Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | I think this happened in when did it happen this in between and Jericho , somewhere around that region , where was it |
2 | I 'm sure many of you would prefer to get your weekly social started rather than listen to me . |
3 | By 1979 this had more than doubled ( Social Survey Division , OPCS , 1981 ) . |
4 | During 1930 the total of unemployed had more than doubled to 2,600,000 . |
5 | Despite the weather the blast-off went ahead as planned . |
6 | It sought , as the Collor government had done , to open up the economy to foreign competition ( a new round of import tariff cuts scheduled for Oct. 1 went ahead as scheduled ) and would maintain existing privatization and deregulation programmes , although the involvement of Congress was now expected when the privatization of " strategic " companies was contemplated . |
7 | But ironically the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts in the 1880s accentuated rather than diminished this tendency , for police and judicial measures , combined with the efforts of moral reformers , were making ever clearer that distinction between respectable and unrespectable behaviour . |
8 | By 1987 the number accepted as homeless had more than doubled to 118,000 . |
9 | The sterling bond market apart from gilt-edged had all but ceased to exist . |
10 | A further factor responsible for injecting money into the economy had been an increase in foreign investment which in 1989 had more than doubled . |
11 | It was predictable whenever he was away from home — the stroll before bed — and they both knew better than to offer their company . |