Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent history of educational innovation , from Nuffield and mixed ability onwards , shows that unless change is generated and/or wholeheartedly appropriated by teachers it will end up on the mounting scrap-heap of ‘ good ideas that never quite took off ’ . |
| 2 | A man she had never seen before or since came at night . |
| 3 | Two events , which more or less coincided with Geikie 's retiral , had a profound effect on the future of the Survey . |
| 4 | It 's possible to trace George Michael back to the colourmotion , the white funk irony that more or less began with ABC and spawned a straight , bleached-out generation of Howard Jones and ( eventually ) the Hues , Wets , Styles and Curiositys ad nauseam . |
| 5 | You more or less stood to attention . . |
| 6 | One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 . |
| 7 | Duhem is suggesting that individual non-observation sentences can not be conclusively verified or conclusively falsified by observation , by the evidence of our senses . |
| 8 | I 've climbed or just walked in Range West on many occasions . |
| 9 | Topaz could have expressed some brief regret , or simply shrugged in helplessness , but she did n't . |
| 10 | In Carlist territory monasteries were restored : in liberal Spain they became farms , barracks , schools , ministries , or simply fell into ruins . |
| 11 | Those denied an education remained in hospitals without any form of mental stimulation or simply stayed at home ; a few attended ‘ junior ’ training centres . |
| 12 | I think it 's very good policy , there 's many people policy , who are in our homes , who would give anything to have been able to have stayed in their own homes , or maybe stayed with relatives , but erm , they need the help and care in their homes . |
| 13 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 14 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 15 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 16 | At first many counties established county-wide committees , but these either degenerated into battlegrounds for county/district rivalries or else atrophied through lack of business ( Alexander 1982a:37 — 8 ; 58 — 9 ) . |
| 17 | Other bolts raced away into the night or else caroomed off vitrodur surfaces . |
| 18 | This followed a spate of incidents in which the ubiquitous Lenin statues had been toppled , blown up or otherwise vandalized in towns across the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | During deeper burial , the intergranular and intragranular pores have been partially or completely occluded by anhydrite cement at some localities ( Fig. 16b ) . |
| 20 | In contrast , most Whigs and Nonconformists ( who had remained in England ) either kept quiet or actively collaborated with James . |
| 21 | Blue Boar was dropped and replaced by Blue Steel Mk 1 , an inertially guided cruise missile with a range of 100 nautical miles that eventually came into service with the V Force in 1962 as part of Britain 's Independent Nuclear Deterrent . |
| 22 | And that only lasted from mid-February to late April . |
| 23 | As a result , Earl Robert had not been the only valuable prisoner taken , a fact that obviously rankled with Matilda . |
| 24 | He himself had not needed that legitimation in 1958 , because of the special relationship that already existed between General de Gaulle and France . |
| 25 | All thoughts of where they were and what was happening fled abruptly as she stared at him with a shock that soon turned to joy as she saw the expression on his face . |
| 26 | But as the pony trotted on under the cloud-filled November sky the voice that soon stole into Abie Klugman 's mind was not from his past or his future , but from his present . |
| 27 | The communist regime that finally fell from power last week was , in many respects , a repetition of Amanullah on a grander , and far bloodier , scale : the war provoked by the 1978 ‘ revolution ’ , and the reaction to it have left up to a million dead , a third of the 16-million population displaced . |
| 28 | Although more women than ever ran for office , there was no net change in the level of female representation . |
| 29 | Famous finds made by the use of Garrett machines include the ‘ Hand of Faith ’ nugget uncovered from an Australian goldfield ; and the Middleham Jewel a pendant that once belonged to Richard III . |
| 30 | The best topographic candidates for volcanic activity of Mercury are a handful of small rimless craters and certain ridges that could be solidified lava that once rose from fissures . |