Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent history of educational innovation , from Nuffield and mixed ability onwards , shows that unless change is generated and/or wholeheartedly appropriated by teachers it will end up on the mounting scrap-heap of ‘ good ideas that never quite took off ’ . |
| 2 | A man she had never seen before or since came at night . |
| 3 | Two events , which more or less coincided with Geikie 's retiral , had a profound effect on the future of the Survey . |
| 4 | It 's possible to trace George Michael back to the colourmotion , the white funk irony that more or less began with ABC and spawned a straight , bleached-out generation of Howard Jones and ( eventually ) the Hues , Wets , Styles and Curiositys ad nauseam . |
| 5 | You more or less stood to attention . . |
| 6 | One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 . |
| 7 | Duhem is suggesting that individual non-observation sentences can not be conclusively verified or conclusively falsified by observation , by the evidence of our senses . |
| 8 | I 've climbed or just walked in Range West on many occasions . |
| 9 | Topaz could have expressed some brief regret , or simply shrugged in helplessness , but she did n't . |
| 10 | In Carlist territory monasteries were restored : in liberal Spain they became farms , barracks , schools , ministries , or simply fell into ruins . |
| 11 | Those denied an education remained in hospitals without any form of mental stimulation or simply stayed at home ; a few attended ‘ junior ’ training centres . |
| 12 | I think it 's very good policy , there 's many people policy , who are in our homes , who would give anything to have been able to have stayed in their own homes , or maybe stayed with relatives , but erm , they need the help and care in their homes . |
| 13 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 14 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 15 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 16 | At first many counties established county-wide committees , but these either degenerated into battlegrounds for county/district rivalries or else atrophied through lack of business ( Alexander 1982a:37 — 8 ; 58 — 9 ) . |
| 17 | Other bolts raced away into the night or else caroomed off vitrodur surfaces . |
| 18 | This followed a spate of incidents in which the ubiquitous Lenin statues had been toppled , blown up or otherwise vandalized in towns across the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | During deeper burial , the intergranular and intragranular pores have been partially or completely occluded by anhydrite cement at some localities ( Fig. 16b ) . |
| 20 | In contrast , most Whigs and Nonconformists ( who had remained in England ) either kept quiet or actively collaborated with James . |
| 21 | During the period of the first Opium war ( 1840–2 ) Jardine pursued banking and insurance in London , and successfully stood for election in 1841 as the Whig candidate for Ashburton ( Devon ) . |
| 22 | He received another , more peremptory , order and eventually came to Addis Ababa with ten thousand men . |
| 23 | So they drove round the outskirts of the Burleigh grounds , and eventually came to Cannonbury Road . |
| 24 | Billy Row Workmens beat Belle Vue WMC in the second semi-final and eventually succumbed to Bishop Auckland in the final . |
| 25 | So Jessie became a secretary to a Manchester solicitor and eventually fell in love with and married an officer during the First World War . |
| 26 | They became friendly and eventually fell in love . |
| 27 | He gives the example of Johnny Saxon who , three years after winning the world welterweight title , was charged with burglary and eventually institutionalized at New Jersey State Mental Hospital : ‘ Boxing does not leave all its scars on a fighter 's face ’ ( 1973 , p.325 ) . |
| 28 | I was lucky in my tutors and my college , and like so many young men before and since fell in love with the place . |
| 29 | It is essential that all equipment and instruments in use are inspected and regularly maintained , and effectively decontaminated after use . |
| 30 | Further , if Lawrence 's celebration of heterosexuality is dependent upon a repression of , a disavowal of , and a displacement on to , homosexuality , such passages are animated by a homoerotic desire consciously and artistically sublimated into heterosexuality . |