Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Party now realized that a more moderate policy of land reform was the most appropriate one for China thus there was a temporary change in emphasis away from land reform to a desire to increase production . |
| 2 | The hostess 's plaintive appeals rang out above the cries of alarm as the big dog charged around , but very soon I realized that a more insidious element had crept into the situation . |
| 3 | Newbery argued that a more useful approach was for each country to be looked at separately and the level of damage quantified to see how it could be most effectively and economically put right . |
| 4 | There were those in the LNA , the NUWW and the NVA who argued that a more coercive police approach was essential to protect innocent women and children . |
| 5 | The most probably explanation is that Chang discovered that the man he had previously selected to head the Dong Minh Hoi , Nguyen Hai Thanh , was ineffective : and argued that a now chastened Ho Chi Minh would be more inspiring while still following the Chinese line . |
| 6 | His extreme Little-Englandism , however , was linked to World Socialism , and he argued that a truly Socialist independent England would lead the way to a truly Socialist world , independent alike of capitalism and Celtic individualism . |
| 7 | Thijs and colleagues recently reviewed the results of all controlled studies on this issue and noted that a statistically significant positive association between parity or pregnancy was found in 26 of 42 studies . |
| 8 | It occurred to him as they drove that a particularly splendid piece of jewellery would n't suit her anyway . |
| 9 | Indeed he was probably uncertain himself as to what the end-point would be , except that it was bound to be a less rigid and less bipolar system than the old one ; and he assumed that a more flexible multipolar system would not only be more advantageous to France but would be safer and more equitable for all states . |
| 10 | Charles Taylor , a former government employee who was charged in 1984 with theft of government funds [ see p. 32898 ] and had subsequently escaped from custody in the USA , claimed that a previously unknown group led by him , the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , was responsible for the rebellion . |
| 11 | Critics claimed that a more likely cause of the fall in the rate of inflation was the stagnation of the British and international economy , with the loss of manufacturing output and rising unemployment . |
| 12 | Commentators claimed that a highly publicized visit by Deng Xiaoping , China 's " elder statesman " , to Guangdong province in January indicated that the " reformist line " was once again in the ascendant . |
| 13 | Herschel reasoned that a relatively nearby star would show a parallax shift against the background of more remote stars if it were observed from opposite sides of the Earth 's orbit . |
| 14 | Tests conducted by Apple during the development of the Lisa showed that a completely unfamiliar user can grasp the rudiments of the mouse-driven software in as little as 15 minutes . |
| 15 | It showed that a very substantial cut in pollution emissions was required to allow the natural environment to recover . |
| 16 | She stared , hypnotised , as the heavy iron latch lifted , the door opened and a very tall man backed into the room , ducking his head to clear the lintel , his attention on the tray he was carrying . |
| 17 | A 1982 survey , covering colleges alone ( and a much larger sample of them ) indicated that a much lower percentage used media in their orientation . |
| 18 | Four centuries earlier Socrates at Athens observed that a really righteous person would be so unacceptable to human society that he would be subjected to every humiliation and crucified . |
| 19 | Quite early on I discovered that a perfectly spherical surface for the inside of a bowl reflects the light well , the whole surface seems to light up evenly . |
| 20 | Repetitions in the text , as well as breaks of pattern , suggest the four fragments may represent stages in composition between A and C , with a more complex scheme emerging as it developed and an entirely new beginning in Fragment D. |
| 21 | Most of his respondents were radically opposed to national socialism , but he established that a generally left-wing outlook amongst his samples was being dissipated by underlying personality traits , in particular their susceptibility to follow father-like authoritarian leaders . |
| 22 | Table 6.4 Treasury bills £ millions , net purchases by the public +/sales — Given that the government was buying in gilts with the purpose of unfunding the Public Sector Deficit Requirement ( PSDR ) , such purchases meant that an even larger amount of gilts had to be repurchased from the M4 private sector , but these purchases themselves further increased the surplus in the money market and hence the requirement for issuance of Treasury bills . |
| 23 | But all that was happening was , the overflow pipe from the Koi quarters was partially blocked : this meant that an abnormally high head of water was building up in the main pool , bringing the level above the sealed junction between liner and blockwork . |
| 24 | In support of their own mixed pattern , they contended that a more balanced narrative emerged , with the transitions between Complicating Action and Orientation creating a more " engaging " and " dialogic " story . |
| 25 | We could have bumped up interest rates but the client was reluctant to do this and we felt that a more cost-effective promotion would work . |
| 26 | He was never told why he lost his captaincy and I can only think that the committee felt that a more adventurous approach was needed . |
| 27 | They felt that a much truer picture of people 's lives could be obtained by these methods of data collection than by the more formal survey , though they knew full well that all methods had something to contribute to sociological understanding . |
| 28 | The challenge with which we were faced on the day of the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion was that we knew that a very full House , which had come to hear the prime minister 's Maastricht statement , would deplete rapidly after he was finished , as the business to follow — a debate on the Earth Summit — was not very controversial . |
| 29 | I did n't consider the possibility of turning back to the runway behind me , but at the time I thought that a very low-level circuit to the left would bring me round for a landing on an adjacent runway . |
| 30 | Given that constitutional proprieties hampered Victoria , the Emperor thought that a less restricted monarch might be more responsive to a diplomatic initiative . |