Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For so many gifted writers of the Soviet period , this became both liberation and vocation — with all the narrowness the latter term implies . |
| 2 | This drew together evidence from sociological research and from official sources on inequalities in health in the 1980s , and on the progress ( or lack of it ) made on the policy recommendations of the Black Report . |
| 3 | This built up finance , but , perhaps more importantly , built up in the community a knowledge of the organisation and about deafness . |
| 4 | While not seeking to whitewash General Noriega , he asked : ‘ Where is the guarantee that under some trumped up pretext … the US would not send [ forces elsewhere ] to justify their arguments are right ? ’ |
| 5 | There was some trumped up nonsense about false expenses claims , but everyone knew the real reason . ’ |
| 6 | For Janacek , this deserved only contempt : ‘ Today 's opera … |
| 7 | This handed over responsibility for the poor law from the boards of guardians to the local authorities . |
| 8 | There were differences between the trials : some included only stage IV NSCLC whereas others also included stage III B ; the eligibility criteria varied ( age , presence of brain metastasis , previous chest radiotherapy ) ; and different chemotherapy regimens were used , although a vindesine ( or vinblastine ) and cisplatin regimen was used in 4 trials . |
| 9 | And you come over this hill and suddenly there 's nothing on the other side except a huge hole in the ground , and the road goes along almost a cliff edge the side of this erm hole which is this worked out iron ore quarry . |
| 10 | This needed more thought . |
| 11 | Even more widespread was extra spending by carers on items and services which were needed by the disabled or elderly person , but which were not covered by the financial contribution which the latter made to the household budget ( even when this included both retirement or invalidity pensions and disability benefits ) . |
| 12 | This sorted out staffing for the office Diane ? |
| 13 | He that in Obedience to this Command of God , subdued , tilled and sowed any part of it , thereby annexed to it something that was his Property , which another had not Title to , nor could without injury take from him . |
| 14 | This sparked off talk of a tunnel leading to Burghley House where a mythical monastery founded in 1158 by William Waterville was supposed to have stood ( this monastery is still cited in the Burghley House guide book ) . |
| 15 | The following year Universal closed up shop and MGM shuttered its Borehamwood Studios , disgracefully leaving Fred Zinneman to look after the bills for a cancelled production of André Malraux 's Man 's Fate . |
| 16 | This picked up language used in earlier Hague Conventions ; given the establishment of the Central Authority system , this provision seemed to have little point , as the Rapporteur himself admitted . |
| 17 | Chapter 2 considered how shareholder passivity in large public companies with widely dispersed shareholdings creates the possibility that managers will pursue self-interested ends , divergent from the goal of profit maximisation . |
| 18 | If you 're in-between styles , this swept back look is ideal . |
| 19 | That dried up river-bed , which was out of sight over the ridge and down a thousand feet of shingle , was rich with palm-trees , and with villages . |
| 20 | Indeed , in a recent independent survey by a leading German University , the Esslingen Technical College , of over 20 selected brands of tennis rackets , in which the aim was to establish which racket had the best vibration dampening properties , the Protagon TM 500 came out top . |
| 21 | Out of the strong came forth sweetness |
| 22 | Nineteen owned only evening papers . |
| 23 | In 1988 , with over 2.5 million unemployed claimants , 504,142 drew unemployment only , while 1.3 million were totally dependent upon income support and a further 131,000 drew both unemployment benefit and income support . |
| 24 | Feminists in the 60s and 70s deconstructed out culture to find their way and called for a non-hierarchical theory . |
| 25 | Taking the more favourable contracted out rate the employee 's National Insurance contribution is 2% up on the lower earnings limit of £2,704 and 7% up on the difference between the lower earnings limit and the upper earnings limit of £20,280 . |
| 26 | The first phone was broken and the second took only phone cards . |
| 27 | They had certain tricks and devices by which they avenged themselves on the interlopers , but these took up time and energy and , since they were young and inexperienced , frequently rebounded on themselves , although Sam , by dint of great perseverance and the manifestation of genuine hatred , had recently succeeded in ridding her home of her mother 's latest lover . |
| 28 | One of these had also hypergastrinaemia . |
| 29 | The first four of these had mainly family farms and the pattern was understandable but the Wester Ross response was more difficult to explain . |
| 30 | Although Alex Salmond was chided by party activists during the march , the turnout of around 5,000 buoyed up party managers who had been fearful of low attendance after the MPs ' decision to vote with the Government last Monday night in the Commons in exchange for party representation on the Committee of the Regions . |