Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car was eventually stopped after driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway . |
| 2 | Hallstein 's Commission was widely blamed for provoking the 1965 crisis by pushing too hard for more powers for itself and the Parliament . |
| 3 | Mr Delors has been widely blamed for causing the latest crisis . |
| 4 | If they were not employed , that did not mean that the legacy was at once void ; but if it was to be saved , all depended on construing the necessary verba sollemnia . |
| 5 | A frightened boy , a boy who , in spite of trying with all his might to please the man who had married his mother , had only succeeded in doing the exact opposite . |
| 6 | In Oviedo an infuriated mob was only prevented from lynching the distinguished poet Meléndez Valdés by the appearance of priests with the exposed host . |
| 7 | It 's only got ta match the existing er |
| 8 | Oh they 've only got ta get the two done and they 've got their money back have n't they ? |
| 9 | and as you say you 've only got ta read the small print you find that spent percentage of this and that . |
| 10 | Security forces were reported to have fired over the heads of hundreds of demonstrators apparently bent on storming the official residence of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a on Dec. 11 . |
| 11 | He could not understand why Nanny was suddenly bent on making the worst kind of trouble for him . |
| 12 | The hybrid equivalent circuit is especially suited to representing the small-signal amplifying behaviour of a bipolar junction transistor since its parameters are easily determined for the most useful common-emitter configuration by appropriate small-signal measurements . |
| 13 | And while compulsory metering could discourage the waste of water , the cost of installing meters might be better spent on improving the existing service — fixing leaks in the mains and educating people to conserve water . |
| 14 | So terrified of doing the wrong thing that they do nothing at all — except bleat like sheep about their petty rules and regulations and their morality . |
| 15 | But as Storr demonstrates with the aid of two stunningly beautiful passages from Churchill 's early novel Savrola , the pen was better suited to delineating the bleak impotence he felt at his innermost core . |
| 16 | The expansion of employment into new branches of manufacturing like clothing in the North East was almost entirely fuelled by mobilizing the latent reserve army of housewives . |
| 17 | Capital is a work almost entirely dedicated to understanding the fantastic nature of such concepts of labour , and to understanding what conditions this type of concept comes about . |
| 18 | Well , I mean when erm Queenie was eventually pushed into producing the Tory hit list it really was extremely unimpressive . |
| 19 | Although diabetes is usually caused by a pancreas unable to do its job , it is not treated by replacing the offending organ . |
| 20 | It is near both Marina di Pietrasanta and Forte dei Marmi , and excellently placed for exploring the many local restaurants , shops and nightlife . |
| 21 | The government commission 's work was not limited to establishing the current state of affairs at the Gallery ; it was also entrusted with working out new proposals . |
| 22 | In practice , a number of dealers had not succeeded in passing the little BIDS exam , and obviously had n't bothered to cheat their way through it either . |
| 23 | Therefore , Piaroa boys are not constrained into learning the aggressive stance of young warriors to fight men of this world ; they do not learn to accept the dominance relationships of groups of men over other groups of men . |
| 24 | However , if the original social and education objectives of the course have not been met it has nevertheless succeeded in tapping the hidden intellectual and educational potential of many working-class men and women . |
| 25 | ‘ Where that can be comfortably done without infringing the other objectives then I am perfectly prepared to see how flexible we can make the franchise . ’ |
| 26 | Propagation is easily done by separating the small plants produced on runners . |
| 27 | This is because , assuming not all the proceeds of disposal are capital gain ( some will be base cost ) , that part of the proceeds that is not applied in acquiring the new assets will constitute gain in priority to base cost . |
| 28 | He trusted that they would be enabled to further the progress already made in rebuilding the domestic stability and economic strength of the United Kingdom and in weaving still more closely the threads which bound together the countries of the Commonwealth or , as he still preferred to call it , the Empire . |
| 29 | A broad antibody response , including not only IIIB but MN and even autologous isolates with regard to neutralization , is thus induced by vaccinating the infected individual . |
| 30 | The relative success of the Japanese is , therefore , not based upon disregarding the risk-related cost of funds , which is what the DCF mechanism is designed to address . |