Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foreign Secretary stressed , however , that aid on its own can never ensure reform is successfully carried through in the two countries . |
| 2 | Again , many decisions which are successfully carried out in a given period may not turn out to have been the best possible courses of action . |
| 3 | It leaves me like a right fool out in the bloody open . ’ |
| 4 | Among other research it led to a series of studies — mostly carried out in the 1950s and 1960s — of the personalities of very creative people . |
| 5 | If used constructively , instructional programs can be very effective but they can be very boring if they are used merely to transfer work to the microcomputer which would be better carried out in the traditional manner . |
| 6 | Key members accused the MPs of being so caught up in the technical arguments and the prospect of winning one concession from the Government after a barren frustrating decade that they lost sight of the big picture . |
| 7 | The first task of working out a method whereby society can be apprehended as a social system for the organization of production , rather than as a structure of consciously realized institutions , is only sketched out in The German Ideology , but it was to be developed in all of Marx 's later work , and it culminated in the analysis of capitalism contained in the three volumes of Capital . |
| 8 | Martha 's school dress and books , her one skirt , two blouses and handful of frayed underwear were swiftly parcelled up in the coarse paper Nana used in the shop . |
| 9 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |
| 10 | He was too alert not to catch the look and he was swift enough to look down in the same instant at his cup . |
| 11 | Like most Chinese children unfortunate enough to grow up in the Sixties , Zeng 's education was severely disrupted by the Cultural Revolution , and he had to sit through the shouting matches and brain-washing sessions just as everyone else did . |
| 12 | It was all wrapped up in a knotted kerchief . |
| 13 | Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury . |
| 14 | To like this a lot you probably need to be able to handle silent movies — though dialogue suddenly breaks out in the final scene , powerfully underlining the film 's more serious side . |
| 15 | But young couples are often surprised , even shocked , by the ferocity of the rows that can suddenly blow up in the first year or two of marriage . |
| 16 | He 's like a gazelle , Lee thought , that once ran free and now finds itself all tied up in an unregulated zoo . |
| 17 | That was all set out in the recent Security Council resolution to which I referred in my reply and for which we voted . |
| 18 | The Governors ' commitment to the new scientific revolution is perhaps summed up in the concluding paragraph of the Minutes : |
| 19 | It 's all laid out in the back room . |
| 20 | WC apps : 8 The Belgians tend to be ignored until they suddenly turn up in the latter stages of major tournaments — the final of the 1980 European Championship and the semi-finals of the last World Cup . |
| 21 | Meredith was suddenly swept up in an insane desire to impress , well , produce something decent . |
| 22 | we shall all end up in the same place |
| 23 | Drawing once again on the detective genre , Pynchon complicates the linear hunt for information , partly by rendering every detail as ambiguous as possible and partly by having Oedipa literally go round in a huge circle when she is pursuing an ‘ underground ’ mail courier . |
| 24 | Around Remagen you cross from Westphalia into the Pfalz , the old Palatinate , so much fought over in the Thirty Years War . |
| 25 | They 'll all come off in the first wash . |
| 26 | But the next thing we knew he was all kitted out in a blue and white sailor suit , smelling sweetly of baby lotion and with not a wet patch to be seen . |
| 27 | In spite of the growing success , there was still never any spare cash as profits were endlessly ploughed back in the unremitting quest for newer , more powerful machinery . |
| 28 | Discipline at work was harsh : use of the birch only faded out in the 1890s , there was no job security , and management imposed fines for the slightest transgression . |
| 29 | Mum kept out of sight until he had left , then down the stairs she came , all dressed up in a long black taffeta dress , which rustled when she moved . |
| 30 | If you find such terms as ‘ Uniform Edition ’ , ‘ Valima Edition ’ , ‘ Border Edition ’ ( and even ‘ Author 's Edition ’ ) you will almost certainly be correct in deciding that the volume can not be a ‘ first ’ but forms part of a , later collected edition , all dressed up in a special format — a ‘ uniform ’ , in fact . |