Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morley 's hypothesis obviously worried the anti-drug establishment . |
| 2 | That he himself happened to be a congenital cad only made the whole thing more difficult , not easier . |
| 3 | Then the English clerk gently asked the befuddled Alexander his questions , though he learnt nothing new . |
| 4 | Seb suddenly realised the full import of her words , ‘ You mean … you 're going ahead and marrying Nahum ? ’ |
| 5 | And the Newmarket trainer duly collected the 230–1 trio of winners with Red Bishop , Half Term and Reflecting . |
| 6 | As the boat slowly mounted the shining green-streaked walls , Robbie looked about her , able , despite her lack of confidence in her abilities , to appreciate the tranquil fascination of her surroundings . |
| 7 | This research successfully established the major stages of vegetational change but also necessarily included the influence of human activity , which was effective through modification of the biogeographic systems . |
| 8 | The pharmaceutical industry unwisely did the same and instituted an expensive advertising campaign . |
| 9 | This political murder only aggravated the political divisions within France . |
| 10 | While in the longer run this practice perhaps strengthened the High Authority in its relations with the member governments , the caution it induced in the High Authority , along with the ambiguity of the treaty , made for some slow progress . |
| 11 | The drawing just pre-dated the wilder stories of Modigliani 's debauchery , before he became the established drunk of Montparnasse in the eyes of the world . |
| 12 | In the study by Ryberg et al gastrin was probably given in such a dose that the gastrin concentration just reached the maximal effective level . |
| 13 | However , the electoral result largely reinstated the existing mayors , effectively a victory for Jordan , which accorded most of them post facto recognition . |
| 14 | The episode further emphasised the unsatisfactory state of the libel law , and how the prospect of massive awards of damages may serve as a real threat to freedom of expression . |
| 15 | R G Torrens in his book on the inner teachings of the Golden Dawn implies that all masonry once had the dark occult secrets , but had ‘ become … an empty form ’ . |
| 16 | A SPECIAL task force yesterday unearthed the last £140,000 of the ransom money handed over after estate agent Stephanie Slater was kidnapped . |
| 17 | She was too sore to want it inside her , and her mouth still retained the lingering taste of urine . |
| 18 | There were no windows in the thick stone walls and the sunlight which brightened the outer room in a single shaft directed through the open doorway hardly penetrated the second inner room . |
| 19 | Tenacious tackling and a great display from Peter Canavan at full forward , ensured the Ranch always held the upper hand . |
| 20 | This typology further developed the fourfold classification of the characteristics of changing communities in the rural-urban fringe , outlined in Pahl 's ( 1965 ) classic text Urbs in Rure namely : |
| 21 | In later years they were edited by Africans , though European officials in the public Relations Department always had the final say . |
| 22 | The singles Heartache and Goodbye Stranger both reached the top 20 , and countless magazines profiled their public and private lives . |
| 23 | The Auxetophone also permitted the first disc-copying to take place . |
| 24 | For example , Peat , Marwick and Mitchell ( 1980 ) from a study of ‘ need ’ in Dyfed in Wales , not only produced the stratified definition of ‘ need ’ shown in Table 6.3 but from a ‘ behavioural ’ study also produced the fourfold stratification of need shown below : |
| 25 | The Brighton study also investigated the occupational status of 154 problem drug users ( 90 per cent opioid users ) , and found that 72 per cent of those available for work were unemployed , compared to 16 per cent in the total 17–35-year-old population . |
| 26 | It would be helpful if the guidance also mentioned the economic and environmental advantages of ‘ soft ’ sea defences over ‘ hard ’ ones , in many situations . |
| 27 | The study of the Old Testament also had the practical purpose of explaining and justifying the organisation of the Church which was foreshadowed in the history of Israel and now through the sacraments offered all peoples the hope of salvation . |
| 28 | Thus the US State Department openly criticised the Israeli Prime Minister , Itzhak Shamir , for a Jan. 14 speech in which he claimed that the occupied territories would be used to settle future Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | The programme also included the Polovtsian dances from Prince Igor , for which a backcloth was needed . |
| 30 | The graphite boom temporarily reduced the social and economic importance of subsistence agriculture in the Low Country . |