Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although little emerged from the conference in terms of new financial proposals , it was agreed that there should be nationwide targets for literacy , scientific and mathematical knowledge , vocational training , better teacher training , a reduction of dropout rates , and drug-free schools . |
| 2 | Steel wool and soap filled pads are useful although much frowned upon by many authorities . |
| 3 | Although more women than ever ran for office , there was no net change in the level of female representation . |
| 4 | Although more oriented toward an empirical approach , the United States has exhibited some elements of the rationalist . |
| 5 | Reagan had a better grasp of the complexities of politics than sometimes appeared to be the case , but regrettable though it may be , primary elections turn on superficial impressions . |
| 6 | Also in attendance were PERRY FARRELL and a bare-chested SLASH , although neither stayed for the after-show party at a sleazy ten-pin bowling alley , where a fun knock-out contest was held . |
| 7 | There had always been more in common between the front benches than either had in common with their followers in the country . |
| 8 | Although subsequently repudiated by them , it was brought into being by the landlords , mainly from the early 19th century , to serve their own interests . |
| 9 | North Tyneside MBC opposed both these developments pointing out that the Tyne Tunnel proposal in particular was for more square feet than currently existed in the whole of central North Shields . |
| 10 | The voice was the same : clear and authoritative , sure of itself , although faintly slurred by alcohol . |
| 11 | If copulation had indeed been the cause of Preston 's subsequent arrival on this earth , and she was far from admitting the connection , it had more than likely occurred in the seaside boarding house that was their eventual destination . |
| 12 | Such was the ferment of the times throughout Europe , and such was the rising volume of political controversy within Britain ( bear in mind also the Suffragette agitation and the conflict over the future of Ireland ) , that a more dramatic tipping of the balance than actually occurred in the next few years might have been expected . |
| 13 | If properly looked after , they can be re-applied at a later date without paying out the amount of your initial outlay |
| 14 | ‘ R ’ — if only replied to SPRs are to be included , |
| 15 | The presence of carbon-bearing rocks similar to those studied here would raise the rock conductivity to moderate values if dry and to high values if also saturated with brines , producing values similar to those observed for the crustal high-conductivity zones by magnetotelluric methods . |
| 16 | It too is gelatinous , and the upper surface if finely felted in texture . |
| 17 | However , the Tories and Labour signalled that if either emerged as the largest single party they would put a Queen 's Speech to Parliament and dare the other parties to vote them down — possibly triggering another election as soon as October . |
| 18 | Here the failure may occur despite the fact that the episode in question has been adequately stored and is potentially retrievable ( if actually asked at the time the drivers could have probably correctly retrieved the information that they were uninsured / driving on full beam / on the wrong route ) , the problem is instead that the driver fails to use the knowledge available at the correct time . |
| 19 | They , and they alone , provided a breathing space from a crown which was always harsh , even if occasionally leavened with the charisma of a James IV . |
| 20 | Add the koftas and fry until lightly browned on all sides . |
| 21 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 22 | Some of the responses to this , although informally phrased because never intended for publication , are worth quoting . |
| 23 | A closer correspondence between behavioural and neuropsychological estimates of speech lateralisation is obtained by only considering ear differences that reach a specified level of statistical significance ( Wexler , Halwes and Heninger , 1981 ) but as Satz ( 1977 ) has argued , the probability of mis-classifying a right hander with a dichotic left ear advantage as right brained for speech is of the order of 90 per cent ( see Chapter 5 ) ! |
| 24 | Though rather demoralized by his conversation with Dorothy , he did ask Isobel . |
| 25 | as if to make this quite clear , the other charity guest that night was Vicky , a career spinster with beefy-jerky skin and a mouth as tensely muscled as an anus . |
| 26 | A good cook , evidently , though somewhat vulgarized by recent service with an American family who liked bits of pineapple all over things . |
| 27 | Some east Berlin enterprises , though grotesquely overmanned under the old regime , have good technology and promising futures . |
| 28 | They would receive compensation on the same basis as already existed for haemophiliacs thus infected — a scheme announced in November 1989 , confirmed in January 1990 , and extended in December 1990 . |
| 29 | This underlines our sense that it is a grave mistake to pursue the notion of teaching strategies as somehow disconnected from children 's learning on the one hand , and from teachers ' intentions and attributes on the other . |
| 30 | Though generally appropriated by humanist criticism as a recognizable origin of itself , nosce teipsum may nevertheless have something crucial in common with the formulations of post-structuralism . |