Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virgin duly made the appropriate rerelease but nothing happened . |
| 2 | Her brother , Merfyn , began training with his uncle as a motor engineer and eventually became a technical journalist . |
| 3 | So this individual , who I would n't have given three stripes across , eventually became a Chief Inspector . |
| 4 | The arrangement eventually became a sore point in relations between the US and Panama , which regarded the original treaty as an affront to its sovereignty . |
| 5 | At first resisted by conservatives who feared its materialistic implications , evolutionism eventually became a central theme of late nineteenth-century thought , the foundation for a unified philosophy of biological and social progress . |
| 6 | His second son John West Wilson was a resident agent in Gothenburg and eventually became a naturalized Swede . |
| 7 | It , too , eventually became a vital piece in the evolutionary jigsaw that Darwin was to assemble with the help of John Gould at the Zoological Society . |
| 8 | The school later moved to Gower St , was granted a royal patent , and eventually became the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . |
| 9 | A crew was predominantly a male group , like any other city gang , yet the skinhead girls eventually became an accepted part of the scene . |
| 10 | When he eventually became an overnight star after fourteen years of hard labour in Hollywood , the seekers of his past came knocking on the doors of his tutors and former friends . |
| 11 | Slatter also served on the county committee for 30 years , edited the club handbook , and eventually became an Honorary member of both Buckinghamshire and the Minor Counties Cricket Association . |
| 12 | It takes us into their homes , gives space for their voices ; and Townsend powerfully attacked the widespread myth that the family was no longer providing most of them with social support or practical help . |
| 13 | Just being in the arms of this unique person , whom SHe 'd never been absolutely sure SHe could hook , effectively wiped the unpleasant memory from hir mind for the night . |
| 14 | It set the tone of the renewed debate which in the coming decade was to divide Western Europe even further , at the same time as setting in motion a groundswell that eventually produced the European Community . |
| 15 | ‘ Direct mail ’ ( often known as ‘ junk mail ’ ) , on the other hand , even though it came through the letter-box dressed up as a personal letter and not as a newspaper , arguably met the mass medium definition of reaching large numbers of people quickly and simultaneously . |
| 16 | And here was the bonus : the positive charge of the proton is so effectively shielded that it will now be able to encroach much closer to the nucleus of a neighbouring atom without being repelled ; the chance of bumping into it and undergoing nuclear fusion , ‘ cold fusion ’ , thereby became a real possibility . |
| 17 | Viscous liquid oozed out like an alien blob and slowly enveloped the dented car . |
| 18 | The past approach — for instance , where they analysed statistics in terms of travel-to-work areas and lumped West Belfast and its massive levels of unemployment in with other areas and thereby diluted the whole thing down to 12 or 13% in the Belfast travel-to-work area which extended from Larne to Downpatrick — was n't helpful . |
| 19 | In the middle of this solemn crisis , Alan burst in : ‘ Have you a book on insect identification ? ’ — which effectively deflated the solemn mood . |
| 20 | Firstly he introduced new cars , including the De Luxe cars , new Pullman cars for the Fleetwood route and the famous toastracks which successfully operated the Circular Tour . |
| 21 | At first the beeves were indistinct masses , cold and blurry , but I eventually got a satisfactory materialisation . |
| 22 | That college was the stronghold of the " child-centred " approach to teaching young children , but the schools in the London area which successfully demonstrated the Froebelian philosophy were few and far between . |
| 23 | In the coal counties themselves , Jack Stump , the president of the local District 28 of UMWA , overwhelmingly defeated the incumbent Democrat to win a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates . |
| 24 | It duly approached the Educational Research Centre of the Essex Institute of Higher Education with the suggestion that a proposal for funding be made to the British Library Research and Development Department ( BLR&DD ) . |
| 25 | She returned with her new boyfriend on 17 March and effectively snatched the little boy , leaving the three little girls behind with their father . |
| 26 | It may also be argued that Roman military advances effectively changed the artistic map of Italy . |
| 27 | Ed bitterly regarded the gory stump . |
| 28 | Taking one of the white roads , I eventually found a small village . |
| 29 | By the time the foal had tottered and swayed and nuzzled at Firelight in all the wrong places and eventually found the right spot to have a slurp of milk , Nails was surprised to see that it was beginning to go light . |
| 30 | When the police eventually found the abandoned truck they 'd assume the driver who 'd stolen it had been drunk . |