Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had just overwhelmingly repulsed an unprovoked attack by a European power , and their past history gave them little cause to regard Europeans with favour . |
| 2 | This is to certify that … has successfully completed an advanced training course in the following subjects : Information Management , Plant Information Systems , Database Design and Construction , Word Processing , and Personal Computer Operating Systems ; and that he has demonstrated his abilities in these subjects by constructing a database of the Economically Useful Plants of India . |
| 3 | Still , they met us with fire trucks ; we were politely assigned an armed guard and warned not to take pictures . |
| 4 | In contrast , the culture of precursors and purified epithelium alone remained small and was alymphoid , even though the epithelial cells had successfully formed an intact structure and still expressed a cortical epithelial cell phenotype , including MHC class II antigen expression ( b ) and ERTR4 ( ref.16 ) and 4F11E ( ref.17 ) expression ( not shown ) . |
| 5 | The rebels had apparently dropped an earlier insistence that the UN should take over main government ministries until elections . |
| 6 | THE recent wild fluctuation in interest rates has only added an extra burden to people already having severe housing problems . |
| 7 | But Christianity had so forgotten an earlier period when it was open to discussion and even mockery of its views that it reacted to the modern onslaught with what often amounted to fear and paranoia . |
| 8 | But he lay quite dead to her and only made an irritated noise and shoved her when she started stroking his arm , for he had got what he wanted . |
| 9 | ‘ KME differed little from conventional organisations and fell well short of co-operative ideals ’ ; and again , ‘ the worker directors apparently adopted an autocratic style and barely communicated with their fellow members . ’ |
| 10 | With Gorbachev consistently refusing this summons , despite a 100-rouble fine , the Court had then apparently imposed an effective ban on his travelling abroad , by requesting the Foreign and Security Ministries to ensure his appearance at the hearing . |
| 11 | What is usually said about the invention of printing is that it greatly expanded an earlier minority culture , and at last made it into a majority culture . |
| 12 | He had been educated at Eton College so had an excellent command of English . |
| 13 | True , he concealed his second and third chins beneath a grey-brown beard that only got an efficient trimming at the hands of Peccable 's eldest daughter Hoi-Polloi . |
| 14 | They nearly came to scratching each other because Janice says they 've only got an old banger . |
| 15 | The Socialists have long had an electoral pact with the Communists ( which is still in force ) to withdraw whichever of their candidates is the least well placed in the second round . |
| 16 | Of course , the press had been the earliest communications free market , even if , in practice , most European nations have long had an additional element of political party patronage and state aid to individual titles and to the sector as a whole . |
| 17 | Eighteenth-century politics have long had an unsavoury reputation , and although in the case of Scotland much of that reputation can be traced to the persuasive , but not strictly accurate , writings of Henry Cockburn and other Whig reformers of the early nineteenth century , it must be conceded at the outset that there is something to be said for the received account . |
| 18 | The Crown had long had an unquestioned right to commandeer ships from coastal towns . |
| 19 | According to Marenches , he and the Shah had long had an excellent relationship . |
| 20 | The IMF on June 23 furthermore approved an extended arrangement authorizing purchases up to the equivalent of SDR3,703 million ( about $4,600 million ) over the next three years . |
| 21 | There is little doubt that the Convention has not only produced an orderly framework within which the various forms of procedure can operate but has also , in the Central Authority system , produced a very successful and increasingly well-used mechanism . |
| 22 | Meanwhile the diocese not only supplied an extra man but very quickly went about finding a house on the Trendlewood estate for the Carter family to move into ( at a cost of £125,000 ) — so very generous and rapid support from the diocese was a key factor . |
| 23 | You have obviously used an automatic engine . |
| 24 | The eclecticism of the mid-nineteenth-century architects was of two types : either they applied different styles to different buildings , as did Burn or the Barrys , or they applied motifs derived from different styles to the same building and so produced an original design . |
| 25 | The recession has obviously had an adverse effect on attractions throughout the country , not least of all steam railways . |
| 26 | He has not hitherto displayed an compendious knowledge of 19th Century philosophy . |
| 27 | Jahsaxa merely raised an inquiring eyebrow at his blather . |
| 28 | But the emperor remained impassive on his dais and the Resident Superior merely raised an amused eyebrow in the direction of one of his colleagues . |
| 29 | When comparative efficiency is taken into account , such a degree of concentration can not be directly explained by Britain 's reliance on international trade , though its traditional international role had obviously played an important part in conditioning business horizons . |
| 30 | The piper that morning had only worn an ordinary shepherd 's cloak , not the short swinging cape , long white woollen socks criss-crossed by leather straps … |