Example sentences of "[vb past] a further " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes as they fly , they tilt their bodies so that their tails dip into the water , and beat a further few strokes , renewing their impetus and extending their flight . |
| 2 | Hearing of his difficulties from Greta Burkill , the College contributed a further £50 and the Self-Aid Society for Refugees another £50 . |
| 3 | Lee Evans , the controversial black Olympic sprinter , contributed a further element to Kane 's model when he added : ‘ Then , on the plantations , a strong Blackman was mated with a strong Blackwoman . |
| 4 | NATIONAL Savings products contributed a further £219 million to Government funding in January , bringing the total contribution for the financial year to date to nearly £4 billion . |
| 5 | Most humiliating of all when he did intervene on the record he only contributed a further nuance to the policy confusion under way . |
| 6 | A group of Free French troops provided a further source of manpower . |
| 7 | While the election of an authoritarian central government in 1979 resulted in cut-backs for local councils , it also provided a further stimulus for more community-oriented municipal projects . |
| 8 | The Anglican Henry Dannett provided a further fall-back epistemological basis for vindicating antislavery perceptions of the moral order by arguing that even ‘ if scriptural decisions should appear to contradict our ideas of right and wrong we are still bound to follow those ideas because we can not be so certain that we rightly understand and justly limit those scriptural decisions as we are of our own ideas of right and wrong ’ . |
| 9 | This was provided through " Help the Aged " who donated £6,500 to the cost and the volunteers , staff , carers and donations provided a further £6,500 . |
| 10 | The transition from diplomatic and economic pressure on Iraq to direct offensive military action provided a further confirmation of the US leadership of what US statements described as " the 28-member international coalition " , since " coalition forces " would come under the operational command of the commander of US forces , Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf , in consultation with Saudi Defence Minister Prince Sultan ibn Abdul Aziz . |
| 11 | Defoe provided a further , more useful categorisation in 1728 . |
| 12 | In the northern part of Russia , never very suited to extensive grain farming , peasant farms displaced estate production of hemp , flax and other intensive crops , while handicrafts provided a further market for the peasantry . |
| 13 | The Saturday Review said that there were only four entries that it deemed to be good enough to be designated Gothic , but Clarke 's catalogue listed a further fourteen Gothic schemes . |
| 14 | The Tories had broadly accepted ‘ Attlee 's consensus ’ , although Churchill was already critical of ‘ socialist bureaucracy ’ and ‘ loss-making nationalised industries ’ and his party promised a further relaxation of wartime controls on workers , consumers and private capital ; the Labour leadership had basically achieved what they had set out to achieve in the initial round of nationalisation and formation of the National Health Service and had no new radical project to present to their working class supporters , while the broader ‘ labour movement ’ in the country was not unified around any radical demands for further government action . |
| 15 | McGrath promised a further extract for the following issue , but by then Pound 's publishers had stepped in , claiming breach of copyright . |
| 16 | On Jan. 29 Kohl promised a further DM8,300 million towards the US military campaign for the first three months of 1991 plus further military assistance to Turkey ( air defence missiles and 600-strong crew ) and to Israel . |
| 17 | Inclusive of the manor of Clipsham his Rutland property alone exceeded £12 in value , and from Buckinghamshire he drew a further £43.2 As a gentleman , the absentee William Dall ( or Dale ) could also be expected to have other property , and was in fact lord of the neighbouring manor of Tickencote , where he resided . |
| 18 | It embodied a further complication because the millions of souls to whom it was dedicated included political and military leaders convicted of war crimes and executed by the Allies . |
| 19 | In another letter he described a further scheme : |
| 20 | But when the socialists proposed a further cut at the end of 1945 , he baulked . |
| 21 | This investment activity levered a further £2.5 million into projects supported by GDA . |
| 22 | After the formal announcement by Australian Mutual Provident yesterday of its bid Pearl 's share price rose a further 87p to 639p . |
| 23 | From 1980 to 1981 they rose a further 10 per cent , to reach an all-time record . |
| 24 | On the BBC 's side they retained a further option to wind up any contract after eight weeks if they elected to replace an artist , or if the show was cancelled . |
| 25 | The presence of Vaclav Havel at a discussion forum at the ICA in April underlined a further fact about critical and post- modernist culture . |
| 26 | The bond of liege homage posed a further difficulty for one who was sovereign in his own right : how could the king of England perform services to the king of France which ran counter to his own previous alliances ? |
| 27 | The subsequent history of the town is confused ; by 1564 its trade was said to be in decline , and it sustained a further blow when William 's son retired to the fine house he had built at Shaw on the outskirts of the borough , leaving his men to sing ruefully : |
| 28 | By 1929 the Works had built 26 completely new cars , and built a further eight using the old top decks of the cars they had replaced . |
| 29 | The original twenty-four cars 69–92 were bought from the United Electric Car Company of Preston between 1911 and 1914 , but in 1927 Blackpool itself built a further six smaller racks , using its Standard car frame . |
| 30 | The technology required to offer an answer to this question , however , involved a further reductive step , by which the active , alive Aplysia was transformed into an inactive , manipulable ‘ prepartion . |