Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That opportunity arose sooner than expected in the Autumn of 1927 , when twelve cars were obtained in good condition from Croydon Corporation . |
| 2 | The 1983 general election result fueled rather than ended the controversy . |
| 3 | The agreed national rural electrification programme proceeded faster than planned , and by 1958 72 per cent of farms were already connected . |
| 4 | But the president knew better than to let him go ; Mr Shultz stayed the course . |
| 5 | Her agent had all but ordered her in front of a firing squad when she had broken the news to him — it was fortunate that she had already pencilled a six-month-long break into her diary , intending to spend the time writing new material . |
| 6 | It was undisciplined but incredibly powerful and , after all , its initial greeting had all but burnt away the shields around his mind . |
| 7 | At Wolverhampton the carriage had all but emptied , leaving only a sleeping woman cradling a badminton racket . |
| 8 | When Cook made his first exploratory voyages to the South Seas between 1768 and 1771 , that figure had more than doubled to 450,000 tons . |
| 9 | She pounded after him desperately ; she could still see him , though daylight had all but died . |
| 10 | Movements and posture used daily when doing different jobs or in different occupations can save or squander energy . |
| 11 | Mission 51–L exploded soon after take off . |
| 12 | But countries attempting to control their inflation rates through the pursuit of independent monetary policies discovered that exchange flexibility hindered rather than facilitated their attempts to effect lasting reductions in inflation . |
| 13 | But , before the devaluation , the Department of Economic Affairs had failed pretty consistently over three years to actually break the monopoly of Treasury advice and the National Plan had all but gone under . |
| 14 | That was again demonstrated in 1942 , as Germany 's fortunes in the war deteriorated still further , despite some success in specific military operations , and the prospects of an early end to the war receded rather than improved . |
| 15 | Lara and Arthurton raised West Indian hopes with a left-handed partnership of 52 for the fourth wicket but both were undone by Donald 's speed in the final session and the match seemed all but signed , sealed and delivered to South Africa entering the rest day . |
| 16 | However , as soon as we reached the interview for the home/school post a debate on the school and the community began again as shown from the notes I took where the main participants in the discussion were Phil Barlow ( the Deputy Head for Curriculum ) , Chris Cousins ( the Deputy Head for Community ) , Ann Thomas ( the Community Adviser for the LEA ) and Father Curtis ( the Chairman of the Governors ) . |
| 17 | A public meeting went ahead as planned in Leyburn last night and a petition to Parliament will still be handed to Mr Hague in the town today . |
| 18 | Mary Finnigan : ‘ A few days after the death of David 's father , the free festival went ahead as planned and the day was fabulous ; the sun shone and everybody but everybody had a wonderful time . |
| 19 | By the middle of the twentieth century , Adorno found himself confronted with a cultural field in which the squeezed and narrowing pinnacle of aesthetic difference and negation had all but detached itself completely from the squat , commodified mass of capitalist ‘ affirmative ’ culture . |
| 20 | His own analysis of government figures suggested that the number of prescriptions for the treatment of asthma had more than doubled to 27 million a year over the last decade . |
| 21 | Pressed against Masha 's raincoated buxomness , I wondered at how unaccountably desire had all but vanished — though I had dreamed often of our reunion . |
| 22 | There were no serious incidents in the 1947 winter , such as people losing their way and dying of cold , although a Mr Sowerby on the other side of the dale died suddenly whilst helping a neighbour . |
| 23 | With five ends completed they had opened up a 39-22 lead , and at the halfway mark had all but tied up the title at a convincing 78-37 ahead . |
| 24 | This decision started rather than ended the controversy about united action . |
| 25 | The miracle occurred just as predicted . |
| 26 | The feeling occurred again when reading Julie Bard 's article ( 1 May ) on the appalling uses of religion to curb individual freedom by — in this case — leaders of British Muslims . |
| 27 | We had learned this at the very first lesson of the term — something most of the boys should have remembered from the previous year — when Mr Gillis had belted fourteen of us for setting off towards the door when the bell rang rather than waiting for his instruction . |
| 28 | ( 12 December 1772 ) The opera went ahead as planned , though not without some mishaps , recounted by Leopold : |
| 29 | He told himself that he was the last man who could reasonably be expected to advise or reassure on the problems of pregnancy and he sensed that Rickards 's unhappiness at his wife 's absence went deeper than missing her company . |
| 30 | In the name of multiprocessing-on-the-desktop , its new buzzword , Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation last week went ahead as expected ( UX No 432 ) and unveiled its latest Sparcstation 10s . |