Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 The Law Society has successfully resisted a judicial review application by Mr Raymond Curtin concerning imposition of a condition on his practising certificate by an Assistant Director of the Solicitors complaints Bureau .
32 The sense of relief , and the newfound power , of a queen who has successfully produced a healthy boy emerge in an anecdote told by Charles himself over forty years later : " In the very hour of my birth , my mother Judith sent a ring to Ebbo [ archbishop of Rheims ] , asking him , since he was an archbishop , to pray for the newborn baby .
33 A BRITISH company has successfully married a 400 W laser with a robot arm in a way that preserves the arm 's five degrees of freedom .
34 He has successfully rescued a whole series of major houses , without a penny of historic buildings grants , by adapting them as self-contained houses and cottages .
35 These ecological considerations , together with the economic advantages that are apparent , must commend the system as one that has successfully modified a traditional subsistence system into a more economic one without major detrimental effects .
36 He has been primarily responsible for the current European Union Treaty ( EUT ) which has effectively distilled a political idea into political practice .
37 The crowd was eventually scattered but , later that evening , the police tried forcibly to remove a political banner at the city centre 's War Memorial .
38 Eraut ( 1977 ) avoids specifying the content or outcomes of teacher development , having rejected the assumption that a teacher who has developed has necessarily become a better teacher .
39 This section on internal buildings has necessarily covered a considerable amount of very detailed information and has inevitably had to be selective .
40 With this arrangement , two small or standard mattresses and bases fit together to make a double bed .
41 Pocket springs can help with differences of up to 4 or 5 stone , or try a zip and link bed with two different mattresses and bases that fit together to make a double bed .
42 A number of prominent politicians failed to win election at constituency level but nevertheless entered parliament on their party 's national lists ( where " scrap votes " , i.e. those cast for unsuccessful constituency candidates or county lists , were added together to form a national total ) .
43 Lachman , who can now claim the distinction of selling his company twice and buying it back once , quipped that he has personally established a new executive benchmark , transactions per year ( TPY ) , having sold Interactive to SunSoft , Praxis to SunSelect , Interactive to Systemhouse and having bought back Lachman , all in the space of the last twelve months .
44 As a sound is a mantra , so an image is a yantra , the two used together making a powerful combination for spiritual exercises .
45 But they could be expected especially to move a religious audience committed to a divine order comprehending all men .
46 Xorandor has inadvertently eaten a dangerous isotope which has caused a ‘ syntax error ’ to occur in one of his offspring , Xor 7 .
47 This book is intended as a concise account of the principles of peptide chemistry for upper-level undergraduates studying chemistry and biochemistry and the author has obviously given a great deal of thought to the needs of his readers .
48 People have fallen in love for stranger reasons , but music has obviously played a central role in their marriage .
49 It 's a massive work and has obviously taken a great deal of your time and trouble .
50 If we then go back to er , look at the profits as a whole , there are just three items I 'd like to comment on , the corporate expenses as other income er , has obviously had a dramatic improvement .
51 Forecasting has obviously improved a great deal over the years .
52 Emmenthal and Gruyère are mixed together to make a Swiss cheese fondue .
53 Two cameras , switched to give an almost negative image that enhances the metallic quality of the foliage ( and presaging the Dalek gunfire effect mentioned earlier ) , pan across the ashen forest in sweeping arcs , their pictures mixed together giving a greater impression of size to the dense , white foliage .
54 Our discussion this time will restrict itself much more to the two chosen passages , and will need only to take a brief look at a few details of the narratives leading up to them , and at the stories that immediately follow them .
55 So a man who has hitherto led a quiet life , in terms of cricket administration , finds himself thrust into the forefront of the game 's politics .
56 So a man who has hitherto led a quiet life , in terms of cricket administration , finds himself thrust into the forefront of the game 's politics .
57 Indeed , Eisenman seems to have focused a searchlight on the underlying simplicity of what has hitherto seemed a complicated situation .
58 Suffice it to say that in this field voluntary effort has long played a considerable part and there are signs that it intends to increase its contribution to this field .
59 However , the development of Australian unions has been markedly and uniquely influenced by the institutional support given to them by the federal arbitration system which has long played a fundamental role in wage-determination and the settlement of disputes ( see Chapter 5 ) .
60 Edinburgh has long enjoyed a considerable reputation for the study of Criminology and the Philosophy of Law .
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