Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But from my own researches it became plain to me that she was very much a person of her times , as compared with Beatrice Webb who became so much a critic of her times . |
| 2 | Assemblies met only once a year but set up permanent executive boards . |
| 3 | As a result the society became less specifically a group of the left . |
| 4 | ‘ Are accounts produced only once a year ? ’ |
| 5 | Since the Libyan system allowed no formal campaign with a beginning and a pre-announced end , the agonistic element was concentrated in the ballot which became much more a contest between voters than one between candidates . |
| 6 | This involved most notably a stress on the power of economic forces to overcome existing divisions between States . |
| 7 | Anglers Mail columnist Frank Barlow ( Wotsits Tackle ) drew right opposite a pub but some bites on stick float and maggots kept him rooted to his box and he finished runner-up with 11–7–0 of grayling . |
| 8 | This idea finds an echo in many African countries but assumes a Marxist-Leninist view of the economic and social order found in only a handful of African ruling élites . |
| 9 | Each member contributed so much a week to form a common fund . |
| 10 | ‘ When we first moved in over a year ago I wrote to the police in the traffic section at Winchester about the situation in Holybourne , ’ said Mrs. Gilmour . |
| 11 | It was a remarkable achievement for a company created just over a year earlier and which had had to pitch against some of the world 's largest train-builders , including GEC Alsthom , Siemens , and BREL , the dominant British manufacturer . |
| 12 | It was a remarkable achievement for a company created just over a year earlier and which had had to pitch against some of the world 's largest train-builders , including GEC Alsthom , Siemens , and BREL , the dominant British manufacturer . |
| 13 | Lunging forward with a net , he caught not just a leaf but a tiny fish as well . |
| 14 | But it does indicate the extent to which Mary 's cushioned childhood created not only a cocoon of adulation , but a cocoon of immaturity which she seemed remarkably reluctant to pierce . |
| 15 | After I got my free plaster and sticky tape to keep the cotton wool swab on I found not just a cup of tea and rich tea on offer but a wide choice of beverages and crisps and chocolate biscuits all individually wrapped — from looking at that feast you would n't believe the NHS is strapped for cash . |
| 16 | That advice was given in 1957 , and captured a reality described more soberly six years later by William Taylor : ‘ The ideals of the period ( after 1945 ) involved not only a concept of the Modern school , but also a concept of society , in which the strains and stresses of occupational and social competition would be considerably reduced , and motives higher than those of profit and personal gain would direct human endeavour . ’ |
| 17 | The Queen had already heard rumours about the couple 's problems — but it really sank home just a year ago when Sarah asked if she could talk to her about ‘ a very personal matter ’ . |
| 18 | She decided therefore that The Sun was never again to be offered ‘ Laura Ashley ’ publicity material and reinforced as tight a hold as possible on the Image . |
| 19 | It was a source of satisfaction to him that his bridges found as ready a use in the civilian market as they had in the military . |
| 20 | BANK holiday trippers are being asked to give their verdict on an energy source described as both a friend and an enemy of the environment . |
| 21 | The elections , which involved well over a quarter of the electorate , were seen both as a dress rehearsal for the North-Rhine Westphalian Land elections in May next year and as a test of the political mood in the country . |
| 22 | Do you know a couple named Channing , moved here over a year ago ? |
| 23 | I was born in Buckinghamshire , my father was a farm worker , so we moved round quite a bit . |
| 24 | Its certainty was attained once the bill was separated from the charter party and became not only a receipt for the goods but also an independent ( captain or master of the vessel issued ) abstract document of title . |
| 25 | We got over quite a lot of old problems . |
| 26 | Six months or so of this produced not only a degree of understandable tedium -even the most terrifying things can become boring if lived with long enough — but what I would call an inverse effect . |
| 27 | that the reference to the accounts could not be viewed accurately without viewing the statutory statement of business which filed only just a month or so back reveals a sixteen and a half billion surplus in the members premium trust fund up from twelve and a half billion at the end of proceeding year . |
| 28 | They came together once a year to slip back into what McQuaid said were the days of their glory . |
| 29 | Having managed to come by a decent bit of steak and kidney , he stood over the young maid , who came in once a week , until she had managed to produce a pie , later warmed up for dinner in the microwave . |
| 30 | By the middle and later 1960s , however , this ‘ Cisalpine ’ theological agenda was being overtaken by a more evidently twentieth-century one : modern biblical scholarship turned out not to have stopped with Westcott and Lightfoot nor even with Dodd , but seemed much more a matter of swallowing Bultmann and Nineham ; ecumenical theology now led one less to Luther and Calvin or even Barth than to the vapid profundities of Tillich , Bishop Robinson 's Honest to God and beyond . |