Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 2 | The issue rarely surfaced in the showery south-east until a string of droughts in the 1980s . |
| 3 | I he opportunity for doing so arose in the Middle East . |
| 4 | It worked out and then they only lived in the other half while they were doing it , was n't it ? |
| 5 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 6 | The phenomenon of crumbling historic buildings , greatly accelerated in the twentieth century , is also attributed to the blight of acid rain . |
| 7 | That child labour not only existed in the pre-factory economy but was strongly approved of does not of itself make blinkered sentimentalists of those who reacted so strongly to the " dark , satanic mills " . |
| 8 | The snobbish distinction between art and craft only began in the eighteenth century amongst collectors who felt it necessary to describe creativity according to their social or monetary values . |
| 9 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 10 | It was by no means a simple set of feelings : many longed for the straightforward solutions that apparently lay in the golden-age reign of the Emperor Charlemagne when unity , conquest and expansion to the east had surely indicated racial superiority . |
| 11 | The incentive for Preston to win was to go top of the table … enough said in the second half Ellis ran away with it to make it three-nil … |
| 12 | The next race was at Long Beach in California , billed as the US Grand Prix West , and though it ran through some streets , its relationship to Monaco , much hyped in the local press , was pretty tenuous . |
| 13 | The Guardian and Daily Mail alone stayed in the same ownership throughout the period . |
| 14 | At the same time , the Bishop of Rome began to become more important in the west , partly because the Emperor no longer lived in the old capital . |
| 15 | They thus shared in the human condition to the extent that inferior men did , and needed no special comment . |
| 16 | Erm , but I do , I mean if we were hogging another , I mean , if we got in the new , like you just got in the new software for the Mac |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | By the time they finally arrived in the deserted car park behind the arcade she was trembling from head to foot , racked by every emotion from fear to rage . |
| 19 | But it soon faded in the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 20 | They just happened in the natural order of things . |
| 21 | Many of these were connected ultimately with traditions of pastoral care which already existed in the Early Church . |
| 22 | Political commentators noted that by aligning tactically with the LDP at this stage , Komeito anticipated holding the balance of power in the Lower House after the elections , a position it already enjoyed in the Upper House . |
| 23 | Public perception of the war in Europe was of a senseless conflict fought out in the mud and filth of Flanders , with thousands killed each day for the sake of only a few yards of territory soon lost in the next offensive . |
| 24 | The good feelings of the first day soon disappeared in the second round though . |
| 25 | She scarcely took in the bloody mass that was a face . |
| 26 | After her reception in the village store , she was not keen to go back with further questions to establish that Veronica still lived in the Red House . |
| 27 | Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months . |
| 28 | Gradually beat in the sifted icing sugar , adding a little at a time and mixing until well incorporated . |
| 29 | So , for example , Salah and Bil Hasan , brothers living with their wives in one household , with their own private rooms and kitchens , always ate in the common courtyard , on neutral territory ; and each wife in turn prepared the meal , rigidly observing the rota even if her husband was absent . |
| 30 | The wrecked Wellington bomber still smouldered in the open field . |