Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These proposals for ‘ top-down ’ changes , which effectively sought to redraw the service boundaries , would probably achieve little , however , unless the real operational problems of delivering the service to individual clients were also tackled . |
| 2 | This controversy could in principle have been resolved if the Electricity Boards had had effective knowledge of their own costs in meeting specific loads , but they conspicuously failed to develop and use the research necessary to establish this . |
| 3 | John 's manner was off-putting to the faint-hearted , but as I slowly got to know him , realised his lack of physical and social grace covered an ultra-soft centre , and I came to love the man . |
| 4 | But the most surprised man in the field was Gillner when he was approached by a PGA European Tour official on the 13th and politely asked to take his time . |
| 5 | Sutton people became so enraged about this , that the Pope eventually became involved . |
| 6 | Because of this he often failed to bring about cures and eventually became disillusioned with hypnosis as a form of therapy . |
| 7 | Under the old system , it was possible , if a shortage of any one part occurred , to complete a large number of bodies up to the point at which this particular part was required , and even if the whole of the body shop floor eventually became taken up by partially built bodies , it was still possible to keep the body makers employed in splicing bottom sides and cantrails and fitting the pillars in position alongside the partially erected bodies . |
| 8 | This eventually became institutionalized as the UN Centre on Transnational Corporations , which now has the difficult task of trying to reconcile the interests of the TNCs and the communities eager for their investments ( see Caplan , 1989 ) . |
| 9 | The upmarket London furniture store Heals , fashion chain Richard Shops and finally British Home Stores were absorbed into the group , which eventually became known as the Storehouse group . |
| 10 | Car 68 was withdrawn and replaced in the following year by a modernistic design , which eventually became known as the Bandwagon . |
| 11 | With the retirement of Thomas Goldney the firm reverted for a time to Pountney and Co , and eventually became known simply as the Bristol Pottery until its cessation in the 1960s . |
| 12 | This difference is significant ( p <0.05 ) ; however , the two groups did not differ significantly in their ability to recognise speakers 1 and 3 , whom they overwhelmingly failed to identify as black . |
| 13 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |
| 14 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
| 15 | Isaac and his brother Jacob [ q.v. ] clubbed together to produce Hebrew books for the Christian market , and thereby became acquainted with some of the most eminent Christian Hebraists of the day . |
| 16 | She very rarely got told off and when she did it upset her . |
| 17 | Word processed documents , drawings and music , etc. produced using packages which facilitate the making of these works are protected by copyright as original literary , dramatic , musical or artistic works in their own right . |
| 18 | Yes , I , I was in er , I 'm not sure , I , I think I was in the top class in the junior school and er , without boasting , I was a good scholar and I eventually passed to go to the Q M and me dad could n't afford to let me go . |
| 19 | Philip Mairet , the editor , who was sympathetic to my views , tried to persuade Eliot to contribute his , and he eventually agreed to do so . |
| 20 | Mulhern does n't sell horses but he was partly influenced this time by Jeremy Maxwell who used to train On the Other Hand and he eventually agreed to part with the gelding to Robert Ogden with a view to running in the Grand Military Gold Cup at Sandown . |
| 21 | They eventually agreed to walk down the driveway and pose for pictures . |
| 22 | After a further series of internal meetings taking several days , they eventually agreed to pay half the sum , provided another organisation would put up the other half . |
| 23 | He spoke on the evils of race and colour prejudice and he rarely failed to mention the issue of slavery . |
| 24 | Inevitably , many organisations have been created which effectively avoided confronting the government . |
| 25 | The benches by the Cages were suddenly stark and mysterious as they slowly became set against this drifting whiteness . |
| 26 | This one sentence from the notebooks goes straight home to the novel which eventually got written . |
| 27 | We engaged a third syce called Makonnen ; he turned out to be a quarrelsome intriguer and we eventually got rid of him . |
| 28 | It all eventually got straightened out , despite the Vadinamian distaste for the unusual , and suspicion of off-worlders . |
| 29 | The terrible trio eventually got caught and were expelled . |
| 30 | We were playing for a long time before we ever had a deal , and when we eventually got signed by a big company , they pretty much took us for what we were . |