Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes right thought for ages and he thought right what do I really need ? |
| 2 | However , through the 1950s and early 1960s it became widely accepted by biologists . |
| 3 | During the 1950s and early 1960s , retirement at the statutory pensionable age of 60 for men and 65 for women became widely established across occupations and social classes , although least at the highest status-levels . |
| 4 | Early this century jute sacks became widely used for home distribution although the export of cement still continued in battels and later in steel drums . |
| 5 | In this action Leftwich was well ahead of his time , as Norwegian ice later became widely used for refrigeration during the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Over many years Meccano became widely used by designers to demonstrate ideas useful in mechanical research . |
| 7 | Those advocating embalming lose little love for doctors who ask relations for permission to do a post-mortem examination and get it . |
| 8 | It became clear talking with women that many men find it difficult to offer comfort . |
| 9 | A characteristic punk head by Tony Bevan ( lot 83 ) made £4,200 ( $6,300 ; est. £3,000–4,000 ) while a rather low-key landscape by John Keane ( lot 85 ) sold below estimate for £2,000 ( $3,000 ) . |
| 10 | The details of this illness remain obscure , but in 1693 Newton became sufficiently disturbed in mind for rumours of his insanity to gain widespread acceptance . |
| 11 | Businessmen are banding together to bring to book those who illegally dump wagon loads of waste , and the Merseyside Development Corporation have backed the initiative with the introduction of video cameras to monitor the twilight activity . |
| 12 | Raised in London , he suffered polio in childhood and endured long spells in hospital . |
| 13 | In it , he imagines what would happen to London if it became so choked with cars that no-one could move . |
| 14 | Someone who could n't forget that it was nearly , but not quite , that height , was one Malcolm Ferguson who in 1878 became so incensed by Ben Lawers being declared officially under the 4,000-foot mark by means of new surveying techniques , he decided to do something about it . |
| 15 | Thus when villages became so reduced in size that they were no longer viable their inhabitants had to move out to nearby larger settlements . |
| 16 | The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years . |
| 17 | An undertrained and under-educated work-force led inexorably to balance of payments problems . |
| 18 | He was joined on most of his hunting expeditions by two Aborigines , Natty and Jemmy , ‘ two intelligent and faithful natives of the Yarrundi tribe ’ , who became extremely attached to Gould and later accompanied him on his most ambitious and successful expedition to the Mokai and Namoi Rivers in December of that year . |
| 19 | As the discussion of the previous chapter would suggest , their objectives do not arise ready made in response to some supposed ‘ needs ’ of the accumulation process ; they emerge out of the complex interplay within the state of organized political interests . |
| 20 | We tend naturally to concentrate on effectiveness — everybody does despite the evidence from curriculum development projects in all subjects that take-up is a far greater problem . |
| 21 | Unless otherwise stated , the selected findings given below relate to data provided by DNs in the EHA . |
| 22 | By this time the festival of Christmas had arrived , and both papal and royal courts joined together to celebrate in St Peter 's basilica . |
| 23 | We can see from Table 14.7 that the UK produced less output per unit of net capital stock , for both the ‘ whole economy ’ and ‘ manufacturing ’ , than either West Germany or the USA . |
| 24 | Taylor , 31 , of 1 Sqn A Flight , RAF Laarbruch , Germany , admitted carelessly driving on September 26 , last year , and colliding with a lorry driven by Alex Baillie of Golf Drive , Port Seton , East Lothian . |
| 25 | With Byas and White wasting no scoring opportunities , Yorkshire required 41 off five overs and their task became less demanding as Byas clubbed Hayhurst for four and six , the big hit just brushing Caddick 's fingers before clearing the rope . |
| 26 | Its newly established corporate sales force is intended only to drum up demand among the Fortune 1000 . |
| 27 | None of those wretches were distinguished enough to get into Who 's Who so one does n't have anywhere to start from . |
| 28 | The Department of Employment itself took the view in 1988 that evidence was lacking on the extent of age barriers in employment and argued that the problems facing older workers would disappear as the demographic changes became better understood by employers . |
| 29 | She later became better known as Lord Nelson 's mistress , Lady Hamilton . |
| 30 | And although elite mobility is likely to decline , ‘ there is reason to believe that access to positions in the political elite will remain less restricted in character than is typically the case in the capitalist societies ’ ( Giddens 1981 , p. 242 ) . |