Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rowntree 's stringent poverty line produced remarkably similar results to those of Booth . |
| 2 | It should be said , incidentally , that the remastering of the original 78s has , without affecting the overall frequency range , virtually eliminated their surface noise and produced remarkably quiet backgrounds : the only exception is the Prokofiev sonata ( which Horowitz introduced the USA ) , where the 1945 recording ( the earliest here ) is also more resonant and in which , just occasionally , a little to much pedal is used : the tremendous drive of his rhythm nevertheless makes for a compelling performance . |
| 3 | The women migrants within countries became overwhelmingly domestic servants , until they married some fellow-countryman , or passed into some other urban occupation . |
| 4 | Hazel realized wearily that Bigwig was probably going to be troublesome . |
| 5 | His very uniqueness made most other pilots avoid him . |
| 6 | At the Home Office , he impressed opponents and civil servants alike by the way he piloted intensely complex Bills through Parliament . |
| 7 | Initial Egyptian investigations into the attack revealed little concrete information about the perpetrators of the attack , and on Feb. 7 the authorities imposed a news blackout . |
| 8 | He read little modern poetry and little modern fiction , taking ‘ no serious notice ’ even of what he read . |
| 9 | It was interesting that at the controversial Chequers seminar on Germany six British and American experts voiced overwhelmingly favourable opinions about Germany and the Germans ( ‘ If Chancellor Kohl had sat in , he would have agreed with or accepted as fair comments 90 per cent of what was said ’ , commented one of them ) . |
| 10 | Since it enabled employers to replace the two-shift with a three-shift system in the mines , it produced little real improvement in miners ' living standards . |
| 11 | The latest meeting of the International Tropical Timber organization ( ITTO ) , which groups together leading producer and consumer countries , produced little firm conclusions , leaving many members predicting that the organization would soon wither away . |
| 12 | Women born in 1955–9 with non-manual fathers expected rather more children ( 2.44 to 2.12 ) than women from manual backgrounds , and the new difference is maintained in the most recent cohorts ( General Household Survey ) . |
| 13 | Jim looked over and smiled as his daughter made rather ungainly attempts to emulate the lively young girls above her , but then as he watched he became slightly concerned , because her movements became even more ungainly and then spasmodic , and then jerky until her head was nodding , her legs shooting out in a frenzy , her arms twitching , and she fell , uttering a loud cry , which was so strong and unreal , that it stilled the noise of the bagpipes and everyone looked to see what was happening . |
| 14 | Many of the relatives and friends who rated the homes as an excellent place for the person who died to live towards the end of his or her life made rather perfunctory comments : ‘ I ca n't fault the home ’ ; ‘ It was very nice , no qualms about it . ’ |
| 15 | The finality of the separation became clear two years later when their father and his girlfriend Alison made a suprise announcement one evening at McDonald 's . |
| 16 | Despite cutting back the undergrowth to keep routes open , footpads and other outlaws haunted most lonely stretches of road . |
| 17 | In their study of 41 women who had cared for their own mother before she died , Lewis and Meredith comment that to an outside observer ‘ the majority of respondents led remarkably restricted lives ’ ( Lewis and Meredith , 1988 , p. 87 ) . |
| 18 | Then in chronological order came the following : Hemel Hempstead ( 1947 ) replacing Redbourn as proposed in the Abercrombie plan , was designed to fill in the area between Harpenden , St Albans and Remel Hempstead itself ; Harlow ( 1947 ) , 23 miles north-east of London , expanded a small settlement of 4,500 people ; Crawley ( 1947 ) , a town of 9,500 population , lay astride the Brighton Road , 30 miles south of London ; Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City ( both 1948 ) lay very close to each other 18–20 miles north of London ( Welwyn was already a sizable town of 18,500 inhabitants ) ; Basildon ( 1949 ) met rather different objectives , planned not only to accommodate overspill but to tidy up an untidy area of shack development between London and Southend ; Bracknell ( 1949 ) replaced Abercrombie 's proposal for White Waltham , three miles south-west of Maidenhead , west of London . |
| 19 | As the aircraft were left out ‘ dispersed ’ most of the time in English or in tropical rain these compartments soon became little damp boxes , often with a puddle at the bottom . |
| 20 | Notwithstanding their impulse to improve , most officials came to recognize , after a year or two in Masailand , that on the whole the Masai made remarkably efficient use of the land . |
| 21 | Hindu priests in the fourth and fifth centuries AD made remarkably detailed studies of their sacred texts — the Vedas . |
| 22 | The Ascot fences are not nearly as fierce as their Mildmay counterparts at Aintree , but several of the fancied horses made remarkably heavy weather of them . |
| 23 | Following their attack on the American naval units in Pearl Harbour , the Japanese forces made remarkably swift advances in the Far East , managing to capture Singapore from the British forces , on 15th . |
| 24 | It will be recalled that Newcastle and Sheffield were also the universities which produced most uncited theses , and fewest highly-cited theses . |
| 25 | This was a tremendous achievement , as she recovered little selective movement in her leg , and none in her left arm . |
| 26 | The questions on participation produced widely divergent assessments . |
| 27 | He brought out all the papal arguments and the curial forces from legates to censures , but while he obtained acknowledgement of his final authority in matrimonial matters , he made little other headway . |
| 28 | She bought a car , which widened the range of our activities but made little other difference to the lives of us boys . |
| 29 | Although they had had several centuries to grow into the landscape , they still represented a foreign intrusion for many increasingly xenophobic Englishmen , and the growing attack on their position made little real attempt to differentiate between ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ houses . |
| 30 | These papal concessions , however , made little favourable impression outside Gaunt 's circle , and they combined with an unpopular truce , spectacular military setbacks and the threat of invasion to provoke the crisis of the so-called Good Parliament in October 1376 . |