Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We managed to salvage the Spotlight feature but my bloody notes had already been printed . |
| 2 | A BUS manager who was forced to give up a rural route said yesterday she was fed up with the whole business . |
| 3 | Junior creditors got just over half , and preference shareholders the rest — all at the expense of senior creditors . |
| 4 | Strong fingers clamped brutally around her wrist , staying her action , and she was swung roughly about to meet the hard , questioning glare of one of Matilda 's Angevin guards . |
| 5 | Doubtless at the time of the wool barons the church had a full congregation , but the economic tide had long ago receded from this part of the world . |
| 6 | Although the two Korean states remained technically in a state of war ( the hostilities having been ended in 1953 by an armistice but not a peace treaty ) , many commentators felt that the December agreements laid a realistic foundation for the negotiation of a full peace treaty . |
| 7 | Trained in watercolours by his father , the precocious Bonington had already exhibited at the Liverpool Academy before his family left England . |
| 8 | To her right the blind yellowstone wall of another tall building rose majestically — a perfect backdrop for the dozen or so pink-clothed tables , laid for morning coffee , their pristine china no whiter than the latticed chairs which surrounded them . |
| 9 | In Sumatra , MacKinnon found that the orang-utans of an area moved into the near-by hills when the largest calling male did so . |
| 10 | Twenty years ago more than three quarters of Imperial 's total income came directly from government in the form of a grant . |
| 11 | Even then abolition was not completed until the early 1890s when the number of landless and dispossessed peasants and rural labourers increased dramatically . |
| 12 | If it depended for government on the whims of its grandees , Georgian Sussex owed even more to their changing habits as members of leisured society , the relatively small but wealthy group whose fashions determined large areas of the economy in pre-industrial England . |
| 13 | These technical , professional discussions had already shaped the direction of change before the Act was drafted , in and out of war . |
| 14 | The smile on her sweet mouth quickly faded though the moment the door was opened and she at once took in the unusual pallor of Cara 's skin and the fact that , if she was n't mistaken , her dear sister had recently been crying . |
| 15 | As soon as hostilities started , the question of Malinowski 's possible internment arose since , although Polish , he was technically an Austrian subject . |
| 16 | However , the Tertiary coals contained weakly fluorescent desmocollinite , ( non-fluorescent in the Palaeozoic coals ) , suggesting a slightly greater hydrogen richness . |
| 17 | But by around 1020 , the quality of Norman coins declined markedly as a concomitant to the rapid increase in quantity . |
| 18 | None of these eternal operators faired very well when they had a posting to a training unit . |
| 19 | In the event the allied offensive began less than 19 hours after midnight in New York , shortly before midnight GMT on Jan. 16 . |
| 20 | The awful change came suddenly . |
| 21 | The unfinished sentence hung warily between them . |
| 22 | Overall , within the culture of antislavery economic boycott and free-produce activities worked much less significantly as a way of drawing in support than as a mark which some abolitionists chose to display of their antislavery identity . |
| 23 | Allegations of an anti-Sindhi crusade intensified further following the replacement on June 14 of three senior army commanders , and the unconfirmed arrest of one other , for their part in the reported massacre on June 5 of nine Sindhi villagers . |
| 24 | Computer-based typesetting began about thirty years ago , information retrieval is just as established whilst the ideas of hypertext go back even further . |
| 25 | Moreover , notwithstanding the different degrees to which individual teachers appeared to have taken on board the implications for progressive pedagogies , we believe that a substantial improvement in teachers ' awareness of the potential of the library as a central resource , and of the development of information-handling skills entailed therein , was a real consequence of the project in this school . |
| 26 | It was good to think that life 's rich pageantry continued even on Baker Street , a much neglected London thoroughfare remembered only by devotees of Sherlock Holmes ( now the Abbey National ) and Gerry Rafferty ( who probably banks there ) . |
| 27 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 28 | Some of those arguing for mixed-ability teaching did so on the narrowest professional grounds that it would improve teaching and learning , obliging teachers to treat pupils as individuals each proceeding at a different pace and in a different manner . |
| 29 | In contrast , the DIA 's covert activities had never been compromised and it had never become embroiled in public controversy . |
| 30 | They all knew that The Hooded Owl had just survived a great crisis . |