Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be argued in this chapter that their prideful belief in the capacity to influence , so vividly expressed and so evidently vindicated in Indirect Rule , led the British on to fatal experiment in more and more attenuated forms of imperial control . |
| 2 | Man is a primarily a tropical animal , only recently arrived in polar regions . |
| 3 | Yeah , I know , but this is not Home Alone died in real life ! |
| 4 | Was I now so enmeshed in this world that the role of visitor had changed ? |
| 5 | Packets of the mixed white and orange-brown powder most strongly implicated in this case each contained an average of 105 mg of inorganic arsenic trioxide ( As 2 O 3 ) . |
| 6 | Assumption of the position , almost invariably resulted in spontaneous passage of wind , often started by a gentle cough . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly , Nicholas I came to be " almost universally reviled in Russian-Jewish historiography as the Russian Haman " . |
| 8 | Apart from presiding over their own hierarchies they might also , as they most certainly did in Medieval Christendom , play important roles in the wider community of the state . |
| 9 | We shall not be far wrong then if we say that in 1700 about one half of the arable land was already enclosed in the kind of fields that we see today , and that about one half still lay in open field , a landscape which survives today only in patches of a few hundred acres at Braunton ( north Devon ) , at Laxton ( Nottinghamshire ) and at Hazey and Epworth in the Isle of Axholme . |