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 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Well they normally just packed with some sort of wadding , I du n no . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , nothing got decided , we just provisionally concurred with each other . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yeah , I know , but this is not Home Alone died in real life ! |
| 18 | But , I hear the man never captained England , and hardly ever appeared at international level . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The police more often came under physical attack and began to respond with a steadily escalating counter-violence . |
| 21 | Watercourses vary in size from the merest trickle in a ditch to large tidal rivers ; size is significant since it controls the extent to which any pollution will be diluted , thereby more readily purified by natural processes , and less noticeable . |
| 22 | Andy Payton wasted the penalty , saved by Shilton , and Middlesbrough once again struggled against ten men . |
| 23 | ‘ Although I do n't recall that we ever actually spoke to each other . ’ |
| 24 | He also constantly experimented with new designs , and the Thomas splint for compound fractures of the lower limbs was widely used during World War I , from 1916 , for the transport of stretcher cases from the front to casualty stations , and saved many lives and limbs . |
| 25 | But I probably only used about five guitars in total . |
| 26 | Children brought up in community homes are also over represented among psychiatric clinic attenders . |
| 27 | With his television news background and now intimate knowledge of Middle East drugs trafficking , Coleman helped Ross and Silverman prepare what was generally considered to be as balanced and authoritative a survey of narco-terrorism as the media had ever presented to the American public , a contribution which they both generously acknowledged on several occasions afterwards and which subsequently led to Coleman 's appearance on NBC News after the Flight 103 disaster , although neither of them were aware then or before of his DIA/NARCOG affiliations . |
| 28 | These include several Bibles ; a psalter ; sets of illustrated leaves which probably originally belonged to two psalters ; and the earliest surviving fully illustrated English Book of Hours . |
| 29 | Was I now so enmeshed in this world that the role of visitor had changed ? |
| 30 | The faces of the twins , softer editions of her own , turned towards her questioningly then broke into shy smiles . |