Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This rather cooled their high spirits , because Missenden 's failure to do what was required of him about some case of ecclesiastical preferment was criticized . |
| 2 | He came forward speaking softly but this only made it worse , for she came at him again , this time so viciously that , thinking she might hurt herself , he backed away across the path towards the benches . |
| 3 | Alexander sought the advice of numerous doctors and voice trainers who gave him different medicines or voice exercises , but this only brought him temporary relief . |
| 4 | The payment of the state non-contributory old age pension from 1909 gave elderly people a right to an income from the state , quite independent of the vicissitudes of the labour market , and this obviously increased their financial independence . |
| 5 | This also made it easier to note any harmful side effects of medication and ensure compliance with treatment . |
| 6 | Many lower-level managers found MINIS time-consuming and unhelpful , while some also found it difficult to depict their work accurately . |
| 7 | The Monopoly and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) report in 1992 concluded that AEA 's commercial business activities now rested ‘ uneasily in the public sector ’ since this inevitably constrained our entrepreneurial activities . |
| 8 | ‘ This really shook me this morning although I am getting over it a bit now , ’ she said yesterday . |
| 9 | He took no share of the Church lands for himself , and his generous entertaining often caused him financial difficulties . |
| 10 | She was easily distracted by any noise , particularly if there was a chance it was food or another bird calling , and this sometimes made it difficult for me to make her concentrate on what I thought she should be doing . |
| 11 | This again had its useful side if one was choosing clothes for oneself . |
| 12 | And yet this too had its agreeable counterpart ; their boats , however much in need of repair , had not gone down . |
| 13 | But that just made it worse . |
| 14 | Sabine still found it astonishing that the family were n't making more use of the legend to promote their wine . |
| 15 | Three o'clock found them ready and waiting , arrayed in their most festive attire . |
| 16 | The same process went on in every town and city ; the opening of a prestigious down-town house symbolized a social acceptance of movies amidst the fashionable down-town set but also created new standards and expectations which permeated downwards to other venues and these gradually made it easier for a number of managers to pull in women , children , families , and the respectable classes . |
| 17 | ( 4 ) The three male singers who performed these six roles all normally sang something other than soprano parts . |
| 18 | From the 1570s onwards , even in the conservative south-west of the country , statements by testators which indicate a belief in solafidianism appeared regularly in the preambles of large numbers of wills , although the comments which the same testators made when leaving bequests to charities suggest that many still found it difficult to appreciate that good works could play absolutely no part in their salvation . |
| 19 | If most early seventeenth-century English Protestants regarded Roman Catholics as their arch-enemies , a good many also saw their fellow Protestants within continental Europe as natural friends and allies . |
| 20 | Tala-Tala even had its own home-made harbour , a kind of inner lagoon in the outer lagoon , obviously a laboriously built , three-sided breakwater , in which I assumed that every stone must have been carried by hand or on rollers to afford protection for the boats it enclosed . |
| 21 | Shaw , Black and Lulu all cheekily carved their own slices of the cake before they reached the matronly age of eighteen . |
| 22 | Rumania , Montenegro and Serbia all therefore had their national independence recognized . |
| 23 | And now , I I almost felt empty when she died , and I did n't have anybody to care for that really needed me all the time so I I , wanted to help out at a local dementia centre to try and make up for it and to pass on |
| 24 | Those so denied their cushy jobs will be suitable miffed and less likely to care about slagging us off , or what we do . |
| 25 | But England could do nothing with the advantage because of the ferocity and speed with which the Irish forwards hammered whichever luckless Englishman was left to tidy up the tap . |
| 26 | The embittered schism of the Donatists in North Africa from 311 onwards brought him sharp disappointment . |
| 27 | If the use of political anti-semitism can be seen as a crucial stage in the decline of the BUF from a national movement to a localized racial populist organization , then its attempt to resurrect its political pretensions in the Peace Campaign of 1938 — 40 merely hastened its inevitable total destruction . |
| 28 | The UK on Feb. 23 formally lifted its voluntary ban on new investment in South Africa and the promotion of tourism , unilaterally breaking EC agreements on sanctions , on the grounds that this would encourage further internal reforms in South Africa . |
| 29 | He said the uncertainty of the election date believed to be April 9 also made it difficult for candidates to organise their activities . |
| 30 | Among the ‘ observers ’ , the Orthodox now had something more like their own teaching on Tradition than from any previous Western Council . |