Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How much sort of ? ’ she asked weakly as vague memories of vast station properties stirred . |
| 2 | Even Lou 's piranha snapping now began to seem like something read rather than experienced . |
| 3 | ‘ Anti bourgeois liberalism ’ read widely as anti anything since the end of the Cultural Revolution , could have brought back policies which the pragmatists in the government had hoped were gone forever . |
| 4 | I know this might sound obscure , but erm , I read somewhere when that erm , if you actually bring in protectionism , it sounds like it could actually increase trade . |
| 5 | A member who made less than 10 per cent of the average number of dealings in the year immediately preceding the general meeting may not exercise his voting right . |
| 6 | Bookings made less than four days in advance must be paid for not later than fifteen minutes before the performance . |
| 7 | ‘ Last year he mostly caddied for Lars Persson , who finished around twenty-fifth in the Order of Merit and so he probably made less than five thousand pounds . |
| 8 | In the case of bookings made less than 6 weeks prior to departure the full amount is payable at the time of booking . |
| 9 | In 1988 , Hewden Stuart made less than 15 per cent of its profits from selling equipment rather than renting . |
| 10 | The Utopia that has eluded humankind for so long , and which has so frequently been proffered as a possible gift from ancient ‘ gods ’ , has always been attainable , it became so when that first ‘ good ’ event in the far-off beginning took place . |
| 11 | Or perhaps he was the compromise candidate who got in because neither of the two senior cardinal bishops was acceptable to the other party 's supporters . |
| 12 | But still by 1910 the LCC housed less than 2 per cent of its population . |
| 13 | He was a proud , caring president of the Cricketers ' Association , especially during the difficult Packer years , the implications of which he read better than any . |
| 14 | It is also very fast , especially using the parallel cable option , and gave transfer rates in our test setup that averaged better than 4 megabytes per minute . |
| 15 | But the best public art ( as Venice proves ) is architectural art , the enrichment of buildings at which the Victorians excelled rather than extraneous pieces of sculpture and other items dotted around the streets . |
| 16 | Compared to glassfibre boats they were said to be heavy , slow , unmanoeuvrable and , because they bent rather than broke , dangerous . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , out of 76 district planning authorities responding to the survey mentioned earlier , 30 of them granted planning permission for potential odour emitting uses subject to a condition relating to odour emission , being of the opinion that the imposition of conditions , including those relating to odour emission , were relevant to securing reasonable and proper planning objectives which complemented rather than conflicted with the responsibilities of the Director of Environmental Health in his dealing with public health matters under the public health legislation . |
| 18 | This was a development which also disseminated throughout northern England the idiosyncratic customs of the clergy of the Celtic regions of the British Isles which the Church of Rome , as it comprehended them over time , came increasingly to view as schismatic — not simply a different , more archaic method of calculating the date of Easter ( which Iona retained long after other Irish communities had abandoned it ) , but a whole range of differences in ritual practice and , in the absence of an established ecclesiastical hierarchy of bishops and archbishops , a barely recognizable ecclesiastical order . |
| 19 | SCOTTISH Television reported better than expected figures in the half year to end June despite a £2.3m charge to cover the cost of voluntary redundancies and early retirement . |
| 20 | All items had to be packed so that they weighed less than twenty-two pounds and sometimes there were so many parcels filling the room that it was impossible for other customers to pass through the door ; the postmaster would then telephone the Newtown depot to request a special van to come and collect them . |
| 21 | Outside-right Fred ‘ Fanny ’ Walden , 21 , was just over five feet tall , weighed less than nine stone and looked easy meat for burly defenders . |
| 22 | The baby weighed less than one kilo , she took it to the clinic and a clinic worker helped her to a nearby hospital . |
| 23 | GERMANS worried about their image held a poll — and found less than 60 per cent of Europeans like them . |
| 24 | This programme involved a threefold increase in family planning expenditure , with a greater proportion contributed by developed countries which currently provided less than half of the total . |
| 25 | The movement cost less than 10 per cent of the price quoted by the British firm and this included all import duties and delivery charges , and VAT . |
| 26 | In this collection of pieces which revert to themes pursued in If this is a man Levi writes : ‘ Desperate , the Jewish survivors , in flight from Europe after the great shipwreck , have created in the bosom of the Arab world an island of Western civilisation , a portentous palingenesis of Judaism , and the pretext for renewed hatred . ’ |
| 27 | This means that migration now has a major impact on population change , even though Ravenstein 's first law is still seen to hold , since Brant ( 1984 ) has shown that of the 9 per cent of people who moved between 1980 and 1981 , a massive 70 per cent moved less than six miles . |
| 28 | The festival was held outdoors for the first eighty years , but moved indoors after torrential rain caused the collapse of the stage as the congregation were singing The Heavens are Telling ! |
| 29 | I E we charged more than most of the others . |
| 30 | In the 1650s the Venetian representative in London maintained more than twenty Catholic priests who ministered to the numerous English Catholics who filled the embassy chapel to overflowing . |