Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rowntree 's stringent poverty line produced remarkably similar results to those of Booth . |
| 2 | It should be said , incidentally , that the remastering of the original 78s has , without affecting the overall frequency range , virtually eliminated their surface noise and produced remarkably quiet backgrounds : the only exception is the Prokofiev sonata ( which Horowitz introduced the USA ) , where the 1945 recording ( the earliest here ) is also more resonant and in which , just occasionally , a little to much pedal is used : the tremendous drive of his rhythm nevertheless makes for a compelling performance . |
| 3 | Mrs Orton told Stephanie how in her day they made right big puffed-up brown Yorkshires and served them separate , with the gravy poured in , before the meat , to spin it out , you had to scrape and pinch in them days . |
| 4 | As I became professionally involved in trying to understand what , if anything , was happening I realised that here was a rare opportunity for the public to experience science in action , feel the excitement that drives inquisitive minds , and see how discoveries are made , tested , replicated , proven and developed into a new technology . |
| 5 | The women migrants within countries became overwhelmingly domestic servants , until they married some fellow-countryman , or passed into some other urban occupation . |
| 6 | Partly because of the earlier bitterness of the battle over comprehensive reorganization , more because in the new artificially contrived areas ( such as ‘ Humberside ’ , ‘ Avon ’ , ‘ Kirklees ’ , and ‘ Thamesdown ’ ) there was no tradition and no sense of local needs , political alignments became overwhelmingly important . |
| 7 | Suddenly then Fabia became overwhelmingly conscious of her thin cotton robe , her scrubbed face with her hair , brushed out of its knot , now floating around her — and it all at once seemed more urgent that she return to her room with all speed . |
| 8 | William Hill made Dead Certain their 12-1 Guineas favourite but Corals offers only 8-1 . |
| 9 | The sun became relentlessly hot , adding dehydration to my distress ; I stripped off my pyjamas and restored them to the rucksack . |
| 10 | Skip brought a few friends on the boat when he found the Soviets were not skilled ocean racers ( it became most apparent in Alexei 's case ) . |
| 11 | The woman-centred perspective had some impact at the beginning of the second wave of western feminism , but it was in the 1970s that it became most powerful , and most in conflict with egalitarian approaches . |
| 12 | Having instigated this trip in the first place , Maggie became most anxious and cornered Mitch upstairs after breakfast . |
| 13 | The value of this approach became most evident in the period after the First World War , which many regard as marking the terminus of the era of belief in continuous evolutionary progress of human society . |
| 14 | ‘ They became most precious when they fulfilled the Conventional Rules . ’ |
| 15 | But 1973 instead became most significant for the October Arab-Israeli War and a quadrupling of oil prices which further deepened the West 's economic difficulties . |
| 16 | He had decided that it was time to think things through and settle them once and for all , but whenever he started thinking about Zeinab thoughts became memories of touch and smell and look and emotion and he became most unsettled . |
| 17 | It was a horrible practice , and became most common in the reign of Henry VII , and especially in the eastern counties . |
| 18 | His pantomime became most articulate when we at last reached the two vast geological features which mark the gateway to Torajaland . |
| 19 | Old land-owning families prospered and built under Queen Elizabeth I 's reign , but many of them became badly unstuck during the Civil War . |
| 20 | Hazel realized wearily that Bigwig was probably going to be troublesome . |
| 21 | Masson became bitterly critical of Britain 's Afghan policy in the years before the Afghan war . |
| 22 | As the hangers-on increased , he became bitterly aware that his inheritance , far from liberating him , had trapped him in a role he could not forsake . |
| 23 | The night became bitterly cold . |
| 24 | Most political scientists became keenly alive to their limited explanatory worth , and the New Right condemned British democracy pointing to the adversarial nature of party politics and to the dangerous overload of interest-group demands . |
| 25 | He became keenly aware that there was much to be learned from practice overseas but his method remained essentially descriptive , allowing his meticulously detailed reports to speak for themselves . |
| 26 | A previously well 15 year old , who had been living with friends , became acutely violent and confused shortly after his return home . |
| 27 | SIR — A 43-year-old healthy Finnish man visited St Petersburg in Russia for 3 days during Easter , 1993. 12 h after he returned he became acutely ill with a sore throat . |
| 28 | Her feelings about this man might be ambiguous to the point of causing insanity , but she became acutely aware of something . |
| 29 | I think that is a lot of infection about and I know what brought on my cold , it was going out with Mark to Lathenham , and instead of wearing my anorak I only wore my lambs wool throw over , and I got jolly chilled coming out of the car and going into Lathenham church . |
| 30 | However , this view arises because a klima-genetische geomorphologie was proposed by Büdel ( 1963 ) and became widely available in the English reading literature in 1965 ( Holzner and Weaver , 1965 ) . |