Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wynne-Jones eventually succeeded in starting a small fire . |
| 2 | The government eventually responded by imposing a new tax on the Syrian and Turkish trucks . |
| 3 | With enormous gains in the white-collar suburbs , Labour became the party of bureaucrats , administrators and a progressive intelligentsia , all predisposed to seeing a greater share of public control over an increasing range of national affairs . |
| 4 | Wright , attempting to clear a cross , only succeeded in sending a powerful header from 15 yards past a startled David James in the 68th minute . |
| 5 | It 's always been a Dark Force , and you 've only succeeded in harnessing a minuscule aspect of it . |
| 6 | For words which occur frequently in searches , this may be better done by using a thesaurus-like structure , prepared using a ranked list of words actually used in searches , with their contexts . |
| 7 | We have all talked about finding a fair local government taxation system . |
| 8 | So used to having a great big thing , I am . |
| 9 | The prolonged procedure of appeal which the parents are entitled to embark upon in such circumstances can consume time and energy that would be better used in effecting a workable solution to placement problems . |
| 10 | " At first , " John went on , obviously bent on making a clean breast of everything , " at first when I tell him you a whore , he do n't believe me , so I got to make him believe . |
| 11 | If the overall effect is to increase profit but not volume the resources may be better utilized in creating a new product . |
| 12 | If the overall effect is to increase profit but not volume the resources may be better utilized in creating a new product . |
| 13 | Money could be better spent on introducing a third coach on a two-car Sprinter for luggage , bikes , parcels and prams , etc . |
| 14 | Moreover , to those women long accustomed to playing a complementary role to their husbands in running a family business , the idea of natural sexual differences appeared both sensible and acceptable . |
| 15 | She pulled the door open , suddenly terrified of finding a solemn-faced policeman standing there , come to give her some terrible news . |
| 16 | This problem was entirely eliminated by adding a suitable R/C suppressor between the Light Unit and the Timer . |
| 17 | Tabai , who had been President since independence , was constitutionally prohibited for serving a further term in office . |
| 18 | Tabai , who had been President since independence , was constitutionally prohibited for serving a further term in office . |
| 19 | Offwood 's religious activism gave him a widespread reputation as a leading layman in Amsterdam 's English religious community , and he was widely suspected of playing a key role in the production of many other Nonconformist religious tracts . |
| 20 | Emissions from BS 's Teesside works and ICI Wilton are widely suspected of having a detrimental effect on health . |
| 21 | It is not that children of high intelligence are somehow debarred from having a rich and satisfying school life . |
| 22 | And the University of Tokyo has already succeeded in developing a practical self-repairing photocopier — good news for anyone who is frequently frustrated in their attempts to use one . |
| 23 | Although the Mulroney government had generally succeeded in maintaining a tight rein on federal spending , the country 's budget deficit had remained stubbornly high at around Can . |
| 24 | Braverman quotes the editorial of a 1918 edition of the International Molders Journal , noting that ‘ A half-century of commentary on scientific management has not succeeded in producing a better formulation of the matter ’ ( Braverman 1974 , 136 ) : |
| 25 | I have not succeeded in finding a clear-cut English instance [ excluding Swift ] in which a satirist , on an economic issue , was attacking a social group clearly higher than the one he belonged to or had been hired to serve . |
| 26 | On Jan. 21 Ghozali said that he had evidence of Iranian interference in Algerian affairs which " was not confined to making a financial contribution " . |
| 27 | The upper class in Western societies have normally succeeded in maintaining a high degree of social closure , and show very distinct values and patterns of behaviour . |
| 28 | We welcome people from every party , it does n't really matter which party , or even if they belong to no party , who are just committed to seeing a representative representation , seeing more women in there , because women in this country , just as a matter of fact , have a rather different experience from most men , and if you 're making a decision then you want there the people who have had a wide range of experience , who can bring that experience to bear on making the decision . |
| 29 | Then his face contorted in pain , and she knew instinctively with infinite relief that it was the face of a man reluctantly denying himself the sexual release he patently craved by wielding a superhuman control . |
| 30 | Previous reports had suggested that such subgroups of patients did well in terms of survival in the short and medium term after transplantation , assuming that the development of renal failure requiring dialysis had not occurred before receiving a suitable organ , and quality of life has been shown to increase in absolute terms after such a procedure . |