Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Schumacher has since joined TRANSAID as a London-based director . |
| 2 | We were playing for a long time before we ever had a deal , and when we eventually got signed by a big company , they pretty much took us for what we were . |
| 3 | They take it in turns to crouch in a cardboard box — edging it closer and closer to the track . |
| 4 | At a time when neither the French army nor fiscal arrangements to meet its needs had been sufficiently developed to respond to a new military situation , the only possible response was none the less to call traditional forces together to form an army with which to intercept and , it was hoped , to defeat the English . |
| 5 | Mental illness is a very complicated subject , and psychiatry ( the study and treatment of it ) is not yet well enough developed to permit of an easy , agreed classification . |
| 6 | It only wants to go for a little 'un now and I 'll say , right that dog 'll be out the door . |
| 7 | Cobras are constantly depicted entwined in a double helix . |
| 8 | By impacting with neighbouring particles they vibrate about a locus , and only appear to remain in a fixed position . |
| 9 | The reader only has to glance at a good modern textbook of infant development ( say , Bremner 's Infancy ) to get the main message : very young humans are prodigiously skilled at picking up geometric and social information , and this can be seen both informally ( a neonate turning to a voice ) and in the laboratory . |
| 10 | This second bacterial pattern was only seen associated with a degenerated epithelium presenting with few apical mucoid granules , fewer microvilli , cytoplasmic vacuolisations , and absence of mucus layer , and it was found in all the ultrastructural sections in which the second or third pattern of contact with gastric epithelium was present ( sections from biopsy specimens of 31 patients ) . |
| 11 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 12 | If European governments can display the credible threat to back Airbus if necessary , Boeing shareholders are only going to lose by an unsuccessful price war . |
| 13 | After half an hour 's question-and-answer , Mr Yeltsin suddenly began reading from a prepared text : |
| 14 | For much of the broadcast he was answering questions put by two interviewers , but as it was drawing to a close he suddenly began reading from a prepared text , declaring : " I warned in 1987 that Gorbachev has in his character an aspiration for absolute personal power . |
| 15 | At first , each gearbox only started rattling with a warmed up engine but each got worse until the rattle could be heard with a cold engine on revving up when stationary . |
| 16 | Ideally , candidates will not only have worked as an applied economist , but will also have gained experience in related areas like planning or finance . |
| 17 | But I would like to mention that conflicting evidence is not always the result of a social worker being inexperienced and taken in easily by appearances when he or she should obviously have checked with an independent source . |
| 18 | Recent evidence suggests however , that the introduction of modern technology does not necessarily have to lead to a continuing decline in the agricultural labour force . |
| 19 | Predictably , where such policies have merely involved adding on a vocational junior secondary top to a general primary base u in Ghana and Nigeria , there has been little overt reaction to the proposals . |
| 20 | ‘ Secondly , Philip hopes Edward will lay claim to Scotland and so become immersed in a tangled and lengthy war . ’ |
| 21 | The reason some of them failed to go to the causal ward is because they used to do a little bit of begging , and if they 'd got enough money they would perhaps pay to go into a common lodging house . |
| 22 | As a result , Balder was only allowed to return for a certain period of time , only to disappear and return again . |
| 23 | The large extended family household in any case seems only to have existed for a small minority , if at all . |
| 24 | Another possibility is that we call statements expressing attitudes with this particular sort of stridency moral statements and allow as ethical all statements which express attitudes towards conduct of a certain special seriousness and pervasiveness in their influence on one 's own behaviour and such as one would like to find widely shared , but not necessarily to have supported by a social sanction . |
| 25 | By then hundreds of customer-nominated staff , lucky enough to have won in a quarterly draw , will have been presented with Ovations cheques which can be exchanged for a wide range of goods in a special catalogue . |
| 26 | Visibility was very poor and having been warned that barrage balloons were hoisted over the Liverpool area which had very recently suffered heavily in bombing raids , we went well out to sea before turning in to Speke , only to get entangled in a coastal convoy flying balloons . |
| 27 | If two together had happened upon a dead man , they could have spoken for each other . ’ |
| 28 | UK deregulation meant that the smaller , traditional banks suddenly had to compete on a global scale , and very few had the financial power necessary . |
| 29 | Why are we so ready to treat as a minor operation an alteration which involves a major transformation in the cat 's lifestyle and personality ? |
| 30 | We can see him as it were constantly restraining his inventiveness , constantly trying to conform to an orthodox view against which his thoughts and emotions rebel , constantly trying to justify Chinese intelligence by dragging it a little nearer to some Western precedent . |