Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless its roots have evidently been shallower than in Northern Ireland , where the absence of comprehensive schools perhaps made it the more necessary . |
| 2 | Whitaker , a committed and active Guild member , recognised in Coburn a considerable talent and so offered him the not insubstantial opportunity to shape a BBC drama series from grass roots , by writing its pilot . |
| 3 | However that may be , Cnut 's considerable generosity to Canterbury implies that he did have good relations with Æthelnoth , and this possibly made him the more determined to control the selection of his successor . |
| 4 | At first the Romans consolidated their position in central Italy , moving north only in the third-century BC , when the battle of Mediolanum in 222 BC won them the most important city on the Lombardy Plain . |
| 5 | Ethel ran out of the door with the frightening single-mindedness that later made her the most successful Tiller Girl . |
| 6 | Nigel BLOOM was in excellent form again on Saturday , and his treble at the Essex fixture at High Easter not surprisingly earned him the very handsome trophy presented by ‘ Pleasure Prints ’ to the meeting 's most outstanding rider . |