Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dissolution of CENTO left ASEAN as the primary multilateral body of states in Asia predominantly oriented towards the Western powers in its security outlook and ties . |
| 2 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 3 | There was a red light up , and he was stopped by a policeman as he reached the opposite pavement and duly asked for the appropriate number of marks . |
| 4 | In fact it rarely met in the 1920s . |
| 5 | An important phase in this was achieved in the diplomatic efforts initiated by the Red Cross Resolution of 1965 which eventually led to the 1977 Geneva Protocols , discussed in the previous section . |
| 6 | And er we , we did n't do an awful lot on commercial later on , we gave up that er thing we , we mostly concentrated on the private cars . |
| 7 | In February 1974 the original lessee assigned the lease to the second defendant , a company , which duly entered into the required covenant directly with the landlord . |
| 8 | The issue rarely surfaced in the showery south-east until a string of droughts in the 1980s . |
| 9 | True to recent form Omagh conceded a first-half goal , and late in the game two more , as the Crues won a match which rarely rose above the mediocre . |
| 10 | The danger and the extra effort needed to shoe a colt for the first time was recognized by a custom called in some districts of East Anglia by the term First Nail which presumably referred to the violent shock the first nail would give to the colt . |
| 11 | Blue eyeshadow , much reviled for the past five years , is back at Chanel , Lancôme and Rubinstein and has never been out at Lauder — Mrs Lauder is a firm believer in the power of blue . |
| 12 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 13 | I he opportunity for doing so arose in the Middle East . |
| 14 | In the late 1960s it only applied to the clearing banks . |
| 15 | Martin O'Neill only got to the eighth frame in his match against Mark Rowing . |
| 16 | He not only got through the first round but he reached the final again ! |
| 17 | I only got inside the front door cos it 's Tuesday night her night in the kitchen , so I went back home and he did n't half swear at me , he said you bloody well go again you want your head tested , I could have cried I thought oh well cos I did n't feel like rushing around |
| 18 | The decline of Woodstock relative to Oxford merely led to the increasing importance of the present main road . |
| 19 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 20 | It worked out and then they only lived in the other half while they were doing it , was n't it ? |
| 21 | In the tenth century the Kiev merchants used to half-drag , half-row their small boats , monoxyla , past the Dnieper rapids on the way to the Byzantine markets , constantly menaced by the ferocious Pecheneg people inhabiting the southern steppes . |
| 22 | And I never much cared for the bumptious , muscular side of The Smiths , so I welcome the spaciness Vini Reilly brings as new guitarist , whether it 's the lurid wig-out of ‘ Alsatian Cousin' or the dew-and-moonbeam iridescence of ‘ Late Night , Maudlin Street ’ . |
| 23 | He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design . |
| 24 | Arrears on direct taxes , and especially redemption dues , constantly rose despite the harshest punitive measures , including flogging and property confiscation . |
| 25 | ‘ But we were all so stupidly purist then , which obviously changed over the next couple of years , with Peter writing material like Man Of The World and Albatross . |
| 26 | The number of kin living together rose during the early industrial period ( up to the middle of the nineteenth century ) and remained fairly constant thereafter . |
| 27 | He very much objected to the inevitable contraction of Nicandra to Nico , which seemed to him common . |
| 28 | I only came across the 1936 front page because it was hanging framed on the right-hand wall of old Pierre Gemayel 's office when I went to talk to him in the summer of 1982 in east Beirut . |
| 29 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 30 | One view put forward by A. G. Dickens in the mid-1960s held that because Protestantism greatly appealed to the many lay people who had been alienated by the formalistic , clerically dominated Catholicism of the later middle ages , the Protestantization of the country was achieved very quickly . |