Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the conferences turned out to carry less political weight than had been expected . |
| 2 | An Inquiry headed by an Irish High Court Judge , Mr Justice Declan Costello , firmly placed the responsibility for this on two corporations , Total and Gulf , who deliberately decided not to carry out necessary repair work costing a mere £130,000 because they intended to sell the tanker . |
| 3 | An Inquiry headed by an Irish High Court Judge , Mr Justice Declan Costello firmly placed the responsibility for this on two corporations , Total and Gulf , ‘ who deliberately decided not to carry out necessary repair work costing a mere £130,000 because they intended to sell the tanker' ( The Observer 27.7.80 : 2 ) . |
| 4 | Celltech made a loss of £1.9 million last year , much of which went on setting up new research projects . |
| 5 | Interestingly , the teachers who did not use The Machine Gunners said things like , ‘ I like other books more ’ ( for example Conrad 's War and The Ghost of Thomas Kempe ) and went on to describe very positive pupil responses to these alternative titles . |
| 6 | More hours did generally mean more advertising revenue for ITV , and the companies frequently pressed the government for expansion . |
| 7 | The Telegraph 's management believes that when it moved to Docklands , more than two years ago , it failed to modernise fully journalistic work practices , and did not realise how new technology could be used to reduce the number of editing jobs . |
| 8 | At the same time , he suspects , life offices did not realise how tough regulation would be . |
| 9 | So , the primary or preferred mode of transmission was the indirect consular channel , from the consul of the requesting State to an authority designated for the purpose by the State addressed ; a Contracting State could , however , still insist on the use of the diplomatic channel , and the new Convention did not preclude more direct communication between competent authorities by agreement between the States concerned . |
| 10 | Although we identified the exchange rate as one of these important variables , we did not examine how different exchange rate systems affect the adjustment process . |
| 11 | Intravenous infusion of phenylephrine produced a sustained increase in blood pressure , but phenylephrine did not affect either basal gall bladder pressure or the response to CCK-8 ( Table I ) . |
| 12 | In a study of nearly 500 women , they found that zinc supplements did not improve either foetal health or reduce the number of pre-term labours . |
| 13 | Their consequence for the tiny particles was only apparently random and unpredictable , due to the hidden atomic motions of which we did not have adequately detailed knowledge . |
| 14 | Furthermore , Rossi and Rosadini ( 1967 ) , who also used the Amytal technique , reported that only one patient out of 74 right handers , all of whom received injections on both sides , did not have exclusively left hemisphere speech dominance . |
| 15 | Although the possibility remains that there may have been some undetectable degree of portosystemic shunting , our patient did not have clinically evident portal hypertension . |
| 16 | He did not believe that long discussion was of great value , rather that a considered insight or idea produced far more than a wealth of verbal expression . |
| 17 | ‘ Many people did not appreciate how good Pallister was at Ayresome Park . |
| 18 | Although Freud saw ‘ civilized society perpetually threatened with disintegration ’ , apparently he did not foresee how far society would go in the liberation of instinctual drives … |
| 19 | Before entering Georgia politics Carter had been an engineer in the navy , but that did not provide very suitable preparation for his political career . |
| 20 | I did n't do very important part of it because erm , it was , sometimes you 'd get the same sort of schedule . |
| 21 | Our ancestors did n't realise how essential salt was to their well being until they started to grow crops . |
| 22 | ‘ We did n't go too mad decorating the nursery because Mike also uses that room as an office . |
| 23 | Anyway , off he went to the phone , asking me en route to make sure Clare did n't get too bored waiting , because it might be a long call . |
| 24 | This chap with the leg or something who wants to see you said something about being or having been a patient , but not being here as one now , and as he 's loaded with flowers for you and I did n't know how Old Red would take it , I used the sterilizer . ’ |
| 25 | However , his evidence did n't permit particularly precise localization within the brain . |
| 26 | The Wisharts , who lived in North London , were not looking forward to the long train journey one little bit ; being just after the war , the trains were run down , lacked essential maintenance and did n't keep very good time , so the Wisharts regarded the prospects of the journey with considerable misgivings . |
| 27 | They did n't take very good care of the library . |
| 28 | ( 1976 ) have found that pre-exposure to a tone and a light presented serially generates less latent inhibition than pre-exposure to the target stimulus presented alone ( a result also reported by Szakmary , ( 1977 ) in a study using a noise and a light as the stimuli ) . |
| 29 | After acquiring a new printing plant on an industrial estate in Warrington , he refused , in effect , to recognize the NGA ( the printer 's union ) 's closed shop and preferred instead to introduce more flexible working arrangements within his organization . |
| 30 | Most of the stimuli presented actually showed very normal driving situations and these would thus be rated as relatively low on risk . |