Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wimpey joined forces with Taylor Woodrow and Amec to form the Kuwaiti British Fire Group and the consortium successfully completed a major contract for damage assessment and subsequent refurbishment of two oil fields . |
| 2 | WEST HAM have paid £225,000 for Partizan Belgrade central defender Budimir Vujacic after the central defender successfully completed a ten-day trial at Upton Park . |
| 3 | The US space shuttle Columbia successfully completed a 14-day flight on July 9 , the longest ever by a space shuttle crew , during which the prolonged effects of weightlessness on the human body were further studied . |
| 4 | All these factors are increasing the complexity of the work of further education teachers of whom , at present , under half of the full-time staff , and even fewer of the part-timers , are trained in the sense that they have successfully completed a full programme of professional teacher training leading to qualified teacher status . |
| 5 | They have since developed a wide range of contacts and membership to the group is now by election . |
| 6 | I have since received a further letter from on his return from hospital , following his fourth heart attack . |
| 7 | During his first term , Reagan and his staff eventually developed a better appreciation of the merits and responsibilities of legislators and came to realize that the making of policy required the executive branch to ‘ bargain with , cajole and otherwise court the legislative branch ’ . |
| 8 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
| 9 | Bush 's announcement effectively lifted a 10-year ban on US arms sales to Taiwan , in place since the signing of a 1982 Sino-US communiqué stating that US arms sales to Taiwan " will not exceed either in qualitative or quantitative terms the level of those supplied in recent years … |
| 10 | He has successfully rescued a whole series of major houses , without a penny of historic buildings grants , by adapting them as self-contained houses and cottages . |
| 11 | They 've mostly enjoyed a high standard of living and voted conservative . |
| 12 | He was widely considered a strong supporter of further European integration . |
| 13 | The remaining chromosome 5 appeared normal but presumably contained a submicroscopic microdeletion in a subpopulation of cells . |
| 14 | Davies ( 1979 and 1981 ) , in a study of Wandsworth , describes how a small number of newly elected backbench councillors in the controlling Labour group crucially developed a whole range of new planning and industrial policies . |
| 15 | ‘ They 've not only developed a great understanding on the pitch . |
| 16 | We had recently finished with the Douglas car company but wanted to keep the series topical and so developed a new setting in which our hero uses his amoral cunning to preserve part of Britain 's disappearing heritage ’ . |
| 17 | Although his jarred shoulder is improving , and he has been named in the side for Saturday , he is still only given a 50–50 chance of playing . |
| 18 | We 've all heard a great deal about you ! ’ |
| 19 | One man 's father told coastguards that normally the group only travelled a few miles along the coast on the speedboat trips . |
| 20 | ICI claimed this was not harmful to residents in the area and they had only received a small number of complaints from people who had inhaled the gas . |
| 21 | Much more important than the Duchy was the royal household , whose financial institutions , the Chamber and the Wardrobe , not only consumed a large part of the Crown 's income but also assisted , from time to time , in national government . |
| 22 | The mention of Seville had only aroused a small murmur of protest in her left ventricle , and that was an improvement on a few months back when open heart surgery had seemed the only cure for her suffering . |
| 23 | This book is intended as a concise account of the principles of peptide chemistry for upper-level undergraduates studying chemistry and biochemistry and the author has obviously given a great deal of thought to the needs of his readers . |
| 24 | That morning they went to a travel agent in the Unter den Linden to buy tickets , having only booked a single journey from London . |
| 25 | But these countries have long enjoyed a thriving trade with cattle farmers in the Sahel — Mali , Burkina Faso , Niger , Chad — directly to the north . |
| 26 | Edinburgh has long enjoyed a considerable reputation for the study of Criminology and the Philosophy of Law . |
| 27 | Guy had obviously carried a small bag of grain in his pack and had left some with the animal . |
| 28 | For the moment the protestors have only won a temporary stay of execution . |
| 29 | Her importance as a future Queen Consort naturally attracted a great deal of attention in 1980 and through to that summer of 1981 . |
| 30 | ABS Computers Ltd , formerly the Allied Business Systems small business computer manufacturer , has long looked a vestigial part of the Trafalgar House Plc empire , too small to turn up in the annual report , and giving the impression that top management was unaware of its existence . |