Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Secondly , it is well known that the impact of the rediscovery of poverty in the 1880s helped to bring about a much more complex analysis of poverty and its causes , which in turn looked toward the State to begin to solve the problem .
2 For anyone disposed to take on the often very satisfying task of making banners I can assure them that there are several very kind ‘ Barnabases ’ in the church whose comments and encouragements I have valued .
3 In the heat of the immediate events of 1898 , however , while denouncing the excessive leniency of the law , The Times ( 17 August 1898 ) had boomed out an even more momentous possibility that ‘ un-English ’ violence might have to be curbed by un-English methods :
4 Following the thread of light upwards into the darkness , Bernice found that the curves and kinks which had been so obvious from the surface of Belial had straightened out a little more .
5 A conference inspired by Beyond the Fragments , was held in Leeds in September 1980 — the first major Right-On gathering after the election which had ushered in the then relatively unknown doctrine of Thatcherism .
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