Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having no qualifications I launched into a career as a journalist and for my health it became downhill all the way . |
| 2 | Her hands were often plastered , while there was one occasion when she made so fiery a contact with a clubface that she punched one of the knuckles out of position . |
| 3 | No wonder that the winning of the French crown became so important a part of Edward III 's war policy . |
| 4 | A pain gripped her heart , and its beat became so erratic the soup slopped on her apron . |
| 5 | Last Tuesday or Wednesday the traffic on UUNet over this BSDI suit ( see front page ) got so heavy the protesters formed their own group ( alt.suit.att-bsdi ) — and this before the news hits the fan that the University of California , Berkeley is being brought up on charges too . |
| 6 | Bob Ivie 's speciality was his Hawaiian Punch , made to a secret Hawaiian recipe which became less secret every time he mixed up another batch before an audience , and which changed in its details anyway . |
| 7 | Workers had an interest in producing goods and higher management knew about production — how else could they have become higher management ? — and so if the two got together all the crises would be resolved . |
| 8 | A precedent was set last year , when Electrolux won an " ozone-friendly " fridge competition which required no chlorofluorocarbons and used only half the energy of conventional designs . |
| 9 | The journalists found especially useful a passage about Standard English where we explained that dialects obey their own grammatical rules . |
| 10 | Rarely can two sets of forwards have covered so much ground and sustained so furious a pace in their efforts to set up scoring chances . |
| 11 | The Department of the Environment provided just such a draft when they invited the Prince , as the United Kingdom 's patron of the European Year of the Environment , to open the Second International Conference on the protection of the North Sea in November 1987 . |
| 12 | He described as unbelievable a suggestion that he had asked staff about drugs at their job interviews . |
| 13 | They thus found particularly congenial the work of those anthropologists such as Bachofen , and again Morgan , who saw primitive kinship as almost a total reversal of the family as they knew it . |
| 14 | If readers of the Figures wished successfully to grow the delectable assortment presented by Miller , they had but to turn to his Dictionary for all the practical advice gleaned over half a century 's gardening and , if that proved too expensive , then there was the Abridgement or the Kalendar . |
| 15 | The last remark could be made of financial problems also , yet , even in these hard times , it can hardly be said that insoluble money problems beset over half the population of Britain . |
| 16 | It has recently been suggested that King overstated the numbers of the really poor because he used too large a multiplier for family size , and that perhaps their proportion of the population was nearer to a seventh in most years . |
| 17 | Hobhouse wrote The Metaphysical Theory of the State specifically to criticize Bosanquet 's idealist theory on the ground that it provided too expansive a role for the state . |
| 18 | Discussion of the various phenomena of ‘ exposure learning ’ in Chapter 1 revealed just such an effect — rats given prolonged exposure to a pair of stimuli presented in their home cages learned a subsequent simultaneous discrimination between these stimuli more readily than subjects for whom the test stimuli were novel ( Gibson and Walk 1956 ) . |
| 19 | Knowing she was loved by this powerful , dictatorial , gentle , wonderful man wiped away all the wounds and hurts of the past . |
| 20 | Oddly , the think-tank that seems closest to catching the next intellectual wave is the one whose collapse seemed most logical a year ago . |
| 21 | Can we do otherwise when our Lord suffered so cruel a death himself ? |
| 22 | ‘ As may be supposed ’ , he wrote , ‘ the sight of a bird of such beauty , which , moreover , was entirely new to me , excited so strong a desire to possess it that scarcely a moment elapsed before it was dead and in my hand . ’ |
| 23 | Engineering , which played so central a role in this country 's industrial development , now has little more than a bit part according to many economists and politicians . |
| 24 | It was only just to give Mr Heseltine , who played so prominent a role in the Tory victory , the job he so much wanted as Industry Secretary . |
| 25 | The new recruits to Labour did not , however , bring with them the institutional structures of Nonconformity which played so important a part in both Liberal and peace politics before 1914 . |
| 26 | Alfred Russel Wallace ( 1823–1913 ) , who actually discovered the theory of natural selection independently of Darwin and shared its glory with him , came from that tradition of artisan science and radicalism which played so important a part in the early nineteenth century and which found ‘ natural history ’ so congenial . |
| 27 | The top of the ‘ face ’ then runs along the Kuril Islands to Japan , staying always on the ocean side of these chains — down through the Marianas — Saipan , Guam , Palau — to a point just east of the Spice Islands , which played so large a part in the saga of Magellan and his attempted circumnavigation . |
| 28 | Proper authorization was essential and was provided by the seals which played so large a role in medieval government . |
| 29 | ‘ My true name is Agatha de Courcy , so I always told only half a lie ! ’ |
| 30 | I could n't stop him reforming , but when he came together all the polish was gone off . |