Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's plans effectively met the demands of the African National Congress ( ANC ) and other opposition groups for a transitional constitution to be devised by a constituent assembly chosen on a representative basis . |
| 2 | The Craven family of Ashdown Park eventually bought Compton Beauchamp in the middle of the nineteenth century , but never lived there . |
| 3 | Dickson duly complied with their wishes with an appalling 1–4 record on the first day . |
| 4 | This division eventually led to the departure of some of the laboratory 's senior staff , a loss that became the universities ' gain . |
| 5 | For example , when he was invited to visit Bridgnorth ( Shropshire ) in early July , rival crowds made alternative bonfires , " where about one they drank Dr Sacheverell 's health and the other his confusion " , with the inevitable result that the two groups eventually fell to blows . |
| 6 | Lacuna slowly shook her great head . |
| 7 | They gave a spurious reassurance : so friendly , so warm , so protective ( ‘ … but God is round about me , and shall I be afraid ? ’ the computer within suggested doubtfully , but I rejected the idea at once . |
| 8 | The Australian Board eventually withdrew the stigma of ‘ unsportsmanlike ’ and the tour continued . |
| 9 | Melanie nervously clattered the animals back into the box . |
| 10 | Last year 's British election duly wreaked it . |
| 11 | With brute strength ( it took at least ten horses to shift even one medium field gun ) , the Germans eventually moved their guns forward but the delays involved meant that many of the deadly 21Os , so essential a part of the German offensive technique , were hors de combat over long periods of the battle during its most critical phase . |
| 12 | Unaware that she was holding her breath , Isabel slowly slid her arms around his waist . |
| 13 | On the following day the Senate was compelled to " freeze " the legislation after opposition deputies successfully appealed to the Supreme Court to block Senate ratification of the law until a ruling had been made on the constitutional legality of the AP 's parliamentary conduct during the lower house vote . |
| 14 | In 1984 , 35 Squadron regretfully retired its Shackletons , as spares became impossible through the bite of sanctions . |
| 15 | Although a large proportion of Karavas were poor , some members of this caste successfully took advantage of entrepreneurial opportunities within the expanding market economy . |
| 16 | The mine roads eventually went out several kms under the sea and in the 1920's , the 1,000 employees produced over 250,000 tons a year . |
| 17 | Widnes bitterly complained about the unfairness of the situation saying — quite rightly — that if incidents like that are to be pulled out you would need 26 cameras — for every player . |
| 18 | Yolland recommended that the Board of Trade authorise the BCR to open its line for running between Stretford Bridge and Bishop 's Castle only , and the Board presumably did so . |
| 19 | In other words , the information as experienced by the user rarely took the forms in which it was held in the memories of the system or network . |
| 20 | Carew , writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century , had then thought four hours underground was as much as a tin miner could endure , but six- or eight-hour shifts overwhelmingly predominated by the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | If the West eventually gave the world the Enlightenment , it was Greeks who had provided much of the light . |
| 22 | M. duly gave up possession . |
| 23 | The Tenant paying the rent hereby reserved and performing and observing the covenants on the Tenant 's part herein contained the Landlord hereby covenants with the Tenant as follows : |
| 24 | G thereby got hold of the barley , disposed of it and absconded . |
| 25 | She pushed the bell-button , and two chimes politely intimated her arrival . |
| 26 | SGS-Thomson Microelectronics BV and Mitsubishi Electric Corp duly announced their agreement to work together on development of Flash memory chips , designing 16M-bit parts using a 0.5 micron CMOS process : the agreement is considered to be of equal value to both companies , so no financial compensation will be made by either ; SGS-Thomson has begun production of 1M Flash memories but no-one is doing 16Ms yet . |
| 27 | Sun Microsystems Computer Corp duly announced its Sparcstation 10 systems last week , claiming they deliver up to ten times the performance of existing systems and feature the lowest-cost multiprocessing RISC server on the market . |
| 28 | Recklessly deciding that the appointment was to become effective on All Fools ' Day , April 1 , IBM Corp duly named Louis Gerstner to the posts of both chairman and chief executive . |
| 29 | The earliest extensions or additions may be discreetly sited and carefully designed , but very quickly the hut syndrome is underway and the house is rapidly surrounded by one- or two-storey flat-roofed extensions of the very utilitarian kind mercilessly caricatured by Osbert Lancaster . |
| 30 | When I took over , it was evident that the need for new roads vastly outstripped the likely supply . |