Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Steam sprinklers were introduced and on the first day of their operation , they successfully doused another fire that would have probably removed the remainder of the factory had it taken hold . |
| 32 | , Anna ( 1799–1871 ) , botanist , publisher , and photographic artist , was born 16 March 1799 in Tonbridge , Kent , the only child of John George Children , FRS , scientist [ q.v. ] , and his wife Hester Anne Holwell , whose death , probably due to the birth , eventually occurred twenty months later . |
| 33 | Many country parks offer ideal facilities with properly surfaced level paths , specially adapted toilets , accessible hides for birdwatching and special fishing platforms . |
| 34 | Stone only made 500,000 dollars for that and her previous film Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger . |
| 35 | Postage , stationery , fourteen O six raffle tickets , eleven pound , making a total of two thirty twenty six as against on the other side the income , three ninety six so we made a hundred and sixty six pound on on the open show which is a great increase on last year because last year we only made twelve pounds something twelve pound and a penny we made last year , so this is a great increase . |
| 36 | , The largest flying boat in the world only made one flight ( of about a mile in length at a height of about eighty feet ) , and until recently has been preserved within an aluminium-dome museum , close to the Queen Mary in Long Beach , California . |
| 37 | ‘ We applied relentless pressure but Tony Norman only made two saves . ’ |
| 38 | I first fell in love at the cinema — with Bella Darvi , a Czech film star who only made two films , Hell and High Water with Richard Widmark and The Egyptian with Edmond Purdom . |
| 39 | He reckoned that Biblical Christianity not only made more sense than any other religion or philosophy , but also it was the only one that had the power to produce real holiness of life in genuine believers . |
| 40 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 41 | Tom Ayliffe apparently operated another trow , used to transport Forest of Dean coal for the steam engine , from Bullo Pill . |
| 42 | At fourteen and sixteen years old , tall , well-built and strikingly similar in their strong bones and tawny colouring , Victoria and Alex naturally became temporary additions to the royal circle . |
| 43 | Martinho suddenly asked one afternoon . |
| 44 | The two-month period between finishing his Special-to-Theatre EOD course at the School of Ammunition and arriving in the Province suddenly became two days ' notice , due to a shortfall in EOD Operators . |
| 45 | With the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact , the Soviet invasion of Poland , and the unthinking acquiescence of the PCF leadership to Moscow throughout the entire series of events , Good and Evil suddenly became ill-defined concepts . |
| 46 | In 1947 it had an average daily circulation of 2 , 134,000 copies but in 1961 it only sold 1,394,000 copies . |
| 47 | Last year it only sold 5,500 houses in 12 months , but this year it has already sold 4,160 houses in the first five months . |
| 48 | and took over the mill and rationalised the business during the 50s and from then on we only sold branded products and compound feeds . |
| 49 | They did n't believe in selling endowments , they only sold whole life you see ? |
| 50 | Works entitled Constitutional Law cover a selection of laws that appear important to the author , together with important conventions and often a reduced version of the topics treated by institutionally oriented political scientists . |
| 51 | But , Miss Firbank said , the Charles tape , apparently made two weeks before the Diana call of December , 1989 , points to a far more serious relationship . |
| 52 | In 1904 Wolverton absorbed the Stony Stratford company ( No 7 ) and so became two companies strong . |
| 53 | Much over-played these days , on the other hand , is the Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez which turns up along with the Five Preludes for solo guitar by Villa-Lobos , and his lyrical Concerto for guitar and small orchestra ( . |
| 54 | He obviously expected some sort of reaction . |
| 55 | On the other hand action-scenes perhaps made more use than quiet ones of the partial concealment of figures by folds of ground . |
| 56 | Like the HMIs , I have more or less avoided this question so far , mainly by talking about ‘ curriculum managers ’ . |
| 57 | The standard book on crime in non-Western countries , published in 1973 , asserts that social changes in developing countries in the mid-twentieth century are similar to those which ‘ suddenly produced extensive crime a century or more ago in Europe . ’ |
| 58 | There is also evidence that not only gods and mythical figures were associated with dolphins and mounted their backs , but children apparently rode wild dolphins in just about every bay , harbour , and inlet of the ancient Mediterranean , and dolphins often befriended sailors and rescued people from the sea , carrying them safely to land . |
| 59 | Consequently , under these conditions the rate of chemical decomposition at the weathering front is minimal , an effect which is clearly evident in the typically very low concentrations of solutes recorded in streams draining highly leached deep weathering profiles in lowland humid tropical regions ( see Section 15.3 ) . |
| 60 | Some interesting pink Champagnes are made in this village which was once known for its long lived red wines . |