Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pos pn] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | However , Mr. Collins ( if I have understood him correctly ) has expressly limited his challenge to Lautro 's failure to allow the making of representations before the service of the intervention notice . |
2 | None the less , the changes in ‘ Bantu education ’ have not fundamentally altered its status as education for inferiority and subservience . |
3 | Just a month later , on 25 November 1944 , The Soldier 's Tale was successfully given its premiere by the Ballet Club at the Alhambra , Cape Town . |
4 | However , he had slowly modified his lack of jealousy into trust . |
5 | Labour has successfully shed its image of a party of sandal-wearing social workers from the 1960s . |
6 | Molly had secretly enjoyed her initiation to sex on the night of Yanto 's near drowning , but then she had had to curtail her natural emotions for fear of waking her Father . |
7 | The National Rivers Authority has only given its approval for half the planned graveyard . |
8 | The National Rivers Authority has only given its approval for half the planned graveyard . |
9 | Thus had Carnelian swiftly explained his shooting of the old woman … |
10 | The round-headed boy who had been polishing the Daimler 's windows ambled up and competently placed his hands on the rein either side of the black mare 's mouth . |
11 | I think I 'd be good at lecturing , especially given my aspect of appreciating . |
12 | His geopolitical ( some would say his neo-imperialist ) strategy similarly demanded the continuance of a strong British Commonwealth , especially given his doubts concerning the future of democracy as relatively backward peoples gained their independence . |
13 | No — each lady had personally placed her cake on the long table — without assistance . |
14 | In South America the same thing had happened ; even the continuing presence of a large native population and wars of liberation had not much differentiated their institutions from European models . |
15 | Also , I had the impression that Victor Frankenstein was purely an invented character ; however , recent events have somewhat shaken my preconceptions of probability ! |
16 | The Picts are said to have fiercely resented their subjection to the Saxons and attacked Ecgfrith who defeated them with the help of his sub-king ( subregulus ) , Beornhaeth ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 19 ) , probably between the Avon and the Carron ( in Manau of the Gododdin ) . |
17 | Where Keynes is concerned , they have long recognized his importance as an inspiration between the wars for a certain type of progressive , Lib-Lab politics : but few could pass an examination in Keynesian theory . |
18 | By mid-June , two things had crucially altered his prospects of victory : first , at Châlons , Judith arrived with men from Aquitaine ; second , Louis the German and a small but experienced force met up with Charles near Auxerre . |
19 | There are also complaints in Japan , where foreign suppliers have long blamed their difficulty in penetrating the Japanese market on the closed ranks of the keiretsu . |
20 | Clearly they all function with the agreement of their management committees and funders , and within NACAB membership conditions , In fact NACAB has democratically voted its support for a broadening of roles , by reiterating in the new membership regulations the responsibility of the management committee for ensuring that bureau workers are trained in social policy work , and that they see it as a natural complement to bureau work when dealing with individual clients . |
21 | But the strangeness of the tropics and the sophistication of the almost-forgotten culture from which she had sprung had greatly exaggerated her sense of release from the frustrations of the past . |
22 | We have so distorted our conception of higher education that it is difficult to realize the point . |
23 | Blufton 's eyes glittered with irritation : he had obviously expected his revelation to be treated with respect . |
24 | The earl , who had apparently dispersed his men before meeting the duke , clearly expected no trouble from Gloucester — confidence which would be incredible if Gloucester had just been the victim of a Woodville coup . |
25 | The earl , who had apparently dispersed his men before meeting the duke , clearly expected no trouble from Gloucester — confidence which would be incredible if Gloucester had just been the victim of a Woodville coup . |
26 | Indeed , much of the evidence suggests that , even if Mansell had not actually braked early , he had perhaps lifted his foot from the throttle , which has much the same effect in an F1 car . |
27 | Rachaela had expensively rescued her furniture from store . |
28 | I 've only seen my daughter-in-law for three minutes since I got the news . |
29 | Jules had already disappeared indoors and Alain merely matched his pace to hers . |
30 | Although the writers discussed here have all turned their back on mimetic realism , they have not abandoned the issue of how their fiction relates to the external world . |