Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A series of hijackings and bomb hoaxes in the west of the city was apparently designed to act as a diversion as a mass escape was made . |
| 2 | Or are poorer respondents simply less prepared to admit to an interviewer that they would be prepared to break the law ? |
| 3 | A heavy drinker , obsessive gambler and renowned conversationalist , Bacon frequently felt that his work was misinterpreted : ‘ You 've only got to go into a butcher 's shop , like Harrod 's food hall . |
| 4 | Watkin would have pride of place as St George while Ranulf the rat-catcher eagerly agreed to put on a costume and act the role of the dragon . |
| 5 | Zantford Granny Granville was a motor mechanic who decided that he wanted to get into aviation , so offered to work as a mechanic at East Boston Airport in exchange for flying lessons . |
| 6 | It was two hours before he felt sufficiently recovered to stop at a phone box and report in . |
| 7 | By proclaiming the arrival of democracy , and with it " the end of ideology " and ideological politics , the revisionists of the 1950s perhaps hoped to bring to an end the perennial debate about democracy . |
| 8 | It is generally accepted that managers are motivated to pursue profits , whereas they are not greatly motivated to keep within a cost budget . |
| 9 | He sets Ireland up as a type of extreme place — a place possibly cursed in its very soil or divinely reserved to act as a scourge for England . |
| 10 | His concern was to ensure that Indirect Rule was sufficiently modernized to function as an instrument of government in an era of rapid social and economic change . |
| 11 | Embarrassing for all concerned although I suppose we can always rip out Chapter 1 , daringly entitled Leaving on a Jet Plane . |
| 12 | The shelf display is supplemented by an indexing system flexibly organized to allow for a variety of approaches , to lead the enquirer to the right " shelf address " and to remedy any deficiencies in the system for particular types of user . |
| 13 | This implication was not lost on some members of the Eastern District , notably several in Essex where the views of leading WEA activists were such that the District eventually decided to do without a tutor-organiser for the county altogether . |
| 14 | More recently some Universities and Polytechnics developed courses for ethnic minorities — but these when they were focused on developing multilingual skills were not intended to lead to a specialism in minority languages but simply to serve support strategies which fall far short of teaching the languages as such . |
| 15 | A purchase notice is not intended to apply in a case in which an owner is simply prevented from realising the full potential value of his land . |
| 16 | These expressions may constitute either a promise , by which the maker of the statement intends that he should be bound , or a representation which is not intended to operate as a promise but is made with the intention and does have the effect of persuading the other party to enter into the contract . |
| 17 | While the flair derived from street football in Africa is richly prized adjusting to a Wiltshire training pitch in January is not straightforward . |
| 18 | Also , the normal deglutitive response is generally considered to consist of a contraction wave that appears at manometry as a single or M shaped peak . |
| 19 | Increasingly candidates thought able enough were entered for O and even A levels ( and rightly , because there was at first no other examination for them to take ) and when the CSE examination was introduced for those thought not to be up to O level , the top grade of CSE was soon deemed to count as an O level , and thus itself to aspire to the academic . |
| 20 | Furthermore , fermentation does not increase the colonic osmotic pressure and diarrhoea is not longer considered to occur as a side effect since most of this osmotic load is rapidly absorbed . |
| 21 | A MOTHER lost her appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against corporal punishment in school yesterday , but the judgment is not expected to lead to a reintroduction of that form of disciplinary action in Britain . |
| 22 | 6–9 Mrs Holliday , Bowmore , applied for the baptism of her daughter in the absence of her husband who was on a voyage to Africa and not expected to return for a year , and as they were " satisfied with Mrs Holliday 's knowledge as to the ordinance and the obligation " they agreed . |
| 23 | The issue is not expected to go to a vote . |
| 24 | Solicitors are not permitted to enter into an agreement with their clients that purports to exclude their liability for professional misconduct ( which extends to professional negligence ) though subject to the following rules liability can be limited by contract : ( 1 ) liability may not be limited below the minimum level of cover afforded under the Indemnity Fund ; ( 2 ) liability can not be limited at all for fraud or reckless disregard of professional obligations ; ( 3 ) s60(5) of the Solicitors Act avoids any provision in a contentious business agreement purporting to exclude the liability of a solicitor for negligence or to relieve him of his professional responsibilities ; ( 4 ) ss2(2) and 11(4) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 will apply to agreements between solicitors and their clients to ensure that limited liability provisions which do not fall foul of any other rule comply with the essential requirement of reasonableness . |
| 25 | Furthermore a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dress was not made according to a man 's stereotype of how a woman should look , although Laura believed that the covered-up , ‘ floaty ’ look was what men liked . |
| 26 | The functionality of the gear-lever is thus seen to exist as a set of attributes of the intersection of the functional domains ( see Figure 2.24 ) , which are mapped and preserved within the geometric domain . |
| 27 | The ‘ A ’ solution is not applied to act as a de-greaser on the wood , but to make sure that the surface of the wood is alkaline . |
| 28 | His exhausted mother was finally persuaded to rest in a hotel . |
| 29 | Members of Maghull Chapel have already helped pay for a well to be dug to give the village drinking water . |
| 30 | The strategy finally agreed consisted of a number of actions to be taken progressively , ie : |