Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , we apparently only came to some understanding of how the heart worked when we had within our conceptual framework the notion of a pump . |
| 2 | Europe has a destiny to fulfil , and in years to come it will become apparent that the best Europe is one which rejects interventionist mediocrity in favour of a European Community which will deliver the promise of a higher standard of living and political pre-eminence so justly deserved by all Europeans . |
| 3 | Other commentators , much more discomfited by these details than their colleagues , have suggested that the storyteller means the birds were flying three feet above the ground when they were caught ! |
| 4 | The result of this discordance is the map of continuing unemployment , only gradually moderated by net migration from industrial areas ( Chapter 4 ) . |
| 5 | The only clue so far discovered of any value to a possible dating of his return is the fact that , according to Bursali Mehmed Tahir , there exists a copy of one of his most famous works , the written in his own hand , presented to Mehmed II , and dated 878/1473–4 it would not thus be unreasonable to suppose that Molla Husrev wrote the copy especially for Mehmed II , this in turn suggesting that by 878 Molla Husrev had made up his quarrel with the sultan and had perhaps returned to Istanbul . |
| 6 | Doubtless at the time of the wool barons the church had a full congregation , but the economic tide had long ago receded from this part of the world . |
| 7 | Even this century has produced stubborn opponents of the view that the library was either burnt in one of Moscow 's fires , or that the books were long ago dispersed to other libraries , or that , in reality , there never was such a library . |
| 8 | The majority of the other group of mainstream Protestants , so frequently castigated by these Puritans , held fast to an alternative religious outlook which , if perhaps more relaxed , was often no less valid or deeply felt . |
| 9 | It will be argued in this chapter that their prideful belief in the capacity to influence , so vividly expressed and so evidently vindicated in Indirect Rule , led the British on to fatal experiment in more and more attenuated forms of imperial control . |
| 10 | His own contribution was sober and only occasionally spiced with alternative wit . |
| 11 | Man is a primarily a tropical animal , only recently arrived in polar regions . |
| 12 | [ *Pollidori also informs us : ‘ Liability to possession arises from Original Sin not wholly effaced by inadequate Baptism … and sometimes from other sins , great or small . |
| 13 | Well , I was already in and he came in and just erm I was here and he just suddenly came round that way and he sat down next to Louise and and he said how are you ? |
| 14 | When the art bubble burst , prices not only fell in this area , they stopped . |
| 15 | I 've mentioned that between the house where we lived , Number Forty Eight Culver Street and Number Forty Six were two large double doors , giving access to ‘ The Cellar ’ which not only ran under both houses but also under Numbers Fifty and Fifty Two . |
| 16 | Also to the drivers , who not only drove with such care that the passengers were n't inconvenienced in any way , but also doubled as bike handlers to get the bikes on and off the trailer , inevitably a dirty job . |
| 17 | Arbitration not only led to centralised wage-fixing and a high degree of centralised decision-making by both employers and unions , as well as inhibiting the development of a strong shop steward movement , it also fostered a fragmented union movement ( Lansbury , 1978a ) . |
| 18 | An increased flow of water not only led to greater purity of the commodity , but also permitted a rebuilding of the entire sewage system . |
| 19 | Some parts of the country showed more significant growth than others : on the east coast , the number of sailings not only rose in absolute terms between the 1460s and the early sixteenth century , but the proportion of those by English ships approximately doubled , although there were some exports which were largely carried in foreign vessels . |
| 20 | To Nikon 's opponents , however , the changes not only smacked of foreign heresy but seemed to threaten the whole meaning of the liturgy , to break the link between the service and the faith . |
| 21 | Well they normally just packed with some sort of wadding , I du n no . |
| 22 | On her return to London , she was welcomed by Vera Brittain , who was now married , into a household soon further enlivened by two children , to whom Holtby became a beloved ‘ aunt ’ . |
| 23 | While not solely triggered by political concerns , they all eventually focused on the need for reform and the lack of democratisation . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , nothing got decided , we just provisionally concurred with each other . |
| 25 | Another was the transformation of many such bodies , already heavily subsidized from public funds , into de facto agencies of the state , which financed them and indirectly determined their policy . |
| 26 | Bush was in fact foreseeing hypertext , a term not actually coined until twenty years later . |
| 27 | Yeah , I know , but this is not Home Alone died in real life ! |
| 28 | But , I hear the man never captained England , and hardly ever appeared at international level . |
| 29 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 30 | The police more often came under physical attack and began to respond with a steadily escalating counter-violence . |