Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So oligarchy meant government not simply by a few , but by a few of the " rich and well-born " ; democracy was government by the many poor . |
| 2 | Mother Joseph seemed utterly remote , her voice lost in the clamour of my mother 's voice , my mother 's certainty that only marriage represented sanity , security , good behaviour in a dangerous world of hostile winds and people who were ‘ not one of us ’ , talking to themselves . |
| 3 | However , it is time to take a more positive view , and to look at the way early organisms began to combine energy from the sun with gases in the atmosphere and in so doing enabled life as we know it to evolve . |
| 4 | The three SNP MPs who voted with the Government this week , and by so doing exerted pressure for increased Scottish representation on the proposed European committee of the regions , acted correctly and in accord with that principle . |
| 5 | They have seen a lot of world now — Rome , London , New York and Paris — and like most girls of their age are not yet discontented with this necessarily tourist oriented relationship with the outside world . |
| 6 | Possest of these , the justly temper 'd Flame |
| 7 | Thus computer assisted instruction ( CAI ) is more aptly descriptive than computer based training ( CBT ) . |
| 8 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 9 | The spectacle of inner city regeneration offers a powerful medium for a political commitment to a strategy based on what is superficially market led growth . |
| 10 | Party opinions were partially assuaged by a protest meeting at the Carlton Club and a demonstration walkout of the Commons by the entire party , but the outcome was not affected , and so Home Rule became law . |
| 11 | It has been noted that early Methodism took root most significantly where the Church was weak . |
| 12 | Thereafter tourism replaced travel , the masses were unleashed upon the Continent , package-tour operators and entrepreneurs got to work to ensure that everywhere from Zagreb to Zanzibar looked , felt , and smelt exactly the same , and the aeroplane turned Atlantic crossings and transworld flights into the merest commuting , as mechanical and regular and unremarkable as catching the 6.10 from Waterloo to Surbiton . |
| 13 | Having fallen back 4 to 19p late on Wednesday , a badly handled ‘ sell ’ order yesterday morning had market makers scrambling to cut back prices . |
| 14 | The Scottish Consumer Council commissioned a report on the impact of deregulation and , in passing , it commented on the implications once privatisation took place . |
| 15 | Michael Green writes , ‘ Once Christianity took root in Hellenistic soil , it became necessary to do a tremendous work of translation . |
| 16 | This study suggests that both acid induced injury and H pylori infection may play a part in the pathogenesis of duodenal ulcer disease . |
| 17 | Hence rationalisation made sense , but , in addition , it might be necessary to develop international partnerships as well . |
| 18 | also leeds-fan tore pedersen made his debut for oldham last night as a substitute . |
| 19 | Ensuring that private practitioners take on preventive activities and promote healthy behaviour by their patients requires a substantial move away from a strictly market led approach . |
| 20 | Isomerisation of the 1,3-rings to their 1,2-isomers is a photochemically symmetry allowed process which is thermally symmetry forbidden . |
| 21 | And his one-kilometre long metals run up the middle of the now tarmac walkwayed alignment of the former 2ft 6inch Leek and Manifold Light Railway which ran from a North Staffs Railway exchange station at Waterhouses . |
| 22 | Then it created fire and water ; and when it had brought them together , Ohrmazd came into existence , and simultaneously Time became Creator and Lord with regard to the creation it had brought forth . |
| 23 | And presently revulsion gave way to indifference : he ceased to see the flaunted female bodies of advertisements and magazines because they had nothing to do with him , they were irrelevant . |
| 24 | One of the main carriers of the disease was found to be in milk and that 's why today tuberculin tested dairy provide us with our daily pinta . |
| 25 | Two months ago Amnesty submitted testimony to the UN which noted that the de Klerk government ‘ was failing to take adequate steps to investigate and bring to justice members of the security forces implicated in the torture and killing of government opponents ’ . |
| 26 | The private money and foreign contributions were handled by a network of cut-outs and dummy companies so complicated that even North had trouble keeping track of it . |
| 27 | There powder 'd Beef , and Warden-Pies , were found ; |
| 28 | Then Mum had cancer and Dad was taken ill at work . |
| 29 | There were shaky cane chairs to go with the table , which I carried home on my head , and there Mum sat hour after hour , doing calligraphy — Christmas and birthday cards on squares of lush paper . |
| 30 | Then fear overcame curiosity and he scrambled down from the tree with such haste that he skinned his knees and gouged a long deep gash along the inside of his forearm . |