Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [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 | The Commission wished us well in our venture of acting as custodians of material , documents , etc. relating to the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 18 | She went on to work for the Friends ' Committee in France , Austria , Poland , and Greece . |
| 19 | After the Leeds Congress Maginn was plainly a disappointed man and probably did not altogether approve of the BDDA 's leadership . |
| 20 | Undoubtedly , the alkylated rosanilines ( eg Hofmann violent , 6 ) came out of this cooperation , and were duly added to the firm 's product list . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Nobody who was lucky enough to go to the city 's Usher Hall can have forgotten the splendid Dies Irae . |
| 24 | The number of phrases that can be used is only limited by the computer 's memory . |
| 25 | This is an even more remarkable stabilisation than the one achieved in the Czech Republic , hitherto regarded as the region 's most successful stabiliser . |
| 26 | From 1340 until his death in 1348 the archbishop never again held high office or exerted much influence in the king 's government . |
| 27 | He could only think of the confessional 's stock-in-trade : ‘ Did you find pleasure in it , Luke ? ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The librarian , fearful of fire , gently shooed Corbett out so the clerk went down to stroll in the monastery 's small herb garden while he rigorously analysed all he had learnt in his journey to Kinghorn . |
| 30 | Not as well as the General , but well enough to agree with the General 's assessment . ’ |