Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [vb past] [art] [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 | So that cost an awful lot of money because he was on a grant of course and he , he spent er about a year as a trainee teacher and we thought that was great because he was , he was dealing with , with er |
| 3 | I was very happy to see how much this pleased the young man . |
| 4 | Perhaps this meant no more than that he believed the propaganda , the lies and the flatter of those who surrounded him ; still , his belief had been complete . |
| 5 | Obviously this caused a great deal of distress for all concerned , not least the hospital team . |
| 6 | Together these measured the majoritarian-consensual dimension . |
| 7 | Why have so many left the older urban cores ? |
| 8 | Although not all had a continuous existence , Miss Green figured in their formation , or revival , often through providing or arranging introductory , short or Terminal courses to arouse interest and create student groups . |
| 9 | Why has everyone forgotten we were 4th the year before ( above scum ) , and the year before that won the 2nd division ? |
| 10 | It 's something you use to get you from A to B , I guess , and right now that seemed a long way to me . |
| 11 | Correspondingly this affected the basic balance , i.e. the current balance plus the balance of long-term capital flow . |
| 12 | Inevitably this meant a higher subscription . |
| 13 | About half hit the comic mark . |
| 14 | Originally this enclosed the medieval interior of the cathedral but it was transferred to its present location in 1924 . |
| 15 | Only one investigation took into account the patient 's alcohol history ; interestingly this showed a shorter duration of intake in cirrhotic patients with HLA-B8/DR3 compated with those without this haplotype . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Nearly half the bottom band drew a parallel line , not a perpendicular one , and as many drew a diagonal line when asked for one at right angles . |
| 18 | When we say and we 've often said it , well we could do with this , we could do with that like we used to say , we wanted the swimming pool well that cost an awful lot of money ! |
| 19 | Not surprisingly this produced a strong counter-reaction . |
| 20 | Even this produced no evident response . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Lehmann , watching , saw how that impressed the young men , but it was only half true . |
| 23 | At first a few individuals left off talking , then this engendered a positive feedback , more people heard the gathering soundlessness and responded to it so that whole tiers shut up . |
| 24 | Undoubtedly this proved the right choice , if for the wrong reasons . |
| 25 | Initially this left the larger machines , with consoles scattered around on the end of RS232 cables , somewhat behind . |
| 26 | Even more difficult to establish is the relative economic importance of individual small towns in the regional and urban hierarchy to what extent was a small town or village dependent on its major neighbours , and how much did the larger towns and cities rely on supplies from the former ? |
| 27 | How many got the first one right ? |
| 28 | Neither came of anything but the most commonplace , workaday material ; yet each hid an adventurous spirit and surprising resources beneath her utilitarian exterior . |
| 29 | The traditional date for the raising was Whit Tuesday but because so many men are required to help , the date was changed to the new fixed Spring Bank Holiday when this replaced the moveable feast of Whitsuntide . |
| 30 | Yet this added the one element of excitement to yesterday 's speech by the Health Secretary , introducing the second reading of the NHS Bill . |