Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Although the Labour party failed to mount a sufficiently large campaign against the non-intervention policy , there seems little doubt that the government would have continued along its agreed course . |
| 2 | In 1894 , the Board agreed to erect an entirely new school for 400 boys at an estimated cost , ex-land , of £2,800 . |
| 3 | During the course of April , the feelers put out earlier by Baghdad were followed up ; both Talabani and Barzani participated in talks with the Iraqi leadership in which the Kurds sought to secure a more workable version of the autonomy negotiated in 1970 . |
| 4 | The company also agreed to provide a more adequate explanation of changes in accounting policy in future , and the Panel welcomed the directors ' intention ‘ to ensure that future notes will include reiteration of the former policy as well as a description of the new policy ’ . |
| 5 | I did longer than most and it had the advantage that , given there was much greater stability of employment then , I got to know a very large number of people . |
| 6 | The clinic you mentioned has a very good reputation . ’ |
| 7 | I tried to find a more comfortable position but there was n't one , really . |
| 8 | Inevitably I shot many animals to feed myself and my retainers , but the memorable occasions were when I hunted dangerous game or tried to secure a really fine head of a rare or elusive animal , like this mountain nyala . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't give that man the benefit of any more conversation , ’ he snapped as Miss Hall moved to answer an entirely reasonable question from Bruce Anderson of the Sunday Express . |
| 10 | Lydia tried to imagine a more suitable bride for the dour Hywel and could see only a dim , faintly female version of himself . |
| 11 | The rectories and vicarages I visited played a more important part in the rural community than they have done since or are likely ever to do again . |
| 12 | Their suspicions were heightened by the case of S. G. Nechaev ( 1847–82 ) , an amoral firebrand who tried to build a rigidly disciplined organization by brazen deception , and to assert his own authority by involving his fellow conspirators in the murder of one of their number . |
| 13 | Built in the early 1980s to meet spiralling demand in Surrey 's golf-crazy commuter heartland , it helped to solve a seemingly impossible problem for many budding golfers . |
| 14 | As time went on , however , its curative uses were regarded with more and more suspicion , not assisted by tales such as that of Svengali which helped to convince an already uncertain public that to submit to hypnosis was to give up all free will and to place one 's mind in the power of another . |
| 15 | In this book , we tried to develop a somewhat new approach to grammar , based on the idea that grammar , to be useful to the learner , should be ‘ communicative ’ , i.e. should relate the forms and structures of the language to their meaning and use In terms of the number of copies sold , this has been the most successful book of which I have been an author . |
| 16 | On this occasion , as an added piquancy , the festival promised to have a distinctly radical flavour . |
| 17 | In 1963 Kennedy moved to take a more positive role in the struggle for civil rights . |
| 18 | The seminar came at a time when the contribution of women in the Church promised to become an increasingly important part of the decision-making process in the life of the Church ’ , the editorial continued . |
| 19 | As it sought to serve a predominantly rural region in which the WEA in earlier years had found its own main strength in urban areas , the rural areas were relatively untouched and open to university initiatives when the 1932 Adult Education Regulations were introduced . |
| 20 | I then put a cream silk backing on the mount , again to keep the overall effect as plain as possible , since I planned to design a fairly full flower combination in the oval aperture . |
| 21 | It failed to create a genuinely corporate approach towards the problems of a single , major conurbation . |
| 22 | It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere . |
| 23 | The substitution of the term " information " for the old " press and propaganda " , and its promotion to ministerial level seemed to indicate a more wide-ranging approach to questions of what the general public might know and think of the regime ; while the allocation of official attention to tourism suggested that , by contrast with the days of autarchy and isolationism , foreigners were henceforth to be encouraged to come to Spain . |
| 24 | Not many ticks had been added to our bird list , but we 'd earned a very fine tick for our lizard list ! |
| 25 | I 'd conjured a rather camp Major Sager , complete with Jimmy Edwards moustache and a bed of roses which he pruned incessantly . |
| 26 | But I was n't struck by any thunderbolts or lightning flashes , and when talking about the dance afterwards in the Met Office I merely remarked to the officer on duty that I 'd met a very nice corporal and he 'd asked me to go to the Station cinema with him on Saturday . |
| 27 | Luckily she had proof , because she did n't think it was going to take long before he took steps to make it seem as if she 'd made a criminally stupid error . |
| 28 | And I 'd seen a most delightful villa — do you know St-Tropez , Jean ? |
| 29 | Ooh great a , a lot of politic this is what I say they were , when I think of them I can remember them , even as , as a young girl and you know remember them they were all very , very er they were only just the average working woman er I do n't think , we had got , there again we 'd got an extremely good , they 'd got an extremely good secretary , a well-educated woman erm and er the whole family was involved and it was one of their family was went on to be an M P . |
| 30 | Following the debacle of 1931 , the trade unions came to play an increasingly important part in shaping Labour policy . |