Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nominally they retained their autonomous status , but their provincial assemblies effectively became mere rubber-stamp bodies , and the powers of their provincial governments and judiciary were drastically curtailed . |
| 2 | Edward 's manipulation of the wool trade for his financial advantage intensified the divisions between the small group of wealthy merchants who stood to benefit from Edward 's schemes and the lesser merchants who eventually made common cause with the producers in opposing the monopolistic structure that Edward tried to create . |
| 3 | The perpetual spring Schorne had divined for his parish in time of drought came replete with gypsum , Epsom salts , and carbonic acid , and thereby lent considerable support to his posthumous reputation , principally as a healer of rheumatic and eye afflictions , but with an occasional talent in respect of dead oxen , the drowned , and the consolation of ‘ wretched , lonely boys ’ . |
| 4 | Music business lawyer John Kennedy ( who successfully fought similar Stone Roses and Frankie Goes To Hollywood cases ) has been enlisted by Michael for his tussle with the corporate giant . |
| 5 | His third son , Theodore , eventually became technical head of London Transport ; Ernest , the second son , trained to become an art teacher but spent most of his life in industrial design and advertising ; the poet , too , possessed strong , capable , craftsman 's hands and the poet 's daughter , Myfanwy , still treasures many examples of her father 's skill as a carpenter and metal worker . |
| 6 | Although he remained as chairman of the Council of Ministers his influence waned compared to that of Brezhnev , who eventually became formal head of state in addition to party secretary . |
| 7 | In 1854 the Revd Andrew Reed [ q.v. ] , a friend of Little 's , established the Royal Hospital for Incurables , and Little became medical examiner and a member of the governing board . |
| 8 | He rather distrusted Gallic logic . |
| 9 | Hesitation slowly became determined silence ; the line of her mouth tightened . |
| 10 | Most eventually got honorary Lifetime Achievement Awards — alias the ‘ Whoops , sorry , we forgot you ’ Oscars , or even ‘ Whoops , sorry , we did n't know you were still around ’ , as happened to Sophia Loren in January , thirty years after she won Best Actress for Two Women . |
| 11 | They did n't believe in selling endowments , they only sold whole life you see ? |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Incidentally , he was n't known as Chief Education Officer , he was Secretary for Education , he only became Chief Education Officer after the war but erm he was the Controller of Shift E and most of the education staff were on Shift E. |
| 15 | Prisoners at Gloucester apparently became bored translating school textbooks — now they 've been switched to teenage adventure stories — to the delight of the pupils . |
| 16 | He was interrupted in dressing by a knock at the door , and opened it to a man he recognised , one of Taheb 's body servants , an Assyrian who despite years in the Black Land still wore a long oiled black beard in ringlets . |
| 17 | Modernism is described to us with references to a neat sequence of male coteries who obviously made full use of the opportunity for dialogue and debate . |
| 18 | We may have been led to finding those four paragraphs because they are , in fact , the divisions which actually appear in the original and we merely sought additional evidence to support the way the author had divided up his discourse . |
| 19 | For the next three minutes they experienced sensations that only requited sexual lust can bring . |
| 20 | Six-hourly subcutaneous injections of highly purified short-acting insulin usually meet the requirements and are continued for one or two days before the final transition is made to the patient 's customary insulin regimen . |
| 21 | The antibody to γ-interferon was raised to highly purified natural human γ-interferon and had a neutralising titre against γ-interferon of 1:10000 but had no detectable activity against human alpha or beta interferons . |
| 22 | All of these imports from the UK not only sired good stock but also gained their New Zealand Championships . |
| 23 | They constantly used interventionist language , but this often involved little more than a legislative declaration in favour of good , and they relied to an extraordinary degree on individual and voluntary effort . |
| 24 | He , in turn , said it was not ; he merely regarded national service as a waste of time . |
| 25 | THOSE who fondly believed British tennis could get no worse have again been proved wrong . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , he attempted to settle the continuing conflict between Henry the Lion and his numerous opponents , which so weakened German unity . |
| 27 | At Etna , highly vesiculated basaltic magma is usually erupted , so magma vesiculation before eruption is a plausible explanation of the gravity decrease . |
| 28 | Exploratory statistics might reasonably be described as highly systematized common sense . |
| 29 | THE ABSURDLY lenient sentence given to Frederic Blancke , the French hospital worker who brutally murdered British school teacher Fiona Jones , is a travesty of justice . |
| 30 | Omitting to tell his wife , he personally assumed financial responsibility for up to £11,000 and it was not until the house arrived at Wembley in March 1924 that he recovered the £6,300 that he had spent , and finally admitted to Lady Emily that he had been ‘ rather fearful of death before repayment as it would have hit me badly ! ’ |