Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story of St Wulstan 's Hospital forms a fascinating footnote to the narrative of events at Powick , which illustrates that Worcester Health Authority was as much locally impelled to rationalize mental health services , as pushed to do so by the centre . |
| 2 | One drawback of this style of argument is that not only is the harm serious for the victim , but conviction for such an offence is serious for the defendant : a single class of offenders ( rapists , serious wounders ) would contain not only those with subjective fault but also those who merely failed to take proper care , all of whom would be convict.ed of a grave offence carrying a maximum of life imprisonment . |
| 3 | The churches reflect the piety and religious sentiment of the citizens in an age which naturally sought to express civic feeling in religious form . |
| 4 | But she had already lost her balance as she impossibly tried to juggle Equal Opportunities , shortage of staff and time , and the torrent of ‘ open access ’ job applications . |
| 5 | Huckerby , a worried-looking , balding man , had a responsible position which basically involved overseeing editorial expenditure and running the paper day to day , but was best known for fussing round the office collecting old coffee cups and switching off the lights last thing at night . |
| 6 | Short , fashionably cut brown hair only seemed to give added emphasis to her thin features , deepening the shadows beneath her eyes . |
| 7 | Also , Lister 's discovery of the importance of antisepsis made surgery , which up till that time had been a hazardous technique , a safe procedure , and with the development of anaesthesia , surgery suddenly began to enjoy great popularity as a panacea for many ills . |
| 8 | The company needed workers , and so began building small terraces of houses for its labourers to live in . |
| 9 | Gandhi only began to undertake serious fasts — that is , fasts where there was a danger to his life , as opposed to brief fasts for purposes of spiritual discipline or penance — after he had established a reputation for sanctity and a large following based to some extent on that reputation . |
| 10 | West Venture was acquired in March 1988 but only began to make significant sales this year . |
| 11 | Henri was a totally normal baby until six months , when he suddenly started having infantile spasms . |
| 12 | The principal author of the market reform programme , Abalkin was booed and slow hand-clapped during an impassioned speech in which he declared that the party hitherto had failed socialist ideals in every respect , and would be swept aside if it stood in the way of a market economy . |
| 13 | Is the control over pupil activity sufficiently relaxed to allow significant pupil response ? |
| 14 | We had ‘ dropped the ball ’ and in doing so had lost valuable time in the search for a reliable synthetic antimalarial' . |
| 15 | The reason was that they could not resolve ambiguity between competing lexical interpretations on a word-by-word basis , and so had to maintain possible interpretations in a representation that was separate from the lexicon . |
| 16 | In the first icy transatlantic blast , he pointedly refused to meet Premier John Major , who visits Washington later this month . |
| 17 | They were both amazed to find that because of the war scare young men who had been quite content to go out with them on their terms suddenly wanted to start serious courting . |
| 18 | How does the bird manage to identify part of the scene as a fish , or as food , in the first place , and how is it thereupon led to take appropriate action ( that is , how does it know that it should dive , irrespective of how steep the dive should be ) ? |
| 19 | It would have been sensible to consult my book of British butterflies before I started for I soon realised using authentic colours greatly improves the overall impression ; if you can , I would suggest you refer to a book also . |
| 20 | I just stopped to say good day to these two young things ! ’ |
| 21 | The challenge to the forces of tradition grew stronger , but it no longer seemed to imply social upheaval . |
| 22 | This effect gathered force as it was incorporated into political strategy , picked up by other media , entered into gossip , and thus came to overshadow immediate reality as it might have been recorded by an observer on the scene . |
| 23 | Mechanisms already existed to oversee ethical questions . |
| 24 | They found the babies who were left for longer began to make crawling movements towards the breast after 20 minutes , and after 50 minutes virtually all had suckled correctly at the breast — and were more likely to breastfeed successfully as a result afterwards . |
| 25 | Brenda soon began to have lovely rides on her bike . |
| 26 | Far too many of them , however , soon started to produce technical problems of one kind or another which almost immediately swamped the tiny number of experts in organic materials who were available at the Royal Aircraft Establishment . |
| 27 | In November 1949 under the Petersberg Agreements , the Allies reduced the amount of reparations taken from Germany ; in 1951 , thanks to Adenauer 's support for the new European Coal-Steel Community , reparations were ended altogether , and in May 1952 , under the Treaty of Bonn , the Allies finally undertook to restore German sovereignty . |
| 28 | When Grunenthal finally decided to make civil compensation to the satisfaction of suffering parents and children , the federal government 's prosecution lost the bit between its teeth and permitted the hearing to be suspended indefinitely . |
| 29 | Andy 's a real mate he just kept saying straight heads er for all the times when I might have said oh , I could n't really talk to some people last night and he 'd say what you mean straight heads ? he 's right . |
| 30 | But somehow I just managed to miss Leading Aircraftsman by two per cent when I passed out . |