Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that way the Court was perhaps the institution which most successfully stamped its imprint upon the ECSC , and in so doing built up a body of case law , an authority , and legitimacy that could serve as foundations for the future . |
| 2 | He had , too , a lot of paper work to deal with while in Tollemarche , and only rarely shared his Sunday supper with his son . |
| 3 | Only rarely did its opponents win a victory like that of George Norris , the progressive Republican Senator who successfully opposed government plans to sell off dams and nitrogen-processing plants at Muscle Shoals in the Tennessee Valley . |
| 4 | Only slowly did her heart-rate come down , and she was able to see that no lasting harm had been done . |
| 5 | She said she had never so much felt its presence , its immediacy , as lately . |
| 6 | The family , he maintains , has not so much lost its functions as it has become more specialized in its functions . |
| 7 | I hope that the constitution of the new SARFU will protect rugby 's new scheme of things from the power politics and feuding which for so long bedevilled our rugby . |
| 8 | I 'm not really a party-goer , so just popped my head in to bid my good nights , and hit the road home about 1 a.m . |
| 9 | So the message that a Mr Randolph Fields had telephoned to see if he was interested in buying one only mildly excited his curiosity . |
| 10 | The result was disappointing because it so patently contradicted his claim to be a truly national leader . |
| 11 | I only just reached my study before I was again burning and freezing with the violent passions of Hyde . |
| 12 | I only just taken his bike for him cos it went a bit rusty cos out the back and er could n't find then could we ? |
| 13 | You know when you , you only just started your school did n't you after Christmas ? |
| 14 | He was very worried about the rectal bleeding and believed that the consultant 's decision to admit him so quickly indicated his condition was serious . |
| 15 | Jane was no great cook , and did n't even enjoy it , but she had brought up a family of four , so quickly got her bearings in the kitchen , which was off the main circular room . |
| 16 | Only once did our guests mutiny and that was when I served up pastry soup . |
| 17 | My habit of going for long walking and cycling trips alone further exacerbated my reputation for oddness . |
| 18 | This view is essentially anthropomorphic ; we are mammals after all and it is perhaps comforting to think that our own distant relatives so directly proved their supremacy over slow-witted reptiles that had nothing to fight with but their bulk . |
| 19 | Only gradually did my colleagues and I come to realise that we were reporting on a social phenomenon — an aberration triggered by fear of being left behind in a pay race , aggravated by mounting greed and , finally , sustained by sheer bolshieness . |
| 20 | Sadly , I only ever saw my grandmother a couple of times so I never came to know her . |
| 21 | She strangled the reply which so nearly escaped her lips . |
| 22 | Although a notice inside clearly stated its capacity to carry three persons , he was secretly afraid that it would be inadequate to bear his vast bulk . |
| 23 | His importunities at times embarrassed or irritated Wilberforce , Stephen and Macaulay who all also doubted his judgement on some issues . |
| 24 | Flipping back through the pile of loose pages again , he looked for the words he had written about the dark-haired princess who had so generously , so openly acknowledged his presence , the girl to whom ( surely ) he would have been able to tell The Truth . |
| 25 | All the critics mentioned so far kept their criticism within certain limits . |
| 26 | I am sure that the House joins me , the hon. Member for Leyton and my hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge ( Mr. Shersby ) in expressing deepest sympathy to the families of the officers who so tragically lost their lives in the course of duty . |
| 27 | I was pleased we were talking about girls because I felt this was a subject where Andy 's two extra years did n't really count ; I was effectively the same age as him , and maybe I even knew more than he did because I mixed with girls every day and he only really knew his sister Clare . |
| 28 | When set up as a Novell 3.11 file server the DC-2031 cached IDE host card only really made its presence felt on the 128Kb Sequential Read Test , improving performance by about 15 per cent . |
| 29 | Even in rapport with his significator card Jaq only dimly remembered his mother and father . |
| 30 | Foucault identifies three reasons : first of all the ever-increasing importance of technology , secondly the place of rationalism in the optimism attached to the notion of ‘ revolution ’ — as well as in the despotism that so often followed its realization — and thirdly : |