Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [vb past] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some slowly became alcoholics . |
| 2 | It would have been a very unnecessary aggravation of his difficulties to have two different mutually excommunicated popes in lands which he intended to unite once more . |
| 3 | Majority more than over half just got passes . |
| 4 | King penguins were nesting on the hare ground a short walk from our landing beach , and while some still had eggs ( which are hatched on top of the feet under a fold of skin on the belly ) , others already had young , some of whom had developed brown down which made them look like teddy bears ! |
| 5 | Some still threw buckets of snow into the small flames that lived . |
| 6 | Many of us share some deeply felt worries about what will happen under the current procedures until the changeover takes place in 1993 . |
| 7 | A modern commentator ( West 1967 ) writes , concerning a few hesitantly sketched lines of his own , " This is one man 's Horace and so delicate in the Latin that it protests at being made explicit . " |
| 8 | Although the teacher may well have introduced this later , and indeed CDL trials did show evidence of this , we decided to include some carefully graded illustrations in the documentation that take the teacher through the type of discussion we would like to see the children taking part in . |
| 9 | The first was a mistake which , all politicians will tell you , is easily made and relatively simple to correct with a few carefully worded statements and some abuse of the media . |
| 10 | Once a newly proposed bold theory has succeeded in ousting its rival , then it in turn becomes a new target at which stringent tests should be directed , tests devised with the aid of further boldly conjectured theories . |
| 11 | When CRP is added , three protected patches each 3–4 nucleotides long and separated by 5–6 efficiently cleaved nucleotides are observed in both CRP sites ( Fig. 4 , lanes 3 and 8 ) . |
| 12 | But this often took years to achieve , and in the case of Friern and Claybury , the whole process was being telescoped into a period of months . |
| 13 | Then the dim increasingly blotted memories of different doors , different faces peering , being naked , shaved , enemaed , injected , while it went on hurting her repeatedly , relentlessly . |
| 14 | These cottage front doors were never used — some even had rows of flowerpots across the sill as a deterrent — and Anna had to go round to the back to find a resting place for the magazine . |
| 15 | Some even had photographs of it on their walls . |
| 16 | Answering ‘ yes ’ to the second question means accepting some well tried principles of communication : |
| 17 | ‘ Dark Heaven ’ , however , is the real ear-opener : a genuinely affecting and infectious tale of romantic doom with a wiry , wired chorus and some neatly tapered strings . |
| 18 | Some newly discovered thelodonts suggest that , at least some , were markedly compressed laterally . |
| 19 | Classically these crimes have been seen as a result of a few mentally deranged men . |
| 20 | Thus we see in sociology two strikingly different analyses of crimes of violence against women : one in which they are the infrequent consequence of a few mentally deranged men ( which is supported by the low incidence of such crimes in the criminal statistics ) ; and one in which they are an institutionalized set of practices which are part of an overarching system of gender inequality ( in which the low number of convictions for such crimes is merely evidence of the state 's collusion ) . |
| 21 | There are six slightly noded arms . |
| 22 | The six carefully graded stages take students from elementary to advanced level . |
| 23 | During the 1930s the world had seen considerable political and military changes , already the dictators of Europe were making territorial gains , and the Japanese also had designs on mainland Asia , invading Manchuria and waging a savage war on China . |
| 24 | Gundulić also wrote dramas , masques and pastorals . |
| 25 | This father of a three-year-old also said parents should control what their children watched — as he did . |
| 26 | As a matter of good practice , not least because such matters will often touch on the ability of a partner to devote his full time and attention to the firm , full disclosure should always be made of such privately remunerated activities , whether or not the profits therefrom are strictly due to be brought into account . |
| 27 | Behind him , the path runs down into a fold of land that once had allotments . |
| 28 | These eventually became fins . |
| 29 | ‘ What does it mean ? ’ one of these exquisitely saried ladies asked with a slight transatlantic drawl , ‘ surely in this day and age we all work . |
| 30 | All these finely crafted jewels are the subject of a beautifully illustrated book , Artists ' Jewellery , Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts , by Geoffrey Munn and Charlotte Gere . |