Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , on the second , more rigorist , view , her action would turn out to be wrong , should it be true that with even more effort she could have relieved still more suffering , or caused just a little more happiness ( without countervailing harm ) . |
| 2 | Brian knows Brian knew everything more or less or arranged quite a few things anyway |
| 3 | In Parliament there was non-cooperation that became almost a guerrilla war between the parties . |
| 4 | She wondered how he would be , whether she 'd cope , what she would say , and had just decided to rehearse an opening line when , with a jolt deep in the pit of her stomach , she saw him , weaving through the clusters of people , coming towards her , looking , as always , more handsome than she remembered , dressed in dark , well-cut trousers and a crisp white shirt that revealed just a glimpse of his tanned chest , the strength of dark matted hair . |
| 5 | In one of his speeches , the right hon. Gentleman spoke of a council that met once a year to put out contracts , had a good lunch and then went home . |
| 6 | The Dents owned the very first car in Baldersdale and that created quite a stir I remember being at school when they first drove it round the place and the teacher brought us all out on to the road to have a closer look at this amazing thing . |
| 7 | Quite by chance he heard that they had another depôt off Mitcham Road , West Croydon and on visiting that found quite a different state of affairs . |
| 8 | No , that caused only a tiny prickling sensation , and she 'd experienced that before , in any case . |
| 9 | And that caused quite a bit of resentment , I can tell you — the Americans and the Japanese competing for our future . |
| 10 | A hospital for pensioners that opened almost a hundred years ago is about to close its doors for the last time . |
| 11 | Boy did not keep in this box the letters that arrived once a week at his flat , regularly , on a Tuesday morning , letters which also began ‘ Dear Boy ’ or ‘ My Dear Boy ’ , but which were all signed ‘ Father ’ . |
| 12 | As Taylor began planning an improbable revival in Washington on Sunday against a Brazilian side that threw away a three-goal lead in a 3–3 draw with Germany last night , FA chairman Sir Bert Millichip emerged as a key figure . |
| 13 | A glance through the catalogues soon brings the realisation that the choice is much greater than existed even a few years ago . |
| 14 | Here was the partial and still nuanced defiance of their respective Alliance masters that indicated both a German refusal of the role of victims in the superpower struggle and a sense in both German states that the room for manoeuvre was growing . |
| 15 | In the elections that followed about a year later in 1979 the Awlad Amira ( who had ousted the Mannaia from office in 1976 ) lost control of thirteen of the fifteen popular committees . |
| 16 | I do n't think he lay down for quite some time though as he never had any shavings in his mane or tail for weeks but at least he could move about and that relieved quite a few of his problems . |
| 17 | Measurement , and the reason why Lazarsfeld was so insistent on developing a social research format that permitted even a modest level of quantification , is one of the procedures that facilitates the mathematisation of theory , a feature which is the hallmark of the most advanced of the natural sciences , such as physics . |
| 18 | In particular , most of the early Verkehrsberuhigung work had involved schemes that covered only a street or two with low traffic flows , so little was known about the benefits or drawbacks to the wider urban area . |
| 19 | They recorded information on the circumstances of the death and the symptoms and signs that preceded it on a form that included both an open history of the final illness and screening questions for the presence of common symptoms , followed by the application of appropriate modules with precoded answers . |
| 20 | We could not accept a treaty that contained either a commitment at the beginning to a federal vocation or a review clause at the end — this is the question I have just answered — which implied or stated that the result of the review must be a movement towards federalism . |
| 21 | A particularly interesting finding was that of a benign tubulovillous polyp that contained both a mutant K-ras and a p53 allele . |
| 22 | And that meant quite a effect as far as the aborigines were concerned they had lost their territory ! |
| 23 | Decisions or plans that went awry a few weeks ago may now right themselves and the momentum of life steps up markedly . |
| 24 | November 2nd 1981 had me arriving at the mere on a calm , mild , dull day that saw hardly a ripple on the surface . |
| 25 | Ireland led 48-39 at the half-way point but had no answer to a late Welsh rally that gave then a 92-82 win . |
| 26 | Michelle McGreevy ( 17 ) , kept her nerve for a splendid win over Clandeboye 's best lady player , Nicola Gracey , in a game that earned both a plus mark . |
| 27 | All these schools were in Easington , and that left only a small but delightful anomaly on the other side of the town . |
| 28 | It no longer occurred to Folly to doubt that Luke was telling the truth — and she knew that she was concentrating on his explanation simply as a shield against the other questions that hovered only a breath away . |
| 29 | A Highlander was an Appalachian , and for Horton , folk was a term that had both a positive anthropological and a political meaning . |
| 30 | In good English that had only a speck of accent , just a faint edge that you would wonder every time you heard him if it really was some kind of accent . |