Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car was eventually stopped after driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway . |
| 2 | Hallstein 's Commission was widely blamed for provoking the 1965 crisis by pushing too hard for more powers for itself and the Parliament . |
| 3 | Mr Delors has been widely blamed for causing the latest crisis . |
| 4 | If they were not employed , that did not mean that the legacy was at once void ; but if it was to be saved , all depended on construing the necessary verba sollemnia . |
| 5 | The task was a blessed diversion ; he could n't stop her going , he could only concentrate on turning the bloody old things till they loosened . |
| 6 | A frightened boy , a boy who , in spite of trying with all his might to please the man who had married his mother , had only succeeded in doing the exact opposite . |
| 7 | Since whatever admissions criteria are adopted the selection of some only of the applicants will necessarily result in defeating the parental preference of those who are rejected , what reason is there for Parliament to object to any given set of criteria being adopted ? |
| 8 | In Oviedo an infuriated mob was only prevented from lynching the distinguished poet Meléndez Valdés by the appearance of priests with the exposed host . |
| 9 | It 's only got ta match the existing er |
| 10 | Oh they 've only got ta get the two done and they 've got their money back have n't they ? |
| 11 | and as you say you 've only got ta read the small print you find that spent percentage of this and that . |
| 12 | Economies of scale mean that size does still matter : to succeed , companies have to grow while constantly guarding against building the sclerotic bureaucracy that bolsters a sense of infallibility that was IBM 's ultimate downfall . |
| 13 | Security forces were reported to have fired over the heads of hundreds of demonstrators apparently bent on storming the official residence of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a on Dec. 11 . |
| 14 | He could not understand why Nanny was suddenly bent on making the worst kind of trouble for him . |
| 15 | A lord taking over a forfeited estate could not entirely take for granted the good will of the affinity , at least in the short term . |
| 16 | A lord taking over a forfeited estate could not entirely take for granted the good will of the affinity , at least in the short term . |
| 17 | The hybrid equivalent circuit is especially suited to representing the small-signal amplifying behaviour of a bipolar junction transistor since its parameters are easily determined for the most useful common-emitter configuration by appropriate small-signal measurements . |
| 18 | And while compulsory metering could discourage the waste of water , the cost of installing meters might be better spent on improving the existing service — fixing leaks in the mains and educating people to conserve water . |
| 19 | So terrified of doing the wrong thing that they do nothing at all — except bleat like sheep about their petty rules and regulations and their morality . |
| 20 | But as Storr demonstrates with the aid of two stunningly beautiful passages from Churchill 's early novel Savrola , the pen was better suited to delineating the bleak impotence he felt at his innermost core . |
| 21 | The use of the relay at this point may seem a bit odd as the switching could be electronically activated , but the use of a mechanical relay introduces a small but desirable time variation ( as well as possible bounce ! ) in the duration of the relays closure and so helps in enhancing the random operation of IC6 during the short time that the VCO is producing its high frequency output . |
| 22 | With great skill , determination and unparalleled cheek , Jo Spence not only insisted on putting the unacceptable face of both our public and private lives onto the art agenda , but into the art institution . |
| 23 | However , it is too simplistic a reaction to suggest that French poststructuralism can therefore be invalidated by judging it against the claims of a comparable endeavour in Germany , a procedure which can only operate by turning the former into a failed version of the latter , which obviously leaves open the possibility of exactly the reverse argument being made . |
| 24 | MacQuillan was n't only talking about getting the British out of Northern Ireland , he was using HM Supplies to channel money to terrorist groups . |
| 25 | The group of people who form the membership of the company were drawn together to assist in achieving the above objectives with whatever professional expertise and personal knowledge they had at their command . |
| 26 | I would wish warmly to join in congratulating the hon. Gentleman 's constituent on his 80th birthday , particularly as , next month , the income support premium for the over-80s will be raised in real terms for the second time in three years . |
| 27 | the first is the idea that productivity and profit only come from making the most of the people in the organisation . |
| 28 | The expansion of employment into new branches of manufacturing like clothing in the North East was almost entirely fuelled by mobilizing the latent reserve army of housewives . |
| 29 | I only wan na see the first bit . |
| 30 | Capital is a work almost entirely dedicated to understanding the fantastic nature of such concepts of labour , and to understanding what conditions this type of concept comes about . |