Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radio Renacena is the most widely listened to station in Portugal . |
| 2 | The extent of the revolution is most strikingly illustrated by comparison of Giovanni Gabrieli 's two settings of ‘ O Jesu mi dulcissime ’ : in his First Book of Sacrae Symphoniae ( 1597 ) and in his Second Book ( posthumously published in 1615 ) . |
| 3 | In conclusion I wish to emphasise that if this appeal is allowed the House will not thereby have chosen to re-establish in relation to a limited class of offence an inquisitorial method of ascertaining the truth in criminal cases which English law has long since repudiated in favour of an adversarial process . |
| 4 | Now this yarn had long since passed into history of ancient Highland folklore , and the WAAFs and airmen could have lived happily ever after . |
| 5 | I sat on a log among the shadows of creatures now extinct and others long since departed for pasture in the south . |
| 6 | Zinc ( 13 µM ) in gastric juice has not been measured previously , but most zinc is only weakly bound to albumin in plasma and this probably explains why the zinc concentrations in gastric juice are higher relative to copper . |
| 7 | Plaintiffs ' solicitors should remember that the range of claimants was extended by the decision of the House of Lords in McLoughlin v O'Brian [ 1982 ] 2 All ER 298 to include , in that case , a wife and mother who suffered nervous shock on seeing her husband and children apparently badly injured in hospital after an accident and learning that one child had died . |
| 8 | Ally Donaldson , to his credit , gave the impression of being grimly determined to answer those who say he does n't tackle but he was not the naturally punitive defender who was so badly needed in view of the back row 's shortcomings . |
| 9 | The examples given in Table 6.1 refer to the kind of experience well within the capacity potentially of everyone , and may be so much accepted as part of everyday life as to go unnoticed . |
| 10 | This is perhaps best illustrated with reference to earthquakes . |
| 11 | Just how great the change has been is perhaps best illustrated by reference to the number of daily commuters into London . |
| 12 | Among many demonstrators , with their calls for ‘ Freedom ! ’ and ‘ We stay here ! ’ , there remains an attachment to some aspects of life in East Germany : perhaps best described as socialism with a very small s . |
| 13 | Above the rambling parkland belonging to Randall Lodge was an area which had once been a rigidly formal garden , but was now only just kept in check by two elderly men . |
| 14 | Jackie had a nasty puncture in practice on the 150-m.p.h. straight and though he was not injured , his Matra was only just repaired in time for the race . |
| 15 | Balor had never been so rudely awoken from slumber in his life . |
| 16 | It should be self-evident , therefore , that where individual behaviour can be so extensively influenced by conformity to the standards of the social groups that make up our community and its social strata , then there will be major implications for the marketer . |
| 17 | As to 1 , the court took a rule of liability which had been more or less clearly perceived in connection with the escape of fire , cattle or unruly beasts , and extended it to the escape of mischievous things generally . |
| 18 | Indeed there have been several cases in the press recently of 10- or 11-year-olds being so severely beaten for under-achievement at school that they died . |
| 19 | For a librarian to ‘ screen ’ stock in this way is usually seen as standard library procedure in a library for children , but is less often accepted in relation to adult reading . |
| 20 | A general textbook on the law of tort is no place for an extended discussion of the specialised law relating to trade disputes but those disputes have provided most of the ‘ raw material ’ for the development of the common law and their legal regulation has been so substantially modified by statute since 1906 that some account of the legislative intervention is necessary . |
| 21 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |
| 22 | Talk of the sensual , the erotic , was so often seen in relation to the female body . |
| 23 | This is an important issue which needs addressing given that commissioning authorities are not particularly accountable to the public and that an increasing proportion of purchasing power has devolved to general practitioner fundholders , who are not necessarily geographically distributed in proportion to need . |
| 24 | The rest had been so well prepared for work by their previous sixteen years of socialisation that they found few problems . |
| 25 | I still occasional refer to these especially when I need a ‘ refresher ’ so well expressed by Veal in his unique manner . |
| 26 | From top to bottom this was a society , which as David Ganz has so well observed in connection with the predestination controversy , ‘ was all too aware of its sins , all too uncertain of their forgiveness ’ . |
| 27 | There are many species of ‘ flying ’ squirrels , but none of these is so well equipped for flight as the colugo , their gliding membranes being not nearly so extensive . |
| 28 | So well organised in support of their pay were the highly skilled journeymen calico printers in the late eighteenth century that even before the advent of machine printing de-skilled them , some employers turned to alternative methods of patterning cloths which used cheaper female and child labour . |
| 29 | The horns , though they properly belong to the brass group , are so frequently used as part of the woodwind ensemble that we feel bound to include them in our consideration of this orchestral group . |
| 30 | ’ Tom , therefore , had to pass through various stages of purification , in which water is the essential element , before he can be reunited in heaven with Ellie , the well-brought-up little girl , into those bedroom in Harthover House he had so unceremoniously descended by way of the chimney . |