Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the ‘ phoney war ’ ended and British aircraft were shot down in larger numbers , the camp became too small to hold all aircrew prisoners . |
| 2 | In practice classical elite theorists ' determinist belief in the inevitability of oligarchy became as total as Marx 's faith in the dialectical development of history towards communism . |
| 3 | In the context of changing national and international social and economic conditions , the maintenance of an inflexible , narrow political framework became increasingly untenable . |
| 4 | His sister became suddenly silent . |
| 5 | Whilst updating the successful Mark 1 Flagship unit at Vogue warehouse , Eddie 's case produced even more tools . |
| 6 | The convent became more open , family and friends came in to share meals and conversation . |
| 7 | ‘ I think money became too important . |
| 8 | Notable among these is the editio princeps of the Liber Physionomiae of Sir Michael Scott , the thirteenth-century Scottish philosopher and reputed wizard made more famous by the Lay of the Last Minstrel . |
| 9 | The computer made slightly fewer incorrect diagnoses than its human rivals , although it did less well in making firm diagnoses . |
| 10 | The increase in proliferative response became increasingly obvious at two weeks ( 1.43 v 0.20% ) and was still present at three weeks ( 0.88 v 0.35% ) . |
| 11 | His curly dark hair gleamed even darker and glossier against the backdrop of red geraniums . |
| 12 | Ones does not leave the cinema stuffed as full as a foie gras goose with patronizing , politically correct dogma . |
| 13 | When they got back to the flat , Mum emptied out all the vegetables and fruit and Pete took the box to his room . |
| 14 | But under Nicholas II , active discontent became increasingly evident among wide sections of society , both privileged and non-privileged . |
| 15 | Outbreaks of popular discontent became more frequent , but were no more effective than the great strike of 1977 . |
| 16 | As the secondary schools developed the discontent became more obvious . |
| 17 | It is merely that after the Glorious Revolution this element within Tory ideology became increasingly dominant , gradually supplanting the more absolutist tendency within Tory political thought . |
| 18 | In theory , parties were free to frame their own transactions , which could then be carried out without legal impediment ; in the event that a bargain fell through , or if one party balked or proved unable to perform , the law of contract made freely available the regular judicial processes of the court system , in which economic damages would be awarded to the party aggrieved . |
| 19 | Both the rates ( then the only locally determined tax , levied on property and based on the capitalization of rental values ) and fees and charges declined as a proportion of income , while grant became more important . |
| 20 | As the government squeezed the finances ever harder , British Rail became more efficient , and while even InterCity began by pruning 10 per cent of its mileage , at the end most of the sectors were more concerned about how to handle their increasing traffic . |
| 21 | To the Marxist historian Michael Chanan the halls were merely ‘ tools of commercial exploitation ’ but a more balanced view would rely on an appreciation of the way in which ‘ live ’ variety revealed as much about showmen as it did about ‘ humanity at large ’ . |
| 22 | But if the Dictionary 's coverage became seriously antiquated , the practitioners of these disciplines would be seriously disadvantaged . |
| 23 | A £48m. scheme to turn a derelict loop of the Tees into a huge water park got underway this week . |
| 24 | But when Which ? tested it in 1988 , the ‘ safety ’ stand got very hot in use and had no handle . |
| 25 | A fat , smelly old harridan with a stick became quite offensive when Damien attempted to thrust his way to his rightful position at the front of the queue . |
| 26 | He used to live in Thirsk but his mistress became too ill to look after him . |
| 27 | By the 1930s , as cinema became more popular , the Halls ' fortunes waned . |
| 28 | His skin clung very close to his skull . |
| 29 | However , the 1990 report of the Data and Facilities Working Group of the UK Inter-Agency Committee on Global Environmental Change argued strongly that planning for the dissemination and maintenance of such data was a vital role . |
| 30 | Four of the junctions were chosen as low risk and four as high risk on the basis of the mean ratings given to that junction in Study 2 ( the mean subjective risk rating averaged over all six exemplars of the junction ) . |