Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is anatomical basis of this orientation selectivity ? ( personal communication ) suggests an answer which is reminiscent of that proposed by to account for the ability of octopuses to recognize spatial patterns . |
| 2 | This became increasingly focused on the anti-Liberal , anti-Prussian and anti-semitic elements in the Die-hard tradition , which was elaborated in a simplistic conspiracy theory . |
| 3 | Three or four dropped into the darkness and choc ice wrappers , dead ; a few fluttered aimlessly to rest around us ; some took off into the vast space above . |
| 4 | García went underground and issued calls for national resistance , but this found little echo on the streets , and subsequent opinion polls suggested that Fujimori retained the overwhelming confidence of the public . |
| 5 | A few tried vainly to coalesce into a hardier entity . |
| 6 | This involved mainly work on UN documents relating to UN peace-keeping activities ; debates in the General Assembly and the Security Council ; meetings and reports of the Human Rights Commission and the Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and the protection of minorities ; and the work of specialised agencies such as UNESCO and the UNDP . |
| 7 | This helped enormously to develop in the public mind the idea that ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was a place where idealized longings for rural relics could be indulged , where clothes with bustles , tiers , smock aprons , frills and puffed sleeves could be found . |
| 8 | More than eight out of 10 consumers , out of a sample of about 1,500 , said their consumption of meat and fish was unaffected by health considerations and 60% did not care about calories , while more than half claimed not to worry about calories , while more than half claimed not to worry about salt , sugar or caffeine . |
| 9 | Much later , in 1975 , the Lebanese chose not to refer to this period . |
| 10 | The faithful went on believing despite all rational argument . |
| 11 | Although George III 's government behaved generously to their recent enemies , the French felt hard done by . |
| 12 | Or — and this thought only occurred to me when I was out on the street and running for the hill as fast as I could — as if there was something else behind his eyes , looking out at the world , waiting for the awful moment when it would start to take apart our little corner of the planet , piece by shabby piece . |
| 13 | The towpath proper did n't start until a few yards further down where it angled away from the road and followed the river ; here it was marked by a narrow strip of waterside grass and trees that would immediately raise the cost of any overlooking property by at least ten thousand . |
| 14 | But his main point was that the English did not settle in Gascony : ‘ no colonial dependency of England ’ , he concluded , ‘ has ever offered a similar parallel , nor , it may safely be said , ever will . |
| 15 | In those circumstances , the judge held that the provisions in the legislation of 1985 did not apply in the present case which continued to be governed by the Act of 1957 . |
| 16 | This did n't matter to us , as we were putting in new pipework . |
| 17 | When this did n't lead to anything , Rosette continued , ‘ They 'll be so sorry they missed you . ’ |
| 18 | Then , since this did n't appear to be enough either he hurried on , ‘ Her nephew is a police cadet . |
| 19 | No , this did n't look like our kind of thing at all . |
| 20 | This did n't help at all . |
| 21 | Interestingly , this did n't translate into a great database benchmark in the What Personal Computer Power Tests , although it still returned an overall score of around 14,500 . |
| 22 | This did n't sound like marketing hype ; there was genuine excitement in his voice . |
| 23 | This did n't happen during a single eruption , of course ; the individual flows average only ten metres thick , so many hundreds of individual flows are piled up one on top of the other , covering an area of about 130,000 square kilometres . |
| 24 | This did n't happen in the ‘ good old days ’ . |
| 25 | Are you sure this did n't happen in your study ? |
| 26 | Are you sure this did n't happen in your study ? |
| 27 | Unfortunately , this did n't seem to be the right thing to say either . |
| 28 | And this did not stop with the Reformation for , ‘ by virtue of the very generous pensions they were granted when they surrendered their houses to the Crown , ex-abbots possessed ample means to found chantries … or to make bequests for soul-masses after death ’ . |
| 29 | This did not fit with the idea of ‘ collaborative activities ’ which we had set out with because we had formulated our questions in terms of the teacher 's decision making . |
| 30 | Those ‘ events ’ of primitive evolution which did not qualify as ‘ good ’ should not be termed ‘ bad ’ , but simply ‘ not good ’ , because ‘ bad ’ implies the existence of ‘ evil ’ , and this did not exist during the first two of the three periods into which this book assumes universal existence to be divided . |