Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much later , in 1975 , the Lebanese chose not to refer to this period . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This did n't matter to us , as we were putting in new pipework . |
| 4 | When this did n't lead to anything , Rosette continued , ‘ They 'll be so sorry they missed you . ’ |
| 5 | Then , since this did n't appear to be enough either he hurried on , ‘ Her nephew is a police cadet . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , this did n't seem to be the right thing to say either . |
| 7 | He had dogged determination and was of undeviating rectitude , although this did not relate to any well-defined religious beliefs . |
| 8 | Fortunately this did not lead to complacency . |
| 9 | It was fortunate that this did not extend to people . |
| 10 | This did not appear to be the case . |
| 11 | This did not appear to be the case . |
| 12 | I was told that they receive three meals a day and a very small amount of payment , although this did not appear to be directly related to the amount of work they did . |
| 13 | For computer staff this did not appear to be so . |
| 14 | At one of the interviews where both an arts adviser and an administrator were present , differing views were expressed , but surprisingly , the ambiguity of this did not appear to be apparent to either interviewee . |
| 15 | He said this did not amount to a demand for a right of veto : ‘ The principle we stick to is that the PLO will be totally out of the picture . ’ |
| 16 | In practice , this did not prove to be the case . |
| 17 | And as the Conservative Party was already on its third leader within thirteen months , this did not begin to be likely . |
| 18 | Zoology was in an intensely experimental , laboratory-oriented phase , and this did not appeal to me . |
| 19 | Aylwin stated that this did not apply to the present Chief of the Armed Forces , Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , the former dictator , who was not due to retire until 1998 , but that it would " re-establish to future presidents of Chile a power which they would not wish to be denied " . |
| 20 | That this did not happen to princes was a mark of their ability . |
| 21 | Influence can also be exerted where the partnership is with a housing association , yet this did not seem to be happening . |
| 22 | This did not seem to me a reason for appointing a chairman ; it might be a reason for appointing some sort of official ; though in fact it would not be a sound reason for appointing anyone . |
| 23 | The Glovers stood around at a loss ; this did not seem to be the sort of place in which business could be carried on . |
| 24 | Chemiluminescence was also inhibited by indomethacin , but this did not seem to be related to inhibition of cyclo-oxygenase . |
| 25 | In a recently published randomised trial of hand sewn ileoanal anastomosis with mucosectomy v stapled anastomosis without mucosectomy , although the maximum resting anal pressure was significantly decreased after sutured endoanal ileoanal anastomosis when compared with a stapled anastomosis , this did not seem to adversely influence the functional outcome . |
| 26 | The structure of the databases in terms of input and output formats must have been identical or similar but this did not seem to be sufficiently argued , instead the plaintiff concentrated on an argument that the structure of the two programs must have been similar . |
| 27 | He said that although " the French did not agree to that issue initially … now we have managed to secure their agreement that we should remain in Eurodif as a shareholder in the company which enriches uranium " . |
| 28 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 29 | Michael Jordan of Cork Gully and Timothy Beer of Peat Marwick McLintock said they had recovered £13.2m of the missing deposits but £5.5m of this had already gone to liquidation costs and legal fees . |
| 30 | This had already happened to many birds of prey and there were still farmers around who believed that eagles took live lambs , though the evidence was very slight . |