Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It planned for a more open democracy to include a revision of " anti-terrorism " legislation and improvements in the field of human rights , media censorship and academic freedom . |
| 2 | This was partly because Mannheim did not accept what he read as an overly materialistic account of history in Marx and partly because Marx distinguished ideology as false knowledge from science as true knowledge . |
| 3 | Lillie Moulton was invited to Fontainebleau in August 1866 on a day of ‘ intolerable heat in a crowded train which made for a highly unpleasant journey ’ . |
| 4 | It made for a somewhat strained atmosphere , but as a company they were used to that . |
| 5 | They were n't so much being difficult as simply teasing , and it made for a very amusing if unproductive hour . |
| 6 | The other divers were nowhere to be seen at this time , which made for an extremely dangerous situation in the open ocean . |
| 7 | Few Tories were quite as extreme as the Earl of Rochester , who at the renewal of hostilities in 1702 argued for a strictly limited naval war as the best way to check the power of France , and most recognised the need for some form of combined operations . |
| 8 | We argued for a more discriminating balance of questions , statements and instructions ; for fewer pseudo-questions and more questions of a kind which encourage children to reason and speculate ; for more opportunities for children themselves to ask their own questions and have these addressed ; for oral feedback to children which without being negative is more exact and informative than mere praise ; for both questioning and feedback to strike a balance between the retrospective function of assessing and responding to what has been learned so far , and the prospective function of taking the child 's learning forward ; and for much more use to be made of structured pupil-pupil interaction both as a learning tool and as a means of helping teachers to function in a more considered manner and therefore more effectively . |
| 9 | Such a view was challenged in the middle of this century by Robert Walcott , who argued for a more sophisticated understanding of the nature of the party structure under William and Anne . |
| 10 | Eugenists argued for a quite different understanding of how norms and averages were to be calculated . |
| 11 | ‘ He quit after a fairly short time — I think he may have done it for only two terms . |
| 12 | There 's an EMI Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony which he described as an incomparably fluid act of musical improvisation ; the recording of Le Sacre which Stravinsky tried to pillory and which Gould thought the most imaginative and , literally , ‘ inspiring ’ recording to date ; and one of your recordings of Strauss 's Metamorphosen . |
| 13 | She beamed at her husband , bravely facing the barrage of produce , and winced as a particularly juicy specimen caught him right on the chin . |
| 14 | Once or twice he winced as a particularly tough fragment of carbon cracked between his molars , then he closed his eyes and swallowed . |
| 15 | ‘ My reply was short and to the point and I 'm disappointed that what I regarded as a highly confidential matter between two clubs should , 48 hours later , be the subject of Press comment . ’ |
| 16 | During September , as the fighting continued in Bosnia-Hercegovina despite the efforts of the Geneva conference [ see below ] , the UN moved towards a more interventionist policy , including more military support for relief convoys . |
| 17 | It has been argued that the Conservative government has in its policy changes ( if not publicly voiced ) moved towards a more Keynesian stance . |
| 18 | A pleasant floral aroma with woody undertones this tasted like a very dry pale sherry with bubbles which had a tannic aftertaste . |
| 19 | [ They ] vegetated throughout a passably comfortable existence , leading a righteous and peaceful life in all piety and probity ; and their material position was far better than that of their successors . |
| 20 | In an exhausting , exhilarating fortnight , they moved round the country triumphing gloriously at Cheshire , being demoralized at Cirencester , where they drew against a vastly inferior team , cockahoop at Kirtlington , and nearly coming unstuck at Windsor , where Perdita was sent off for swearing , so Rutshire had to play the last chukka with only three men , and only just won . |
| 21 | However , although addition errors occurred with a generally low frequency , they were considerably more frequent for closed than for open class items . |
| 22 | Those of you who trained under a very autocratic system , dominated by a strictly imposed hierarchy where nurses came somewhere close to the bottom of the pyramid , are likely to find the concept of accountability quite daunting . |
| 23 | ‘ On finding she had become hooked like a drug addict , she gave up the shoot-out paintings and moved into a more feminine world to explore female stereotypes ’ |
| 24 | Two years later , on finding she had become hooked like a drug addict , she gave up the shoot-out paintings and moved into a more feminine world to explore female stereotypes . |
| 25 | Then the Lion Rampant did appear over the rising ground , perhaps three hundred yards behind those first riders , but it rose above a fairly compact party , and this was backed by a still larger body of men . |
| 26 | As the light faded she left the office and returned to her room , where she changed into a more attractive dress and attended to her make-up . |
| 27 | East Lindsey is an area of Lincolnshire blessed with a very great variety of attractions of interests . |
| 28 | The house sank into a gently decayed condition when a local architect bought it four years ago . |
| 29 | By this time chartism had been dismantled ; with it went the first , and arguably last voice of mass working-class opposition to the state , and Britain entered into a relatively stable period of economic progress within a successfully reconstructed hegemony . |
| 30 | It certainly contributed in a more direct manner in that most of the food we ate had a high carbohydrate content and , although I was unaware of it at the time , I put on a lot of weight . |