Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | ‘ But , unfortunately , this undesirable side to your brother 's character only came to light after I 'd hired you . |
| 62 | The assault only came to light four days later , when he went to hospital for treatment . |
| 63 | Her case only came to light because the Health Authority meeting were mistakenly sent to the media . |
| 64 | The matter only came to light when police , conducting an inquiry into the running of children 's homes in North Wales , interviewed the boy last year . |
| 65 | The matter only came to light when police , conducting an inquiry into the running of children 's homes in North Continued on Page 5 Continued from Page 1 Wales , interviewed the boy last year . |
| 66 | Police were not informed and the matter only came to light last year during a police investigation into the running of children 's homes in North Wales . |
| 67 | It operated at 4,800bps and only came with DOS software , including a huge TSR program , over 200Kb in size . |
| 68 | It was an exercise to prove the existence of a Nonconformist unity which only came into existence by the exercise . |
| 69 | There are early mentions of the Portadown district in Latin documents about Papal taxation in 1296 and 1302 where the references are to Plebs Varren ( or , more familiarly , Ballyoran ) and the name ‘ Ballywarren al' Portadowne ’ is in the Ulster Inquisitions of 1609 but Portadown as a village only came into existence at the Plantation of Ulster . |
| 70 | Pakistan only came into existence as an independent country shortly after the end of the Second World War and consequently shares much of its cultural and rug-making heritage with India . |
| 71 | ‘ Do you know that in the mythology of Earth the concept of freedom only came into existence after male and female ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil . |
| 72 | Although Trusts only came into operation in April ninety one , the evidence suggests that many , that many have improved patient services in many w many areas waiting lists have been cut through greater efficiency and increased use of day surgery . |
| 73 | The argument that , quite apart from the question of recklessness , the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976 ( which only came into force in the UK in December 1986 ) does as a matter of law override the limitation provisions of both the Hague-Visby Rules and the Athens Convention ( for passenger claims ) will not be easily accepted by Norton Rose . |
| 74 | The inshore lifeboat only came into action to take the men ashore after one of our vessels was damaged . ’ |
| 75 | The small bulb inside exploded into life , displaying his clothes . |
| 76 | So came into existence the ‘ Harborough Arm ’ a branch that should have been a main line . |
| 77 | I put on the dress and it suddenly came to life . |
| 78 | A thought suddenly came to mind . |
| 79 | It was the headlamp of a large Harley Davidson motorcycle roaring towards the cinema audiences of the mid-Sixties as the biker movies suddenly came into vogue , along with all the other fashions and fads of the emergent , decadent age . |
| 80 | Rounding the great bend opposite East Ord , they suddenly came into view of the English forces massing over a mile ahead . |
| 81 | Laidlaw trailed off when a car suddenly came into view at the other end of the dimly lit street . |
| 82 | Forever on the move , meeting new faces , constantly in demand socially whenever she was off duty , Liza Tremayne found that there were longer and longer periods between the days when she still suffered black despair over the thought that she would never again see the man she so resembled in character and who had given her , had she known it , more love than he had ever bestowed upon any other woman . |
| 83 | The boat 's wrap-around windscreens were made of black polarised glass which only added to Dream Baby 's ugly air of menace . |
| 84 | India naturally came into focus as a field for Round Table action some time before the other dependencies . |
| 85 | I became intimately acquainted with some of those I met , and the lives and habits of many others naturally came under observation . |
| 86 | It literally came to light by accident when it fell out of a bag — it was God 's will , I suppose . ’ |
| 87 | The school parties stuck as rigidly together as they had done upon Victoria Station , lacking only their uniforms and labels , disastrously hampered by lack of space . |
| 88 | Managers long cushioned by state intervention become driven by production targets , not by the test of the market . |
| 89 | In producing national network programmes ( the network basically consisted of telegraph wires stretching some 5,000 miles from Vancouver , on the Pacific to Halifax , Nova Scotia on the Atlantic coast ) we soon became familiar with the five time-zones across the country . |
| 90 | The ground has only one entrance , so long queues developed , and although the players all arrived on time , one of the staff was stranded at the back of the queue . |