Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , the situation would be greatly eased if our political leaders were less addicted to secrecy . |
| 2 | The combination of spiritual , cultural , and economic influence at its disposal made the Russian Church in some ways better placed than its Western counterparts to resist the ambitions of the newly centralized State . |
| 3 | But Mackenzie was greatly missed as his devoted service to deaf people was universally acknowledged , and he was a man of great charm and Christian virtue who had many friends among the deaf community . |
| 4 | He became the road supervisor for his parish and oversaw the construction of a unique causeway road to Cardington ; the model cottages on his estate for industrious and sober tenants were much admired and his considerable energy and interest in education were put to good use locally . |
| 5 | But UUUC voters were not so persuaded and their first preference votes varied from 2,609 for McNarry ( Un ) to 11,958 for Craig ( VUPP ) . |
| 6 | Such a cleric has long recognised that his personal belief is not the same thing as historical evidence , and he has effected some kind of personal reconciliation between the two — a reconciliation which , to a greater or lesser degree , manages to accommodate both . |
| 7 | Her head was now so bent that her dark hair had swung forwards so as to obscure her expression . |
| 8 | The development of this northern suburb is better understood than its southern counterpart , because enough small-scale excavation has taken place to elaborate the information from the aerial photographs . |
| 9 | This is one of those English expressions so weathered that their emotional batteries are irretrievably flat but , from the lips of someone who spoke English with the cool precision of a fluent foreigner , the phrase was terribly affecting . |
| 10 | The work of writing an essay is greatly reduced if your preparatory stages are carried out thoroughly . |
| 11 | Faced with the prospect of a stream of disclosures as the general election approaches , Mr Gandhi 's advisers have apparently concluded that their best defence is also to attack the opposition with the corruption stick . |
| 12 | Until that day arrives the image of the BDA remains somewhat blurred although its paramount concern is and always will be the deaf community . |
| 13 | Seen from the road , the mountain is greatly foreshortened and its true proportions are best appreciated from a distance . |
| 14 | This keyword is only required when your relational database is ORACLE . |
| 15 | Rescalc 2.0 resistor calculator has been much improved since its original release . |
| 16 | Normally common sense and her instinct for self-protection , much sharpened since her disastrous relationship with Giles , would have outlawed such foolish thoughts before they even reached her conscious mind . |
| 17 | Editor George McHugh has just heard that his refulgent masterwork has been named the North-East 's best non-league programme , a point ahead of Northern League Chester-le-Street in the Wirral Programme Club 's annual survey . |
| 18 | She had already gathered that her new employer was extremely well connected and , as might be expected from a woman of her standing , required absolute discretion of her staff and the encouragement of her children in a properly modest attitude to the family 's privileged position . |
| 19 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 20 | The sacked Timex workforce have finally accepted that their nine month battle with the American corporation is over . |
| 21 | It did , nevertheless , develop a theology of marriage in which procreation was no longer seen as its sole purpose , but conjugal love was recognized as of equal importance , and this inevitably placed the issue of contraception in a somewhat different light . |
| 22 | I 'm aware that we are in very subjective territory here and I have already confessed where my own preferences lie , but I 'm not alone in my opinion that the 80R 's channel two falls short of the mark , because every one of us here has come away with the same opinion . |
| 23 | The bank 's accounts have just revealed that its intangible assets have shrunk alarmingly . |
| 24 | It 's not felt that your private life in terms of your political opinions will necessarily impinge on your public life , and , and to deprive somebody of the right to express their opinions in public would be regarded as an infringement of his civil liberties , which would be unthinkable in a republican erm situation . |
| 25 | The car had been washed but not valeted and its general condition suggested that the 58,160 mileage was genuine — something that the decidedly patchy service history was unable to confirm ( the vehicle arrived at Ritchie Motors without a service book ) . |
| 26 | The character of the building is also best preserved when its original fabric or ornament is conserved , not altered , removed or replaced . |
| 27 | ‘ Their own evidence conclusively demonstrated that their main object was to make sure that the plaintiffs , whom they described as their ‘ core ’ customers , did indeed take delivery on July 25 , in order to encourage their other reluctant customers to follow suit . ‘ |
| 28 | This one had not bloomed and its flat spread of leaves was almost hidden under the long grass . |
| 29 | The 12-member SNC , composed of members of all four Cambodian factions , had not convened since its inaugural meeting in Bangkok in September [ see p. 37712 ] . |
| 30 | But this also explains why the music of the counterculture could be so easily co-opted and its radical implications defused . |