Example sentences of "[vb past] an [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But throughout our period the Tories retained an essentially authoritarian ideology . |
| 2 | When all was degenerating into ritual farcical chaos around him , Lynn would remain the essence of sweet reason , achieving an almost transcendental calm and tranquillity partly because he retained an almost permanent inability to grasp the realities around him . |
| 3 | The Countess d'Agoult , better known perhaps under her nom de plume of Daniel Stern , presided over a republican circle in her fine house on the Champs Elysées , while Juliette Adam , married to a rich banker and later to become the mistress of the republican politician Gambetta , maintained an equally republican salon in her ( less grand ) apartment on the Boulevard Poissonière . |
| 4 | He was n't a bore or a boor , he could n't be typecast or even neatly slotted within the underground , from which he always maintained an apparently effortless sense of distance . |
| 5 | teaching approaches which maintained an often slavish adherence to the textbook , reliance on narrow questions often requiring monosyllabic answers , an inability to follow up and extend pupils ' answers and an over prescriptive method whereby the teacher was able to remain within a constricted , safe pattern of work . |
| 6 | Use of drawing instruments 50 per cent drew an acceptably accurate construction of an equilateral triangle ( p.82 ) . |
| 7 | Lot 144 , a large copper and niello inlaid Tiffany two-handled cup , for the 1893 World 's Columbian Exposition , bore an extremely low $8,000–12,000 estimate , and was sold to a New York dealer for $8,500 ( £6,000 ) . |
| 8 | Inter-republican relations in the USSR entered an entirely new stage when in February 1990 supporters of Sajudis won a majority of seats in the republican parliament and then , on 11 March , formally declared Lithuania independent on the basis of its prewar constitution . |
| 9 | Thus Bukharin had come to recognise that the bureaucratic stratum which had coalesced around Stalin now posed an incomparably greater threat to his vision of the transition to socialism than the opposition of Trotsky ever did . |
| 10 | And given the conditions obtaining this posed an almost insuperable problem , since ‘ the rebirth of industry is itself dependent on the flow of vital resources into towns , the absolute necessity for this influx at any price . ’ |
| 11 | Peter White of Midland Bank was less convinced , complaining of the failure of some large firms to adhere to a strict off-limits policy , and described an even worse practice of advancing a candidate who has undertaken to engage the headhunter involved at a later date if he or she lands the job . |
| 12 | In the hundred years after he died , the Pilgrim 's Progress found an increasingly wide readership among Nonconformists . |
| 13 | A big Public NME -type congratulations to BEN of the SENSELESS THINGS who found an equally senseless thing to marry him on August 14 . |
| 14 | When they then stimulated the perforant pathway with a train of electrical impulses , at the rate of 10–100 per second for up to 10 seconds , they found an extraordinarily long-lasting increase in the firing of the hippocampal neurons of the dentate gyrus , persisting for up to ten hours . |
| 15 | There , in a wooded dell called Holford Glen , close to the village church , they found an almost inaccessible waterfall which interrupted the Holford brook on its journey to the sea , and which , for them as for Coleridge , quickly became almost a voice of nature , an abiding , animated presence at the heart of their Quantock lives . |
| 16 | Amstrad reported an unexpectedly large loss before tax of £70.9m ( v £20.2m profit ) for the year to 30 June ; the figures were largely affected by the poor state of the PC market . |
| 17 | Sarah , who lived near to the Brompton Hospital , visited her father regularly although Raine 's hostility complicated an already fraught situation . |
| 18 | He was also involved in the development of Bailey 's Irish Cream , which created an entirely new category of drinks , cream liqueurs . |
| 19 | Dow Corning created an entirely new industry whose products are used today by industries as diverse as medical and construction , transportation and chemical processing , personal care and electronics , food processing and paper finishing . |
| 20 | The loss of the West Bank in the June 1967 war created an entirely new situation . |
| 21 | This created an entirely new situation in which few saw any purpose in pursuing the attempt to build the structures envisaged at Leeds . |
| 22 | His two pamphlets written during the First World War ( Durkheim , 1915a , 1915b ) show a total disregard — astonishing in a sociologist — for the social causes of the war ; the first provides a brief diplomatic history of the events leading up to the war , intended to demonstrate German ‘ guilt ’ , while the second naively analyses , during the postwar period , in nationalist movements and the formation of nation states is easily understandable , since it coincided in the first place with an upsurge of nationalism directed specifically against the economic and political dominance of the Western capitalist countries — where the great majority of sociologists live and work — which created an entirely new situation and new problems for those countries . |
| 23 | These , accumulating during this second period created an almost limitless reservoir of units and it is this reservoir which can be regarded as being identified with the state of the Created God at the time of the dawn of civilisation . |
| 24 | France , which envisaged that it would lead the new force , had withdrawn from NATO 's integrated command structure in 1966 [ see p. 21601 ] and had since then pursued an effectively independent line on military issues . |
| 25 | A few years ago , as part of an annual round-up of critical books for Encounter , I reviewed an interestingly speculative work on modern fiction by an American academic . |
| 26 | As a result , despite the potentially strong bargaining hand which the pre-war boom gave to skilled labour , workers sustained an almost unbroken record of failure in strike action . |
| 27 | Also we mentioned an environmentally sound road system and it 's not only that we 're , as are you over there against the fourteen or twenty eight lane or whatever busy lane it is on the M twenty five , because by putting all just increasing the road capacity is gon na lead to great loss from Kings Kingston on Thames and Ashtead and Shepherds Bush to Solihull . |
| 28 | In my first week at work there occurred an extremely gory accident at the College crossing , a point where the main line of the railway crosses the motor road to Regina just east of the city . |
| 29 | I did not want to hurt his feelings by saying I would manage far quicker alone , so I used an equally true reason for refusing his offer . |
| 30 | Jeff 's mysterious death visited an already troubled Toto camp , the band having become the victims of some typical record company insensitivity . |