Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us now turn to one of the definitions most favoured in the literature , albeit mostly in an implicit form . |
| 2 | ‘ No regular job , but does n't draw social security or benefits from the unemployment office — ’ I knew that was a con for a start , as the cops rarely liaised with the Social Security people , let alone with the income tax ferrets , thank God' — and yet no known criminal source of income . |
| 3 | In some ways employers effectively connived with the unions in sustaining costly work practices . |
| 4 | Three Burgundians therefore met three Scots in a tournament at Stirling presided over by James II , which began with all the appropriate pomp and ceremony , and then acquired all the merits of a punch-up , which the Burgundians duly won three-nil . |
| 5 | I hope to go in with songs we are all happy with , the arrangements agreed and the musicians properly prepared . |
| 6 | The Belgians abruptly rebuffed a request for free stores ; the Dutch and the Germans eventually agreed , but on sale-or-return terms . |
| 7 | The EC is spending large sums on projects expressly designed to support cattle farmers : building refrigerated abattoirs in Burkina Faso , improving cattle breeds in Mali and fattening cattle in northern Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana . |
| 8 | The uncertainty of such stop-go policies arguably reduced business confidence and discouraged investment . |
| 9 | Two cyclists eventually stopped and went off to raise the alarm . |
| 10 | Later the system was stabilised and the present continents slowly built up and extended by plutonism . |
| 11 | For decades during the twentieth century it was heresy to give any credit to the ideas of Alfred Wegener ( 1880–1930 ) , and others before him , that the continents slowly moved in different directions over the surface of the globe . |
| 12 | It might finally be observed that in its short life , Article 100A , which derogates from Article 100 by allowing the Council to act by qualified majority in co-operation with the European Parliament in order to complete the internal market , has already been used to anticipate new competences expressly recognized in the Maastricht amendments : two of these relate to the encouragement of ‘ trans-European networks ’ and measures in the sphere of energy , yet Article 100A had already been used to enact Council Directive 90/547 on the transit of electricity through transmission grids and Council Directive 91/287 on the transit of natural gas through grids . |
| 13 | Fortunately , attitudes slowly changed . |
| 14 | Among the groups of invertebrates worst affected were those that prey on others , the grazers on plants such as algae , and the so-called detritus collectors . |
| 15 | If a government , using its majority in Parliament , passes appropriate laws empowering it to do specified acts , are its activities thereby rendered legitimate because they are done in accordance with the law , regardless of how oppressive or repugnant those laws might be ? |
| 16 | However , none of them has been found in an archaeological context and they have aroused considerable suspicion : they could be relatively modern copies loosely based on Italic originals ; they could be genuine prehistoric imports ; or they could be perfectly genuine figures brought to Britain relatively recently as curios and since discarded or lost . |
| 17 | But operations uniformly repeated , motions which succeed one another without interruption , are the causes which alone ought to be the foundation of our reasoning " . |
| 18 | Buffon 's " operations uniformly repeated " , the operations , " which succeed one another without interruption " , these are the ploughing , sowing and reaping , the building and decay of habitations , the births , marriages and deaths of human history . |
| 19 | April 1945 ; British and Commonwealth troops , having rescued Venice continued to arrive at Trieste by the beginning of May , meeting the Yugoslav troops of Tito , in the hills above that City , and fighting against the Germans effectively ceased in Italy . |
| 20 | But fluoride 's toughening is not so much help to the uneven biting surfaces ; they are at risk even when people practice good oral hygiene and regularly have their teeth professionally cleaned . |
| 21 | After Frankfurt , the cities worst affected by mob violence are Hamburg , Berlin and Munich . |
| 22 | Her teeth badly needed treatment . |
| 23 | The woods worst affected by the storms were those with mainly uniform , planted stands of trees , whereas those comprising trees of different ages and species were better able to withstand the high winds . |
| 24 | In as much , however , as the cultural forms thereby produced become the external environment through which emerge other groups whose interests are not identical , and indeed may be contrary , to their own , we are faced with the situation described in the discussion of building styles above , where the dominated group is forced to attempt to invest itself in the domain of culture represented by the built environment in terms of a set of objects whose initial meanings are antagonistic to its own interests . |
| 25 | The gradual extension of the state 's role in crime control certainly affected some sorts of crime , particularly property crime , but government institutions rarely worked in the ways intended by higher officials . |
| 26 | This produced a spectacular decline in the number of birds successfully reared and eventually in the total population of adult birds . |
| 27 | He opened up a correspondence with the more pliable officers among Dara 's army and with promises of rewards secretly won over a sizeable proportion of his opponent 's force . |
| 28 | It would seem therefore that normal industrial activities properly carried out may no longer involve a non-natural use of land and many of the older authorities on this point will need reconsidering . |
| 29 | Whilst this section is confined in its application to acts expressly authorised to be done on behalf of a firm , the general law of agency will continue to attach liability to the firm for the unauthorised acts of its employees when those acts are within the course of their normal or apparent activities for the firm . |
| 30 | Antennae keenly tuned by the hopes of lucrative business , the new director , Bernard Herdan , was quoted in the Independent on Sunday as looking forward to even greater wonders : ‘ The day is not too far distant when we will be able to tell the ordinary public whether it is going to rain in their street within the next hour . ’ |