Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus we have witnessed recently the end of an era here , with the closure of the studio complex in Windmill Lane , which for so long had set the trends . |
| 2 | Apart from Brooke , an obscure little house , all that survived of the medieval foundations of Rutland was the hospital , or almshouse , at Oakham , which only had goods worth 40s. : clearly its income of 20 marks only just sufficed to maintain the twelve poor inmates : Warden Gunby was no Septimus Harding . |
| 3 | He never left our shores and he only once ventured to cross the border into Scotland . |
| 4 | Or could a third party claim that it had never indicated dissent and only now wished to exercise the right ? |
| 5 | Britain 's passage through the ‘ demographic transition ’ in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , associated with rising life expectancy and falling fertility ( Chapter 3 ) , long ago began to change the nation 's age ‘ pyramid ’ into a rectangular shape . |
| 6 | Millwall just about deserved to take the spoils for their stirring second-half fightback and their performance must have cheered those fans who were furious at the £1m sale of forward Chris Armstrong to Crystal Palace . |
| 7 | Sunderland again rose to the occasion against better opposition and just about deserved to get the points to ease their relegation worries considerably . |
| 8 | One end of W is rapidly but delicately electrically vibrated allowing the writing head to make equally rapid , if intermittent , contact with the paper . |
| 9 | After several months of comparative quiet , the Sagawa Kyubin scandal re-erupted in August and once more appeared to threaten the existence of the administration of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa . |
| 10 | We shall look at a particular example and shall conclude that , when it comes to complexity and beauty of design , Paley hardly even began to state the case . |
| 11 | And , without television coverage to keep them honest , US newspaper and sports magazine editors once again chose to ignore the World Championship of one of the world 's most popular sports . |
| 12 | home bloody needed checking the lights ! |
| 13 | They also powerfully helped to shape the subsequent roles and responsibilities of the major providers during the period in the District . |
| 14 | Dean Acheson described Mossades as a " most conservative , rich , reactionary feudal-minded Persian , who also just happened to hate the British . " |
| 15 | He also always managed to see the good side of a person , and would defend them as he saw fit ( ie Rodolpho ) which shows a very christian type of behaviour . |
| 16 | Indeed , he probably even helped to draft the document ’ Britain 's New Deal in Europe ’ . |
| 17 | ( In this way the solidarity of the isolated culture — see p. 109 — was enhanced by the coal companies , who clearly then needed to manipulate the nature of that culture to their own ends . ) |
| 18 | On migration , erm I really just wanted to make the point that erm the structure plan and er as supported by the local council is really seeking to meet the needs of the resident population . |
| 19 | With even low-budget pictures like The Crying Game proving difficult to finance , is there really anywhere left to do the work he wants ? |
| 20 | Up on the flank of the Down the rabbits ' shadows were lying long across the thymy ground and the beeches on Ridgery Edge high above had caught the flat sun on their lettuce-green leaves . |
| 21 | Devlins Paddy did nothing special in his next three races but then suddenly seemed to get the hang of chasing over the barriers . |
| 22 | I took a last look round , then only had to kick the top edge of the kite up a little for it to take the wind and lift . |
| 23 | The quality of our people have to be second to none and so our only asset would again be sensible to ensure that the best people , that we recruited the best people and we retained the best people and we wanted to be profitable , wanted to be lean and mean , hungry and er any profitable organisation is going to be a better organisation as a result of improved profitability and we then finally wanted to improve the quality of our image out there in the market place , we were seen and at least that was I think the Department , certainly my perception we were seen er as being a sort of gentle giant out there . |
| 24 | East India Dock is now er , virtually fully utilized printing the Basildon papers in the daytime and the Financial Times at night and the Observer on Saturday night and we 've got high hopes of getting the contract to print the Japanese er , European edition of the Japanese daily and that , that will fill the morning slot so that really will be er , great utilization of , of that er installation . |
| 25 | He then twice conspired to overthrow the junta , and is unofficially considered to head the paramilitary death squad , the White Warrior Union . |
| 26 | Outwardly much appeared to remain the same . |
| 27 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 28 | The consequence was that the company no longer had to accept the market price for its products but could affect that price by varying the output of the product . |
| 29 | Having shown the sudden , deep interest , how could Mungo now claim that he no longer wanted to visit the stable ? |
| 30 | During the 18th Century Turnpike Trusts were set up , partly to build new roads , but mainly to maintain old ones , many of which were poorly surfaced and too badly rutted to carry the increasing traffic . |