Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the very same week as Lady Mary Deverill was being laid to her final rest in the family churchyard at Brougham , across the Atlantic Ocean , in the statue packed graveyard of the Church of St Peter and St Paul , Westfield , Boston , Massachusetts , the recently bereaved Patrick Milligan entertained a very different hope from the father of the little girl in England . |
| 2 | After his demotion inside SIS , Mills became a little unconventional in what Tait called his ‘ fieldcraft ’ . |
| 3 | The stammer fitted Marlowe 's embarrassment and Bernard got a very good press . |
| 4 | Smart-liveried , amply motor-homed , luxurious to a degree , fully equipped with the best that money could buy in research and development , McLaren made a thoroughly businesslike and professional attack on the championships . |
| 5 | Bluster about morning hate and advice to go back to Adolph got a maddeningly cool reply . |
| 6 | On the one occasion Southampton did threaten after Leeds scored Kelly made a very timely interception as one of the Southampton forwards beared down on goals . |
| 7 | Three years ago , Sarah became a fully qualified solicitor . |
| 8 | All in all the Gesta provided a somewhat daunting set of exemplars for King Henry II . |
| 9 | Although , in the final analysis , Nizan retained a fundamentally manichean view of the world , and was consequently able , despite a growing recognition of the complex reality of political activity , to propose the clarity of an ultimate division into Good and Evil , anti-fascist and fascist , the urgent political need to enter into dialogue with liberal bourgeois organisations and liberal bourgeois writers and artists necessitated on occasions quite convoluted argumentation , justification and explanation which stand in stark contrast to the simplistic black and white denunciations of the period prior to 1934 . |
| 10 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA got a most dispiriting Christmas present on Christmas Eve when the US General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals snatched the $740.3m Desktop IV US Air Force personal computer contract away from Bull 's Buffalo Grove , Illinois-based Zenith Data Systems . |
| 11 | Symons lived a financially precarious life to the full and , in his own phrase , ‘ no one so poor has lived so well . ’ |
| 12 | The subsequent short ride into Maidenhead produced a very one-sided conversation and the return trip , in perfect VMC , was conducted extremely circumspectly . |
| 13 | By comparison with this vitality , Chichester made a comparatively poor showing . |
| 14 | Thus , Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries . |
| 15 | L'Auberge maintained an unusually extensive and well-selected wine list , and George was usually on hand to supervise the restaurant and offer advice to customers on the selection of food and drink . |
| 16 | So Castells proposed a wholly new definition of what ‘ urban ’ sociology consists of . |
| 17 | Its name is associated with the site of the battle in 1388 when the men of Glarus defeated a greatly superior Austrian army and so regained their independent liberties . |
| 18 | Gorbachev added a more elaborate proposal in January 1986 , calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons by the year 2000 ; a commitment to this objective was written into the new Party Programme , which was adopted shortly afterwards . |
| 19 | Apart from any policy clashes between them , Ceauşescu adopted a rather patronizing attitude towards his younger equivalent in the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | Keynes imagined a socially painless ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ which would be ‘ nothing sudden , merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently in Great Britain , and will need no revolution ’ ( Keynes , 1936 , p. 376 ) . |
| 21 | When in 1937 Mussolini , like Hitler , intervened in support of Franco in the Spanish Civil War , and again when he annexed Libya in October 1938 , the ordinary inhabitants of Fontanellato showed an almost total lack of interest ; principally , again , because none of them were involved . |
| 22 | Kostomarov expressed an almost identical antipathy to the state in his inaugural lecture of November 1859 . |
| 23 | The 1974 United Nations World Population Conference in Bucharest expressed a rather one-sided view on this question . |
| 24 | The United States developed a particularly curious form of transport — the inter-urban tram . |
| 25 | Rex breathed a very big sigh of relief . |
| 26 | The SzDSz favoured a more radical restructuring and privatization of the economy , rapid integration into Western Europe , a faster withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary than that already under way [ see pp. 37328 ; 37258 ; 37195 ] , and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact . |
| 27 | At the same time physicians in government clinics in Gaza examined an impossibly large number of patients — on average 100 patients per day , while in UNRWA clinics a doctor would examine between 70 and 120 patients daily . |
| 28 | The second CD-Canterbury match at New Plymouth saw a more emphatic Cantab victory by six wickets . |
| 29 | It was awkward at first , and Ari felt a little embarrassed . |
| 30 | However , after Partition ( 1947 ) the weaving industry in Pakistan took a rather different course . |