Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this did n't sound good . |
| 2 | But sexual jealousy of an unsatisfactory husband 's former wife — this did n't seem likely : Viola 's own love-life , Greg guessed , had been varied enough for her to ignore any previous entanglements of her second husband 's . |
| 3 | This did not exclude close if unequal personal relations any more than it did in slave societies . |
| 4 | Though analysts remain sceptical on whether interest rate cuts will lead to a rapid revival in the housing market , this did not prevent strong gains being made in the sector . |
| 5 | This did not prevent subsequent British complaints that they had been let down by Washington . |
| 6 | Although this did not attain statistical significance in individual groups , the proportion of γ-interferon expressing intra epithelial lymphocytes in untreated coeliacs was only 25% of the value found in normal mucosa and a similar reduction was found in other groups with mucosal pathology ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 7 | The cost of housing construction , and particularly the cost of the associated public utilities , was usually higher in rural areas , although this did not deter private developers whose houses usually needed the same facilities . |
| 8 | He knew , from reading the newspapers , that there was a wide stratum of society for whom this did not hold true . |
| 9 | It has been suggested that Crohn 's disease gives rise to a relatively enhanced production of IgG2 compared with IgG1 , but this did not hold true when we compared immunohistochemical data from our present and previous study with controls . |
| 10 | As anticipated , patients with untreated coeliac disease had an increased density of CD45+ intra epithelial lymphocytes compared with disease controls ( although this did not reach statistical significance ) , as did patients on a gluten free diet with abnormal histology ( Table ) . |
| 11 | In fact , there was a trend towards a greater likelihood of requiring hepatic transplantation , although this did not reach statistical significance . |
| 12 | Although there was a trend of higher synthesis of LTB 4 in those NSAID subjects with endoscopic evidence of more severe mucosal injury this did not reach statistical significance . |
| 13 | The mean wave frequency was 2.36 c/min ( range 0.1–12.4 ) with the higher values occurring during the prandial periods ( Table I ) , although this did not reach statistical significance . |
| 14 | In support of this we also found that PGE 2 synthesis was increased in patients with dyspepsia compared with patients without symptoms although this did not reach statistical significance . |
| 15 | This did not make happy reading in Noel Murphy 's end of tour managerial report . |
| 16 | The early astrozoologists , hauled back from their long dangle by enormous teams of slaves , were able to bring back much information about the shape and nature of A'Tuin and the elephants but this did not resolve fundamental questions about the nature and purpose of the universe . |
| 17 | Kim had no intention of being anyone 's puppet but this did not become clear until the later 1950s and 1960s . |
| 18 | The Forum has tried to collect views through a biennial request to individual organisations and associations to bring forward suggested areas for research but this did not prove fruitful . |
| 19 | This did not prove possible , but all the same the camp was soon in full swing . |
| 20 | Except in the mountainous Balkans , this did not prove possible : and it has more recently been argued that resistance was ‘ seldom effective , sometimes stultifying , frequently dangerous , and almost always too costly ’ . |
| 21 | The first meeting place was above a cafe in Newgate Street in the City of London , but this did not prove satisfactory and they then met on a weekly basis at another cafe near Marble Arch . |
| 22 | He insisted that this did not imply French dependence on foreign technology . |
| 23 | This was seen as a first step towards integrating the Soviet economy with international financial institutions , although this did not permit Soviet participation in GATT 's current multilateral Uruguay Round of trade discussions . |
| 24 | The window was barred on the outside but this did not seem unreasonable as there was only one thin wall of barbed wire as defence for the whole camp . |
| 25 | The Club obviously preferred to have a public supply but this did not seem easy to arrange for the Minutes frequently talk about ‘ bringing pressure to bear on the Water Companies ’ . |
| 26 | As both parents spoke to him in Punjabi for most of the time this did not seem surprising . |
| 27 | Even so , this did not provide sufficient manpower , together with that of France , to contain the German Army of millions of conscripted levies . |
| 28 | He was such a two-faced little man that finding these hysterically funny did n't feel wrong . |
| 29 | In the early 1930s , IBM developed the first modern accounting machine , which was designed for banks , but banks in 1933 did not buy new equipment . |
| 30 | Some do not offer good prospects . |