Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rather got lost in the rush . ’ |
| 2 | Materials were collected in advance and stored in anticipation of their use ; powder slowly got cheaper in the course of the fifteenth century ; while many towns employed one or more men to supervise the effective use of artillery in case of attack . |
| 3 | Returning to Gorer 's work , this situation adds point to the feeling among most of his respondents that give-and-take , understanding and discussion , mutual trust and help etc. rank high in a happy marriage . |
| 4 | On 4 May Parliament endorsed the declaration of war on France and Spain , thereby becoming involved in the War of the Spanish Succession , which had followed the attempts of Louis XIV to install his grandson on the throne of Spain , and his invasion of Holland . |
| 5 | Dustin played Jason Fister , a bumbling undercover Treasury agent sent to Italy to locate gangster Madigan 's ill-gotten millions , thereby becoming embroiled in a series of slapstick mishaps . |
| 6 | Hillyard , from Dorset , in 1984 , when aged 14 , became the youngest player , to win the world title , after defeating Fisher in the semi-finals — a result which she repeated in 1987 , only to lose 5-1 in the final to the then 15-year-old Farren . |
| 7 | In Manchester , Glasgow , and Newcastle similar patterns of change occurred ; elsewhere decentralization only became absolute in the 1960s , for example in Birmingham , Sheffield , Leeds , and Nottingham , Smaller cities , such as Peterborough , Ipswich , and Bedford were centralizing , absolutely and relatively , during the 1950s , but then entered a phase of relative decentralization . |
| 8 | There was also the practical reason to provide convincing reasons why so many men were possessed of so little or no assessable ‘ substance ’ , and in the subsidy to justify the assessments of wages which only became effective in the absence of taxable goods , and , moreover , masters were responsible for the payment of their servants ' taxes . |
| 9 | Some historians argue that modern ecology only became possible in the post-Darwinian age in which all natural relationships were seen to be fragile . |
| 10 | But for most States , that only became feasible in the nineteenth century with the development of popular participation . |
| 11 | From the 1860s onwards the Commons , Open Spaces and Footpaths Preservation Society campaigned to save Britain 's rural heritage so that city-dwellers could be revitalized through contact with Nature ( a campaign that only became realistic in the era of rapid transportation by rail ) . |
| 12 | Only got two in the box though . |
| 13 | In geology , only causes active in the present , human period are accessible in principle , although often not in practice , to direct observation . |
| 14 | If your baby only has colic in the evening , then a temporary deficit in lactase , due to the morning feed being larger than usual , is a possibility ( see p 202 ) . |
| 15 | Of course , I would only do this in the evenings when the streets were at their quietest . |
| 16 | We only came fourth in the county championship last year and we lost a major final at Lords . ’ |
| 17 | LINFORD CHRISTIE , Britain 's athlete of the year , could only finish sixth in the international poll to find the world 's top track and field stars of 1992 , won by American hurdler Kevin Young . |
| 18 | So watch that in an exam . |
| 19 | ‘ They 've only got twelve in a form , sir , ’ Deirdre McTavish — better known as Nutty — pointed out the obvious reason for this last coincidence . |
| 20 | Whether he can match the Tories and Labour at political poker will only become apparent in a hung parliament . |
| 21 | But Mr Bevan 's ranting polemics on the subject would perhaps sound better in the mouth of a Minister of Health who was getting enough houses built . |
| 22 | The jaw literally gets stuck in the wide open position . |
| 23 | Can you see that maybe , if at some time in the future , you do have er , some bad health , or perhaps get involved in an accident , that after a period of time , it might be difficult to actually find the money to pay for this plan we 're establishing tonight ? |
| 24 | Coming down off the mountains , Matthiessen first finds that he loses the calm and joy of the transfiguration of his perception in high places and becomes a prey to irritation and a sense of desolation and purposelessness — his past experience apparently rendered hallucinatory in the face of his present sense of failure . |
| 25 | It is clear from the general discussion above , that earlier positions were forged out of identifiable institutional and cultural campaigns and struggles , and indeed the fundamental orientations of pluralism were only rendered explicit in a comparable situation of crisis at the end of the 1970s , by which time the attractions of the new pluralism had long been established . |
| 26 | So performing live in the Land of Song for the first time was an emotional experience for Kylie and her relatives . |
| 27 | ADVANTAGES OF ONLY HAVING TWO IN THE GROUP |
| 28 | We only find these in the spectra of gases ; rotation is not quantized in condensed phases , and the characteristic rotational envelope of a gas-phase band is absent . |
| 29 | On the fourth day , they drove out into the country , and were married by an extremely flustered official in a small mairie , some fifty kilometres outside Paris . |
| 30 | He did not merely walk barefoot in the pine needles , but dug his toes in so that they ploughed a shallow furrow . |