Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 2 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 3 | I brought my heel down on his instep , and then caught his forehead with my knee as he instinctively doubled with pain . |
| 4 | We had notice of Sarah 's barrenness even before it properly got under way ( 11.30 ) . |
| 5 | He provided Gordon with excellent feedback from the track and by now he rarely got into trouble on the circuit . |
| 6 | Shamed by having to say no whenever I was asked if an urgent document could be dispatched to me down the telephone — feeling badly outfaxed in fact — I had finally succumbed . |
| 7 | After the horse was bedded down it was time for Sirrell to celebrate properly , and most of Nantgaredig turned up to assist : he eventually got to bed at 3 a.m . |
| 8 | The young German eventually got in front with seven laps remaining when Senna 's McLaren appeared to develop a technical problem , Schumacher squeezing past at the final hairpin . |
| 9 | Sharpe 's current illness apart , he also missed several months with repeated hernia problems which eventually led to surgery . |
| 10 | There they eventually led to coalition governments . |
| 11 | His body is not all that promising : the epic blemishes on the back of the hands , the torso loosely robed in flesh smelling of poultry and peppermint , the feet . |
| 12 | During the campaign for elections to the European Parliament ( EP ) in June 1989 [ see pp. 36737 ; 36874-75 ] they successfully capitalized on opposition to controversial proposals that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections throughout European Community ( EC ) member states . |
| 13 | She turned round and slowly headed for home . |
| 14 | There seemed to be wide horizontal bands of light which slowly changed in intensity , with brighter spots growing and fading in places mysteriously against the deeps of eternity . |
| 15 | 11 To there friends who knew her , her self-assertion was born from nothing but a necessary and confident determination to succeed in an area where women rarely rose to prominence . |
| 16 | If we let X stand for any one of the sets X , Q , R , C , Z[x] , etc. mentioned in Chapter 1 , then the operations of addition and multiplication defined on X may be described as binary operations on X in that , to each pair of elements of X , both + and . |
| 17 | The two young thieves eventually fled in terror . |
| 18 | But here again the knowledge is so practical , so much preconditioned by behaviour , that it can be taught and is taught mainly by doing what they are told to do on particular occasions and by not being allowed to do or to touch certain things that are always within their experience . |
| 19 | Rather , as the polls came to trouble the Tories , the ‘ troubles ’ suddenly became of interest — purely because it appeared the Conservative Revolution might just be sustained with the assistance of that unlikely revolutionary , James Molyneaux , leader of the Ulster Unionists . |
| 20 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 21 | Her voice suddenly swooped into hysterics . |
| 22 | When customers unsurprisingly got into trouble , it obligingly increased its advances . |
| 23 | On the other hand , his determination to win became such that he frequently appeared to condone his fast men bowling in an intimidating fashion , which obviously led to criticism from press and public . |
| 24 | The Emperor , popularly supposed to be immortal , only endured by virtue of adamantine , anguished courage and will power . |
| 25 | However , he said they only asked about staffing contracts between Ling and the health authority , which were all above board . |
| 26 | They only fought in order to protect somebody else ( ‘ like one of the younger kids who 's getting smashed up ’ ) but were clearly very capable of making a good job of it . |
| 27 | ( Well , I only got to page 8 … ) . |
| 28 | The rise in the price of oil had little immediate impact , but the collapse of world stock markets , the fall in demand , especially in the USA , for Hong Kong exports and the fear that Japanese banks would cut back on investment all led to growth predictions being revised downwards , in some instance to negative growth . |
| 29 | What we do know is that his full conversion to Christianity released in him a literary flow which only ceased with death . |
| 30 | As a control for non specific binding of proteins the eluates were obtained from beads alone incubated with brain extract ( lane 1 1M , lane 2 500mM and lane 3 250mM ) and from the heterologous oligonucleotide 168 linked to beads incubated with brain extract ( lane 7 , 500mM and lane 8 , 1M ) . |