Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than a quarter of those who said they intended to vote Labour said they either agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that he has served the town well . |
| 2 | Mallards , coots and moorhens could often be seen and heard waddling about the housing estate where I lived or sometimes even boldly marching up the high street . |
| 3 | And it was a perfectly well-deserved honour which was not open to the same criticism as many of the other honours that Wilson made or unhappily was persuaded to make . |
| 4 | Working with people whose verbal skills and ability to conceptualise may he limited or sometimes non-existent , offers a particular challenge . |
| 5 | Modern legislation had increasingly vested quasi-judicial powers in officials and excluded or indirectly diminished the authority of the courts . |
| 6 | Quite early in their history some partly coiled or even tightly coiled species evolved , and the various coiling types seem to have coexisted successfully side by side . |
| 7 | It transpired that somehow the clips had twisted and become detached from the rail , causing the only fatal accidents during the entire training programme . |
| 8 | This was welcomed by the head of the Open Software Foundation in Japan , Dr Rob Morel , who ventured that possibly the Foundation was better positioned than before as a ‘ truly independent standards organisation ’ . |
| 9 | Mr Maclean dismissed that as highly speculative and said it had no connection with the draft authorisation under consideration by HMIP . |
| 10 | In essence I proposed that rather than having public investment we should substitute private investment without any Government guarantee . |
| 11 | He restated the government 's view that township violence stemmed from confrontations between ANC and Inkatha supporters and proposed that therefore he , Mandela and Inkatha leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi should meet urgently to consider establishing " an active full-time monitoring mechanism " on the efficacy of existing measures to combat violence " . |
| 12 | On March 25th it met President F.W. de Klerk , who promised that racially discriminatory laws would be off the statute book by the end of June . |
| 13 | Empirical research in the 1960s demonstrated that even in the cases where the middle class had been initially progressive , success had given them a conservative outlook and led them to join forces with the traditional elite rather than with the working class ( Ratinoff 1967 , Sunkel 1965 ) . |
| 14 | In this way , the weakest contestants demonstrated that even they could influence the course of international diplomacy . |
| 15 | Six of our residents took part in a driving exercise and we demonstrated that clearly and this is for your benefit we 'll give it to you , although it 's three miles longer to the point where the A sixty one joins the A one , even with the present state of the A one , it is ten minutes quicker to go via the A six five eight , A fifty nine , A one route . |
| 16 | This demonstrated that both PA-Oct-11 and PA-Oct-2 were able to bind to an octamer motif in vitro and that this binding was competed by an excess of unlabelled probe DNA . |
| 17 | A subsequent prospective study demonstrated that neither metformin nor glibenclamide had an adverse effect on serum total cholesterol , triglyceride , HDL-cholesterol or the apoproteins A-I and B ( Taylor et al , 1982 ) . |
| 18 | The hon. Member for Ogmore said that the opinion polls demonstrated that only a limited number of people would be interested in total deregulation . |
| 19 | Croatian President Franjo Tudjman made his name in the 1960s as a maverick historian who charged that only 30,000 people perished at the hands of the Ustashe fascists . |
| 20 | She maintained that both of them had been innocent and that their trial had been unjust [ see also pp. 36905 ; 36987 ] . |
| 21 | With regard to the secondary school curriculum , the Yellow Paper maintained that too much scope had been given to the principle of pupil choice , with the result that many pupils were following unbalanced programmes and not enough pupils were studying science-based and technological subjects . |
| 22 | Marx maintained that only labour produces wealth . |
| 23 | While their opponents in 1830 believed that a considerable measure of parliamentary reform would lead to national catastrophe , the Whigs maintained that only a considerable measure could prevent a catastrophe … |
| 24 | In opposition to David Ricardo [ q.v. ] , he maintained that only when circulating capital increased did employment rise : any increase in fixed capital was unlikely to stimulate , and might significantly diminish , the demand for labour . |
| 25 | The ANC , by its definition , maintained that more than 3,000 activists remained imprisoned for politically motivated acts . |
| 26 | This was discussed with the Jones who resolutely maintained that now that ‘ the problem ’ was solved they were going back to normal and apart from the period of intervention they had not changed what they did at all . |
| 27 | WHEN a lightning storm stopped the transmission of a televised debate between Arizona 's two candidates for governor , Fife Symington and Terry Goddard , locals joked that even God was disgusted by Arizona politics . |
| 28 | Raphaelo Florienborque , leader of the Phantasms , joked that maybe they should take that phrase literally . |
| 29 | Soviet studies underlined that historically neutralised and demilitarised territories had often been created on the basis of unequal treaties and had resulted from the inability of the colonial powers at a given period to agree to the direct partition of a colony . |
| 30 | Times are so hard at the Manor Ground that even the manager has had to return his club car . |