Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Program start-up is rather annoyingly interrupted by a 15s delay at a screen showing Jandel Scientific 's reminder of the licence agreement , followed by a summary screen showing the program 's status in terms of memory use , maths coprocessor installation , estimated processing speed rating for the detected hardware , and various user-modifiable program settings . |
| 2 | The other had continued pain that was eventually successfully managed by a laparoscopic cholecystectomy . |
| 3 | In between the ladies and the gents ( matches I mean ) we were ushered to private rooms , where , beneath striped awnings , we were right royally entertained to a distinguished tea . |
| 4 | Of all the sectors , Telecommunications was the most highly valued with a 25.5 price to earnings ratio and 1.57 total market capitalisation to turnover ratio . |
| 5 | Similarly , a blouse which is purchased from a shop as an alienable commodity may then become so intimately associated with a particular individual that it may not even be borrowed by a sibling , After some time , however , the object may lose this close association , becoming , as jumble , an alienable commodity once again . |
| 6 | Hassan , who was usually with him in Abu Dhabi as well as England , manoeuvred into the rear seat of the Mercedes and I took my place beside the young son who had long since graduated into a licensed driver . |
| 7 | A hushed , sleeping stillness had long since settled like a heavy blanket over the place , but Lissa stirred quietly in the depths of the armchair . |
| 8 | But for the moment it is enough to recognize that even unanimity can have its problematic aspects ; and , since unanimity is so rarely achieved on a large scale , we need to consider next the next best thing , the principle with which democracy is very often crudely identified : majority decision-taking or majority rule . |
| 9 | A collection so rarely seen as a compact whole , provided many with an eye opener as to the quality and range of the work housed in the University corridors and offices . |
| 10 | In spite of this caveat , the implicit assumptions on which policies are based have only slowly evolved from a colonial , Euro-centric and messianic intellectual frame of reference which has endured the waning of empire and the regaining of political independence of most former colonies . |
| 11 | Others , such as Morris ( 1972 ) , Panitch ( 1980 ) and Diamant ( 1981 ) , think that corporatism must be bureaucratic , but meaning that the state will be dependent on expert officials operating according to technocratic norms only loosely controlled by a political elite . |
| 12 | Brought in early last year , Max had been so badly kicked by a sadistic owner that most of his bodily organs were in the wrong places . |
| 13 | My interest in whether they were making much progress towards the glorious flavours beginning to arrive from Australia , New Zealand and Southern America was only somewhat tempered by a certain nervousness on behalf of my liver and my head . |
| 14 | Too much sun , for example helps trigger the premature bolting to seed of some crops in summer , which is one reason why later sowings of radishes , salads or spinach are much better situated in a cool , shady bed . |
| 15 | If conventionalism were so single-mindedly practised in a particular jurisdiction and so often announced and confirmed by public institutions that people were thereby entitled to rely on that style of adjudication , of course it would be unfair for some judge suddenly to abandon it . |
| 16 | They totalled seventy-six drawings and made such a lavish display , in a climate so obviously orientated towards a classical outcome , that they could almost be considered as a challenge to the sponsors with their instinctive bias towards classical architecture . |
| 17 | Group 2 argued , for instance , that this configuration is not only cohesively linked by a broad lexical set including the items " rained " , " water " and " wet " , but it is also linked in terms of an implicit cause-and-effect relationship between the propositions expressed by each sentence . |
| 18 | This is perhaps best illustrated by a brief look at what is happening in Germany , Denmark , the United Kingdom and France , the three largest countries in the Community and the one in which opposition to Maastricht was born . |
| 19 | Op. 2 contains one of the finest of all German songs , ‘ Schenk mir deinen Goldenen Kamm ’ , which is perhaps best suited to a male voice . |
| 20 | This swash bar may be pushed up above high tide level and is obviously not destroyed by a falling tide as would be a break point bar . |
| 21 | Strongly independent all his life , John Granger did n't let blindness change his lifestyle , and although now in his nineties has only just moved into a sheltered flat in Oxford . |
| 22 | This special place of the Sun in the Galaxy , if confirmed , certainly alters our picture of even the recent geological history of our planet , since we have only just emerged from a spiral arm . |
| 23 | Seventh in the English Schools final last year , the 17-year-old Morpeth Harrier has only just recovered from a dislocated hip . |
| 24 | Her lot had not been a happy one : the husband whom she had only ever seen for a few precious weeks in all since their marriage had now left her a widow , without support and with a child and step-children to fend for . |
| 25 | As a preliminary statement we can say that the equation : is at best only ever achieved as a momentary or fleeting condition . |
| 26 | Comparable trends are not found among the second category , which includes those sites where the defences are apparently arbitrarily imposed on a straggling ribbon development or urban scatter so as to provide a small defended strongpoint astride the road . |
| 27 | It may be of some interest that the club of Hercules should be so thoroughly integrated in a Celtic religious assemblage , but this requires a specialized and more detailed study than could be attempted here . |
| 28 | The 1798–9 version of The Prelude ( or the first two books ) may be read at this point , and if the reader finds more to enjoy in the narrative sections this is entirely appropriate since they appear to have been written as separate entities and only later blended into a single poem . |
| 29 | Most of the gas brought to the Centre is apparently later expelled in a galactic wind , but some with low angular momentum finds its way to the nucleus , where the gas is at a pressure at least three orders of magnitude higher than in the disk . |
| 30 | For Marx , the growth of industry promised wealth and abundance for all , but because industry had so far developed in a capitalistic way , the new-found wealth was monopolised by one class , while the mass of the working people were made poorer , not richer , by the advances in production . |