Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Democritus , it is said , never appeared in public without laughing , so little did the serious pursuits of men seem serious to him . |
| 2 | I was very happy to see how much this pleased the young man . |
| 3 | This is not due to a simple depletion of transcription factors as twelve copies of the transgene in Long 7 , and 30 copies in Long 12 gave the expected expression ratio . |
| 4 | Though forty-five causes were entered in the list for the March session , ‘ so efficacious did the mere issuing of the summons prove , that this number was reduced by a third before the opening of the court . ’ |
| 5 | This might have been less dangerous had the Ottoman Empire held together , but it was crumbling fast and something was bound to take its place . |
| 6 | As a matter of fact , although it is an extra extravagance from the point of view of fuel , the chicken will be very much nicer cooked the same day as it is to be eaten , before it has had time to harden up . |
| 7 | Only three attended the next meeting on 21st September , at which it was resolved to take steps to reduce the quorum from five to three , and the meeting adjourned ; two weeks later , however , steps had not been taken — in the absence of a quorum , of course , it was impossible — and the meeting had again to be adjourned with only four present . |
| 8 | He said between December 1 last year and March 3 this year the Barnard Castle and Middleton-in-Teesdale ambulance stations had attended 145 jobs , of which only three exceeded the national response time requirement of 19 minutes . |
| 9 | Only three achieved the required two-thirds majority of 694 votes . |
| 10 | Through mechanical defects , not all the tanks reached the battlefield and of those that did only 31 crossed the German lines . |
| 11 | Together these measured the majoritarian-consensual dimension . |
| 12 | Why have so many left the older urban cores ? |
| 13 | Surely this gives cause for greater alarm , it would have been less alarming had the three cases been connected . |
| 14 | Similarly , out of the forty women , only five had the regular or occasional use of a car for domestic or leisure purposes , and this too , is an exclusively middle-class phenomenon . |
| 15 | Of these , only four spotted the 007 connection . |
| 16 | The more he thought about schoolgirls , the more distasteful became the forty-year-old debs that his mother had lined up for him . |
| 17 | I would find it all a little more convincing had the right hon. Gentleman not peddled the Government 's line so enthusiastically , with militant zeal — I hope that he will not resent the term — for so many months . |
| 18 | Why has everyone forgotten we were 4th the year before ( above scum ) , and the year before that won the 2nd division ? |
| 19 | Correspondingly this affected the basic balance , i.e. the current balance plus the balance of long-term capital flow . |
| 20 | Over 2000 delegates were in attendance with about one third coming from outside the US — this year a contingent of about 30 represented the former communist countries of Eastern Europe . |
| 21 | About half hit the comic mark . |
| 22 | Originally this enclosed the medieval interior of the cathedral but it was transferred to its present location in 1924 . |
| 23 | Almost as many shattered the popular misconception that women prefer a cosy cuddle to the sexual act , and that they prefer their husbands or partners to initiate/take charge of their sex lives . |
| 24 | Netwise Inc financed the European subsidiaries with $8.5m raised via a third round of venture capital funding last August . |
| 25 | Netwise Inc financed the European subsidiaries with $8.5m raised via a third round of venture capital funding last August . |
| 26 | He was already master mason to the cathedral and about 1310 undertook the new work of the presbytery , at the joint cost of the bishop and priory . |
| 27 | The kids loved the chants and the masks and puppets-usually Masquerade 's strength , although here even these lacked the usual imagination-but really it could all have been so much better in almost every respect . |
| 28 | Lehmann , watching , saw how that impressed the young men , but it was only half true . |
| 29 | Undoubtedly this proved the right choice , if for the wrong reasons . |
| 30 | Initially this left the larger machines , with consoles scattered around on the end of RS232 cables , somewhat behind . |