Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] an " 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 | THE fight is on to include an old power station site within a country park . |
| 3 | The black population , thus , effectively constitutes an underclass , placed in a structurally different location from the white working class . |
| 4 | But patrons with deep pockets will not forever carry on subsidising an organisation seen by the local parties as so ramshackle . |
| 5 | While with Hofmann he had so successfully completed an investigation for Allsopps & Sons of Burton-on-Trent that they offered him an appointment as chemist at the brewery . |
| 6 | This is to certify that … has successfully completed an advanced training course in the following subjects : Information Management , Plant Information Systems , Database Design and Construction , Word Processing , and Personal Computer Operating Systems ; and that he has demonstrated his abilities in these subjects by constructing a database of the Economically Useful Plants of India . |
| 7 | Reshevsky went on to lose an interzonal play-off for the World Championship in 1964 and was beaten again in the quarter-finals four years later . |
| 8 | The usual advice is to prepare the ground by digging two spits deep , but we are rarely given an explanation why , and for that very reason , therefore , we do not see the correct way to do it . |
| 9 | In the major eruption of Laki in Iceland in 1783 over 10 km 3 of lava was produced in just 50 days , and it spread to eventually cover an area of 370 km 2 . |
| 10 | Of these , two were corn mills , one eventually became an iron works and the other probably a corn mill , although there may have been a period when it was used as a fulling mill . |
| 11 | When he eventually became an overnight star after fourteen years of hard labour in Hollywood , the seekers of his past came knocking on the doors of his tutors and former friends . |
| 12 | A crew was predominantly a male group , like any other city gang , yet the skinhead girls eventually became an accepted part of the scene . |
| 13 | Slatter also served on the county committee for 30 years , edited the club handbook , and eventually became an Honorary member of both Buckinghamshire and the Minor Counties Cricket Association . |
| 14 | began to relinquish its holdings in London and Suburban Traction Co. which eventually became an entirely UndergrounD Group subsidiary , in 1928 . |
| 15 | he never took much part in college life and eventually became an object of derision among medical students , who called him ‘ Mummy Jones ’ . |
| 16 | If the poetry of the early part of the eighteenth century is already grappling with the problems associated with a realistic treatment of agricultural labour , it is not surprising that an agricultural labourer should eventually make an impact as a poet . |
| 17 | IL-8 presumably plays an important part in neutrophil diapedesis through vascular endothelium and focal recruitment at inflamed sites . |
| 18 | Fairbrother went on to hit an unbeaten 64 and Lancashire roared to their third Benson & Hedges Cup Final in four years as Wasim Akram destroyed Leicestershire . |
| 19 | Only when the means of production are communally owned will classes disappear , thereby bringing an end to the exploitation and oppression of some by others . |
| 20 | Besides building an 18-hole golf course , and charging trainers to exercise their horses on the track , he is instigating another new concept in this country by constructing American-style barns so that training can be done at the track as it is in the United States . |
| 21 | Outer London authorities were mostly likely to report a decrease in allocation of money : only Wales and Northern Ireland uniformly reported no decreases , while Northern Ireland authorities were the only group uniformly to report an increase in expenditure . |
| 22 | Aquino 's choice was criticized in some quarters for threatening the possibility of splitting her support — between those who would remain loyal to the LDP and those who would support Ramos — and thereby allowing an opposition candidate to win . |
| 23 | Ralph Lauren , born in New York in 1939 , formed his first company in 1968 to become the designer who most represents an archetypal American way of life . |
| 24 | with him , I I sarcastically make an appointment |
| 25 | Sarcastically make an appointment , what does that mean ? |
| 26 | National Clamps said it had since sacked an operator . |
| 27 | Still , they met us with fire trucks ; we were politely assigned an armed guard and warned not to take pictures . |
| 28 | The bright light — this was what had struck them first — issued from an old street lamp , leaning at a crazy angle , rather suggesting an amateur production of Tales of Hoffmann , fitted , in place of glass , with sheets of mauve plastic , and trailing a long cable which disappeared down the companion . |
| 29 | In contrast , the culture of precursors and purified epithelium alone remained small and was alymphoid , even though the epithelial cells had successfully formed an intact structure and still expressed a cortical epithelial cell phenotype , including MHC class II antigen expression ( b ) and ERTR4 ( ref.16 ) and 4F11E ( ref.17 ) expression ( not shown ) . |
| 30 | It presumably represents an epoch of geomorphological maturity and plate stability . |