Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [adv] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She greeted him slightly gushingly , and that again struck a false note . |
| 2 | As their title suggested , they were much more concerned with trade , and this probably reflected the general English attitude inside and outside the government . |
| 3 | No one just passes through Baldersdale , and this clearly played a major part in preserving its isolation in the days when it was a full and vibrant community , as , indeed , it certainly was . |
| 4 | The bridge lasted until just after the war when it was pulled down and this again started the discussion " For the want of a bridge here at Halling " to quote Lambarde . |
| 5 | Each guild was responsible for one pageant , and this often reflected the trade of its members , for example the shipwrights performed the building of the ark . |
| 6 | Many tutor-librarians were also required , as a condition of appointment to teacher-scales , to teach a minimum number of hours in the Liberal Studies programme , and this often included the teaching of subjects not essentially part of the librarian 's speciality . |
| 7 | By early the following year some Boards were , as Jones had foreseen , going into deficit , and this inevitably compromised the industry 's ability to meet the higher self-financing targets they had previously agreed with the Ministry . |
| 8 | However , the external airmail was good and this greatly helped the morale of the British personnel . |
| 9 | Previously , the shoe had only been tied on and this greatly impeded the animal 's progress . |
| 10 | He found the personal habits of the coolie recruiter deeply repugnant and this only increased the resentment he felt at his helpless dependence on him for replacements to his dwindling labor force . |
| 11 | On 6 February there was a spontaneous strike by the stevedores , and this quickly became a general strike , with the mills being attacked . |
| 12 | A great deal of effort was put into the collection of new data on the magnetic patterns of the ocean floors in the 1960s and this quickly demonstrated the correctness of the first two points : the strips certainly were parallel to the ridges , and symmetrical about them . |
| 13 | We all know how sometimes the stitches stubbornly refuse to be crossed and these definitely had a mind of their own . |
| 14 | A unit of traditional authority survived indeed in the Church ; but that rather favoured the independent cities , for with few exceptions each had its own cathedral and its own bishop ; often its own patron saint to protect it against its neighbours . |
| 15 | He swore viciously , turned the mare a touch westward again , but that merely gave the pursuers a better angle to close on him . |
| 16 | But that only lasted a week or two , did n't it ? |
| 17 | Visitors to Max Gate bore witness to Emma 's tiresome behaviour and to the barely disguised tensions in the house , but few perhaps realised the extent of her isolation . |
| 18 | Cases where none of the words in a position appeared as headwords in the dictionary , but some nevertheless received a score due to their inclusion in the collocation list of some other word . |
| 19 | A number of Royalist prisoners from the civil wars in England and Ireland were transported to the sugar islands in the 1650s as convict labour with the prospect of eventual release to become part of the white garrison , but this barely covered the losses from death and emigration . |
| 20 | From 16 August 1946 , the extension of route 42 to Coombe Road was officially recognized and passengers carried , but this again necessitated the use of one more car . |
| 21 | But this also held the depressing implication that nothing much had changed since 1981 , and that the antiracist movement had largely failed to shift either popular attitudes or state policies . |
| 22 | He started out by conducting a questionnaire-based survey , but this soon became a ‘ blind ’ to conceal the work he was actually doing in studying pilferage . |
| 23 | The Dominican Republic offered to accept the refugees for the standardized market price of $500 a head ; but this merely duplicated the Cuban tariff . |
| 24 | Sergeant Curtis came in to report that a woman living near Riddle had seen him in Bay View Terrace on Friday evening , but this merely confirmed the route he had taken . |
| 25 | On mathematics itself he published only eight pages , in ‘ On a Problem of Formal Logic ’ ( 1928 ) , but this subsequently became the basis of a whole branch of mathematics known as Ramsey theory . |
| 26 | It was extended to Deanshanger in 1888 , but this only lasted a year and then it was closed , as was the track down Creed Street to the Wolverton Goods Yard in 1893 . |
| 27 | An economic boom developed in the spring of 1919 , but this only lasted a year and when the Bank Rate was hoisted to 7 per cent in April 1920 , the short-lived social reform programme was terminated . |
| 28 | Forceful individuals might use the prestige of the patriarchate to wield political influence , but this only disguised the decline in the political weight of the Church . |
| 29 | But this only confirmed the importance of AFHQ 's view , reflecting that of Churchill , that nothing should be done to provoke the Yugoslavs or exacerbate the tense situation until all military preparations had been made for full-scale action if necessary . |
| 30 | The permissive society did not begin with the publication of Dr John Robinson 's Honest To God but this certainly smote the ramparts of the established Church which , until that point , had been seen — mostly with approval — as the defender of the faith and of public and private morality . |