Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ergonomic studies cost per unit of energy applied manually significantly exceeds other energy costs with chemical energy being the most cost-effective . |
| 2 | With the profits from their books they made enough finally to buy Old Vicarage Farm , with four others , as an organic co-operative , in 1987 . |
| 3 | In one long experiment a woman and bottlenose dolphin lived together constantly fur several months . |
| 4 | If errors occurred only within Delete Old Modules , the safe copies of the database files should be restored to the process directory and the LIFESPAN system may be restarted — it will be in its previous state , and it should be possible for work on the system to continue . |
| 5 | We do not yet know much about this but the brain is so powerful and complex that it is very unlikely that any of the analyses proposed so far bear much resemblance to this reality ; they are too heavily influenced by the theoretician 's preoccupation with economy , elegance and simplicity . |
| 6 | After a few seconds , he moved just enough to let one eye and a frowning eyebrow show . |
| 7 | The hat becomes limp and shapeless , and most girls tried quite desperately to avoid this mishap . |
| 8 | The new NVQ training and assessment programme that we mentioned earlier also holds great promise for expanding the career advancement opportunities for paraprofessionals in Britain . |
| 9 | In the late 1980s two meta-analyses reported significantly lower pooled odd ratios for cardiovascular death ( 0.75 and 0.78 ) . |
| 10 | However , such is the current power and purpose of a team who 'd only ever won four times before the start of this season , that nothing less than victory will do to complete a remarkable transformation from perennial under-achievers to Championship top dogs . |
| 11 | but she 'd already partially answered that question by saying , |
| 12 | Nigel said ‘ Your place or mine ? ’ when they 'd both duly impressed each other with lies . |
| 13 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |
| 14 | Until now I 'd never consciously posed that choice to myself . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , ’ Kolchinsky replied bluntly then took another cigarette from the packet on the desk and lit it . |
| 16 | The Open champion arrived early specifically to play nearby Pine Valley and he said : ‘ I played the par three course there twice on Thursday , which was great . |
| 17 | We climbed far enough to find some specimens of the Mount Cook lily ( which is n't a lily at all , but a giant buttercup found only at altitude in this part of the South Island ) , and while the others rested I went across to investigate a steep track up a snow-filled gully . |
| 18 | Despite this the two parties began almost immediately to undertake joint campaigns . |
| 19 | Across much of Republican Spain , established authority collapsed as often suspect local councils and police were swept aside by armed villagers and trade unionists . |
| 20 | Tolkien did right normally to avoid such allusions , to keep like the author of Beowulf to a middle path between Ingeld and Christ , between the Bible and pagan myth . |
| 21 | When Lyle won the Masters in 1988 , he did so immediately following another victory at Greensboro . |
| 22 | When Lyle won the Masters in 1988 , he did so immediately following another victory at Greensboro . |
| 23 | He took two wickets in each innings and did well enough to merit further matches . |
| 24 | Sharp was unable to name specifically the brands which had most successfully taken this approach , but confirmed the list was dominated by the large US multinationals such as Ford and Coca-Cola . |
| 25 | Their style of life was not much different from the ordinary Zuwaya : they had perhaps recently acquired better housing , but the new villas were not segregated ; food was no more generous , nor more delicate in a rich man 's house ; schooling and medical treatment were uniform . |
| 26 | In addition to the Tokyo Shinkin case , three large city banks — Fuji , Kyowa-Saitama and Tokai — had all recently admitted similar incidents involving members of their staff [ see p. 38342 ] . |
| 27 | To interrupt at such a time would be selfish and babyish — which I had only just promised Heavenly Father not to be . |
| 28 | ‘ Joan , when I departed for Ludlow , it was with a heavy heart — for it seemed to me we had only just found each other , ’ Edward told her . |
| 29 | Responding to the call , the Black Prince raised a force , and , in the early spring of 1367 , crossed into northern Spain through Navarre , whose king , Charles , had only recently received English help in Normandy . |
| 30 | She had only ever loved one man — and tomorrow the barrier that stood between them would finally be removed , when Anna married another . |