Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | What if a mutant gene arose that just happened to have an effect , not upon something obvious like eye colour or curliness of hair , but upon meiosis itself ? |
| 2 | But the Hilder revealed itself , running down like a tinsel thread , crossed at one point by stepping stones , at another by the massive stone pillars that once had supported an aqueduct bringing water to the buildings of the Goughdale Mine . |
| 3 | He was the manliest fellow that ever tried to pull an effete society together . |
| 4 | The apparatus that emerged from the period of constitutional ferment that now ensued featured an elected national assembly ( Majles ) as before ; a Revolutionary Council composed of senior clerics and some lay figures involved in the Shah 's overthrow ; a president of the republic ; and a Council of Guardians , whose task was to pronounce upon the Islamic qualities of any candidate for office and on any proposed course of action . |
| 5 | This was why they had n't caught on to the idea of the ground being curved , not flat — and so had to invent an imaginary force to explain what was going on . |
| 6 | Nevertheless he was fond of Kylie and still wanted to have an evening out if they could manage it despite the attention of the ever-present photographers . |
| 7 | Indeed , it was something of a typically topsy-turvy but none the less gritty performance from Durie , who missed a match point at 5-3 and then had to wait an hour to complete the encounter after rain fell at the end of the ninth game . |
| 8 | By using arcs struck about the assembly points and passing through the other attachment points on the intermediate link , the member may be Positioned initially to a chosen point on the locus of point P ( see Figure 7.42 ) and then rotated to generate an attachment point on the locus of point Q ( link C ) . |