Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [conj] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that flat-dwelling in the public sector has become a relatively stigmatised form of housing in this country means that women dependent on public sector housing are caught in a design ‘ Catch 22 ’ : deviance is punished with badly designed and poorly maintained housing ; conformity is rewarded with better standard living conditions that nevertheless tend to reproduce patriarchal power relations . |
| 2 | Hence the long , much altered and much discussed passage beginning already mentioned on p. 85 ; and the ‘ spots of time ’ meditation to be discussed on pp. 134–9 — which is at the heart of Wordsworth 's concern with the use of the past , this too is already present in the first Part of the 1798–9 version , before being moved to its present position in the longer texts . |
| 3 | It was a greatly respected and slightly feared publication , dealing in hard fact , abrasive as Maggie herself was abrasive . |
| 4 | Two adjacent tracks begin with almost identical motifs and in the same key ( tracks 16 & 17 ) , and it might have been better to place another work between them ; however , this is a small criticism of a thoughtfully prepared and magnificently played programme . |
| 5 | London , the greatest market of all , was well enough supplied and mostly escaped food rioting , but its reach was vast . |
| 6 | It was in the great middle classes that sexuality , albeit in a morally restricted and sharply defined form , first became of major ideological significance . |
| 7 | We can now address ourselves to that much discussed but much misunderstood phenomenon of British.imperial thinking in the early decades of the twentieth century , the glorification of ‘ Indirect Rule ’ and its elevation into an official doctrine of imperial administration . |
| 8 | Allied with Francis Bacon 's proposal that a properly organized and properly conducted science could increase the power of the English state was his observation that a new vitality in the sciences had coincided with the Protestant Reformation : This was , of course , a Protestant view of the matter . |
| 9 | As with most work which boldly centres on the male sexual organ , these photographs seek to reveal the normally hidden and often denied vulnerability of the male physique . |
| 10 | … ( 6 ) In this section ‘ costs ’ means costs as between party and party , and includes the costs of applying for an order under this section ; and where a party begins to receive representation after the proceedings have been instituted , or ceases to receive representation before they are finally decided or otherwise receives representation in connection with part only of the proceedings , the reference in subsection ( 2 ) above to the costs incurred by the unassisted party in the proceedings shall be construed as a reference to so much of those costs as is attributable to that part . |
| 11 | National training in basic interviewing skills to be given to all police officers — this recognises the central role that confessions play in the police investigative strategy and the need to train officers out of the use of the ‘ persuasive techniques ’ , witnessed by the Commission 's researchers , which run the risk of producing unreliable evidence , in favour of a more open minded and even handed approach . |
| 12 | In other words it denoted the duly consecrated and divinely endorsed king . |
| 13 | Although the reduced percentage of aneuploid tumours can be interpreted as a local response to radiotherapy the missing effect on survival points to the fact that oesophageal cancer is often diagnosed at a locally advanced or even disseminated stage . |
| 14 | However , his deeply felt and meticulously researched rhetoric conveyed in all his books is hard hitting , provocative and sagacious . |
| 15 | As I told the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus and the ‘ Sporting Mauve ’ , the game went precisely to plan , yet they claimed we were totally outplayed and only secured victory because by the last quarter the ‘ five Chamden heroes ’ were completely knackered . |
| 16 | The long and complex story is brilliantly told by a relay team of scholars assembled by the Antique Collectors ' Club for this handsomely produced and prodigally illustrated book . |
| 17 | The information contained in such sources is not used in the same way as that in a formally refereed and conventionally published journal article , and citations of such sources may be omitted . |
| 18 | Jean Jacques Rousseau published his theory of education , Émile , in 1762 and — although Voltaire ( Morrish , p.85 ) dismissed it as a ‘ hodge podge of silly wet nurse in four parts ’ — it is still read and still has influence today . |
| 19 | Beethoven 's Choral Fantasia is recycled ( see above ) to take up over a quarter of the disc , but overall this provides an imaginatively chosen and well produced kaleidoscope of choral favourites which will give a great deal of pleasure . |
| 20 | The often surprising results of the January Old Master drawing sales in New York revealed that it is just as easy to overspend on a drawing as it is on a painting , and conversely , that despite high prices for a few grand names , drawings still remain a little understood and modestly priced field . |
| 21 | This contrast between former ‘ O ’ level practice of almost exclusively externally examined work , and the new emphasis upon internally assessed and externally moderated work in the GCSE is further highlighted in this same teacher 's remarks about the ‘ A ’ level examination in art : |
| 22 | Primatologist Hans Kummer , professor at the University of Zurich , confesses that , while anyone who knows monkeys is aware that ‘ a single social act such as a scream may serve widely different goals … we have not usually had the courage to face the task of differentiating , but dutifully entered the act into our record sheet as what it clearly was : a carefully defined and carefully counted scream . |
| 23 | As far as the primary phase of schooling was concerned , the plan of development favoured the same activities as were listed in A Framework for the School Curriculum , except that more attention was devoted to history and geography , to expressive arts , and to science , and to the need for clearly structured and progressively demanding work in these areas of the curriculum . |
| 24 | Although the contralateral impairment observed with simultaneous digit presentation to the two ears was found after both left and right sided lobectomy , the overall efficiency of recall was much higher for the right temporal group of patients . |
| 25 | in the heat , once it 's cooled down you 'll get the familiar appearance of a glossy surface of pottery , with the oxide having also fired and sometimes changed colour and that 's your colour underneath , on your base a layer of colour and then a plastic surface right if I talk about glaze , erm vitrify does , did anybody understand that ? |
| 26 | The child at whatever age needs stimulation and assessment , competition against self and against others in a carefully constructed and sensitively handled framework . |
| 27 | Very simply by giving the remedy to a group of healthy people in a carefully controlled and closely monitored fashion . |
| 28 | Despite being a little known and often misunderstood technique , silverpoint is still in use by contemporary artists and some specialist suppliers in the UK offer silverpoints and prepared paper . |
| 29 | It still niggled me a bit that he could return to a centrally heated and solidly built barrack block , while the girls shivered in their huts . |
| 30 | Pilcher was severely injured and never regained consciousness ; he died two days later , 2 October 1899 , at Stanford Hall . |