Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The local authority 's mortgage was duly registered in the charges register .
2 When present , the impurities cause concrete made from mining spoil , ‘ mundic , ’ to crumble in damp conditions as trace elements slowly combine with the cement to reduce the lattice structure to a mush .
3 So in the Westinghouse case , one group of witnesses successfully claimed a privilege existing in English law , while another group of witnesses successfully relied upon a privilege existing in the law of the United States , the requesting State .
4 The directors recommended that the dividend payout to shareholders should be increased by 25 per cent to 7.5p a share which was widely regarded as a move designed to ward off a takeover bid .
5 The King 's speech was therefore widely regarded as an attempt to halt Jordan 's drift into regional isolation .
6 In what was widely regarded as an attempt to deflate the extraordinary personality cult which had grown up around him since his cancer was publicized , the King referred indirectly to his own mortality .
7 The move , widely regarded as an attempt to appease the government 's right-wing critics unhappy with the slow pace of Islamic reform and with recent Gulf war policy [ see pp. 38007 ; 38102 ] , was expected to be resisted by women 's groups and minorities .
8 The ceremony was widely regarded as an effort to restore Prussia 's regional identity after its suppression during the years of communist rule in the former East Germany , and simultaneously to dissociate Frederick the Great from the Nazi Party , which had revered his military power .
9 In a statement yesterday , the police chiefs said : ‘ The association wholeheartedly agrees with the views expressed by Mr Adair .
10 After 36 month 's weathering , the bones of the skull were found to be little altered beyond the condition described above .
11 Critics have since commented on the paradox offered by a Secretary of State sharply defining two categories of higher education — the one more theoretical and academic than the other — in the same year as he was energetically destroying similar categories in secondary education .
12 Thus began the process which eventually led to the peasants ceasing to sow grain and ultimately to the New Economic Policy .
13 This is what is effectively happening in the scenario posed .
14 He felt guilty as he thought of Maeve 's sweet face , and embarrassed that he should be so powerfully attracted to a woman dedicated to God .
15 Pots will be attractive to add instant colour and a path sweeps away under the pergola towards the rockery where it turns through a right angle in front of the rose bed , eventually ending at the vegetable plot that is neatly screened by the hedge .
16 In this case the group attributes declared for the definition of the hole are wholly contained with the attributes declared for the definition of the block .
17 The dispute became more intense in early July after Prince Sihanouk announced his approval of a Khmer Rouge plan for equal quadripartite power-sharing on the SNC , thereby effectively reneging on an agreement signed with the SOC Premier Hun Sen in Tokyo in early June [ see pp. 37532-33 ] .
18 It was not effectively designed as a movement to abolish , still less to limit , mass alcoholism , but to define and set apart the class of those individuals who had demonstrated by their personal force of character that they were distinct from the unrespectable poor .
19 But even within it , we can see plenty of seeds of possible change : older women intensely committed to a work calling , older men who become housekeepers or carers .
20 People did not suddenly rush into the shops to spend more money on books because the Government said that staff had to be paid more .
21 If it 's breaking down lots of food , a really heavy meal , then it 's actually maybe making such a big demand on the oxygen level in your bloodstream that your oxygen level in your bloodstream drops and there 's not enough to go round the muscles to make to break up any lactic acid that 's being formed .
22 We have all heard of the addiction caused by long-term taking of tranquillisers but did you realise that the effect of sleeping pills can last well into the following day and many antihistamines ( commonly taken to relieve colds or allergies ) can make you so drowsy that you should not drive for some hours after taking them ?
23 So there I was at the Whirl-Y-Gig , which is a New Age club much favoured by the Haight-Ashbury set .
24 Lucy stepped into her warmest black and white trousers and high-necked top , and when the appetising aroma of sizzling bacon and eggs drew her towards breakfast she found the dining-room to be nicely heated by the logs blazing in the large open fireplace .
25 Of course much depended upon the temper imparted by the smith .
26 The components of e are evaluated , the results are then all assigned to the locations represented by x , and the process then terminates .
27 Kalm was very impressed by the stoves at Chelsea , ‘ all arranged in the way discribed in Dictionary ’ , and he learned from Miller that two orangeries in England had been burnt by tan overheating ( the fermenting bark of the oak and a by-product from the tanning industry ) .
28 Firstly , and obviously , we only branch on a variable required to be integer-valued .
29 Well if you 've got to go in the garage , it 's too cold to go in there to finish the ship off so you 'd better paint in the house had n't you ?
30 He tells you the price per Chinese pound , and then merely points to the scales to show the weight .
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