Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr. Elliott detects in it ‘ a desire by the composer to accommodate progressive ideas about clear word-setting and harmonic , chordal idioms ’ : he has elsewhere invoked the violent and repressive political climate of the time , and seen an attempt by Carver to compromise — in a period of Protestant fundamentalism which had limited the formerly sumptuous musical presentations in the Chapel Royal to plainchant and Faburden improvised upon it — with the strictly harmonically-conceived music of English Reformation composers . |
| 2 | I have consulted the most celebrated authors on comparative anatomy , but do not find any such structures of those parts described ; and as it is not known to you , I may presume that it has not been before taken notice of . |
| 3 | In the case of a tie , the prize will be awarded to the person who , in the opinion of the judges , has completed the most apt and original tie-breaker . |
| 4 | Mr Bush had just completed the most successful six months of his presidency . |
| 5 | Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Viewlogic Systems Inc has completed the previously announced acquisition of Quad Design Technology Inc for 872,700 new shares and options : Quad Design , which develops and markets timing and signal analysis software for digital circuits used in semiconductors and printed circuit boards , is now a subsidiary . |
| 6 | Having completed the very demanding annual Personal Weapons Test , each section member was required to run up a plank of wood to a window-frame , shoot at a target on the other side of the window , and then throw himself six feet down into a simulated building interior . |
| 7 | His case raises some immensely difficult issues : issues about death and dying , issues about the appropriate moral and legal responses to be made when a man who has received the best that modern medical technology can offer decides finally that he can take no more . |
| 8 | Literature , usually the major part of English in the grammar schools , has received the most severe overhauling , but because of the current unacceptability to many educators of a ‘ middle-class ’ curriculum for all our pupils , every activity in English has been given a different set of emphases . [ … ] |
| 9 | The rape and murder of four US churchwomen who were carrying out humanitarian work with the displaced in December 1980 has received the most detailed international press coverage , but it is by no means an isolated case . |
| 10 | Whereas other books ( especially those on semantics and pragmatics ) have often received unfavourable reviews , Style in Fiction has received the most favourable reviews of any book of which I have been an author . |
| 11 | Sometimes we may apply relatively simple yardsticks , such as whether the school has or has not received the newly recommended material and whether it is using it . |
| 12 | Since the two groups are as alike in all respects except that one of them , the experimental group , has received the supposedly causal treatment , the new teaching style , then any differences in academic attainment between the two groups must be due either to chance or to the causal factor . |
| 13 | Nearly one quarter ( 8/33 ) of those who had received the more comprehensive list of complications thought that they had been given ‘ too much ’ information , compared with just 6% ( 2/36 ) of those who had been given a simple explanation ( p=0.04 , Fisher 's exact test ) : anxiety scores did not differ significantly between patients who thought the amount of information given was too much and those who thought it was ‘ about right ’ ( data not shown ) . |
| 14 | The Leeds stand-off or loose forward , David Heron , has received the now customary eight-match ban after being sent off for a high tackle in the Regal Trophy quarter-final replay with Wigan . |
| 15 | The report was seen partly as a response to a document published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA ) which had criticized the socially destructive effects of World Bank-supported SAPs [ see pp. 36991-92 ] . |
| 16 | ‘ Yet it is the skill we are taught the least . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd like something little and gay , ’ said the woman , smiling at Melanie from a mouth painted the very palest possible orange . |
| 18 | Using a solvent called AB57 — which was originally developed for cleaning marble and is a mixture of sodium and ammonium bicarbonates suspended in a cellulose gel — the conservation team has drastically altered the previously perceived tonal representations and , as one expert put it , the fresco ‘ has been reduced to a smudged painting with Disney colour ’ . |
| 19 | Switzerland 's French-language tabloid Le Matin said the Mirror photos had ‘ provoked the most serious royal crisis since the 1936 abdication of Edward VIII ’ . |
| 20 | And in a social context of too few well-trained and experienced mathematics teachers , where the parents of boys are more likely to complain if their children are badly taught , the girls ' classes may well be assigned the less competent or less experienced teachers . |
| 21 | Given the imperfectly competitive nature of the UK fertilizer market , the objective of this paper is to derive the tariff and quantity restrictions on fertilizer imports that the UK government and EC Commission could have chosen . |
| 22 | Given a subject , already identified , and given the wholly reasonable assumption that in our linguistic thoughts we do not equate properties with entities , there would be no conceivable point in introducing a property , and introducing it with the sense of " this completes what I am about " unless that property is to be taken as applicable to the subject . |
| 23 | Democratic reforms , certain to be costly , were rendered all the more difficult by the meagreness of the economic resources commanded by the Spanish state , given the ludicrously low level of direct taxation inherited from the monarchy , and by short-term problems arising from the world depression . |
| 24 | ‘ It is now too late to make fresh representations ’ but ‘ officers will be considering the need for a review as early as possible given the continuously changing circumstances and national planning context ’ . |
| 25 | Given the most cynical interpretation , although one that seems to be surprisingly widely held in New York , ‘ those four beautiful books have become the most glamorous mail order catalogue in history . ’ |
| 26 | The Gaullist RPR , which has played the leading historical role in helping German postwar political recovery — while opposing any military revival — has given the most unequivocal welcome to the idea that Germany could again be one nation . |
| 27 | British nurses were among the best trained in Europe but — thanks to the restrictive practices of the medical profession — were given the most limited responsibilities . |
| 28 | He made it , too , taking over against Pakistan in 1982 for one match when Willis was injured — and , given the most toothless of bowling attacks , losing heavily . |
| 29 | But this time there would be a complete novelty , and one that would have given the most strongly anti-Marian pause . |
| 30 | ‘ So , as I say , this child has been given the most perfect environment possible . |