Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A simple explanation of the facts provided a statistically significant degree of reassurance ( mean score at baseline 34.6 ( 31.5 to 37.6 ) , after information 32.3 ( 29.8 to 34.9 ) ; p=0.012 ) , although this small effect is likely to be clinically important only in those whose baseline anxiety was high ( r=0.27 , p=0.05 ) . |
| 32 | This provided a totally separate area to the levelled lawn in front of the house . |
| 33 | In this study , hepatic bile of the cholesterol gall stone patients provided a significantly shorter nucleation time than that of the gall stone free patients . |
| 34 | The standard round 1.8mm nozzle provided a fairly accurate glue line and a strong bond was formed on wood , china , plastic and even foam . |
| 35 | I thought the two rivers both rising on Plynlimmon and then flowing their separate ways like brother and sister then meeting down under the Severn Bridge — I thought that provided a very nice theme for this beautiful border country |
| 36 | and he always provided a very smart car , and the first policeman to drive the police car was his own chauffeur , who left him and joined the police force . |
| 37 | It was instead the product of a partnership between a county council which provided industrial estates and infrastructure , a district council which provided public sector housing and infrastructure and two major developer builders working in tandem who provided a very large element of private housing . |
| 38 | Paragraph 6 of the 7th Schedule of the Finance Act 1965 provided a perfectly clear , intelligible and unambiguous code regulating what was to happen when companies chose to amalgamate by way of an exchange of the existing shares of one company in consideration of the issue of new shares in the acquiring company . |
| 39 | Trevor Francis was as guilty as anyone , but after 26 minutes the Rangers player-manager provided a beautifully weighted cross which Simon Barker headed just wide . |
| 40 | Later investigations had the benefit of a 18,800 lexicon , which provided a much greater coverage of the English language . |
| 41 | Professor Stubbs provided a much lengthier example of class-room discussion to illustrate good practice in the teaching of linguistic terminology . |
| 42 | The visits to the colleges provided a much wider perspective on the provision of accounting courses as opposed to the narrow single college viewpoint . |
| 43 | All in all the Gesta provided a somewhat daunting set of exemplars for King Henry II . |
| 44 | A large portico supported by six Doric pillars provided a suitably impressive entrance to the chapel , for by then the leading Wesleyans in the town had become rich and respectable . |
| 45 | The two keynote speakers from America provided a suitably balanced focus . |
| 46 | All the 90 companies reporting listed a very high success rate ( 75%–90% ) in all five areas . |
| 47 | It cost a simply huge amount . |
| 48 | The growth axis was said to approximate the product life-cycle , with the rate of growth slowing down as the product market entered a more mature state . |
| 49 | Studies such as that by Ken Roberts ( 1968 ) however , indicated that such ‘ choices ’ were largely illusory for in practice young people entered a very narrow range of occupations . |
| 50 | As we stepped through the portal , we left the late Mughal haveli behind and entered a very different world : inside we were confronted by a gleaming pink boudoir that could have been the dressing-room of a 1950s Hollywood film star . |
| 51 | And promised a really good time . |
| 52 | Robyn rose early to skies that promised a truly blissful day of warm summer sunshine , showered and dressed and then drove off in her dilapidated jeep which was packed to the gunwales with everything she might possibly need for the day ahead . |
| 53 | Digital cartography promised a more efficient and flexible way of doing this kind of work . |
| 54 | The first time I fished it I hooked a very big barbel which I estimated at 11lb to 12lb . |
| 55 | Studies from the USA , Australia and the UK demonstrated a highly significant relationship between foetal exposure to lead and birth weight , head circumference and development during the first two years of life . |
| 56 | From the outset , the police demonstrated a consistently uncompromising attitude . |
| 57 | The transfection experiments using constructions encompassing oligonucleotides I or III and the HSV-tk promoter demonstrated a less pronounced increase in transcription ( 2 to 3 times ) compared with the effect of the same sequences when located in the context of the entire promoter ( quotient ΔX/Δ63 in Figure 1 ) . |
| 58 | Nothing came of the latter , but about 1838 he demonstrated a fairly successful hot-air engine in London , suitable for a road vehicle . |
| 59 | In his early thirties , he was very tall — and growing even taller the closer they got to him ! — with a shock of curly black hair that framed a deeply tanned face whose fierce , uncompromising features appeared chiselled from stone . |
| 60 | Giles Aplin drew a carefully folded document from a pocket . |