Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed it is the ability of the Apple Macintosh to integrate text and graphics so elegantly that has driven the market forward . |
| 2 | There had been bad and costly muddles in the early days of the war ; agriculture had been disrupted by the number of peasants called to the colours , and eventually some had had to be returned to the fields ; the great Renault motor works was closed down , all but for a small shop making stretchers — motor vehicles evidently being considered a luxury with little application to the war effort . |
| 3 | Presumably this has happened before , then ? ’ |
| 4 | Arguably this has led to the break-up of the old trade union structures and increased management 's ability to obtain flexibility of labour . |
| 5 | In fact , we like nothing better that to get involved as early as possible . |
| 6 | It has , by pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge , given us much that has enriched our lives . |
| 7 | The pity is that so little has changed since then . |
| 8 | So much has been achieved , and yet in many ways so little has changed . |
| 9 | the shareholders are acting as a group ( eg each has agreed to sell his or her shares if all the others also agree to sell ) ; and |
| 10 | I ca n't remember anything in the last fifteen years or so that has excited me in America . |
| 11 | On the literary side , in the course of the century or so that has passed since the Symbolist movement in France , both poetry and , to a lesser extent , literary prose have been characterized by a degree of linguistic innovation unknown in most earlier periods . |
| 12 | Hitherto this has led to some allegations in the Press about Whitehall obscurantism but little interest or pressure in Parliament itself . |
| 13 | Suddenly this had become fun . |
| 14 | Doyle added : ‘ Nobody will ever realise how much this has upset Stephen , it affected his confidence very , very badly . |
| 15 | " My dear , I can see how much this has upset you . |
| 16 | Basically this has got a good feel to it , a good tune and a good throb . |
| 17 | At best , it could be agreed that some people defined the national interest one way and some defined it another way , and each side was equally well-meaning ; only some had pushed their patriotism beyond the law , so keen were they , while others had stopped and thought . |
| 18 | The stove gives out a good heat , the mantelpiece and the fire bricks become warm and perhaps this has caused the photograph of Arthur Balfour to wilt and slip in its frame . |
| 19 | Perhaps this has receded a little into the background in modern life , especially in a literate society with easy recourse to television , books and newspapers . |
| 20 | Obviously this had led to considerable controversy between Marxists and non-Marxists as to whether Marx had fully understood capitalism and whether or not subsequent developments have invalidated his account of its structure of power . |
| 21 | Now it 's not that simple because the moo the earth is spinning round the sun in space so this has got ta be moving round this way . |
| 22 | However , the political problems of abolishing it outright would be huge and so some have advocated phasing it out over a period of time . |
| 23 | With Britain 's long history of civic integration of all but the most marginal social classes ( or at least their male members ) , there was — so some have claimed — less of the cultural marginality affecting significant social groups from which fascism could draw strength ; by extension , there was supposedly more of a commitment to the rules of the ‘ democratic game ’ . |
| 24 | A related development concerns a class of metals that hitherto few have considered ‘ strategic ’ , but which could become increasingly important . |
| 25 | They were tired but unwilling to abandon themselves to sleep , so much had happened , they had come so far , left so much , found so little , were so far from what they had been . |
| 26 | Later she was to think how little she was prepared for the simple events which were to change her life completely — indeed she would have said that so much had happened to her already that any further incidents must be minor , a judgement which could not have been more faulty . |
| 27 | She knew she was being ridiculous , but so much had happened back there in that elegant house , so many unexplained emotions had swung through her mind in such a short space of time , and she felt so wound up , so confused by it all . |
| 28 | Luce tried to think back , but so much had happened . |
| 29 | Since leaving the train at eleven o'clock that morning , so much had changed in her life that Constance felt dazed . |
| 30 | but you wanted so much to have seen it |