Example sentences of "[subord] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1992-93 , we will have more than tripled the original £15 million budget allocation for the know-how fund . |
| 2 | The era of the Prison Commission was by no means the golden age that nostalgia sometimes portrayed it to have been , but the verdict must be that its abolition magnified rather than minimized the deepening crisis into which the Prison Service was falling . |
| 3 | The dominance of orthodox economic policies , cautious pragmatism and consensus politics reflected the mood of the British electorate in the 1920s rather more than did the utopian assumptions of the Die-hard remnant . |
| 4 | The deaf group were unanimous in putting ‘ accuracy of transmission of concepts ’ as absolutely essential and , interestingly , rated ‘ the ability to understand all signs used , no matter which part of the country they came from ’ , higher than did the hearing group . |
| 5 | There she greatly admired Monsieur Jerricault 's canvas , which though static contained for her much motion and lighting and , in its own way , music — indeed , in some fashion it contained more of these things than did the vulgar Panorama . |
| 6 | The modular , simulation technique appears to have been preferred by more subjects and perceived to give greater insight than did the optimal technique . |
| 7 | Again then there is no evidence that the project achieved greater success in sustaining people at home than did the normal services ( in fact the reverse appears to be the case ) . |
| 8 | The patients with gastric ulcer had significantly fewer gap junctions than did the healthy volunteers . |
| 9 | He decided to consult Mr Dixon , his English teacher , who was also his counsellor and , therefore , knew more about him than did the other teachers . |
| 10 | The relatively straightforward use of the transitive property in the first question produced a much higher success rate than did the second series of questions . |
| 11 | RS-ORS and RP-ORS promoted more water absorption in secreting intestine than did the hypotonic glucose monomer solution , HYPO-ORS ( p<0.007 ) . |
| 12 | In fact , on the whole , London — like Oxford — made fewer concessions to the liberal practices of collaborative seminar discussion than did the newer Institutions . |
| 13 | The ELISA technique proved far less sensitive for identification of ulcerative colitis patients in inflammatory bowel disease but showed a higher specificity than did the indirect immunofluorescence assay . |
| 14 | Of all these , Augmentations was probably the most remarkable , since its accounting processes were modern and it used a more rational system for collecting revenues than did the old Exchequer . |
| 15 | The Labour Government of 1964 70 appointed more , on average , than did the Conservative Governments during this period from 1953 to 1973 . |
| 16 | But even if one considers those women in the modern western world who are less fortunate , they still have , for example , an entirely different legal status than had a first-century woman . |
| 17 | This does not seem to have succeeded any more than had an earlier regulation that only waste from timber cut with axe or adze was " lawful " , not sawn timber . |
| 18 | The Orthodox Church had played a more important role in keeping alive the culture of the exiled Serbs in Catholic Austria than had the Greek-speaking hierarchy of the Orthodox communities in the Ottoman empire . |
| 19 | Monckton Milnes , a good memorialist but a forgettable poet , visited the lake in 1838 and later wrote a poem about the tragedy , taking a more honour ably sentimental line towards it than had the morbid locals : |
| 20 | In that sense , Huxley suggested , evolution had no more to do with theism than had the first book of Euclid . |
| 21 | yes what , I simply do n't know , if had an on-going site , where the public was going in would you visit it , in the normal course of your business ? |
| 22 | It all but invited every cop-hating drug freak , every aggrieved drugs trafficker from the Bekaa Valley to Los Angeles , every ultra-right , gun-running , Contra-supporting machismo addict , and every thwarted narco-terrorist or Muslim extremist looking for a safe or cheap revenge to ‘ terminate ’ him also . |
| 23 | Stephen Gray all but completed the full flight test programme , with four flights in one day , August 14 , of the Fighter Collection 's Mk.XIV , MV293 . |
| 24 | When Harry Collyer joined Crystal Palace FC ours was a club that had not yet so much as played a 1st Division match in the Southern League . |
| 25 | One of his clients was Mike McGear , Paul McCartney 's brother and together they got up to some hair-raising pranks like trying to give a client a beer shampoo but drinking more of the vital ingredients before it so much as touched a single hair ! |
| 26 | McAllister , happily unaware of who made up the party , watched these inhabitants of the world in which she had lived since she was eight years old stare and chatter as they made their way through the doorway , Mr Sands bowing and scraping at them as befitted a poor relation to whom they were doing a favour , the rest of the bazaar 's patrons staring at these strange beings , male and female , as though they were visitors from another planet , perhaps one described by Mr H. G. Wells . |
| 27 | AS befitted an industrial training awards evening the ballroom of the Marton Country Club was decked out with glittery disco balls and flashing coloured lights . |
| 28 | This was good ; what was even better — and the more remarkable , given that the gentleman was French — was that he would do so in the proper manner : with little apparent effort on his part , with a negligent modesty , as befitted an English gentleman . |
| 29 | ‘ He will be called by his surname at his public school , ’ said Lewis , who though poor had grand ideas , as befitted the future owner of Wyvis Hall and its acres . |
| 30 | For though it stands so isolated today from human kind , St Mary 's church was a mother-church for a wide area round about , as befitted the spiritual centre of a royal estate ; and we do not know how far back a building stood on this site . |