Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , even if the L.G.U. was left wondering if it should n't have kept the public better informed , it must have been greatly heartened by the number of spectators who not only came to this out-of-the-way championship but made it abundantly clear that they were greatly taken with the high standard of play . |
| 2 | It is generally agreed that the primitive mammals existing at that time were shrew-like creatures that lived by eating insects , and that the various groups of mammals that we see today , such as cats , rats , monkeys , whales , and horses , all evolved from this unpromising ancestor . |
| 3 | Bill , I suddenly saw with that horrible clarity of hindsight , had been a selfish and demanding patient . |
| 4 | We do n't want to be murdered , raped , robbed , assaulted , or criminally victimized in any other way . |
| 5 | We measured approval by asking respondents to say if they broadly agreed with several general statements about the police ( e.g. , police do a good job ) . |
| 6 | To find it so utterly demystified by these modern religions keen to allow people of today to understand … it really appals me . |
| 7 | DEMOCRACY finally arrived in this remote corner of Namibia yesterday , to be greeted with determined enthusiasm . |
| 8 | No mean problem , this , in a time largely deafened to such sober music , and were it not for the incomparable examples of Spenser and Milton , he might finally have despaired ; but what they in their day had achieved for their grave themes ought ( he had long believed ) to be possible for the richer store of myth and symbol at his disposal ; and now the lines had begun to move with the majesty he desired . |
| 9 | When the former ruling order of Ethiopia defined itself as Amhara , it thus imposed on all other Ethiopians non-Amharaness . |
| 10 | But after two weeks of going back and fro to the barn they finally decided for some unknown reason that they had had enough . |
| 11 | It was such gently acid mockery , she felt physically flayed under that worldly amusement . |
| 12 | She had n't really given him time to explain , just looked at that horrible creature prancing about in the hall all sexed up , and assumed the worst . |
| 13 | There should be , everybody should be clear what their responsibilities are and a good way of doing that is through a job description , their own , I just wondered about that complete sets only with personnel . |
| 14 | Unlike the Central Veracruz raised fields , however , most of the Maya ones discovered so far , Siemens reports , are irregularly shaped and none seems noticeably oriented in any special way . |
| 15 | She was so concerned about her unborn baby , she usually over-reacted to any untoward symptom . |
| 16 | Between 1801 and 1851 only limited areas were directly affected by urbanization , and high rates of increase still occurred in many rural areas , especially in the east and the south . |
| 17 | These European States , members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation , regarded themselves as essential participants in the Western alliance and therefore as directly implicated in any perceived threat to it . |
| 18 | JONATHAN Dimbleby 's interviews with the party leaders for the BBC 's On the Record yesterday came from some interesting venues . |
| 19 | Also , Lord God , we ask that you remember the dark deeds of any communistic so-called-interrogators , in this time of great upheaval in eastern Europe ; we know that you will not forget their crimes when their day of reckoning comes , and their guttural , Slavic voices cry out to ye for mercy , and ye reward them with all the compassion they ever showed to those unfortunate souls delivered unto them . |
| 20 | Even in an October sun one can get quickly dehydrated on these exposed slopes . |
| 21 | But even as he did so , he felt that the sentence , having been written , still existed on some other page . |
| 22 | That is , by focusing on the superficial manifestations of culture , multiculturalism failed to address the continuing hierarchies of power and legitimacy that still existed among these different centres of cultural authority . |
| 23 | Who ever heard of any fanatical terrorist outfit being able to organize three assassinations in three different countries within the same twenty-four hours ? ’ |
| 24 | A human touch was added to Nash 's report : ‘ I could heartily wish more respect were paid to the remains of this amiable though unfortunate Queen , and would willingly , with proper leave , have them wrapt in another sheet of lead and coffin , and decently interred in some proper place , that at least after her death her body might remain in peace ; whereas the Chapel where she now lies is used for the keeping of rabbits , which make holes and scratch very indecently about her Royal corpse . ’ |
| 25 | The judges met every day from Monday 22nd to Friday 26th , but their numbers rapidly dwindled during this frantic week . |
| 26 | They promptly wilted in this foggy land . |
| 27 | And the embarrassed questioner retreats , apologising profusely , wondering why he ever fell into such absurd anxiety about this luminously sensible body of doctrine … |
| 28 | The decision of the day before yesterday related to any Yugoslav republics which fulfilled certain conditions that we set out . |
| 29 | Even here , though , there was a sadistic irony at work , because these progressive measures always coincided with some fresh interdiction of Herta 's . |
| 30 | She looked puzzled for a moment , and I wondered if she really still worried about this ancient happening . |