Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So strong had sympathy with the Communists grown among the active membership that the NAC was instructed , against its wishes , " to approach the Communist International with a view to ascertaining in what way the ILP may assist in the work of the International " . |
| 2 | England had alerted her ; so many people she had met there affected kindness but so few had warmth . |
| 3 | The ugly tone of the game might have been so different had referee Kelvin Morton taken a firm hand at the start . |
| 4 | Obviously this necessitated change in the industrial structure of this country . |
| 5 | Proof of that was to be found in the returns to Parliament during 1826 and 1827 which showed that out of sixty-seven executions ordered against goods only forty produced payment . |
| 6 | In 1988 the Government 's Hazardous Waste Inspectorate brought to light the fact that , out of 35 landfill sites licensed to receive hazardous waste , only three had laboratory facilities where incoming waste could be analysed . |
| 7 | In Trefusis 's office , the governor presided over a round-table discussion , with Dr Groome , Juliet , a silent official from the Department of Conscription , and an apparently lifeless andrew head to represent Yggdrasil . |
| 8 | In the service of no book have so many suffered exile , persecution , hardship and death . |
| 9 | This included ‘ talent ’ organizations like those of Lew Grade ( ATV ) and Jack Hylton ( TWW ) , and theatre and cinema chains ( the latter much larger enterprises in the 1950s , obviously , than later , when so many became bingo halls instead ) . |
| 10 | In light of the large numbers who had chosen a similar response to the question , ‘ Why do you have the farm ? ’ it was not surprising that so many gave job satisfaction as one of the personal benefits of training . |
| 11 | The Swans so graceful Brought pleasure to many . |
| 12 | Of the 232,255 single mothers receiving supplementary benefit in 1987 , only 17,084 had maintainance orders against the father of their children ( Hansard , 7 November 1988 , col. 94 ) . |
| 13 | Of these , only ninety-five financed school meals out of rates , the remainder calling on voluntary contributions . |
| 14 | Only five said religion played a part in their lives . |
| 15 | Earlier , Treleaven had broken Blackmoor 's amateur record of 65 , his round containing five birdies and only one dropped shot . |
| 16 | By 1986 , only one captured animal remained alive . |
| 17 | Business Risks International , a company that counsels firms on terrorism , says that of 35,116 terrorist acts conducted between 1970 and 1988 , only 747 took place in North America , 626 of them before 1980 . |
| 18 | Eleven of the 17 patients with malignant strictures had obstructive symptoms , in sharp contrast to the benign subset of 42 patients of whom only four had constipation and none evidence of intestinal obstruction . |
| 19 | At Steeple Claydon , on the other hand , where nine land assessments compare with only three actual freeholders , there were some fifty inhabitants all told , of whom only four drew income from land.l Either custom or convention hereabouts militated against subletting , or officials in the Buckingham hundreds ignored land that was not freehold , for far fewer owners were recorded there than in the remainder of the county . |
| 20 | Out of fourteen casualties , only four needed hospital treatment . |
| 21 | A total of seven political parties contested the general election of October 1989 , but only two obtained representation in the Assembly , the Botswana Democratic Party winning 31 of the directly elected seats and the Botswana National Front three . |
| 22 | The brightest boys did mathematics and physics ; the less bright did biology . |
| 23 | Moreover , one might predict further that had royalty in 1940 continued with the rich pageants of peacetime ( as the Prince Regent had done during the Napoleonic wars ) , the indifference might have turned to explicit criticism . |
| 24 | Possibly this led co-skipper , Alexei Grishenko to commit suicide during the stop over in Uruguay . |
| 25 | What we ought to be aiming for is more localised revolved estate management . |
| 26 | Some 200 people watched the showjumping , other took interest in the dressage , and the more adventurous found vantage points around the cross-country course . |
| 27 | The band 's weakest ever single reached number 46 in the Gallup charts , an achievement supported by their first proper video in which they frolicked among hundreds of balloons . |
| 28 | Both the proposals and the practice met the spirit of the age : new cities planned to be environmentally attractive , socially acceptable and economically viable gained support from both public opinion and commercial interests . |
| 29 | Nearly half took place in the 1980s . |
| 30 | In 1990 , many took advantage of the Government 's new Gift Aid scheme ( a scheme apparently designed for higher rate taxpayers who hate the nearly incomprehensible Deposited Covenant form ) . |