Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst updating the successful Mark 1 Flagship unit at Vogue warehouse , Eddie 's case produced even more tools . |
| 2 | Stewart became still more of a national hero when he represented Australia at rowing in the Melbourne Olympics . |
| 3 | The computer made slightly fewer incorrect diagnoses than its human rivals , although it did less well in making firm diagnoses . |
| 4 | A SWEET-TALKING phone call from film superstar Paul Newman wiped out any worries Nigel Mansell had about switching to killer-car Indy racing in America after quitting Formula One . |
| 5 | When they got back to the flat , Mum emptied out all the vegetables and fruit and Pete took the box to his room . |
| 6 | To the Marxist historian Michael Chanan the halls were merely ‘ tools of commercial exploitation ’ but a more balanced view would rely on an appreciation of the way in which ‘ live ’ variety revealed as much about showmen as it did about ‘ humanity at large ’ . |
| 7 | A £48m. scheme to turn a derelict loop of the Tees into a huge water park got underway this week . |
| 8 | There the city 's builders laid out all the streets , the ceremonial centres and most of the other buildings along a precise rectangular grid aligned with the main ceremonial road known as the Avenue of the Dead , which archaeologists have discovered , was oriented 15–5o east of north . |
| 9 | However , the 1990 report of the Data and Facilities Working Group of the UK Inter-Agency Committee on Global Environmental Change argued strongly that planning for the dissemination and maintenance of such data was a vital role . |
| 10 | Four of the junctions were chosen as low risk and four as high risk on the basis of the mean ratings given to that junction in Study 2 ( the mean subjective risk rating averaged over all six exemplars of the junction ) . |
| 11 | Thus the problems in the division became yet another battleground between the civilian government and the military . |
| 12 | In 1990 , ICI produced nearly half of the global output of the most common halon gas . |
| 13 | In 1868 Valuev admitted as much . |
| 14 | But during the 1980S these policies and plans made fairly little progress . |
| 15 | In the 1930s , they earned enough to make payments on their debentures and , usually , on their preference shares , though ordinary shareholders got very little . |
| 16 | Quite often these royal summit meetings produced as little as their much-vaunted 20th-century counterparts , but , like them , they did at least keep open channels of communication . |
| 17 | Patients in both treatment groups made significantly less attempts after treatment than in the two years before the study , but the lack of an untreated control group means that the efficacy of the treatments in preventing further attempts remains open to question . |
| 18 | I have been trying to draw attention away from the great cities , which were quite uncharacteristic of the scene in our centuries , and to focus on the small or middling sort ; and here we meet the doctrine so brilliantly established in recent decades by Philip Jones : that the Italian cities were essentially market towns in origin , in which nobles and knights and farmers and peasants had a common interest ; very often the knights lived as much in the towns as in their country fortresses or castles . |
| 19 | She 'd sit in her dressing-gown by the window and try to listen for the electric trams on the distant street , anything to give some kind of shape or structure to her day , but the noise made even this impossible . |
| 20 | The infant , cradled in Miriam 's arms , began to cry , but so feebly that its noise made hardly any impression on the expanse of open air . |
| 21 | The transporters are designed to withstand accidents and until recently the Govenrment ruled out any possibility of a radioactive leak . |
| 22 | Two days later , on 13 May , shortly before a Christian democrat by the name of Pierre Pflimlin made yet another attempt — as it turned out , successful — to win a vote of confidence in the National Assembly in Paris , a crowd took over the main government building in Algiers . |
| 23 | The problem is how to preserve its advantages while giving the institutions concerned as much freedom of manoeuvre as possible . |
| 24 | The Italian driver quit later that year , after five seasons with the team . |
| 25 | And no storm made that much noise . |
| 26 | The divisional controllers themselves complained that this compromised their own line of authority within the division , and they generally harboured a strong feeling that headquarters interfered too much in the design of new stations . |
| 27 | The chipped face of the Virgin , newly gaudy for Easter with pink and blue paint , stares detachedly through Sister Martha : close half-sleeves to the elbow under the wide sleeves of her habit , kneelength stockings , large loose knickers doled out that morning from the heap in the laundry basket , lumpy sanitary towel strapped like a dead rabbit between her legs . |
| 28 | From there the SAS returned to Kabrit , where Stirling found much that was not to his liking . |
| 29 | The final result was a joint paper by Penrose and myself in 1970 , which at last proved that there must have been a big bang singularity provided only that general relativity is correct and the universe contains as much matter as we observe . |
| 30 | The decision came as the EEC dithered again this week over whether to impose an import ban on seal products . |