Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A total of 2,588 items were treated ; though in most cases this consisted only of the application of a backing material , work on badly degraded older material is much more labour-intensive . |
| 2 | Most eventually got honorary Lifetime Achievement Awards — alias the ‘ Whoops , sorry , we forgot you ’ Oscars , or even ‘ Whoops , sorry , we did n't know you were still around ’ , as happened to Sophia Loren in January , thirty years after she won Best Actress for Two Women . |
| 3 | Particularly striking examples , as Simon Frith points out ( 1983a : 146–7 , 154 ) , are that some of the ‘ most creative uses of the recording studio have also been the most ‘ manipulative ’ in commercial terms ' he mentions Phil Spector , Giorgio Moroder 's disco hits and Jamaican reggae — while ‘ in the USA … the most open and imaginative audiences deejays and radio programmes work in disco , the most obviously commercialized musical genre ’ . |
| 4 | So acutely did some people feel menaced by the ‘ godless conspiracy ’ that in Brooklyn , when a sewer explosion blew out the manholes , they panicked and shouted ‘ The Russians ! ’ ; in Boston an antique exhibition barred Russian pieces from being exhibited ; in Bournemouth the conductor of the municipal symphony orchestra barred pieces by Shostakovitch from being played . |
| 5 | It was seldom worth tangling with wizards , they so rarely had any treasure worth speaking of . |
| 6 | Dorigo ran down inside left 30–40 yards unchallenged , hit a through ball which Wallace ran across from right centre onto . |
| 7 | However , all deaths and most of the considerable arterial damage occurred where pressures were uncontrolled , poorly controlled , or treatment was delayed until there was evidence of organ damage , largely because aggressive prescription of tolerable drugs only gradually became accepted practice in the late 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 8 | But Alex dismisses hippy tags as totally misguided , claiming he only ever enjoyed one Steve Hillage album — ‘ Rainbow Dome Music ’ — which he was spinning in a club when Hillage himself came over and made contact . |
| 9 | I thought that might look quite nice for madam , see my two only ever had cheap beds to start with anyway , I knew that I 'd get them better ones later on |
| 10 | With the current growth of interest in Briggs ' work , it is intriguing to note that Briggs only ever published one paper on Sanskrit which , at the time , was poorly received and thought to be a cul-de-sac or at best a side road . |
| 11 | Only later did occasional references appear on inner pages devoted to food collection there . |
| 12 | The former seeks to control the delivery of INSET to conform to financially favoured national curriculum priorities ( DES , 1986 ) and allows LEAs to decide less favourably resourced local priorities . |
| 13 | Just as some children in public care had experienced the break-up of their parents ' marriage , or other family changes , so also had many children not admitted into care . |
| 14 | In the same way that African opinion elsewhere found its voice in the press , so also did white settler opinion ‘ which was frequently in conflict with the colonial authority . |
| 15 | It only really tested computational ability . |
| 16 | It would be no use him arguing that he had nowhere to go because he so often found other places to spend nights . |
| 17 | Now 37 , Jeff Koons long ago made enough money from his art never to need to work again . |
| 18 | ( An annual outing to the seaside has long ago displaced this occasion . ) |
| 19 | He strode in purposefully then stopped three paces from the T'ang , clicking his heels together and bowing his head . |
| 20 | The sting of this question was to some extent drawn for Schleiermacher himself by the fact that he so closely identified immediate self-consciousness with God-consciousness as to believe that he had found a real and solid bridge between the two sides of the matter . |
| 21 | So too did many others , on both sides of the Pennines , not all of them obeying the mischievous hints of Captain Goldsborough , of course — since even he could not have been in so many places all at once — but intent on stirring up trouble nevertheless . |
| 22 | So too did religious books , with new books from our many friends at ‘ 121 ’ and good old ones from the libraries of several retired Ministers all contributing to this success . |
| 23 | The worsening crisis in Poland during 1980 and 1981 , and what was believed to be a Soviet role in the imposition of martial law in December 1981 , made matters worse ; so too did Cuban intervention in Angola , and US support for the Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua . |
| 24 | Not long afterwards came another request , this time in a slightly more orthodox fashion , for John Ward to paint the Princess . |
| 25 | So speedily did this reversal occur that A la Carte magazine , the glossy guide to fashionable guzzling , was neatly caught twixt correct positions in just one issue . |
| 26 | Thus , in the vital days before September 1939 , not only had prime arrangements been undertaken in connection with aircraft and tanks , but the organisation had been laid down for the ready assembly of ambulance trains and casualty evacuation trains and , through the Mechanical and Electrical Engineers ' Consultative Committee , which was formed in the abortive crisis of September 1938 , to advise the Railway Executive Committee on matters pertaining to Railway Workshops , rolling stock and electrical undertakings . |
| 27 | Not only had many esoterics died there ( and he did n't enjoy the proximity of death unless he 'd been its bringer ) , but the Retreat was a passing place between the Fifth Dominion and the other four , including , of course , the home from which he was in permanent exile . |
| 28 | Looking along that wall , I not only had four redstarts in full view in my binoculars , but three cuckoos as well : it was that sort of a day . |
| 29 | But all this is a different story , for the bomber aircrews not only had better aircraft to take the war to Berlin , they had better navigational aids , better weaponry , the Pathfinder Force , radio counter-measures , better planning and a host of other factors to make them more effective . |
| 30 | Members of the Great and Good appointed to these bodies not only had similar backgrounds and education , but acceptance of the job , with its admission to a distinguished club , involved adopting if not identical views , at least a similar perspective . |