Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Home Office , he impressed opponents and civil servants alike by the way he piloted intensely complex Bills through Parliament . |
| 2 | Despite cutting back the undergrowth to keep routes open , footpads and other outlaws haunted most lonely stretches of road . |
| 3 | When he was Prime Minister he made little personal impact on television , bared his teeth at the cameras like an old dog , and was generally aloof and buffer-like . |
| 4 | Like the multiculturalist project of reducing prejudice by teaching about other cultures , the antiracist project of providing superior explanations for unemployment , housing shortages , and so forth , has so far , and for similar reasons , produced only patchy evidence of success . |
| 5 | The anecdotes and examples chosen to add colour to strictly academic material revealed highly sexist ideas about history , the pupils ' homes or their own knowledge or interests . |
| 6 | The consensus on full employment lasted as long as measures to achieve full employment involved only marginal changes to society . |
| 7 | However , it is possible that the ratio of hidden to known use provided by Method 4 is nearer to the true ratio than the others because , although it involved less accurate determination of identity codes , the larger numbers of nominees involved may dilute the effect of extreme cases . |
| 8 | You will remember that I said that the general principles I proposed still left room for discretion and interpretation . |
| 9 | Although there are now trains which can travel in excess of 200 mph , supersonic planes which take passengers across the Atlantic in three hours , and spacecraft which can carry passengers at fifteen times the speed of sound , our ancestors used more stylish forms of transport . |
| 10 | The French built surprisingly modest stations in North Africa . |
| 11 | He said the study found surprisingly high levels of discontent with body weight and shape in pre-adolescent girls and boys . |
| 12 | 1975a ; 1975b ) found markedly differing rates of behaviour problems and reading difficulties between one primary school and another . |
| 13 | Glaxo rightly points out that Astra used very high levels of ranitidine , several hundred times the normal human intake and far greater than the doses of omeprazole Astra fed to rats . |
| 14 | In a joint statement , Councillor Gregory Campbell and Bill Irwin of the DUP said : ‘ The Child Poverty Action Group in Londonderry recently completed a survey of a number of estates , on of which was the Caw area , where they found very high incidences of deprivation . |
| 15 | Not only were the surroundings very different from Rustenburg , but the climate , too , in spite of being not many miles removed ; its elevation caused bitterly cold winters in contrast to the hot summers . |
| 16 | Editor , — R H V Jones and colleagues in their follow up study of cancer deaths at home comment that patients ' pain was relieved more effectively than any of the other symptoms , But of the 207 patients in the study , 42 received only moderate relief of pain — and eight had no relief of pain in their final month of life . |
| 17 | These pressures notwithstanding , the neighbouring republics of Estonia and Latvia adopted more cautiously-worded declarations of independence on 30 March and 4 May respectively . |
| 18 | Once that commitment became public , the non-government press mounted quite unprecedented pressure for reform in a whole range of different fields . |
| 19 | Admittedly the heavy industry which was so characteristic of our period was much larger , and tended to develop concentrations of capital which controlled entire cities and even regions , and mobilised unusually vast armies of labour under its command . |
| 20 | These developments prevented newly accumulated means of production from being starved of labour . |
| 21 | The Army seemed very small fry in comparison . |
| 22 | Doctors and other health workers , who went to work in the zones controlled by the FMLN during the civil war , learnt very effective forms of treatment from the peasants they worked with . |
| 23 | Keogan et al studied 2017 patients referred for chest radiography and recommended more selective use of chest radiography through the application of selection guidelines . |
| 24 | The general response from those who did attend courses was , however , overwhelmingly positive and , as well as comments relating to the subject matter itself , a significant number of participants made more general comments of support , such as : — |
| 25 | On day 6 the ileostomy became dusky red and biopsy revealed early cellular rejection without loss of epithelium . |
| 26 | Audience sizes were fairly steady from day to day ; people tended to avoid demanding programmes ; they did not worry about missing episodes of a serial or series ; they often showed rather moderate levels of attention and appreciation . |
| 27 | This proportion showed remarkably little variation with age . |
| 28 | Though delighting to read in Blackwood 's of the exploits of imperial heroes , the educated British public showed little personal inclination for service in the assorted white men 's graves which made up the tropical dependencies . |
| 29 | He had drunk over a bottle and a half already but showed little outward sign of over-consumption , except for his accent curdling into a thicker Scots . |
| 30 | : Mmd The detective work done by the Harwell scientists showed hitherto unsuspected dangers from radon . |