Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That helped nearly halve losses to £79 million in the last six months |
| 2 | Moreover it is true that in one or two specific minor ways the express tried positively to limit serfdom — by ordering in 1781 that war prisoners were in future to become free men if they were converted to Orthodoxy ; and by reducing the possibilities which had hitherto existed of enserfment by marriage . |
| 3 | A groom ran forward to hold their horses while another ambled off to tell Sir Thomas of their arrival . |
| 4 | While he was deliberating , another thought suddenly struck Huy , and he leant over the edge of the trough , feeling the girl 's stomach and breasts . |
| 5 | However , this represented only outline approval , the Supreme Soviet moving to an article-by-article discussion which could still result in amendments . |
| 6 | The fact that she was free did n't alter Fen 's situation . |
| 7 | This did n't bother Kenny at all as he more or less ignored them and they did the same to him . |
| 8 | But this did n't deter Sam at all , and three days later he was pacing in the kitchen while Letty Carew and Jane Polwhele assisted his wife in the delivery of a daughter . |
| 9 | But this did n't deter fans who flocked just to catch a glimpse . |
| 10 | However the weather and other commitments meant this did n't take place until 3 August . |
| 11 | It 's in there because you ca n't have executive style cabinet government in local government unless you pay executive councillors executive salaries , it 's got nothing to do with the idea of you getting thirty five pounds rather than thirty three if we stay here all day erm I would just , I 'm really wisely advised to make one point er Mr er was c wondering why this did n't have majority support actually most of it did I think Mr will confirm that he and his colleagues were happy to support all of the proposed responses from A to J on page thirty and thirty one but were not happy with response B and I would like to er that erm that er when our responses do go forward it is made clear that apart from little paragraph B there was all party support because I really feel that our local authority associates need to know that and erm I hope that will be little B was er a piece that erm certainly I and my colleagues supported er , rather . |
| 12 | This did n't say Alistaire that I know and love . |
| 13 | This did not show men to be more lateralised visuo-spatially than women as would have been expected . |
| 14 | I referred his valet to Miss Kenton , but this did not prevent M. Dupont snapping his fingers at me every few hours to say : ‘ Butler ! |
| 15 | But this did not prevent assembly acceptance of the plan . |
| 16 | But this did not prevent Mrs Thatcher from exposing another potential problem in her Financial Times interview : accommodating a trading and reserve currency such as sterling within a mechanism where the Deutschemark has no serious challenger . |
| 17 | This did not prevent Minton 's relationship with Susan Einzig becoming , for her , one of the most important in her life and his positive influence on her as an artist endures to this day . |
| 18 | The mortar men were not trained as Heavy Weapons Troops would be later in the war , but this did not prevent Sergeant Ramsey from getting off a bomb that appeared to go down the hotel chimney , reportedly causing a dozen or more casualties . |
| 19 | But this did not prevent claims being made for motivational research and the like as extravagant as those made for corn cures and patent all-purpose medicines by the pedlars and mountebanks of time immemorial . |
| 20 | Yet this did not stop women artists coming to Surrealism in large numbers throughout the 1930s . |
| 21 | All this did not stop Alfred from being a Christian king ; indeed some of his recorded behaviour seems almost Quixotically forgiving . |
| 22 | This did not stop West Indies taking a firm grip on the match , as Greenidge reached 5,000 Test runs and Richards 6,000 , warming up for his achievement in the next match with 87. 312 all out was hardly the big total they would have wanted , but it was quite enough . |
| 23 | But this did not stop Yeltsin from making Grachev a hero and even proposing ( what was not yet properly in his gift ) the post of Soviet defence minister . |
| 24 | Workers in other public enterprises were also prevented from striking although this did not stop strikes by postal and railway workers . |
| 25 | Notwithstanding his own desire to deflate or remove Nasser , and his belief that Britain and France might with reason fear Nasser as a major long-term threat , this did not justify precipitate and premature action . |
| 26 | But this did not deter Mum who leaned out of the window . |
| 27 | The other LASMO drivers — Dave Fowler and Matt Whitelaw — also managed to keep up a blistering pace , but this did not deter Dave Brittan who finished well ahead of the field . |
| 28 | At 2250 hrs that evening Eighth Army confirmed in a signal to 5 Corps that they were to act in accordance with AFHQ 's ruling that they could hand over all the anti-Tito Yugoslavs so long as this did not involve use of force . |
| 29 | We found a small tendency for an earlier deterioration in cognitive function , with loss of speed and accuracy of the four choice reaction during the controlled hypoglycaemia induced by porcine insulin but this did not achieve significance . |
| 30 | This did not dispel rumours , however , that the resignation was part of an effort to clean up the image of the justice system . |