Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [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 | Cobras are constantly depicted entwined in a double helix . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | To produce the low scarps which wind across the Mercurian surface the radius of Mercury need only have decreased by a few tenths of a percent . |
| 6 | Marcus Browning was the hit man … that 's three goals in three games for him … but it was n't enough to save United from a 2-1 deafeat … |
| 7 | ‘ Secondly , Philip hopes Edward will lay claim to Scotland and so become immersed in a tangled and lengthy war . ’ |
| 8 | The large extended family household in any case seems only to have existed for a small minority , if at all . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If two together had happened upon a dead man , they could have spoken for each other . ’ |
| 13 | That would we feel is certainly in a coordinating way and if somebody for instance er say you 've got a husband and wife living together , one of them suddenly becomes handicapped in a particular way , what we are planning to do is trying to develop programmes which will enable the carer to have to go on training at the County Council 's expense to enable them to look after somebody in their own homes and it 's a type of thing we want to develop . |
| 14 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 15 | On some moorlands the chemicals which were washed down have solidified into a thin ‘ cement-like ’ layer , or iron pan . |
| 16 | Savings resulting from the Energy Efficiency Office 's programmes alone have led to a current annual energy saving worth more than £500 million a year . |
| 17 | The expansion of settlement soon became based on a hollow frontier as settlement moved west leaving a trail of erosion and siltation behind until by 1939 , Charles Kellogg felt that 75 million acres ( 28 million hectares ) of this [ ( 450–500 million acres/180–200 million hectares of eroded land ) ] were too worn out to return a living wage under any system of farm practices . |
| 18 | After a switch to real race machinery , Bradl soon became known as a daring , go-for-broke rider and by 1987 he 'd taken his first European championship win and second overall in the series . |
| 19 | The other problem is that tasks honoured with a separate colour on-screen may not appear emphasized on a black and white printout . |
| 20 | First , a number of rules were specified about the use of rewards and punishers and it was suggested that a reward ‘ menu ’ be drawn up for each intervention in order that the child does not become satiated by a single type of reward which could then lose its reinforcing properties . |
| 21 | The government 's already got rid of a minimum wage in industry , but farmworkers say they must be treated as a special case . |
| 22 | This might not have led to a massive reduction that saw the rabbits left at the lowest desirable number , but it was the best that could be done under the circumstances . |
| 23 | Spain would have been cowed without Wellington 's field force : Wellington could not have operated with a small army without the diversionary effects of Spanish resistance . |
| 24 | The Prince could not have hoped for a better platform . |
| 25 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 26 | I could not have asked for a better introduction to the summer Alps ’ . |
| 27 | If the cast had needed a demonstration of Michael Banks 's genuine warmth , they could not have asked for a better one than the way he dealt with Alex Household . |
| 28 | Some of the stimulus for this came from a survey of senior medical students , yet when 30 current house officers were consulted all but two said that , though they would be happy to have the opportunity to apply for both jobs at one hospital , they would not have applied for a one year block contract that restricted them to one hospital . |
| 29 | The reader will recall how Keynes would not have disagreed with a single syllable of the above diagnosis . |
| 30 | It is idle to speculate on the source of leaks — that I did learn in my years in Government — but what was certain was that the Telegraph story could not have appeared at a worse time . |