Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , that only happened in films . |
| 2 | That only happened in fairy-tales . |
| 3 | This rarely happened in the World Cup , even when a minnow played against a giant . |
| 4 | Again like Crowther , it strongly recommended the raising of the school leaving age to 16 [ this eventually happened in 1972 ] and the provision of a more stimulating and demanding curriculum so that pupils had a wider choice of courses , including some ‘ broadly related to occupational interests ’ , and others concerned with personal and social development , and ‘ imaginative experience through the arts ’ . |
| 5 | But the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent development of Soviet society produced an emphasis upon another strand in Marxist thought about the transition to socialism ( one which had not hitherto been given much prominence ) involving the idea of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ; and in the specific conditions prevailing in Russia , which differed entirely from those in Western Europe , this soon evolved in practice into the dictatorship of the Bolshevik party , then the dictatorship of the party 's central committee , and finally the dictatorship of a single individual . |
| 6 | All of this finally resulted in ’ Maus ’ , his book-length comic strip version of the Holocaust in which pigs stand in for Nazis and mice for Jews . |
| 7 | Another doggedly persisted in identification along the lines of ‘ … it looks a bit like an animal … four footed — the shape — the middle … |
| 8 | This generally resulted in processes by which companies tried |
| 9 | Some just stayed in London The " Owl and the Pussycat " rowed up Regent 's Canal in a donated boat while the " Quaffing Quartet " completed the monopoly board of London , mainly on foot , and " Bridge the Gap " rode tandems across 20 London bridges . |
| 10 | Most speakers did this , but some still persisted in reading from a prepared script without raising their heads from the lectern . |
| 11 | To this More replied in a confutation of 500,000 words in which Tyndale was no longer described simply as a heretic but as ‘ a beast ’ discharging ‘ a filthy form of blasphemies out of his beastly brutish mouth , a shameful , shameless , unreasonable , railing ribald ’ . |
| 12 | This quickly emerged in the shape of Acciòn Nacional , founded in late April 1931 as an ‘ electoral organization to bring together the elements of order ’ . |
| 13 | This also fitted in extremely well with the ( then newly launched ) Macintosh and happened to fit even more perfectly with Adobe 's PostScript language and Apple 's LaserWriter printer . |
| 14 | This also resulted in a slight decrease in the number of word paths , but often resulted in the loss of the correct word . |
| 15 | An atypical presentation may contribute to a diagnostic delay , although this also occurred in patients with more specific symptoms . |
| 16 | The pattern at sea level shown in Figure 2 also persisted in the upper atmosphere , with a high pressure ridge helping to steer cyclones along trajectories much further south than usual . |
| 17 | This now emerged in lectures and papers given to a variety of audiences , including doctors , teachers , social workers , and other members of the helping professions , as well as analysts . |
| 18 | This originally stood in Warwick Lane , east London , and abutted on to the eastern side of Newgate Prison . |
| 19 | It 's not quite as thick as it was the other day when it was just er constant , whereas this really went in patches . |
| 20 | In practice , of course , this often resulted in one or two women talking too much in a meeting , ‘ dominating ’ , it was called . |
| 21 | Penguins at Birdland are used to being the centre of attraction , some even starred in the last Batman movie . |
| 22 | The bloodiest massacres were on Aug. 3 , when 140 reportedly died in attacks at two mosques in Kattankudy ; on Aug. 6 , when 58 bodies were recovered after two incidents ; and on Aug. 11-12 , when 100-170 were reported killed at Eravur in the Batticaloa region . |
| 23 | This initially resulted in the charge of murder being changed to attempted murder , with Professor Usher reluctantly forced to admit that his initial examination was inconclusive . |
| 24 | The key to this undoubtedly lay in the attraction to the RUC of the idea of research on how routine policing is affected by Northern Ireland 's security situation , and the appeal of giving ordinary policemen and women an opportunity to express their views about policing . |
| 25 | ( Part of the reason for this undoubtedly lay in the fact that the foraging hominids of whom we are speaking were in part already pre-adapted to upright posture by an evolutionary past different to that of today 's gelada baboon and because they probably already possessed cerebral development going beyond that of a mere monkey thanks to their common ancestry with today 's great apes . ) |
| 26 | This occasionally resulted in amendments — more often it took the form of assurances from ministers about future intentions . |
| 27 | This certainly happened in the case of Moses and the Egyptian magicians ( Exodus 7:8f ) . |
| 28 | There is , of course , always a danger that , in industries with some monopoly power , an element of competition , far from being beneficial , will induce uneconomic cross-subsidisation to win business , and this certainly happened in some areas . |
| 29 | This actually happened in the case of Sir Edmond 's chantry at St. Thomas of Acre , and in fact the Mercers ' Company took on the responsibility . |
| 30 | Nothing much ever happened in Surrey Hills , and nobody batted an eyelid . |