Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from spending a lot of money on the church , they built this house , where once stood a meagre rectory , and called it ‘ Sutton on the Hill Hall ’ . |
| 2 | Easily Accessible : Mere is an attractive town dating back to Saxon times with pretty stone cottages and fine views of Blackmore Vale from Castle Hill , where once stood a medieval fortification . |
| 3 | Where once stood the two-storey Eagle Warehouse of 1854 there is now a 12-storey tower with an entrance foyer of sufficient height to engulf the surviving bays of the original building . |
| 4 | He led the way to the outer office , which had been empty when Shelley arrived , but where now sat a sylph-like creature with a cloud of dark brown curls , and very heavily made-up eyes . |
| 5 | Although much remained the same as before — the new electorate constituted but one-thirtieth of the population , 31 boroughs still had fewer than 300 electors in each , voting remained by open ballot ( secret ballots were considered rather un-English ) , and the aristocracy still held great sway politically — the act precipitated important changes both within and outside the House of Commons . |
| 6 | The primary schools of Oxfordshire , with their occasionally romantic commitments to open learning and creativity , more than once felt the lash of his tongue . |
| 7 | Another senior police officer who more than once captured the headlines , James Anderton , Chief Constable of Greater Manchester , decrying ‘ the rot that has now taken a firm hold in the fabric of our society ’ , was so moved as to describe crime as Britain 's ‘ Top Growth Industry ’ . |
| 8 | With constituency support , and the votes of other trade unionists , John Smith was elected Party leader by a larger number of contributing members than ever had the chance to vote for John Major or Paddy Ashdown . |
| 9 | • Fewer visitors than ever attended the recent British International Motor Show in Birmingham . |
| 10 | David Hill , the party 's unflappable director of communications , has more than adequately filled the role performed by Peter Mandelson in 1987 . |
| 11 | He has more than likely planned the expedition for the half of the day when it is not Northumberland Avenue 's turn for heating . |
| 12 | I suggested that they had more than likely received a stern lecture in lieu of a death sentence ; in the world of Arabs , blame for unsanctioned sex is placed wholly on the shoulders of the female . |
| 13 | ( c ) If so construed the word " practice " plainly meant practice as a general medical practitioner . |
| 14 | Mrs Thatcher said economic sanctions did have the effect of depressing an economy and depriving people of jobs , but rarely if ever had the desired political effect . |
| 15 | ‘ It is not our crisis , it is the crisis of capitalism , ’ he had successfully if unconstructively assured the 1930 Labour Party Conference . |
| 16 | Of course , even if accurately transmitted the reliability of this poetry is still open to doubt . |
| 17 | The background against which they fought was arid red desert ; they might have been fighting to make it green again ; yet one had the feeling that if either defeated the other it would be disaster . |
| 18 | There has been some confusion concerning the identity of this species , but until otherwise substantiated the authenticity . |
| 19 | Unless otherwise specified the term mudaliyar refers to officials with territorial jurisdiction . |
| 20 | Unless otherwise stated the Board 's general conditions of service applicable to a will apply to you . |
| 21 | I think they were all going to market because obviously had a farm . |
| 22 | The church 's ideology not only gave powerful support to kingship : it sustained the very idea of the state as a permanent complex of institutions , because therein lay the best prospect of defending ecclesiastical interests . |
| 23 | ‘ What you 're saying is , ’ she said , ‘ that one should n't even whisper it in the wind on the hill-tops because once said a thing can never be unsaid ; that expression gives power to thought ; that even the clear though unspoken formulation of a nebulous impression may be dangerous , giving it a force and potency which silence or merely a lack of clarification would deny to it . ’ |
| 24 | Insults apart , the kernel of the argument was that , whereas More considered the Scriptures to be committed to the Pope and hierarchy for interpretation , Tyndale believed that they belonged to every Christian , who would be guided in understanding them by the spirit of God . |
| 25 | We banged on the door and shouted to no avail , and after awhile had no choice but to use the fire stairs . |
| 26 | Corden admitted : ‘ I wanted to resign when Little left the club . |
| 27 | The evidence of history , not to mention the physical evidence of those land deeds , suggested a subject of legitimate journalistic inquiry : who legally as well as morally had the right to ownership of the property ? |
| 28 | As already noted the Car Dike , north of Peterborough is now known not to have been a canal but a Roman catch-water drain . |
| 29 | As already noted the British service chiefs were emphatic that American aid was imperative in the event of war with the USSR . |
| 30 | As already mentioned the legislation does not consider low pay as an acceptable reason for turning down a job . |