Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chief Constable fussed around the Bishop , the press had been shut up , or anyway given a damn sight less than they would have been if it had n't been a priest 's body , or rather , head . |
| 2 | To anyone who has been in the Army or detained at Her Majesty 's pleasure , or even attended a public school ( and there are a disturbing number who have managed all three ) , the dining room at Plas y Benenin is a familiar place . |
| 3 | Many like them have raised money for local charities or simply made a genuine and lasting contribution to their communities . |
| 4 | Rarely have researchers extended their analysis to consider inequalities within older age groups , possibly because they have implicitly or explicitly adopted a biological/medical framework which considers that old age is characterized by universal and inevitable ill health . |
| 5 | These later towns might then have been either assisted in their development by their royal or ecclesiastical lords or owners , or actually given a regular street pattern and/or a market place to encourage them to grow and expand . |
| 6 | If God can not be identified with man as a product of evolution , and thereby given a credible definition , then any effort to create a new and successful conception of God will founder on the same rocks of contention that have wrecked every religion that was ever believed in . |
| 7 | He had always been very highly strung and eventually suffered a complete mental and physical breakdown before dying in a private lunatic asylum in Roehampton 2 January 1900 . |
| 8 | The bear became extremely angry with the fly , and eventually seized a huge stone and succeeded in killing it . |
| 9 | I caught a soldier 's harassed glance , and suddenly remembered a modern Ulster saying : ‘ There were more helicopters than at Crossmaglen . ’ |
| 10 | Two-thirds of the schools had no boarders , and most were situated in the towns — especially in the North of England , where many were Roman Catholic and so represented a useful variant of the religious settlement which Butler incorporated in the 1944 Act . |
| 11 | He immediately married a Suabian noblewoman called Hildegarde , and so gained a new wife and the unrelenting hatred and opposition of his ex father-in-law . |
| 12 | We had recently finished with the Douglas car company but wanted to keep the series topical and so developed a new setting in which our hero uses his amoral cunning to preserve part of Britain 's disappearing heritage ’ . |
| 13 | It was the ‘ second line ’ , ‘ support ’ and ‘ facility ’ squadrons which took the UK Canberra squadrons into another twenty years of service with a variety of roles and mark conversions , and so brought a continued need for the services of 231 OCU , albeit on a decreasing scale over the years . |
| 14 | If they had said no help would be forthcoming and no stock of food had been set aside and no extraordinary public works would be undertaken , they might have provided all three by stealth and so avoided a great nuisance . |
| 15 | But it also increased the focus on unproductive , marginal , service employment , and perhaps encouraged a pervasive , discontented nostalgia , in which the inheritance of the glorious past was either unrelated to , or else unhistorically contrasted with , the bleak , discontented present . |
| 16 | But it was soon clear that the Al Fayeds had misled Mr Tebbit , and perhaps pulled a fast one on Mr Rowland . |
| 17 | They were still unsure about what to put on the B-side , and only made a final decision as they travelled to the recording studio on the bus . |
| 18 | She ate her meals alone , and only caught a fleeting glimpse of him all day as he disappeared through a far doorway . |
| 19 | I was comfortably warm using the main bag and bivvy bag for an outdoor bivvy ( lowest temperature +5°C ) and only found a small amount of condensation on the inside when I woke up . |
| 20 | On Friday it only niggled , as if the chief had departed from a conquered place , and merely left a small garrison behind , or as if he had evacuated the Corsica , and a few straggling pains only remained . |
| 21 | She preached about the passover , a subject they had been studying at Bible camp , and obviously made a good impression . |
| 22 | An obsession with the Classical past was to return under the emperor Hadrian , who took a deep personal interest in the fortunes of Greece and eagerly adopted a Greek appearance . |
| 23 | The next morning when the bells of the abbey tolled for Prime , the first prayer of the monastic day , Corbett was up , dressed and gently kicked a sleepy , grunting Ranulf awake . |
| 24 | You 've down-sized , restructured , looked at amalgamations and generally sought a new role , just like the E E F , just like industry . |
| 25 | Alton 's rugby men were outnumbered , restricted , sin-binned and generally given a rough ride when a hand-picked side took on the club 's ladies team in a fun game on Sunday morning . |
| 26 | ‘ If they want to go at a certain pace and not become a Top Five singles band you have to respect them for it . |
| 27 | Or should it remain a neutral research instrument , and not become a Weltanschuung of an anti-religious kind ? |
| 28 | A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’ |
| 29 | I 've written six letters and not had a single reply . |
| 30 | Some years ago , research workers at London 's Victoria and Albert Museum and elsewhere encountered a considerable quantity of textiles in a recognizable style , composed mainly of exuberant large blossoms with curvilinear stems , sometimes joined to trees which were no longer rooted to the earth . |