Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clear-cut quinine resistance emerged in Asia in the early 1980s when this drug became more widely used , even though quinine has the shortest half-life of all antimalarials and is not given prophylactically . |
| 2 | The unions flourished , gaining over 4 million more members by 1945 , and collective bargaining became more widely accepted . |
| 3 | The British employee posted abroad normally wishes to keep , and hopes to rent out , his home in the UK . |
| 4 | Hooker became much better known , and indeed revered , after his death . |
| 5 | This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . |
| 6 | Such methods will be dealt with more fully in Chapter 4 on social surveys where the Lazarsfeldian conception became most firmly entrenched . |
| 7 | All the effort and all the investment made so far has effectively gone to waste . |
| 8 | In time , academic anthropology became less directly associated with evolutionary ideas , and it tried to establish itself as a respectable , if not conservative , branch of the social sciences . |
| 9 | This concentration became even more pronounced in 1983 . |
| 10 | Apart from the word list , the comparative study reported above also included the signing of a text based on a picture book story The snowman . |
| 11 | All theoretical treatments of the quantised Hall effect proposed so far require there to be no dissipative scattering if they are to account for the values of h/Ne 2 at the plateaux . |
| 12 | I could n't see your car parked anywhere so assumed you must be out . |
| 13 | During the 1980s , the domestic industry opted almost exclusively to clone the DEC VAX , and when the company set up a subsidiary in Hungary in 1990 , it held off suing the key clone supplier , KFKI , in return for the firm handing over its customer lists . |
| 14 | Peskova 's mouth opened marginally then closed without a sound . |
| 15 | Well , she 'd lost her bonus now , she observed ruefully to herself as the tall dark stranger turned once more to look at her and remarked in a scathing tone of voice , ‘ I would say that , considering the state your car 's in , about the only thing it 's good for is to be used as a battering-ram . ’ |
| 16 | After many trials with cross-spars and bridles , the Geisha flew well enough to win Joel a trip to Japan ! |
| 17 | Members of the community association worked very hard preparing for the annual village show . |
| 18 | It was apparent that the department felt rather less threatened by the prospect of the appraisal after the process had been described in more detail . |
| 19 | In Southend , for example , their vote fell quite sharply compared with 1988 and they lost six seats , although in neighbouring Rochford their share increased by 8% . |
| 20 | The north Essex side did extremely well to beat Redbridge and Ilford by the handsome score of 4–1 in the semi-final , but the rugged nature of that game paid its price . |
| 21 | The US administration had reportedly now endorsed a positive evaluation of Yeltsin 's role , with senior officials reported on Sept. 7/8 as saying that " Yeltsin worked with Gorbachev in a way which probably saved the Soviet Union from the potential for a tremendous amount of chaos " . |
| 22 | Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border . |
| 23 | The Court of Appeal decided however that the defendant had really only contracted with one company within the group and that regarding the area in which it did its business a countrywide restraint was unreasonable . |
| 24 | Nell felt almost giddy at the way her outlook on the future had so dramatically altered . |
| 25 | In a last bid for survival the programme had more recently tried to pick up social realism , taking on subjects such as bisexuality , suicide and abortion in a Catholic family . |
| 26 | The humble agent had now virtually disappeared , and where he survived was not seen as having any diplomatic status ; but relatively new categories of chargé d'affaires and secretary of embassy or of legation were appearing . |
| 27 | ‘ I think that a valid reply to this objection would be that it is a political objection to the passing of a statute worded in this wide way , not a legal objection to the validity of the Order , it a statute worded so widely has been passed . |
| 28 | She said the only way you could another way you can cut your costs , he said , is , is that due to all these drivers he said , you 've got it you 've virtually got any driver on this car said just just have it you and yo , and your wife he said , and that 'll cut your costs down enormously . |
| 29 | ( No biographical critic had ever satisfactorily identified Embla . ) |
| 30 | I relate this because some ten years after the conflict , that is to say when the wounds of bereavement had only superficially healed , my father was called into Mr John Silvers 's study to be told that this very same personage — I will call him simply ‘ the General ’ — was due to visit for a number of days to attend a house party , during which my father 's employer hoped to lay the foundations of a lucrative business transaction . |