Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His geographically-based nomenclature was however superseded by that devised only a few years later by Giovanni Riccioli , a Jesuit priest . |
| 2 | In the years between his father 's death and the outbreak of the First War , this became quite a grand establishment . |
| 3 | This laid down a future programme in which , among the many proposals , they called for Burma 's recognition within the family of nations and admission to the UN , and finally ‘ the establishment of a sovereign state in the very near future ’ . |
| 4 | Another described how a strong rope was thrown over one of the barn 's tie-beams and then fixed to the horse 's harness . |
| 5 | This reinforced both a legalistic approach , conscious of conflicts of interest , and pessimism about the results of welfare-orientated admissions to care . |
| 6 | This comprised quite a large industrial site and in later years became an important iron and tinplate rolling works . |
| 7 | This opened up a four-shot lead but at the 5th Greg hit a bad second shot and chipped up , missed the putt and dropped back to three ahead . |
| 8 | ‘ All this happened about a thousand years ago , ’ she said . |
| 9 | This happened about a dozen times . |
| 10 | This included over a million people living on incomes below the poverty line ( a point I return to later ) . |
| 11 | This brought together a powerful nucleus of ‘ enlightened ’ bureaucrats and strengthened the position of like-minded officials working for reform through various ministries , notably that of justice . |
| 12 | This brought out a few gasps of admiration from the onlookers . |
| 13 | This went quite a long way towards soothing enraged newspapermen and the dinner terminated quite peacefully , although on its termination my drink stock was reduced by two whole bottles of whisky . |
| 14 | Now , after that , you was er taught all the parts of the waggons , and er this took quite a long while because we did n't know anything about them , and er where they all went and the parts they went . |
| 15 | This proved quite a successful intiative and was an inexpensive exercise because Air Vice-Marshal Bill Bailey kindly arranged for us to make use of the recording facilities at Services Sound & Vision Corporation . |
| 16 | This proved quite a successful theory for a number of years , in that it stimulated a lot of research and produced a corpus of compatible experimental results . |
| 17 | This set up a Civil Rights Commission empowered to assist blacks to exercise their right to vote . |
| 18 | This set up a national Poor Law Commission to superintend the system , and formed the parishes into groups known as poor law unions . |
| 19 | This set off a major rebellion in which Russian settlements were sacked with a death toll of over 2,500 . |
| 20 | This remained only a vague idea until he read the same Soviet paper from the 1970s as Chatterjee had seen and which dealt with the abundance of helium-3 and helium-4 in minerals . |
| 21 | As with tureens , these had neither a pouring lip nor spout . |
| 22 | Incidentally it did not escape our notice that Colin , his wife and John Stowell all gave up a significant part of a day for our benefit . |
| 23 | All had either a rigid or flexible sigmoidoscopic examination and where the upper limit was not identified , extent of disease was established by barium enema or colonoscopy . |
| 24 | That left only a tiny cupboard above the hanging space , in which Julius Apollo had stored a black leather toilet bag and his brushes . |
| 25 | They each held out a free arm . |
| 26 | When they both looked back a split second later the man was gone , but his face was stamped on Maura 's memory . |