Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most highly esteemed in Britain occurs in lumpy masses in the shale beds of the Upper Lias in north-east Yorkshire , but lower grades which were also used in prehistoric times occur in the Lower Lias of Dorset , Somerset , Gloucestershire and Shropshire . |
| 2 | Among these are its smoothness and coolness to the touch , a degree of translucency , and colours ranging from the white most highly esteemed by the Chinese to the various shades of green , yellow , orange , red , blue , mauve and black imparted by mineral components . |
| 3 | On one occasion a friend of mine , resplendent in new sports jacket and flannels , rather unwisely walked across the diagonal market path . |
| 4 | When it seemed he was running out of support , Jason Little suddenly appeared inside him to take the scoring pass . |
| 5 | I rather foolishly ran round the Staffordshire moors on Saturday with the perhaps to be disbanded 5th Battalion Light Infantry from Shrewsbury and caught a heavy cold . |
| 6 | Sir : Shabbir Akhtar ( 10 October ) himself makes what he might call a pardonable error in thinking that to liberals — genuine ones , not the compromisers so regretfully limned in John Torode 's article ( 3 October ) - freedom of speech is an absolute value . |
| 7 | Leathery tans long since fell from favour , but a healthy glow is still considered the picture of vitality . |
| 8 | Our parents long since disappeared into the vacuum of the war . |
| 9 | Fume cupboards for those working with gases and solvents only slowly came into laboratories . |
| 10 | Nevertheless Allied airpower was probably the decisive element in determining the outcome of the war , with Iraq 's aircraft so effectively neutralized in the opening stages as to be seldom a factor at all . |
| 11 | For example , we apparently only came to some understanding of how the heart worked when we had within our conceptual framework the notion of a pump . |
| 12 | and with a broken heart they dive down gently headed for the earth |
| 13 | Although the subject was something not discussed , almost everyone in the road had at one time or another been confided in and had helped Mrs Browning as far as they could , although she seemed to feel she should not worry any particular neighbour too much so went from one to another , as it were in turn . |
| 14 | Perhaps the only thing to do is to make her dance as Elizabeth von Rosen so memorably did for the Royal Danish Ballet decades ago . |
| 15 | He was , it seems , interested in the prolongation of life ; but the picture of the sheer gloom of human existence expressed in " De Contemptu " — which apparently so appealed to contemporaries — does little to enthral the modern reader . |
| 16 | He had seemed to sniff at the opened envelope as though it carried some scent , but the letter inside only peeped from the teat and was not taken out . |
| 17 | Miss Baye somewhat defensively said of ‘ Lies ’ that ‘ AIDS is a subject like any other . ’ |
| 18 | Depression clamped itself round Melissa 's head and shoulders and the meal she had enjoyed so much lay like a stone in her stomach as she drove home . |
| 19 | He ignites the imagination , nevertheless , with glancing observations of Skye ‘ … so much indented by inlets of the Sea , that there is no part of it removed from the water by more than six miles ’ . |
| 20 | The next morning , after I had drunk some coffee and sat for an hour with the first suggestions of boredom stirring inside me , the Feldwebel who had enjoyed the ride in the Mercedes so much came to the door . |
| 21 | ‘ I can hardly believe so much came from just two schools — I hate to think what is lying in basements around the country , ’ Alistair said . |
| 22 | But here again the knowledge is so practical , so much preconditioned by behaviour , that it can be taught and is taught mainly by doing what they are told to do on particular occasions and by not being allowed to do or to touch certain things that are always within their experience . |
| 23 | Marshall has n't so much tampered with Aotearoa education as launched a phalanx of studies and reviews which are now landing with thuds . |
| 24 | An amoral man applying a fixed morality to others might not have hoped for the success Surere had had ; but now , with so much ranged against him , in a world so different from the one he had lorded it in , Huy wondered how he would get on . |
| 25 | But afterward that Royall and princelie pleasure being not so much esteemed by the late King Edward the Sixt ( by reason of his minoritie ) and by the two succeeding Queenes ( by reason of their sexe ) , the lesse care of the due execucon of the forest lawes consequentlie ensued , and the keeping of the Courts of Swainmote and justice Seate i.e. , the Forest Eyre became almost totallie neglected and disused ; whereof the inhabitants of the said fforest … taking advantage , did by degrees , especiallie towards the end of the raigne of the late Queene Elizabethe , encroach upon the said fforest lawes by commoning with sheepe . |
| 26 | Er in fact it was put to me as as an option by Superintendent that this could be , if this could be done er at the time er if I recall one of the reasons erm that we were n't able to do it in such a way was that there are numerous exits to the block of flats and each exit would have had to be covered by at least two armed officers we only only had in the region of twenty five officers available to us at that time in the police who were authorised to be armed and to maintain such a surveillance , erm not only would be very costly in the terms of the number of officers . |
| 27 | Europe has a destiny to fulfil , and in years to come it will become apparent that the best Europe is one which rejects interventionist mediocrity in favour of a European Community which will deliver the promise of a higher standard of living and political pre-eminence so justly deserved by all Europeans . |
| 28 | Certainly she found him so , despite what he so obviously thought of her , and as the kiss deepened she felt sleepy and warm and pliant — the nicest thing ever to have happened — and then bereft when he broke the gentle exploration . |
| 29 | She sent a few dogs to Ireland and , after the war , attempts to track them down only resulted in letters being sent back marked ‘ gone away ’ . |
| 30 | The proportion of retired skilled workers who did so prematurely fell between these two at 79 per cent . |