Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [subord] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will have noted that this has more than doubled between 1983 and 1984 , and increased again in 1985 . |
| 2 | Spring is generally the season in which to sow , but some germinate better if sown in late summer or early autumn , that is , as soon as the parent plants have flowered and set seed , and the seed has ripened . |
| 3 | The tone of the cymbals played thus is much inferior to that produced when a cymbal can be held so that both are free to vibrate equally when clashed together . |
| 4 | ‘ . When the signatories said that he or she would be prepared to enter into a deed to formalise the situation , they were not postponing the legal effect of the document or reserving a final view but merely saying that they would be willing to do so if required , ie record in a more formal way the transactions which had already been made . |
| 5 | By 1979 this had more than doubled ( Social Survey Division , OPCS , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | During 1930 the total of unemployed had more than doubled to 2,600,000 . |
| 7 | She must know that , by any standards , the number of people in London who have been impoverished since 1979 has more than doubled . |
| 8 | These performed just as required , with pious platitudes followed by prevaricating and tut-tutting in a most gratifying manner . |
| 9 | Despite the weather the blast-off went ahead as planned . |
| 10 | The figure for 1992 has more than doubled to 1,100 . |
| 11 | Crookes took up Faraday 's work on the passage of electricity through gases , and was excited by a passage in an early lecture of Faraday 's where he had speculated that there might be a ‘ fourth state of matter ’ simpler than the gaseous , just as gases are simpler than liquids ; they all expand alike when heated , for example . |
| 12 | Anybody who thought that P90s were a little bit old hat would be sure to think again when confronted with this guitar , because they sound just right . |
| 13 | The number of Darlington firms going bust has more than doubled in the last two years . ’ |
| 14 | They agreed to extract oil quickly , but argued they would not be able to do so if hindered by trifling safety regulations that applied to on-shore industries . |
| 15 | Some are even reluctant to respond positively when approached directly by another prospective employer . |
| 16 | It 's the only one in Worcestershire — other real ale breweries set up in the county during the nineteen eighties have all since closed down . |
| 17 | It sought , as the Collor government had done , to open up the economy to foreign competition ( a new round of import tariff cuts scheduled for Oct. 1 went ahead as scheduled ) and would maintain existing privatization and deregulation programmes , although the involvement of Congress was now expected when the privatization of " strategic " companies was contemplated . |
| 18 | Ellis and Shepherd ( 1974 ) first drew attention to this but a number of experiments by Young and his colleagues have failed to show any influence of age of acquisition of words on dichotic listening ( Young and Ellis , 1980 ) or tachistoscopic hemifield asymmetry ( Ellis and Young , 1977 ; Young and Bion , 1980b ) even when it is the age at which words are first read rather than heard that is under investigation ( Young , Bion and Ellis , 1982 ) . |
| 19 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 20 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years , with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 21 | The question is difficult to answer especially when complicated by the possibility of re-use . |
| 22 | But ironically the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts in the 1880s accentuated rather than diminished this tendency , for police and judicial measures , combined with the efforts of moral reformers , were making ever clearer that distinction between respectable and unrespectable behaviour . |
| 23 | By 1987 the number accepted as homeless had more than doubled to 118,000 . |
| 24 | He would have been happier with a committee , but the owners , of whom several rented rather than owned their boats , were not of the substance from which committees are formed . |
| 25 | The sterling bond market apart from gilt-edged had all but ceased to exist . |
| 26 | A further factor responsible for injecting money into the economy had been an increase in foreign investment which in 1989 had more than doubled . |
| 27 | Both preserve well if glycerined ( see panel ) . |
| 28 | THE ‘ shop till I drop ’ syndrome evident in the 1980s has all but left the scene and , as increasing waves of redundancy hit all ranks — and officers — a more penny-pinching approach is in order . |
| 29 | Under the guise of meeting some of its obligations due to the Australian government under its ‘ partnership for development programme ’ — where foreign multi-nationals must reinvest some of their profits back into Australian industry — Sun Microsystems Inc has all but embraced its two technology pariahs , X-terminals and the Motif interface . |
| 30 | She said nothing , but the anger was still there , ready to burn brightly if needed . |