Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the more tragic therefore that one of the earliest deaths in boxing , and perhaps the most controversial resulted from a fight in which a deaf boxer took part . |
| 2 | The Premier Export Award , for the company or individual prize winner whose performance in the opinion of the judges was the most outstanding went to F G Wilson ( Engineering ) Limited . |
| 3 | From 1275 , with the exception of a certain number of years , usually two parliaments met annually , even three in 1278 ; altogether fifty assembled during the thirty-five years of the reign . |
| 4 | Altogether this led to an effect which might be described as a tapering of market opportunities , and it was sharpened as international growth rates decelerated in the early 1970s . |
| 5 | Effectively this happened in two stages — the first in the 1920s and 30s when British colonialism wanted to create an intermediate class in East African countries , and the second after World War II when Britain in common with other Western European countries was faced with a chronic shortage of labour . |
| 6 | Well if we 're going to start to go into funding , I 'd rather this went into the pink paper session , and that we have our Chief Executives down here to explain that situation . |
| 7 | Unfortunately these constants could not be determined theoretically but only empirically , and eventually this proved to be an unsound basis . |
| 8 | Eventually this deepened below the random of Fleming 's Level and rendered the pumping and winding sump at the intersection obsolete . |
| 9 | These last two are obviously each related to the nervous system and to the brain but not necessarily to a particular part of the brain and taken together they overlap in such obscure ways that they are best regarded as sub-systems in different domains , one can talk in terms of one or the other but not both simultaneously . |
| 10 | In the last two islands , it is in serious decline , with only 500 left in all of Java . |
| 11 | Since the Royal Commission on Population found that out of a sample of 7,625 pregnancies only 147 resulted in criminal abortions ( equal to 2 per cent of all pregnancies and 17 per cent of all abortions ) , it is unlikely that changes in the abortion rate played a major part in accounting for the decrease in working class fertility . |
| 12 | In such societies labour is so little thought of as a special separate type of activity that there is no word which in any way corresponds to what we with our language , moulded by the history of capitalism , mean by labour . |
| 13 | And so Labour went into the election on a fudged policy designed more to placate Roy Hattersley than to win over voters . |
| 14 | How much this resulted from Cruickshank 's own approach to maintaining contact and diplomacy with individual people and concerns — he 's more generally credited with being a man for the ‘ big picture ’ — or from the excessive demands put on anyone trying to run and change such a vast and politically sensitive organisation , is open to debate . |
| 15 | It was sort of , so few came through it was very much sort of under the counter . |
| 16 | The recovery of later fourth-century coins and pottery in the town centre itself certainly also attests continued activity , but it is hard to determine how long this survived into the fifth century , given the cessation of both coinage and pottery supplies and the consequent problem of dating post-Roman levels . |
| 17 | Perhaps this led to a greater emphasis on the other economic incentive . |
| 18 | Before the volcanic cloud was dispersed and SO 2 converted to sulphate aerosols , O 3 perturbations caused by large concentrations of SO 2 in the volcanic cloud may have occurred . |
| 19 | We find that in the first month or so after the eruption , the large amount of SO 2 injected into the tropical atmosphere catalyses mid-stratospheric ozone production . |
| 20 | So this seemed like a good compromise . |
| 21 | Of the 99 deputies elected in 1972 , only 67 remained in the current Assembly , which was based on a 6:5 Christian:Moslem ratio ( although Christians were in a minority within the population as a whole ) . |
| 22 | Yeah , you see , now so much got in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us , , speak ill of the rest of us Ha I 've just finished reading the er , whole text of Rudyard Kipling 's . |
| 23 | It came , as so much did for her now , in the cadences of a disembodied voice . |
| 24 | Of the 22 Kurdish deputies , formerly members of the People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) , who had been elected on the SHP ticket in October 1991 , only six remained on government benches . |
| 25 | Only six resigned from the study on the grounds of stress related to the subject . |
| 26 | And while 7,476 voted for Di only 2,885 plumped for Charles . |
| 27 | It will now be a limited handicap which should mean avoiding the farce of last year when only three went to the post , two of them from the same stable . |
| 28 | These have been postponed by successive governments and only three occurred in England and Wales between the end of the Second World War and the abolition of domestic rates in 1990 . |
| 29 | During this period there were 671 rights issues known to have been underwritten of which only 35 resulted in a loss for the underwriters . |
| 30 | As can be seen from the photographs the housing joints between the top rail and curved members are not 45 degrees so these had to be cut by hand and not routered , this also applied to the tops of the glazing bars . |