Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] a [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Now that sounded a little like ‘ Foreigners Go Home ! ’ |
2 | The hon. Gentleman and other hon. Gentlemen will know that those cases are still looked at fairly , but perhaps with the attitude that all the claimants were given a form and asked to sign their name at the bottom of the list , rather than submitted a carefully considered claim . |
3 | After they had eaten and sunbathed a little , they cleared everything away and moved to another hedge to pick more berries . |
4 | He entered the Ministry in 1862 and exercised a very popular ministry . |
5 | The names of these directors of change in your country alone are still recalled , novelists who seized on the great scientifico-social changes of their day and moulded a more sensitive appreciation of life to respond to it : Disraeli , Mrs Gaskell , the Brontë sisters , Charles Reade , George Meredith , Thomas Hardy , George Eliot , your friend Peacock , many others . |
6 | Such an equilibrium is stable ; that is , the price , if displaced a little from it , will tend to return , as a pendulum oscillates about its lowest point ; and it will be found to be a characteristic of stable equilibria that in them the demand price is greater than the supply price for amounts just less than the equilibrium amount , and vice versa . |
7 | As Britain became industrialized and urbanized a strictly local system of administration came under strain . |
8 | The record 's gone through a lot of transformations and taken a hellaciously long time to get done . ’ |
9 | Perhaps if he had worried less about them , and taken a less self-reproachful line , the outlines of his personality would have softened with the years . |
10 | ‘ We have tried to examine our down-side and taken a very prudent view of the problems we might get in the future , ’ he said . |
11 | What is crucial to this argument , if extended a little beyond Gombrich 's own assessment , is that the frame 's anonymous and modest presence belies its significance for the appreciation of the work of art . |
12 | Sadler , an astute businessman , did not proceed with the costly patent application , realizing that his process was safer if kept a closely guarded trade secret . |
13 | Here and there where the ground was more open near the lake-edge there were signs of cultivation as though someone with crude implements had scratched and dug a little to encourage nature , already prodigal , to do better still . |
14 | But Adolf of Cologne and his supporters , who disliked Philip even more than the young Frederick , had made a miscalculation and chosen a thoroughly bad lot . |
15 | Simon has drafted and circulated a very clear guide of his proposals , Jenny has prepared and Elizabeth can circulate three redrafts of the proposals for discussion , and Rita and Stella are not quite sure where you got to in terms of redrafting your procedures . |