Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For so long dedicated Microsoft Windows users had very few decent database packages to choose from . |
| 2 | Even where differences in fork depth are slight , these are consistently associated with greater sexual dimorphism in the tails of more deeply forked species ( Wilcoxon test across N=8 family pairs : z corr =2.52 , 1-tailed P=0.006 ) . |
| 3 | There seems little likelihood of this occurring in the case of executive directors , at least unless the risk of liability were to increase massively , but a reduction in the supply of more modestly remunerated non-executives is not implausible . |
| 4 | I 've just had a thought — maybe our Mr Kelly is a relation of that much loved FA official Graham … it would explain his lack of brains anyway . |
| 5 | I 've just had a thought — maybe our Mr Kelly is a relation of that much loved FA official Graham … it would explain his lack of brains anyway . |
| 6 | The advantages and disadvantages of very finely grained criteria are discussed in the next section . |
| 7 | The radio was on , whatever it was that shrieked was at it full-blast , and from somewhere upstairs came music that sounded as if it proceeded from a violin . |
| 8 | Later , Cole comes near to conceding the point : ‘ in the eighties , Trade Unionism and Consumer Co-operation went on their several ways , each shedding much of its earlier idealism and each settling down to consolidate its position within somewhat narrowly delineated fields ’ , which will do as an anodyne description but which , in suppressing the pain , obscures the diagnosis . |
| 9 | Observations : Paradoxically , in this far flung Applecross region of the North West Highlands , this is a south facing , roadside crag . |
| 10 | The return leg was into the wind and included a 2 mile drag from Nutts Corner roundabout on the Belfast Road and Evans , turning his 100 inch fixed gear clawed back to once again beat McCann by 8 seconds with a time of 21.32 . |
| 11 | In 1859 he built the first of his 2–2–2 type express locomotives , two of which took part in the railway ‘ race ’ between east- and west-coast companies from London to Edinburgh in 1888 , and in 1863 he developed the 2–4–0 type for use over more heavily graded routes . |
| 12 | ‘ For how long did Ted Mosse live in Mouncy Street ? ’ |
| 13 | He made it at 9.30pm yet heard Mr Gilbey tell Diana he was about to meet friends for dinner . |
| 14 | Even in the early years of the nineteenth century the middle-class streets had ‘ prospects ’ of the country and the older working-class houses at least still had gardens . |
| 15 | " A plague such as never before ravaged England in this year . |