Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although more women than ever ran for office , there was no net change in the level of female representation . |
| 2 | There had always been more in common between the front benches than either had in common with their followers in the country . |
| 3 | The voice was the same : clear and authoritative , sure of itself , although faintly slurred by alcohol . |
| 4 | It too is gelatinous , and the upper surface if finely felted in texture . |
| 5 | Some of the responses to this , although informally phrased because never intended for publication , are worth quoting . |
| 6 | A closer correspondence between behavioural and neuropsychological estimates of speech lateralisation is obtained by only considering ear differences that reach a specified level of statistical significance ( Wexler , Halwes and Heninger , 1981 ) but as Satz ( 1977 ) has argued , the probability of mis-classifying a right hander with a dichotic left ear advantage as right brained for speech is of the order of 90 per cent ( see Chapter 5 ) ! |
| 7 | Implicit in it is a belief in the nobility of the suffering victim and a judgement that sees the working class as inevitably corrupted by material things . |
| 8 | Indeed , as Amiss saw with fascination , his first act on sitting down to breakfast was to open the tabloid at page three , fold it and prop it against the sugar bowl in such a way that the topless pin-up of the day was there to be looked at every time he got bored with the Telegraph . |
| 9 | Over the past few games McAllister might as well stayed in bed for all he did IMHO . |
| 10 | He saw this society as increasingly menaced by industrialization which , particularly in the cities , where power was now centralized , was cutting off the population from its roots . |