Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1940 at the Labour Exchange at Devizes , I duly registered for military service . |
| 2 | He looked at his master rather anxiously as he spoke , and Cornelius Fennell , catching that warning eye , perversely asked for another piece . |
| 3 | After about 20 years of critical success which rarely translated into public acclaim , his new novel , Affliction ( Picador , £12.95 ) , has hit big in the US . |
| 4 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 5 | On a minor , but parallel line , from the 1740s onwards the aesthetic rich began building rustic , Gothick and Chinese garden houses and this picturesque style slowly crept into small house architecture . |
| 6 | The civil disorders and dynastic feuds between Lancaster and York presumably led to some destruction of wealth , although it is virtually impossible to judge how much . |
| 7 | I rarely got beyond this point in my sales patter before expressions of incredulity replaced polite interest . |
| 8 | It eventually led to Civil War . |
| 9 | Working on the template agreed with his fellow coaches , McGeechan and Douglas Morgan , Dixon has brought a dynamism to the driving mauls , mostly triggered from clean lineout ball , which had seemed largely beyond the Scottish Exiles — four of whom are in the pack — when they attempted to deploy that tactic during the inter-district championship . |
| 10 | He was mechanically ventilated with 100% oxygen and eventually extubated after intravenous flumazenil . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , there were a few Conservative politicians who fundamentally disagreed with Conservative policy . |
| 12 | It would be tedious to list the types and colours of stone , ceramic etc. used at each site in Britain ; if any picture at all emerges it is that mosaicists made good with what was easily obtained , and that the types of stone used for various shades of colour are predictable and limited in number . |
| 13 | Without looking back into the car he suddenly drawled in good English : |
| 14 | The indisposition of the 8F led to some speculation by passengers on the Cambrian Limited , last Sunday , that the Standard 4 No 75069 would fulfil the Red Rose roster in place of No 8233 . |
| 15 | And I suddenly realized at this stage that there was going to be something rather unexpected happening . |
| 16 | Consequently , first thing in the morning when we were all trying to get ready , we constantly got in each other 's way . |
| 17 | The government 's prolonged sixteen-month silence over the Griffiths Report naturally led to much speculation , rumour and gossip . |
| 18 | During the pre-Campaign Wave , visits by Thatcher to Moscow and Kinnock to Washington naturally led to intense television coverage of defence issues . |
| 19 | The NIBA too had to battle all the way against the PBA , but they only failed on one rink — that skipped by Rathfriland 's Gary McIlroy was beaten 26–14 by Eamon McCann . |
| 20 | The only natural light came from an extremely tiny oblong of glass in the roof , but this was so filmy , and so splattered with accumulated bird lime , that it let in the flimsiest of light . |
| 21 | ‘ The only natural light came from an extremely tiny oblong of glass in the roof , but this was so filthy , and so splattered with accumulated bird lime , that it let in the flimsiest of light . |
| 22 | She only asked for one word to be removed . ’ |
| 23 | And it was a fact that William and Preston together led to more trouble than Preston alone , or Preston and any combination of other boys . |
| 24 | The first of these strands , taken up vigorously by many economic commentators in the press and the City , undermined confidence in the ‘ Keynesian ’ approach to demand management and employment policy by suggesting that in the ‘ long run ’ government deficit-financing merely led to higher inflation and was impotent to control employment . |
| 25 | If I analyse the bosses I 've worked for , the ones who irritated me the most were the ones who were indecisive and who constantly asked for more information just to delay making a decision . |
| 26 | So in 1877 the men at the Middleton Iron Company were given their notice , though they stubbornly clung to short-time employment until 1883 when the plant was shut down completely until 1897 . |
| 27 | Okay so got on that train , thinking it would go straight to Hertford and it did n't . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | An increased flow of water not only led to greater purity of the commodity , but also permitted a rebuilding of the entire sewage system . |
| 30 | Mr Callaghan 's famous speech to the 1976 Labour party conference ( subsequently cited in many Conservative party publications ) admitted that governments could not spend their way into full employment ; that way only led to more inflation and eventually more unemployment . |