Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | Each member contributed so much a week to form a common fund . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Do you know a couple named Channing , moved here over a year ago ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They came together once a year to slip back into what McQuaid said were the days of their glory . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | That epicanthic fold over the eye , which seemed so much a part of the android 's ‘ difference ’ — its machine-nature — was here , on the natural man , quite attractive . |
| 21 | It was intended to represent the concept of a tram in 2937 , but its unfortunate shape resembled more closely a cottage-loaf , by which it became known to the crews . |
| 22 | Their husbands , they said , only came home once a year , to father more children . |
| 23 | Hence ‘ Flame On ’ came as both a picture and plain-sleeved single . |
| 24 | The Slovene Assembly on Feb. 20 adopted almost unanimously a resolution on the " disassociation of Slovenia from Yugoslavia " . |
| 25 | The UN General Assembly on Aug. 25 adopted almost unanimously a resolution sponsored by the 47 ICO member-states . |
| 26 | To me ‘ positive'/ ‘ negative ’ seemed too sharp a distinction , for which I should have preferred the category ‘ included'/ ‘ excluded ’ . |
| 27 | It 's a pity the recommended individual commanded too high a price . |
| 28 | There were no notices , no signs , nothing that could indicate where he was to a traveller , so that the clean worn wood of the country platform and the solid unadorned brick of the little building seemed very much a part of the wooded slope at the back of it . |
| 29 | In medieval Christianity they became more specifically a symbol of purity , not just because of their gentle lustre , but still more because they were grown secretly and , it was believed , with personal suffering by the oyster . ) |
| 30 | This led to an improvement in trade and a fall in inflation , so that Germany in the late 1980s became once again a country of trade surpluses and a strong currency , at the cost of some social division . |