Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most direct came last week in a survey conducted by academics for stockbrokers Bell Lawrie White among the business community . |
| 2 | So old fashioned Chinese art dealers would deal across the board , with a top layer of ‘ important ’ pieces and less costly stock to pay the rent . |
| 3 | Naturally this had immediate consequences for the destitute fed by the church chest that rich believers funded . |
| 4 | But apparently this happened last year at this particular conference . |
| 5 | Only retail showed continued rises with rental values up slightly and capital values 0.6 per cent higher , pushing the annual total return up from 10.2 per cent to 10.7 per cent . |
| 6 | So natural had this practice become that only in the past fifteen or twenty years has there grown up in Britain the idea of conserving redundant industrial and commercial buildings and putting them to new uses . |
| 7 | ‘ Of 28 social problems textbooks published between 1964 and 1978 , a total of only 110 pages discussed the importance of large corporations to society ; of these pages only 11 mentioned corporate crime and all but one of these pages were contained in two textbooks published in 1978 . |
| 8 | Of the worst fifth of constituencies for unemployment ( 127 shaded black ) , only 18 returned Conservative MPs , and three Alliance . |
| 9 | No Women 's Open was held as it attracted so few entrants , so all gained automatic entry to the Grand Prix . |
| 10 | Only 10,000 watched struggling Panathinaikos play Anderlecht and , deeming Benfica down and out , a loss-making crowd of 5,500 was in the 120,000-capacity Estadio da Luz to watch the demolition of Dynamo Kiev . |
| 11 | But of the 700 people who handed over more than £350,000 to Todd , only 29 made any money . |
| 12 | So essential did this communication seem to the West Midlands survey respondents , that the repetition that it would inevitably entail for the manager , as different volunteers come in each day , still seemed worth the effort . |
| 13 | And of these 22 , only five had suitable equipment to work with . |
| 14 | right , its almost definite British come under fire but it does seem that the para 's did kill erm out of , out of the thirteen , only one had any I R A links , he was a member of the , the I R A erm , and out of the remaining twelve only three of them might of fired a gun , you know , they leg or the hands , by the side , by the gun |
| 15 | Of the ten common sites available for a comparison of 1955–6 and 1965–6 , only four showed worsening acidity , two showed improvement , and the other four remained the same . |
| 16 | A well-supported client was defined as having daily contact with a neighbour and weekly contact with a relative ; only one-fifth had this degree of support . |
| 17 | Four patients had evidence of coronary artery disease on routine annual coronary arteriographic assessment but only two had significant disease . |
| 18 | Perhaps both had Irish blood in them . |
| 19 | It would be grist to the mill of the tabloids if anything so bizarre happened next week , especially after the kind of meticulous preparation all tournaments of this magnitude can expect . |
| 20 | This fact is generally obscured by the appearance of simplicity and tidiness imposed by the classification of the existing languages of the USSR , since , out of its approximately 105 recognized native languages , only about twenty-nine , belonging to eleven families , are indigenous to Siberia . |
| 21 | Not many took much notice . |
| 22 | While all essential fatty acids are polyunsaturated , not all polyunsaturated fatty acids are essential . |
| 23 | However , not all lost service-sector jobs . |
| 24 | They had both drunk far too much , yet it had been a very enjoyable evening and on the way home each vowed eternal friendship with the other . |
| 25 | Previously , each initiative — on advanced materials , manufacturing technology , biotechnology , high performance computing , global climate change and science education — was described in a pamphlet of a hundred pages or more that included detailed budgets of what each agency planned to spend . |
| 26 | The more innovative included accelerated depreciation on ‘ special machinery ’ , ‘ special repairs ’ ( to heavy plant ) , research and development , exemption from tax on income from sales of ‘ important new products ’ , exemption from customs duty on ‘ important equipment ’ and exemption of certain exports from income tax . |
| 27 | For example , analyses of the 1984–6 Labour Force Survey suggest that over a quarter of married and cohabiting Afro-Caribbean women ( and Afro-Caribbean men ) aged under 30 had white partners ( CSO , 1988 ) . |
| 28 | Borrowers under sixty got free life insurance . |
| 29 | In a 1987 survey , though , 17% of those under 25 claimed some knowledge of Gaelic . |
| 30 | You probably found the passage difficult , and it would have been even more difficult presented one word at a time as it was in the Dooling and Lachman experiment . |