Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , through the 1950s and early 1960s it became widely accepted by biologists . |
| 2 | During the 1950s and early 1960s , retirement at the statutory pensionable age of 60 for men and 65 for women became widely established across occupations and social classes , although least at the highest status-levels . |
| 3 | Early this century jute sacks became widely used for home distribution although the export of cement still continued in battels and later in steel drums . |
| 4 | In this action Leftwich was well ahead of his time , as Norwegian ice later became widely used for refrigeration during the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Over many years Meccano became widely used by designers to demonstrate ideas useful in mechanical research . |
| 6 | It became clear talking with women that many men find it difficult to offer comfort . |
| 7 | A characteristic punk head by Tony Bevan ( lot 83 ) made £4,200 ( $6,300 ; est. £3,000–4,000 ) while a rather low-key landscape by John Keane ( lot 85 ) sold below estimate for £2,000 ( $3,000 ) . |
| 8 | The details of this illness remain obscure , but in 1693 Newton became sufficiently disturbed in mind for rumours of his insanity to gain widespread acceptance . |
| 9 | Raised in London , he suffered polio in childhood and endured long spells in hospital . |
| 10 | In it , he imagines what would happen to London if it became so choked with cars that no-one could move . |
| 11 | Someone who could n't forget that it was nearly , but not quite , that height , was one Malcolm Ferguson who in 1878 became so incensed by Ben Lawers being declared officially under the 4,000-foot mark by means of new surveying techniques , he decided to do something about it . |
| 12 | Thus when villages became so reduced in size that they were no longer viable their inhabitants had to move out to nearby larger settlements . |
| 13 | The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years . |
| 14 | An undertrained and under-educated work-force led inexorably to balance of payments problems . |
| 15 | He was joined on most of his hunting expeditions by two Aborigines , Natty and Jemmy , ‘ two intelligent and faithful natives of the Yarrundi tribe ’ , who became extremely attached to Gould and later accompanied him on his most ambitious and successful expedition to the Mokai and Namoi Rivers in December of that year . |
| 16 | We can see from Table 14.7 that the UK produced less output per unit of net capital stock , for both the ‘ whole economy ’ and ‘ manufacturing ’ , than either West Germany or the USA . |
| 17 | Taylor , 31 , of 1 Sqn A Flight , RAF Laarbruch , Germany , admitted carelessly driving on September 26 , last year , and colliding with a lorry driven by Alex Baillie of Golf Drive , Port Seton , East Lothian . |
| 18 | With Byas and White wasting no scoring opportunities , Yorkshire required 41 off five overs and their task became less demanding as Byas clubbed Hayhurst for four and six , the big hit just brushing Caddick 's fingers before clearing the rope . |
| 19 | The Department of Employment itself took the view in 1988 that evidence was lacking on the extent of age barriers in employment and argued that the problems facing older workers would disappear as the demographic changes became better understood by employers . |
| 20 | She later became better known as Lord Nelson 's mistress , Lady Hamilton . |
| 21 | As a result the expansionist economic policies favoured by David Lloyd George found little support amongst electors and , thus , in parliament . |
| 22 | Thus the courts have , for example , limited their intervention in cases concerning homeless persons , using arguments concerning the subjectivity of administrative discretion which found little favour in cases such as Tameside considered above ; and they have counselled restraint in circumstances where propositions of law are interwoven with issues of social and ethical controversy concerning the scope of parental rights , while being more willing to intervene where legal issues are intertwined with questions of social and economic choice , as in the Bromley case . |
| 23 | According to the OECD survey , the privatization programme involved little change in management or improvement in efficiency . |
| 24 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
| 25 | She could hear cars and lorries swooshing past and tried desperately to call for help but she had no breath . |
| 26 | She held out her arms and tried desperately to grab at Jones 's reins , but three quarters of a ton of racehorse hit her head-on at nearly forty miles an hour and the three went down in a heap . |
| 27 | She moved away to talk to Eustace Tolby who had come with his wife , an elegant Asian woman . |
| 28 | Disappointed by her dull response , he moved away to talk to Muriella . |
| 29 | Masha and I found further cause for depression as , walking in search of a tube station , we came to a major intersection , a roundabout of relentless , screeching vehicles , three and four abreast : for in the centre , on the small concrete island , we saw a man lying on his side . |
| 30 | As Frederick 's policies turned into those of Bismarck 's Kulturkampf , the Catholic Kaszubians found further cause for alarm . |