Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone .
2 On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom .
3 The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole .
4 Activists are illegally dismissed , strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed .
5 The control panel is discreetly tucked away on the front and is totally invisible when the spa is in use .
6 A small friendly old pub pleasantly furnished and discreetly tucked away behind The Scotsman office .
7 The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh .
8 And he cited two papers , co-authored by Derek Bryce-Smith , professor of organic chemistry at the University of Reading , as being the result of ‘ individual scientists who have got rather carried away in a flush of enthusiasm . ’
9 The other end of the rainbow was presumably curled up inside the cloud .
10 She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole .
11 This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees .
12 Left and Right differed only on the nature of this conflict .
13 Wage inflation may well be the consequence of excess demand in the labour market , but it is also the means by which excess demand is eventually squeezed out of the system .
14 Most previous research , predominantly carried out in the USA , focuses on single aspects of the promotion process such as appraisal systems , psychological tests , career development systems , plateauing and sponsor-protege relationships .
15 However , not merely was there a conflict of medical evidence , but even Dr. D. , upon whose opinion Thorpe J. eventually based his decision , described W. as having ‘ a mild case of anorexia nervosa ’ and that although he ( Dr. D. ) had eventually come round to the view that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit , the decision was quite finely balanced .
16 As this review of change in Europe and the USA has shown , there were a number of important experiments in the 1940s and 1950s which , coincident with the development of mood-stabilizing drugs , suggested that a significant number of long-term patients could be successfully boarded out in the community .
17 She has since toured extensively in the USA and parts of Europe , but has made very few appearances in these islands .
18 This in effect meant that PFF actually did 45 sorties , but please to remember that few Pathfinder aircrew elected to opt out at the 45 mark and most carried on to the magic 60 , And further take note that over 100 PFF aircrew managed the ton ( 100 sorties ) .
19 Cutting was mostly carried out with a scythe although a few were able to hire machinery for the purpose .
20 Opposition critics claimed that since the practice of making people " disappear " was mostly carried out by the military , the new law effectively granted it immunity from future prosecution and the power to abduct anyone with impunity .
21 The mitre template has since come back onto the market , but at prices like £18-£20 and considering the relatively small amount of work in which it is employed , some readers will no doubt feel that they could spend that money more profitably , so will want to make their own .
22 The cost of choice for the majority is the absence of choice for the minority who will never afford to buy , … ‘ the Right to Buy ’ and growth of owner-occupation are effectively carried out on the backs of poor people .
23 The intrusiveness of attitudes like these is registered in Anne Bronte 's Agnes Grey ( 1847 ) , when the poor widow , Nancy Brown , feels badly caught out in a moment of negligence :
24 If this process was properly carried out as a matter of public law , then the consequential private law right of the plaintiff was simply a right to the accommodation which the council had decided to be suitable .
25 Dummies have since caught on as a fashion accessory at raves , but whether the trend was sparked by the emergence of Ketamine , or whether it 's just a way to keep the burning under control , is lost to myth and drug folklore .
26 A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture .
27 In each case there can be no doubt that the advantages offered by the trust over the civil-law method were significant : performance in specie was a real possibility in each case ; that this was so depended entirely on the fact that trusts were subject to a different procedural order .
28 He decided then and there to take the carrion off her and have it back for himself and so leaned out into the void and tilted into the wind towards her far below .
29 He 'd be lucky if he was merely broken back into the Scouts for ten or twenty years .
30 Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works .
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