Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly Daniel 's heart beat a little faster as he caught sight of the Cumberland mountains which he had come to know so well . |
| 2 | Nine of the poems were by Opitz , and Schutz contributed a little strophic duet at the end of the volume . |
| 3 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 4 | The child was not present : her father had taken what he termed a very tired little princess upstairs , given her her bath and put her to bed . |
| 5 | While he provided a remarkably accurate description of the development of the chick , he remained convinced , against his own evidence , that the embryo was present before the egg was laid . |
| 6 | It provided a thoroughly enjoyable and meaningful evening 's entertainment . |
| 7 | ( 1 ) Ptolemy 's model provided a reasonably accurate system for predicting the positions of heavenly bodies in the sky . |
| 8 | In Ptolemy 's model provided a reasonably accurate system for predicting the positions of heavenly bodies in the sky , the theme is Ptolemy 's model . |
| 9 | Alas John , my day was spoilt , not by two teams who provided a reasonably good game but by people who should have known better . |
| 10 | The test took place in a unique setting : the top deck of an old Bembridge pilot cutter , now the Essex YC 's clubhouse ; this provided a reasonably open setting with little wind shadow . |
| 11 | At the same time , American anthropologists are acutely aware , to the point of self-caricature , that the North American Indians have for generations provided a conveniently accessible exotic backyard for ethnographic research . |
| 12 | The difference between the two information sheets was that one provided a rather sketchy outline of possible postoperative complications ( derived from a survey of what 10 house officers actually told hernia patients when they obtained consent ) , and the other contained a more comprehensive list ( boxes ) . |
| 13 | With respect to the coming to an end of a temporary job as a source of flows into unemployment , available evidence provided a rather unclear picture . |
| 14 | The contrast with the squalor of the old Cinque Port provided a rather romantic paradox . |
| 15 | During the campaign , he was put out to grass with three old political warhorses , Denis Healey , Norman Tebbit and Roy Jenkins , who provided a rather genial breakfast-time alternative to the Old Devils . |
| 16 | In the event , the masculine qualities associated with classical studies when channelled into English provided a most effective antidote to the traditional female associations of literature . |
| 17 | You and John provided a most informative and enjoyable day . |
| 18 | First , it provided a most favourable environment for the development of capitalism — a stable , well-organized political system , with a rational and effectively administered body of law , especially in so far as it related to property and contracts . |
| 19 | 11,13 ) indeed argued that capitalism provided a most favourable environment for the growth of a rational and critical outlook which might then be turned against the capitalist social system itself . |
| 20 | I have been present at occasions of celebration when poets and singers — there is often no distinction since poems tend to be sung or chanted — have made up verses on the spot and provided a seemingly endless number of embellishments . |
| 21 | The nineteenth edition , published in 1979 , included Phoenix schedules which merged 329 and 324 to give a new schedule for the Political Process , and provided a completely new schedule for Sociology . |
| 22 | Until the mid-1980s , the single payments scheme provided a particularly important resource for claimant households . |
| 23 | This included what Court ( 1957 ) described as pressure field climatology and led to a range of approaches which included weather patterns and air mass climatology , all of which provided a more effective reflection of processes . |
| 24 | Moreover , the cushion of muscle provided a more useful and less vulnerable stump . |
| 25 | Because John Smith 's period of office had been reasonably successful , the Company put the colony under military discipline , which stabilized the situation and provided a more efficient system of government than trying to transplant a peculiarly English way of running things . |
| 26 | Part-time farmers occupied just under half the 250,000 holdings in Bavaria and provided a more stable component in the farming community than their full-time colleagues . |
| 27 | The British Army soldiers had been , for a considerable period of time , mainly clad in a red tunic for battle , reputably so that any sign of blood was not easily discerned , but Baden-Powell realised that , with the advance of fire arms , the red tunic provided a more prominent target than the rather drab mixture of green and brown as normally worn by the Boers . |
| 28 | Strangely enough , as we saw earlier , neoclassicism 's inclusion of apparently incompatible retributive concerns provided a more direct link in this respect . |
| 29 | It is , then , unsafe to generalise as Lyons does that : ‘ until modern methods of sound recording were developed ( a ) the inscription of language utterances on durable materials provided a more reliable means of transmission than memory and oral reproduction ’ and ( b ) that this was ‘ recognised to be so in the western tradition in which literacy developed in the first instance for this purpose ’ ( 1982 ) . |
| 30 | The pointed arch provided a more flexible system since it could be varied in proportion of width to height in order to accommodate different spans and roof levels . |