Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had just overwhelmingly repulsed an unprovoked attack by a European power , and their past history gave them little cause to regard Europeans with favour . |
| 2 | Sceptics argued that there was no real difference between a right and a duty ; once it was laid down when auditors would be expected to use their right to report , it effectively became a duty . |
| 3 | At much the same time , however , workers on British Rail successfully defended their procedures in the courts and subsequently went on to conduct a very effective strike from which they emerged victorious . |
| 4 | If God can not be identified with man as a product of evolution , and thereby given a credible definition , then any effort to create a new and successful conception of God will founder on the same rocks of contention that have wrecked every religion that was ever believed in . |
| 5 | The Morley/Penman project had a negative thrust — ‘ rockist ’ duly became a term of abuse as casually applied by pop fans as ‘ selling out ’ had been by 1960s rock fans — but its tone was relentlessly optimistic and Morley was duly rewarded for his faith in market forces ( and in Dollar in particular ) by being invited into Trevor Horn 's record label plans . |
| 6 | For the new system to be introduced properly involves a change of constitution and a further vote . |
| 7 | This , combined with external concept/keyword access — through either maps or the Housing Unit datafile — will help pupils identify the true relationships between topics , which may not be so clear using a program such as EDFAX . |
| 8 | By a resolution passed by 305 votes to 36 , with 41 abstentions , Gorbachev was effectively given a free hand to dictate the process of economic reform by decree , to manage the state budget , and also to supervise law and order . |
| 9 | Much of the problem can be overcome by designing networks that meet people 's walking needs , thereby encouraging a level of activity that ‘ deters antisocial behaviour and offers the reassurance of help at hand if hassled ’ . |
| 10 | erm The social man , Proust says , rarely offers a key to the creative personality , and he 's anxious to keep a distinction between these two things , and I shall try to do something the same . |
| 11 | However , Sutherland and Cressey do go on to include a consideration of poverty , unemployment , bad housing , and the like , under the heading of ‘ social situations which are most conducive to crime ’ . |
| 12 | With only ninepence in their pockets , they founded an old boys ' association that went on to include a thriving club ( albeit minus clubhouse ) , a sports field and four football teams competing in the Zingari and Old Boys Associations ' leagues . |
| 13 | THE fight is on to include an old power station site within a country park . |
| 14 | The black population , thus , effectively constitutes an underclass , placed in a structurally different location from the white working class . |
| 15 | Harbury rattled on : ‘ I know he 'd rather make a statement later on and give it simultaneously to everyone . |
| 16 | We stayed close to the radio and eventually heard a repeat of what proved to be Marshal Badoglio 's first and last broadcast to the nation , uttered in a mournful voice : |
| 17 | Can I can I say that in my opinion that the county council 's current budgeting strategy which effectively imposes a two percent efficiency saving which I might add in figures come to something like one point five million erm is , is of concern but what is of greater concern is the further possibility of a four percent er reduction which is being sought in blocks of three percent and one percent next year for ninety four ninety five which is to the amount of two point eight million at the current prices will in my opinion decimate the present level of service provision in policing . |
| 18 | Throughout his travels he had met and been impressed by fellow globetrotters from China , and had slowly formulated a plan to create a thorough visual documentation of Chinese civilisation . |
| 19 | Over 2,000 programmes were referred to by our sample , ranging from specific short courses to six or twelve month programmes , which altogether represents a quite considerable commitment of resources to training on the part of public librarianship as a whole . |
| 20 | She stopped abruptly , almost as if she had metaphorically clapped a hand over her mouth . |
| 21 | Nadirpur 's hand delicately traced a line across Ahn 's perspiring brow . |
| 22 | But patrons with deep pockets will not forever carry on subsidising an organisation seen by the local parties as so ramshackle . |
| 23 | They think , perhaps , more in terms of what knowledge and skills they would hope to find in a secondary school entrant rather than of those one might expect from a child who had successfully completed a primary school course . |
| 24 | ‘ Offenders will have to satisfy the courts they have successfully completed a course before their period of disqualification is reduced , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Richard Parkyn , a chartered accountant from Tiverton in Devon who has suffered from diabetes since childhood , has successfully completed a 750-mile bike ride from John O'Groats to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in just 10 days despite having his bike stolen in Kidderminster and suffering from increasingly sore knees . |
| 26 | For the more grown-up researcher who has successfully completed a week 's training or so , there is the ultimate goal , Hawaiian Tropic Royal Tanning Blend which has no protection at all . |
| 27 | WEST HAM have paid £225,000 for Partizan Belgrade central defender Budimir Vujacic after the central defender successfully completed a ten-day trial at Upton Park . |
| 28 | But it is unlikely that the ICC could have successfully mounted an exercise to codify contract rules governing commercial agency agreements , though a Working party of the ICC 's Commission on International Commercial practice under the chair-manship of professor Fabio Bortolotti has successfully completed a model form of agency contract for international trade and is proceeding with work on a model distribution contract . |
| 29 | In 1974 , only 18% of the population had completed primary and 3.6% secondary schooling and 0.8% had successfully completed a university degree . |
| 30 | The reader may have found those remarks somewhat quizzical , for I pointed out that while philosophers of education have advocated ‘ autonomy ’ as an outcome for the educator to aim at , there seemed something quirky about describing , say , a graduate who had just successfully completed a course as autonomous . |