Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Australian Board eventually withdrew the stigma of ‘ unsportsmanlike ’ and the tour continued . |
| 2 | In other words , the information as experienced by the user rarely took the forms in which it was held in the memories of the system or network . |
| 3 | If the West eventually gave the world the Enlightenment , it was Greeks who had provided much of the light . |
| 4 | The Tenant paying the rent hereby reserved and performing and observing the covenants on the Tenant 's part herein contained the Landlord hereby covenants with the Tenant as follows : |
| 5 | But the peasant plaintiffs in the Mitry case presumably made the journey to Compiègne believing they might win . |
| 6 | Have new television channels , satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only ? |
| 7 | At first resisted by conservatives who feared its materialistic implications , evolutionism eventually became a central theme of late nineteenth-century thought , the foundation for a unified philosophy of biological and social progress . |
| 8 | Both houses of Germany 's parliament overwhelmingly approved the treaty last December . |
| 9 | The framework slowly stretched the fabric apart . |
| 10 | A steady burning sensation gnawed at the Doctor 's joints as the steam yacht slowly churned the water . |
| 11 | The rising thereby received a new impetus — and , once begun , aid from Italy and Germany continued to arrive . |
| 12 | She should try to forget him , but the memory of their afternoon together had the power to make her cheeks rosy , and so they stayed while she put on the plainest gown which she could find in the wardrobe which she had left behind , with her personal maid , when she had pretended to go with the Parslows . |
| 13 | Morley 's hypothesis obviously worried the anti-drug establishment . |
| 14 | He was merely quoting his old textbook from the Ecole de Viticulture et d'Oenologie at Avize which examines the practices of Champagne in the 1940s ; no doubt , the breakdown of cuvée and taille merely indicated the number of press operations it took , in less sophisticated times , to squeeze out these two parts of extraction . |
| 15 | DEC 's recent Windows-on-Alpha agreement with Microsoft Corp only drove the nail further into ACE 's OSF coffin . |
| 16 | In 1988 the university purportedly terminated the applicant 's contract of employment not for good cause but on the ground of redundancy , giving him three months ' written notice . |
| 17 | The local authority social work team concerned with J. would have accepted Dr. I. 's advice , but in view of the seriousness of the decision rightly referred the matter to the case review sub-committee consisting of elected councillors . |
| 18 | The turquoise dress she wore was of the kind of stretch cotton which showed up any figure fault and which in this instance merely demonstrated the perfection of her body . |
| 19 | Parliament merely welcomed the proposals and Churchill warned of ‘ a dangerous optimism ’ and the raising of ‘ false hopes ’ . |
| 20 | Gazzer suddenly realized the depths of her resentment . |
| 21 | Rather than ending the discussion this decision merely began a period of three years during which the issue of " Unity " was rarely off the agendas of local Labour parties , trade unions and other sections of the labour movement . |
| 22 | This finding naturally gave the RTO some confidence in dealing with the arguments of the Claybury and Friern districts that they needed very large increases in revenue to fund community replacement services . |
| 23 | But his Conservative counterpart said the drop in funding only reflected the fall in unemployment levels since their peak in 1986 . |
| 24 | In the circumstances this was a poor joke and Ski West sensibly switched the emphasis of the visit to a failsafe reserve theme , intake . |
| 25 | The 1947 variety merely boasted a modest Lion Rampant and was superseded by the classical Jean Cocteau motif in 1961 . |
| 26 | The success of German industry in the west only made the people in the east more desperate and paranoid . |
| 27 | Pamela only had a few friends ( 1 year ) . |
| 28 | This first short fight obviously disappointed the connoisseurs in the audience . |
| 29 | The Economist sensibly saw an electricity tax as a way of resolving this problem , but , with the Conservative opposition ready to taunt the Government with unfairly raising prices , the prospects of a rational price policy were not good . |
| 30 | That he himself happened to be a congenital cad only made the whole thing more difficult , not easier . |