Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must never be forgotten that the great majority of the English people had only a passing interest in the niceties of academic theology , and that outside the bishops ' palaces and the two universities such issues remained relatively unimportant . |
| 2 | Investing in people through the social services became both a respectable and a popular policy among governments . |
| 3 | In the early and mid-1980s purchases of Treasury bills by the UK private sector contributed only a modest amount to funding the PSBR . |
| 4 | Very little was pre-packaged , and packed groceries formed only a small part of trade until the Second World War . |
| 5 | A time when adventure came first and pure athleticism played only a minor role in the great climbing game . |
| 6 | It was early still , but , while she had quite enjoyed his company and having someone else to converse with in her own language , an early night seemed quite a good idea . |
| 7 | The annual competition saw quite a rare occurrence in the sport of fishing . |
| 8 | By the time of the Spanish conquest , the indigenous people of Central America had already a well-developed conception of health and disease . |
| 9 | The right wing put forward a united front with the clear aim of overthrowing the republic . |
| 10 | Second , the development of advanced capitalism produced both a large oligopolistic business sector and a large oligopolistic labour union movement . |
| 11 | Such distinctions mattered more in Russia or the Dual Monarchy , where the capitalist and professional classes had still a long way to go before winning social acceptance by the old nobility . |
| 12 | Under Edward VI the war cost a further £1,387,000 , to which parliamentary taxes contributed only a small fraction . |
| 13 | From somewhere above , fillets of amber light fell aslant a small oak door armed with iron bosses and the usual Chubb lock . |
| 14 | Thus our chosen methods involved both a careful observation and recording of firsthand experience and the development of second-order models . |
| 15 | Hewlett-Packard pitched into the downsizing battle with a vengeance last week with the launch of new top-end multi-processors claimed to be more powerful than up to 85% of IBM 's installed base of mainframe systems — and in a supporting role gathered together an impressive list of mainframe specialist software houses committed to support the machines . |
| 16 | However , those advocating an outright ban on new sole practices and a phased abolition of existing ones constituted only a small , if not insignificant , minority of respondents . |
| 17 | They assumed that their arrests had been a political move and began to suspect that their continued detention had equally a political motive . |
| 18 | A study of the fans of Oxford United and Millwall found that actual physical violence played only a small part in life on the terraces ( Marsh , Rosser and Harre , 1978 ) . |
| 19 | Table 6.4 shows that there appears to be a turning point around 1960 : before then manufacturing employment , and the broader ‘ industrial ’ employment , had been growing faster than overall employment , whereas over the period 1960–64 ( which , taken as a whole , shows a rapid growth of overall employment ) the manufacturing and industrial sectors showed only a marginal growth of employment , therefore accounting for a declining share of the total . |
| 20 | After six months of clinically successful diet nephrogenous cAMP decreased appreciably in most patients , though plasma values and total urinary excretion of both cyclic nucleotides showed only a slight downtrend . |
| 21 | In sharp contrast to previous pacifist agitations , the Nonconformist churches played only a minor role . |
| 22 | In spite of the political persecutions after 1848 , political or ideological refugees formed only a small fraction of mass emigration , even in 1849–54 , though at one time the radicals among them controlled half the German-language press of the United States , which they used to denounce their country of refuge . |
| 23 | Illegitimate births formed only a small number of the total registered births before 1750 , but by the end of the eighteenth century an illegitimacy ratio of 5 per cent was common and by the middle of the nineteenth century 20 per cent was often the norm . |
| 24 | The Bohemian party saw only a limited part of the country , landing in Kent , and travelling via London to Reading , Salisbury and Poole , whence they sailed to France . |
| 25 | In the course of the 1840s the young radical put together an informal association of disaffected contemporaries whose ranks , at one time or another , included the novelist Dostoevsky , the satirist and future provincial governor Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin , the future panslav Nikolai Danilevskii , Vladimir Miliutin ( a brother of the man who reformed St Petersburg 's municipal administration in 1846 ) , Valerian Maikov ( brother of a distinguished lyric poet ) and Nikolai Speshnev , who turned out to be the most extreme member of the company but was also " the only one … to lead the life of a leisured gentleman " . |
| 26 | The recent conference brought together an international gathering of 130 art historians , archaeologists , conservators and scientists working in the field of archaic Greek sculpture . |
| 27 | The liturgical seasons and the cycle of commemorative festivals defined both a weekly and an annual rhythm of Christian living . |
| 28 | Although the G-7 final communiqué made only a passing reference to " developments in the Soviet Union " , it was understood that a decision to shelve the issue of Soviet participation in the IMF and World Bank [ see p. 37730 ] had been prompted by widespread condemnation of recent Soviet attacks on nationalists in Latvia and Lithuania [ see pp. 37944-45 ] . |
| 29 | Moreover , the United States would be withdrawing a force with stated missions in support of NATO ground forces while the Soviet fleet had only a derivative role in defending the Warsaw Pact . |
| 30 | After its publication in February 1980 a deterioration in the world 's economic and political ‘ climate ’ made the large resource transfers and major institutional changes suggested only a remote possibility . |