Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , we apparently only came to some understanding of how the heart worked when we had within our conceptual framework the notion of a pump . |
| 2 | Europe has a destiny to fulfil , and in years to come it will become apparent that the best Europe is one which rejects interventionist mediocrity in favour of a European Community which will deliver the promise of a higher standard of living and political pre-eminence so justly deserved by all Europeans . |
| 3 | The proportion of retired skilled workers who did so prematurely fell between these two at 79 per cent . |
| 4 | To find it so utterly demystified by these modern religions keen to allow people of today to understand … it really appals me . |
| 5 | Other commentators , much more discomfited by these details than their colleagues , have suggested that the storyteller means the birds were flying three feet above the ground when they were caught ! |
| 6 | The result of this discordance is the map of continuing unemployment , only gradually moderated by net migration from industrial areas ( Chapter 4 ) . |
| 7 | We 've heard , so eloquently said by many of my comrades tonight , about the problems right across the sectors affecting and I congratulate each and every one on their contribution tonight . |
| 8 | It was revived in the exceptional circumstances of late 1016 , and perhaps also envisaged in 1035 , during the succession dispute which followed Cnut 's death , when Mercians were ranged against West Saxons . |
| 9 | The only clue so far discovered of any value to a possible dating of his return is the fact that , according to Bursali Mehmed Tahir , there exists a copy of one of his most famous works , the written in his own hand , presented to Mehmed II , and dated 878/1473–4 it would not thus be unreasonable to suppose that Molla Husrev wrote the copy especially for Mehmed II , this in turn suggesting that by 878 Molla Husrev had made up his quarrel with the sultan and had perhaps returned to Istanbul . |
| 10 | Film was an illusion and , as Charmion Von Wiegard so convincingly argued in 1936 , the art of Chaplin was ‘ built entirely on illusion and fantasy ’ . |
| 11 | As mentioned previously , this so often happened with monotonous and maddening frequency during operations , but luckily radio contact was regained in the nick of time and the message was passed that Margate seemed the most likely landing spot . |
| 12 | Doubtless at the time of the wool barons the church had a full congregation , but the economic tide had long ago receded from this part of the world . |
| 13 | Even this century has produced stubborn opponents of the view that the library was either burnt in one of Moscow 's fires , or that the books were long ago dispersed to other libraries , or that , in reality , there never was such a library . |
| 14 | The majority of the other group of mainstream Protestants , so frequently castigated by these Puritans , held fast to an alternative religious outlook which , if perhaps more relaxed , was often no less valid or deeply felt . |
| 15 | Emily only then took in that the others were not swimming at all but standing on the bottom , and that the reason she was worn out from treading water was that she was a good eight or twelve inches shorter than the rest . |
| 16 | It will be argued in this chapter that their prideful belief in the capacity to influence , so vividly expressed and so evidently vindicated in Indirect Rule , led the British on to fatal experiment in more and more attenuated forms of imperial control . |
| 17 | So Spurs getting the lead they so dearly wanted after all their upsets of recent weeks , but back came United in the eighteenth minute , Les Phillips sent Nogan free over the halfway line and Eric Torsville had to race from his line to hack the ball into the stand . |
| 18 | His own contribution was sober and only occasionally spiced with alternative wit . |
| 19 | Man is a primarily a tropical animal , only recently arrived in polar regions . |
| 20 | Well , I was already in and he came in and just erm I was here and he just suddenly came round that way and he sat down next to Louise and and he said how are you ? |
| 21 | Well they normally just packed with some sort of wadding , I du n no . |
| 22 | On her return to London , she was welcomed by Vera Brittain , who was now married , into a household soon further enlivened by two children , to whom Holtby became a beloved ‘ aunt ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , nothing got decided , we just provisionally concurred with each other . |
| 24 | Another was the transformation of many such bodies , already heavily subsidized from public funds , into de facto agencies of the state , which financed them and indirectly determined their policy . |
| 25 | Yeah , what 's that got to do with it I said I , you know , just never heard of that well there you are then , |
| 26 | Yeah , I know , but this is not Home Alone died in real life ! |
| 27 | That means 13 million cars , more than half the total in Britain , could easily be running on unleaded fuel now , yet sales of unleaded six months after the budget still only amounted to 20 per cent of total fuel revenue . |
| 28 | But , I hear the man never captained England , and hardly ever appeared at international level . |
| 29 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 30 | In the south they were either pagan or more probably belonged to that archaic South Arabian form of Judaism which is still held by the Falashas . |