Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the boys from amongst these pioneers went on to study Mathematics at Cambridge , with great success , to Daniels ' pride : J. G. Adshead of Caius College , who eventually became Professor of Mathematics at Dalhousie University , Nova Scotia , and W. L. Edge of Trinity College , who held a similar post in the University of Edinburgh . |
| 2 | This is not to say that all members of an epistemic sub-culture — say economics or anthropology or even nebulous professionally oriented clusterings of knowledge such as pharmacy or business studies subscribe to the dominant concepts , theories and approaches of the corpus . |
| 3 | Credit granters told us that they rarely checked information about employment because they found that many people regarded this as an invasion of privacy . |
| 4 | He eventually found solace in religion . |
| 5 | As the tsars slowly transformed Ukraine from ally into colony , later generations of Ukrainians came to agree with their national poet 's assessment of him as ‘ the unwise son ’ . |
| 6 | His interest in hygiene and disinfection was evident in sales of ‘ ozone water ’ , in his patents dealing with the preparation and use of chlorine and of highly oxidized compounds of manganese , and in his authorship of five short books on the topic between 1860 and 1867 . |
| 7 | The company was worked consistently over the years to develop special knowledge and expertise in particular areas e.g. chiral compounds and building blocks ; quaternary ammonium compounds for phase transfer catalysis and electrochemistry ; silylating agents ; a range of products for ion-selective electrode work and a comprehensive range of highly purified reagents for bio-chemistry marked under trade name Micro-Select . |
| 8 | This effect has been most noticeable , for obvious reasons , in the most highly capitalized forms of production . |
| 9 | This time round they were told they would not be able to enter the National Federation of Meat Traders bi-annual sausage competition at Harrogate as one of the sponsors , the Meat and Livestock Commission , held that they only provided sponsorship for mainland competitors . |
| 10 | As they came up to the warren bank he suddenly caught sight of Fiver . |
| 11 | The Bantu Mirror , established in 1936 , circulated in both Rhodesias , using African languages , but employed no African reporters : it merely used translations of news from Argus papers . |
| 12 | The clash they made on the stones below jarred Harry from head to heels , and for a moment shook the intensity of his concentration . |
| 13 | As a star , Bette Davis was of the type commonly designated ‘ inimitable ’ , which tends to mean ( as it did in her case ) that she eventually became the butt of countless imitators ; and these imitators merely accentuated symptoms of self-parody that were already detectable in her own screen presence . |
| 14 | It is reported that , while out riding in Wychwood Forest , he suddenly came face to face with the shade of Amy Robsart . |
| 15 | Because UPH only received £4m in cash they , in theory , did not make any profit and will not have to pay any capital gains tax . |
| 16 | In the next year , one in which bad harvests had pushed up the price of wheat to 119s. 6d. a quarter , the overseers not only paid 1s. per week to Mary , but also found a further 2s. per week for Thomas himself from 26 May until 30 June on account of him having ‘ No work ’ . |
| 17 | At seven a.m. the following morning , contemplating newspaper headlines which screamed ‘ The Filth and the Fury ’ , and with the clamour of shareholders ringing in his ears , Leslie Hill personally telephoned Branson at home with a simple request , ‘ Can we talk ? ’ |
| 18 | There were lesbians on the staff at my school , but they only taught things like hockey and sewing . |
| 19 | Increasingly EP involves dynamic on-line documents rather than nicely formatted pieces of paper . |
| 20 | Hurricane Iniki headed 100 miles north for the main Hawaiian resort of Oahu — where it killed a 15-year-old boy — before it suddenly switched course for Kauai . |
| 21 | I was lucky , bought the books , took the treasure home and found they only covered A to M. Nevertheless I found them interesting and still thought they were a bargain . |
| 22 | Leonora Carrington , Leonor Fini and Meret Oppenehiem are amongst the many whose development as serious artists only took place outside Surrealism . |
| 23 | What is striking about all these cases quoted is that , in every one , the eventual victim had already pursued his or her complaint exhaustively behind the scenes with the employer and only went public in desperation when the outrage was intense and no other recourse seemed available . |
| 24 | I only saw highlights on match of the day , but from what I saw , the play was amazing . |
| 25 | During the month after her father 's death each of them had discovered the need to explore hitherto suppressed areas of feeling and half-knowledge that stood between them and a clearer knowledge of the selves they were now fully determined to offer to each other . |
| 26 | This was partly due to the fact that I did n't really understand what I was supposed to be doing and partly because I had a very intricate felt-pen and biro decoration to complete on my pencil case ( which obviously took priority over maths work ) . |
| 27 | She referred to her own family : parents , brother and sisters who all spoke English at home . |
| 28 | Li also pointedly gave support to leftist agricultural policies reportedly opposed by Deng , endorsing collective service networks and ideological education campaigns in rural areas . |
| 29 | Greek civilization not only gave rise to philosophy but it also produced , in the fifth century BC , the first real historians . |
| 30 | So you only spoke Welsh at home ? |