Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they too nominally subscribed to Calvinist theology , it seems unlikely that the doctrine of predestination ever made more than the most superficial inroads into their collective consciousness . |
| 2 | Persons of inferior degree rarely owned more than a single parcel , irrespective of whether they lived on it themselves or let it to a tenant . |
| 3 | Accordingly investment in this sector probably led more than it followed investment in agriculture or manufacturing . |
| 4 | Jonsson , following a study of delinquent boys in relation to marital breakdown and subsequent contact between children and parents , concluded that the " psychological reconstruction phase following divorce probably meant more than the acute conflict during the divorce proceeding " . |
| 5 | For several years they upheld the Pankhurst strategy of concentration on one single issue , though for Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence the suffragette campaign increasingly meant more than acquisition of the vote : ‘ It meant to women the discovery of their own identity , the sources within of purpose , power , and will . ’ |
| 6 | Despite hopes to the contrary , the war gradually worsened rather than alleviated the problems of the rural population . |
| 7 | The Gregorian calendar ; European officers to train her armed forces ; steam power for her industry ; central banking ; a new peerage specially created so as to make orthodox bicameral government possible by providing the material for an Upper House ; the codification of her law ; a representative system : these were all pieces of the structure of a new Japan which was at last crowned by alliance with one European power and victory in war over another ( see below , Ch. 8 ) . |
| 8 | Another director also born just before the turn of the century was John Harlow . |
| 9 | The amounts of aid forthcoming from some member countries of the support group also proved less than at first anticipated . |
| 10 | Damon Hill 's challenge in his first race with the Williams team also ended early as he collided with Italian Alessandro Zanardi in a Lotus after 16 laps . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd come home and find things like the kitchen practically blown apart because the girls had put a tinned steak and kidney pudding in the oven and forgotten to take its lid off , ’ he laughs . |
| 12 | I think I could probably send a return on Tuesday erm but I 'd rather wait because if I can send stuff properly done rather than you know done to the latest or or the the pre-latest system then I will . |
| 13 | These incorporated over four thousand pieces of garnet individually cut so as to fit precisely into the cloisons for which they were designed . |
| 14 | How well she was coming to know them : the Mid-day Demon of Accidie who dulled her mind and drained the words of meaning ; the Seraph-Serpents , ever hot upon his heels , whose bite flustered her to panic and anxiety ; then , by dark , the Ochim — doleful screech-owls whose appetite always demanded more than she knew how to give . |
| 15 | His head still spun slightly as he followed the words and looked upwards intermittently to see by the expression of a face if someone had forgotten their lines . |
| 16 | On the recent trip to Iasi , as well as carrying out a full survey of the children 's hospital the charity also delivered more than 30 tons of aid to ten orphanages , two children 's hospitals and the main hospital in the region . |
| 17 | It is a long list , but the SPSSX stepwise procedure seldom selected more than a few predictors as having a significant influence upon perceptions . |
| 18 | The 1.3-litre hatchback rarely managed more than 28 mpg between their home at Kidsgrove in North Staffordshire and Manchester 's Royal Infirmary and the headquarters of the North West Regional Health Authority . |
| 19 | A trade union was now to become , in the Webbs ' first definition ‘ a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment ’ , a definition later altered so as to refer to ‘ working lives ’ rather than ‘ employment ’ . |
| 20 | Strategy never figured prominently except in the most generalized way . |
| 21 | The commission 's chairman , Professor Ian Percy , said he believed the expenditure involved in changing to the council tax was still money well spent even if the savings were not as great as the Government had hoped . |
| 22 | Life presumably evolved there because it was safe from the horrors on the surface . |
| 23 | Team spirit rarely mattered much since dealers were paid commission on their own business and preferred to develop their own methods of achieving this . |
| 24 | However , since the study is conducted in an area known to most of the subjects it is important that the memories reported should be specific to the drive just completed rather than general knowledge about that area of Cambridge . |
| 25 | The reasons for this relative success certainly run deeper than Leopold Senghor 's personality . |
| 26 | THE COUNTY now known simply as Lothian is an amalgamation of what used to be East Lothian , Midlothian , and West Lothian , with a few bits chipped off the edges here and there : for example , the little settlement of Stow with its packhorse bridge over the Gala Water was once in East Lothian but has now been lured into the Borders region . |
| 27 | He named the craters after famous people , a system still followed today because of the difficulty of changing it ! |
| 28 | Connected speech processes ( CSP ) are phenomena such as the deletions and assimilations characteristic of allegro speech , which appear to be in some way phonetically motivated rather than linguistically arbitrary variation . |
| 29 | It is interesting to record that the British National Appeal alone raised more than £18 million for WWF in 1988 ! |
| 30 | Had he and the Bishop already decided even before Spruce came that they would set Theodora on ( one , after all , of their own kind and bound by clerical obedience ) rather than helping the normal , if crude , processes of the law ? |