Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer Stuart 's success rate — proportion of assignments successfully completed to the client 's satisfaction within the specified time — has been independently estimated at 80% , much higher than many rival firms . |
| 2 | Perhaps this is the reason for the bashfully truncated picture of the F/A-18 which , although admittedly showing the aircraft 's refined canopy shape successfully developed from the grasshopper 's eye concept , plays down the disappointing lack of progress in the other aspects mentioned . |
| 3 | Widely regarded as the ANC 's most able negotiator , he was expected to play a key role in talks with the government . |
| 4 | With the NLD leaders Aung San Suu Kyi and Gen. ( retd ) Tin U respectively under house arrest and in prison , Kyi Maung had been widely regarded as the country 's principal unconstrained opposition figure . |
| 5 | Taylor made it clear that he is not happy with Platt , scorer of England 's last five goals and widely regarded as the manager 's favourite footballing son . |
| 6 | He was also the uncle of Banda 's confidante and Official Hostess Cecilia Kadzamira and was widely regarded as the President 's heir-apparent . |
| 7 | This renewed severity was bitterly resented by the king 's subjects . |
| 8 | But these distinctions and considerations were not expressly addressed in the Convention 's negotiating process and so do not feature explicitly in its text . |
| 9 | Veronese 's ‘ Marriage at Cana ’ badly torn after the Louvre 's lengthy restoration |
| 10 | Running into the glade , she picked up Rosalind 's letter and folded it back into its envelope , which she saw to her dismay had been badly torn by the man 's rough handling of it . |
| 11 | An important repository for ions and electrons is a radiation belt which encircles a planet , in which charged particles are fairly effectively trapped by the planet 's magnetic field . |
| 12 | Indeed , he went so far as to say that Britain 's justice system had been badly bruised by the Government 's failure in this respect . |
| 13 | OSF says the Informix Wingz spreadsheet has been ported to its Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technology and was successfully installed on an IBM RS/6000 : a DEC Alpha version will follow . |
| 14 | It was as they left the café that Kelly noticed a Lamborghini , bearing the number plate FAY 1 , badly parked outside a chemist 's shop on the High Street . |
| 15 | Undoubtedly , the alkylated rosanilines ( eg Hofmann violent , 6 ) came out of this cooperation , and were duly added to the firm 's product list . |
| 16 | The problems of demobilization were greatly eased by the Servicemen 's Readjustment Act ( 1944 ) , better known as the GI 's Bill of Rights , whereby war veterans received extensive unemployment payments and educational opportunities . |
| 17 | The number of phrases that can be used is only limited by the computer 's memory . |
| 18 | This is an even more remarkable stabilisation than the one achieved in the Czech Republic , hitherto regarded as the region 's most successful stabiliser . |
| 19 | If only these ideas were pursued vigorously and with a vengeance morally justified by the offender 's wickedness , then ‘ our ’ society would be relatively crime-free and tranquil . |
| 20 | The engineers ' criticism focuses on the possible consequences of a gas build-up , which , they claim , had not been sufficiently considered by the dump 's designers , nuclear waste authority Nirex . |
| 21 | Ken Bowman was then democratically voted into the treasurer 's position . |
| 22 | Maan , with no agriculture , commerce or industry , is especially hard-hit by the country 's economic difficulties , including the halving of the value of the dinar , rising prices and more unemployment . |
| 23 | This irony was only accentuated by the refugees ' initial belief that their exile was to be brief , a few days perhaps , at most a month , after which — in the manner of other civilians who had abandoned their homes in the midst of battle — they would return to their houses and fields to resume the life which had been interrupted by war . |
| 24 | One of the elderly ministers in the delegation was so overwhelmed by the King 's kind promises that he burst into tears of joy and thanked His Majesty . |
| 25 | The fate of attempted reforms has only added to the north 's alienation , as Catholic bishops have time and again pulled Dublin 's politicians by the ear — ‘ a question ’ , as the senior archbishop put it earlier this month , ‘ of legislators respecting the moral convictions to which people adhere , and which are influenced by their membership of the church . ’ |
| 26 | He was to sire ten UK champions , a record only equalled by the Elsden 's other great stud dog , Ch. |
| 27 | Apart from the general fitness between what most would see as a hostile and acerbic tale and a bitter and unlovely character , one is constantly reminded of the Reeve 's provincial origins by his own dialect speech — in particular the occasional use of the Scandinavian-derived first person pronoun ik , " I " , against Chaucer 's standard ich — and by the northern speech of his two clerks , Alayn and John of Strother ( perhaps modelled on two northern characters known to the English court ) , which was yet further removed from the London standard of Chaucer 's day . |
| 28 | There have been numerous attempts to mitigate this evil , from non-compulsory science-for-arts and arts-for-scientists , to the uneasy introduction of AS levels , each worth half an A level , to be taken in a wide variety of different subjects , not necessarily related to the student 's main subjects . |
| 29 | In my view the transmitter is far better positioned on the ferret 's collar , though I acknowledge that some other people prefer for their own reasons to trail the transmitter on the line some twelve inches behind the ferret . |
| 30 | The inquest had heard that changes to the hot water system at the home where the boy died had been ordered five years ago , but that the work was only done AFTER the boy 's death . |