Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since it enabled employers to replace the two-shift with a three-shift system in the mines , it produced little real improvement in miners ' living standards . |
| 2 | Following their attack on the American naval units in Pearl Harbour , the Japanese forces made remarkably swift advances in the Far East , managing to capture Singapore from the British forces , on 15th . |
| 3 | This was a tremendous achievement , as she recovered little selective movement in her leg , and none in her left arm . |
| 4 | Even an early advance in New York — after news of a higher-than expected 2.2 per cent rise in US durable goods orders in February — made little lasting impression in London . |
| 5 | Although she made little initial impact in England , her scheme gained influential support in Scotland where it was adopted by the Scottish Education Department which agreed to give School Boards ‘ choice of employment ’ powers under the Education ( Scotland ) Act 1908 . |
| 6 | The Assembly on the other hand met only four times in each prytany ( tenth part of the year , i.e. a bit longer than a month ) ; extra meetings could no doubt be called ( though the word usually taken to refer to such meetings , sunkletos , may just mean a meeting called at short notice ) . |
| 7 | The company says that while it expected somewhat lower revenue in the first quarter because of seasonal factors and a product transition to R4000-based systems , the revenue decline was principally down to deferrals in customer orders and licensing activity as a result of the announcement of the proposed merger deal . |
| 8 | These political costs , moreover , produced only marginal gains in terms of local government expenditure control . |
| 9 | The first point to note , therefore , is that many of the disruptions in the first evacuation scheme , which produced so much distress in the children ( resulting , in particular , in bed-wetting ) were primarily the result of poor civil defence planning . |
| 10 | ‘ He made much worse cuts in the ‘ Scenes aux champs ’ of Berlioz 's Symphonie fantastique and in the last movement of Martinů 's Sixth Symphony , though these seem to have been made in live performances only . ’ |
| 11 | After the Beatles lost interest in him , the Maharishi made only occasional appearances in the headlines , most of them connected with the large sums of money his organisation was spending . |
| 12 | A jump-seat capable of carrying a seventy-pound child was added as an optional extra , but Univair made only 42 aircraft in 1950 and seven in 1951 before selling the ATC to Forney Aircraft of Fort Collins , who changed the name to ‘ Aircoupe ’ , made a number of further modifications including fitting the Continental C–90 engine , built twelve , then changed the name yet again to the ‘ Fornaire ’ , 82 being made under that identification . |
| 13 | Bateman made only 9 appearances in 1914–15 . |
| 14 | Moreover AT&T made only modest progress in entering the computer business and the world telecoms equipment market . |
| 15 | The prototype made only three flights in all , the second example was taken to the USA for examination . |
| 16 | A further group of medium-sized districts sought less extensive changes in the allocation of responsibilities ( Alexander 1982a:44 ) . |
| 17 | The Earl of Exeter owned so much property in Stamford ( Lincolnshire ) that he was able to keep its 2,500 electors firm to the Tory interest without a contest during the reign of Anne . |
| 18 | As the deep black shadow in Glen Keltney closed over them , they moved slowly nearer home in a trance of fatigue . |
| 19 | ( The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic had become a member on April 7 , 1948 , but had for many years maintained only token participation in the organization . ) |
| 20 | Such is his importance that in order for him to become a minister again , the Government invoked a short-cut used only three times in the last 300 years . |
| 21 | But manufacturers have come a long way from the aluminium-framed picture windows that disfigured so many homes in the early days of the replacement window boom , and a wide range of window styles is now available . |
| 22 | The move also followed the passing of budget resolutions by the House of Representatives on May 1 and by the budget committee of the Senate on May 2 , both of which embodied much deeper cuts in military expenditure than those contained within the Bush budget , which was increasingly viewed as obsolete because of its failure to address the implications of the radical change in Eastern Europe . |
| 23 | By contrast , in a preliminary report from Valencia , Perez-Aguilar and colleagues found only three recurrences in 12 post-dissolution patients ( 25% ) given 250 mg chenodeyxholic acid/day , compared with six recurrences in 10 patients ( 60% ) given no treatment . |
| 24 | Thai officers stationed along the Cambodian border reported only scattered incidents in northern and north-western Cambodia , with no fighting along the border . |
| 25 | It drew together several countries in a common body which controlled important areas of the economy ; it was a sign of Franco-German rapprochement and it paved the way for the full removal of post-war industrial controls on West Germany by the Western allies ; it succeeded in overcoming doubt and opposition from politicians and industrialists ; and it created a workable machinery . |
| 26 | The most recent sequence of excavations has established that there was limited pre-Roman occupation of the site , in the form of a round house , which may have been associated with areas of ploughed fields , found below Roman levels in Annetwell Street , even though they had apparently reverted to pasture immediately before the arrival of the Romans . |
| 27 | The 1981 Census found broadly similar patterns in the overall proportions of elderly persons living in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 28 | Laporte reserve striker Kevin Rimer cracked home six goals in their Rylands Cup 11-1 romp against St. Albans Res . |
| 29 | He moved home three times in Darlington , but each time Leanne and the children would reappear in his life . |
| 30 | ‘ We found as much wind in Germany , ’ said the memo attached , ‘ as there is in this pumpkin . ’ |