Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Falkenhayn never attempted to break through the enemy lines — so far the sole tactic attempted by both sides — but planned rather to bleed France white by attacking that which the French nation would not tolerate being taken . |
| 2 | Keller and Bever ( 1980 ) asked right handed subjects to categorise musical intervals presented monaurally and obtained a significant REA in non-musicians for this task and a non-significant left ear advantage among musicians . |
| 3 | But policy passed since states permission will not be granted to any business or organisation to sell goods or services in any of the council 's car parks . |
| 4 | Use of carbon fibre reinforced tube and rod not only added to frame rigidity , it enabled lighter and smaller designs to be created such as described already in Chapter Two , and it led eventually to sail designs with multiple stand-offs for improved aerodynamic characteristics . |
| 5 | Samples at regular intervals in the embalming of 25 subjects , designed to replicate varying levels of embalming operation , were taken and , coupled with sophisticated statistical tests , produced clear cut results . |
| 6 | Theodora watched as the woman whose voice would carry across a couple of ten-acre fields , and who could bring a rowdy committee to heel by clearing her throat , murmuring intimately into the mare 's ear and made little clucking noises as she plied her with carrots . |
| 7 | The election was required by law , and if anyone thought it odd that there should be such trouble over elections to a chamber that now met only to ratify decisions taken elsewhere , then they kept the notion to themselves . |
| 8 | He recovered sufficiently to make love once more before they went to bed , but it was n't as frantic or as demanding and he fell asleep afterwards on the sofa . |
| 9 | Not content with 8am and 8.30am press conferences , Mr Peter Allen , Liberal Democrat candidate for Langbaurgh , this week announced daily press conferences at 7.30am . |
| 10 | Once myth was destroyed , the metaphysical drive survived at best in attenuated form in the Socratic search for knowledge ; and at worst in a religious syncretism that led only to complete triviality or exotic superstition . |
| 11 | Delegates agreed only to postpone action until after a decision by the UN General Assembly [ see p. 39121 ] . |
| 12 | Entrenched positions may be established easily between the two with the result that claims are prepared and argued merely to prevent loss of face when in reality the matter could and should have been settled by discussion on site when the problems arose . |
| 13 | At the June elections , for the first time ever , they got together to block roads and occupy sites , demanding more land , and money for bilingual education . |
| 14 | The Women Returners ' Network is a group of working mothers who got together to help women with the challenges of going back to work . |
| 15 | Note that all assignments in IF/ALT programs are final ( i.e. occur at the end of a program 's run , just before it terminates ) and made only to free variables . |
| 16 | Recovery by Mrs Fields : Shares in Mrs Fields , the troubled US bakery and cookie retailer , rose more than 20 per cent from their 12-month low of 19p to 23p after it announced much reduced trading losses . |
| 17 | SHARES in Mrs Fields , the troubled US bakery and cookie retailer , rose more than 20 per cent from their 12-month low of 19p to 23p yesterday after it announced much reduced trading losses . |
| 18 | It may also be that whereas the British kings intended to replace Oswiu with a more acceptable candidate , Penda sought only to reduce Oswiu to the status of a dependant and at the same time effectively to establish territories such as Lindsey as falling within a southumbrian Mercian orbit . |
| 19 | Their feet made loud sucking noises as they tramped over to the burn . |
| 20 | He made loud wailing noises as he sailed back and forth over the wall , missing the top by inches . |
| 21 | The first stage , of direct military rule , sought merely to suppress opposition to Japanese control — a short-lived republic was declared in 1895 — and wipe out the widespread banditry and disturbances which had long plagued the island under Chinese rule . |
| 22 | Instead of banning corporal punishment outright , however , it sought merely to give effect to the Court 's ruling . |
| 23 | Hannay and Malone ( 1976 ) found right handed females without familial sinistrality to show , for certain retention intervals , a significant RVF superiority while right handers with left handed relatives showed a slight , non-significant RVF superiority . |
| 24 | Mada Joyce bent ponderously to feel Hyacinth 's brow and the child 's eyes fluttered open . |
| 25 | The last two used together allow tests to be performed without affecting the operands . |
| 26 | The supply of domestic staff in Britain had dwindled after the First World War , when former servants found better paid employment for fewer hours ' work in offices and factories . |
| 27 | It is likely that he did express a preference , for although his collapse was dramatic enough for premature reports of his death to reach at least two cities , he then rallied sufficiently to add codicils to his will . |
| 28 | It is likely that he did express a preference , for although his collapse was dramatic enough for premature reports of his death to reach at least two cities , he then rallied sufficiently to add codicils to his will . |
| 29 | Malekith moved swiftly to restore order . |
| 30 | The new governments all moved swiftly to restore relations with Israel which they had all , with the exception of Romania , broken off during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war [ see p. 22105 ] . |