | ‘ If you only got an apple for Christmas during the depression ’ , said Mr Perot , ‘ you understood your parents loved you . |
| 22 | A prosecution for altering the parish assessments failed , and the vestry not only passed a vote of confidence in Merceron but paid his expenses out of parish funds . |
| 23 | When she learned who Humphrey was , she only visited the cottage in daylight . |
| 24 | Even in this demonstration project one of the nine families with a positive diagnosis apparently entered the programme in ignorance . |
| 25 | When we found it and after I had thanked every sea god for my luck and promised never to make the same stupid mistake again , I gingerly inspected the Seayak for damage . |
| 26 | Marxism grotesquely underestimated the power of nationalism , as it did that of religion . |
| 27 | He rejected the argument that keeping the facility for steers in Barnard Castle would be costly , saying it only involved a bit of paperwork by one of the officials at the mart . |
| 28 | In fact Sir Christopher only used the plan for guidance and much of the one thousand acres of trees that he planted was the result of his own great vision . |
| 29 | The boy had been told unequivocally not to let her off the lead — the riding-school only used the land by grace of its owner and it was a shooting estate — but he hated keeping the dog straining at the lead and knew that she would always come to his call . |
| 30 | The participation of America in the war in 1917 naturally involved the provision of Ambulance trains for United States troops . |