Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |
| 2 | Eventually Helen spotted a reception desk , discreetly tucked away behind a large weeping fig ; they advanced across wastes of polished marble and were directed to a lift . |
| 3 | Flotation has become properly developed only in the past 30 years : it was certainly not available to the ‘ old men ’ who ran the mines last century . |
| 4 | The child 's face remained frozen at the window and was slowly carried sideways down the wooden platform . |
| 5 | Tending to follow market values , heriots might form realistic death duties , but other seigneurial perquisites , such as profits of the court , rarely added much to the total income . |
| 6 | More generally , it remains true that the severity of the Monopolies Commission 's findings mean that the board is necessarily placed somewhat on the defensive about its investment appraisals , and will find all its investment assumptions scrutinised with some suspicion . |
| 7 | She did n't move ; only pressed tighter against the far wall of the cabin . |
| 8 | Such ensembles were not merely gathered together for the occasional ballet ; there were , in fact , three standing oboe bands at court , or , more accurately , three ensembles whose members played the oboe much of the time . |
| 9 | North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary has revealed that nearly a thousand cancer patients have been wrongly treated there in the past nine years . |
| 10 | What does it mean when rape and sexual violence are no longer quite so hidden away from the public view ? |
| 11 | Right number ten , name the two fences which are only jumped once in the Grand National . |
| 12 | ‘ Yeah , we 'll take you up on that , Dave , ’ Graham said then suddenly looked despairingly at the sealed container . |
| 13 | In the late 1960s and early 1970s the activities of the CNAA were obviously related closely to the complex developments of the polytechnics . |
| 14 | The control check is often better done initially before the vital actions , perhaps even before getting into the cockpit , when the control surfaces can be seen more easily . |
| 15 | Back foot is the last into the footstraps and is only used there in a strong wind ( Force 4 & plus ) |
| 16 | There was blood on the ground from the exit wound which had not been entirely washed away by the overnight rain . |
| 17 | Most of the Pyrenean breeds , originally bred for work and naturally found also on the southern slopes with spanish breeds , are now rare . |
| 18 | Although the Australians , who had a magnificent second half , only pulled away to a resounding victory in the last ten minutes , the harsh truth is that the Boks never looked like scoring . |
| 19 | These variables are only known locally to the defining procedure or function . |
| 20 | The reader who has access to the copyright libraries — which in Britain are the British Library Reference Division ( better known still as the British Museum Library ) , the national libraries of Scotland and Wales and the university libraries of Oxford , Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin — can gain access to practically everything published in the UK since these libraries receive ‘ copyright ’ copies of all books , journals and most pamphlets and research reports . |
| 21 | The number of applications for judicial review has none the less increased significantly over the past decade . |
| 22 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 23 | The decision was apparently taken unilaterally by the Nigerian authorities , and appeared to reflect on Quainoo 's handling of the command , particularly the incident which led to the killing of Doe . |
| 24 | Anyone whose experience of Liszt does n't extend much beyond the odd Hungarian Rhapsody , paraphrase , Liebesträum , and les Prèludes will , I imagine , be somewhat taken aback by the relative harmonic conservatism , and unadorned purity of style . |
| 25 | Connelly 's haunting , purposeful vocals seep out of the cut at strange angles , spoken rather than sung , whilst the melody is bolstered by seductive female whispers that gently flit past , all knotted together over a boomy bass laden communication . |
| 26 | Billy , who was now contentedly stretched out in the sidecar with his eyes closed , was suddenly thrown hard against the right hand side of the aluminium box . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've spent a lot of money on you , ' ’ they told the animal ‘ 'why are n't you performing ? ' ’ ''Ah , ’ replied the bull , ‘ 'I was only sent here in an advisory capacity . ' ’ |
| 28 | The idea that information should be hidden from or denied to parents , as apparently advocated today by the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) and the Labour party , is amazing . |
| 29 | The pro-Stuart exiles were greatly strengthened early in the new reign by the arrival of two formerly powerful new allies . |
| 30 | The rendering of figures in action had been developed in pedimental sculpture , and perhaps extended occasionally to an independent group in the later sixth century : a fine marble torso from the Acropolis , under life-size , These us fighting one of his opponents , seems not to be from a pediment . |