Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | People throughout the world suddenly became much better informed about radiation hazards . |
2 | In March 1939 he gave the Boutwood Foundation lectures at Corpus Christi College , Cambridge , in which he outlined the kind of society which he wished to see established , a society which actively advanced the values and principles which he found so signally lacking in Neville Chamberlain 's England . |
3 | Most of the studies reviewed so far focus on people 's attitudes to domestic energy use and equipment , an aspect of their immediate daily life . |
4 | Stark however was keen to distinguish knowledge from ideology and in this he differentiated himself from Mannheim 's position which he regarded as too dominated by Marxism ( Stark 1958 : 104 ) . |
5 | The publication of the photograph led to increased speculation over the contentious issue of the fate of those 2,273 US servicemen listed as officially missing in action ( MIA ) in the Vietnam war . |
6 | To test it 's authenticity I chose a dozen snails in garlic butter to start a dish that I 'd only ever eaten in Paris before . |
7 | I think we 'd best not speak about paper darts and cries for help . |
8 | One day , on a long walk , he 'd almost literally bumped into Fergus Urvill , crouching in a hide up amongst the folds in the hills , waiting with telescope and .303 for a wounded Sika deer . |
9 | Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers , but of folk singers , bearded or otherwise . |
10 | I 'd never even heard of Killerton until I started working for the Trust , but when I was at Drogo I used to come across here fairly regularly because of the regional office being here and because I was just interested . |
11 | Early in the eighteenth century they became more firmly subjected to Dzhungaria . |
12 | Behind the industrial revolution were a series of major historical transformations , including the abandonment of popular culture by the European elites after 1500 such that the concept of culture itself became more closely related to hierarchy , but was combined with a growth in literacy and other resources by means of which lower status groups might also gain access to the new high culture ( see Burke 1978 : 270 and Mukerji 1983 for pre-1800 ; Williams 1961 for post-1800 ) . |
13 | Gradually the island became more widely known through picture albums , engravings and travel books . |
14 | She 'd like to see a key worker allocated to each patient and families made more fully informed about treatment . |
15 | He made no sketches in advance but got straight down to work with pencil and ruler , drawing the outline before filling in with emulsion paint . |
16 | The biggest of the children , a girl with a sweet , oval face and a stout stomach that strained the buttons of her green print dress , handed the baby she was carrying to a smaller sister and stepped eagerly forward to stand beside Martha . |
17 | I should apologize for canned soup , but I spent so long talking to Stanley this morning |
18 | He glanced quickly across to check on Delaney and Nell , and was turning his attention back to the others , when he frowned . |
19 | ‘ Homme qui tombe ’ a rare bronze by Giacometti from the collection of Richard and Dorothy Rodgers , which passed through London dealer Thomas Gibson 's hands in 1987 at $750,000 , sold far above estimate for $1.35 million ( £900,000 ) . |
20 | It needed too much spent on repairs , and the stock was old-fashioned and out-of-date . |
21 | Acutely aware of the sensitivities of his players and the pressures they faced , Chapman 's long-standing hatred of barracking from the crowd became even more pronounced at Arsenal . |
22 | The dividing line became even more blurred in December 1987 , when the Commercial Division of the High Court , in the landmark case of Kleinwort Benson Limited v. |
23 | He managed furthermore discreetly to put into circulation the audacious proposal that he should be the first Governor-General of the two independent states . |
24 | Around me , as the pirates and Famlio stared at Gharr , the atmosphere grew so much charged with fury and tension that it almost crackled , like a defective energy field . |
25 | Christie , so adept at getting the aid of Administration for his own business , knew exactly where to look for help , and approached Lord Ilay through his deputy , Lord Milton , and without any attempt to bargain simply asked for an appointment for his son , promising that it would ‘ forever laye me under the deepest obligationes ’ . |
26 | Felt like not going to school I can tell you . |
27 | It seems that even the 081/071 switch-over went seamlessly well owing to Richard and his expert ease as writer/director . |
28 | They went straight in to land at Luqa , but as they approached saw bombs bursting on the runway — they had arrived in the middle of a raid ! |
29 | On tries the cherry and whites won by three to one … they looked sharp enough moving into attack … and looked good enough for victory … they even took the lead midway through the first half … with a well worked and well taken try by Tim Smith … |
30 | We felt strongly enough to go with people who trusted us . |