Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [conj] the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Applications for the Easter Course came in well and the Lilleshall Course is full .
2 On the one hand there was no group of Yugoslavs to whom the phrasing of Robertson 's order applied more completely than the Croat Ustachi , Domobranci and regular troops under German Army Group E , who at the time were approaching the Austrian border , armed and in very large numbers .
3 It is important to remember that Britain fared less badly than the USA and some of its Continental neighbours , and that even adjusted for unemployment , real wages continued to increase on average until the early 1930s ( figure 4.2 , see Dimsdale 1984 ) .
4 They glanced up curiously as the Kubelwagen arrived , rising to their feet when they saw Schellenberg 's uniform .
5 But was it for this that the trumpets blew so confidently when the TECs appeared , less than two years ago ?
6 Indeed , this first step proceeded so smoothly that the EEC decided to speed up the timetable of tariff reductions .
7 With some exceptions , the gentry and clergy readily accepted the Restoration in 1660 ; few went as far as the Reverend Dr William Oughtred who , at the age of 86 , ‘ died of excess of joy when he heard of the restoration of the monarchy ’ .
8 The extreme snobbery of this abstruse observation would have been rude had it been clear , for Lydia knew perfectly well that the Molesworths were the sort of people who picnicked in lay-bys , bringing little chairs and tables and using the car boot as a sort of sideboard .
9 IBM files performed better the larger the bucket capacity , while ICL files performed better the smaller the bucket capacity ; very roughly , the six-record buckets were equivalent , while IBM two-record buckets performed as badly as the ICL fourteen-record buckets .
10 As I sipped my coffee , I reflected once more than the Midland Irish were very like the English of the 1950s .
11 But news filtered back yesterday that the WBC were adamant about Tucker , the former IBF champion , being Lewis 's first opponent in a mandatory defence .
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