Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer Stuart 's success rate — proportion of assignments successfully completed to the client 's satisfaction within the specified time — has been independently estimated at 80% , much higher than many rival firms . |
| 2 | The UN Security Council on Nov. 29 approved Resolution 678 authorizing member governments to use " all necessary means " to ensure Iraq 's complete withdrawal from Kuwait , if by a deadline of Jan. 15 , 1991 , the Iraqis had not already done so and thereby complied with the UN 's previous resolutions . |
| 3 | Perhaps this is the reason for the bashfully truncated picture of the F/A-18 which , although admittedly showing the aircraft 's refined canopy shape successfully developed from the grasshopper 's eye concept , plays down the disappointing lack of progress in the other aspects mentioned . |
| 4 | Widely regarded as the ANC 's most able negotiator , he was expected to play a key role in talks with the government . |
| 5 | With the NLD leaders Aung San Suu Kyi and Gen. ( retd ) Tin U respectively under house arrest and in prison , Kyi Maung had been widely regarded as the country 's principal unconstrained opposition figure . |
| 6 | Taylor made it clear that he is not happy with Platt , scorer of England 's last five goals and widely regarded as the manager 's favourite footballing son . |
| 7 | He was also the uncle of Banda 's confidante and Official Hostess Cecilia Kadzamira and was widely regarded as the President 's heir-apparent . |
| 8 | The eggs eventually hatch inside the mother 's pouch , the young crawl out and clamber up on to her back . |
| 9 | This renewed severity was bitterly resented by the king 's subjects . |
| 10 | Neither of these two men can control with any certainty , however , the factor that will perhaps exert the most influence on the SPD 's election chances . |
| 11 | But these distinctions and considerations were not expressly addressed in the Convention 's negotiating process and so do not feature explicitly in its text . |
| 12 | Over evolutionary time it will cease to be a parasite , will cooperate with the host , and may eventually merge into the host 's tissues and become unrecognizable as a parasite at all . |
| 13 | Veronese 's ‘ Marriage at Cana ’ badly torn after the Louvre 's lengthy restoration |
| 14 | Running into the glade , she picked up Rosalind 's letter and folded it back into its envelope , which she saw to her dismay had been badly torn by the man 's rough handling of it . |
| 15 | An important repository for ions and electrons is a radiation belt which encircles a planet , in which charged particles are fairly effectively trapped by the planet 's magnetic field . |
| 16 | Indeed , he went so far as to say that Britain 's justice system had been badly bruised by the Government 's failure in this respect . |
| 17 | OSF says the Informix Wingz spreadsheet has been ported to its Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technology and was successfully installed on an IBM RS/6000 : a DEC Alpha version will follow . |
| 18 | The Commission wished us well in our venture of acting as custodians of material , documents , etc. relating to the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 19 | She went on to work for the Friends ' Committee in France , Austria , Poland , and Greece . |
| 20 | After the Leeds Congress Maginn was plainly a disappointed man and probably did not altogether approve of the BDDA 's leadership . |
| 21 | It was as they left the café that Kelly noticed a Lamborghini , bearing the number plate FAY 1 , badly parked outside a chemist 's shop on the High Street . |
| 22 | Undoubtedly , the alkylated rosanilines ( eg Hofmann violent , 6 ) came out of this cooperation , and were duly added to the firm 's product list . |
| 23 | By Gerald Larner FOLLOWERS of the BBC Philharmonic — that small but discriminating section of the concert audience in the North-west — will have noticed a peculiarly high proportion of works featuring solo trumpet in the orchestra 's current programmes . |
| 24 | The problems of demobilization were greatly eased by the Servicemen 's Readjustment Act ( 1944 ) , better known as the GI 's Bill of Rights , whereby war veterans received extensive unemployment payments and educational opportunities . |
| 25 | Nobody who was lucky enough to go to the city 's Usher Hall can have forgotten the splendid Dies Irae . |
| 26 | The number of phrases that can be used is only limited by the computer 's memory . |
| 27 | This is an even more remarkable stabilisation than the one achieved in the Czech Republic , hitherto regarded as the region 's most successful stabiliser . |
| 28 | From 1340 until his death in 1348 the archbishop never again held high office or exerted much influence in the king 's government . |
| 29 | He could only think of the confessional 's stock-in-trade : ‘ Did you find pleasure in it , Luke ? ’ |
| 30 | If only these ideas were pursued vigorously and with a vengeance morally justified by the offender 's wickedness , then ‘ our ’ society would be relatively crime-free and tranquil . |