Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Social class becomes significant when we realise that patterns of recruitment are not distributed randomly from all social strata : managerial and education , motivation , and personality variables , but this is not so significant that social background can be altogether dismissed as a relevant factor in work behaviour .
2 And he urged a new emphasis on the victims , saying they were badly treated under the present system .
3 It , too , split with the Roman orthodoxy and eventually coalesced into the Coptic Church .
4 After asking for help from passers-by , they were eventually pointed in the right direction .
5 Among these were many of those most favoured in the ancient world , including agate , carnelian , jasper , lapis lazuli , sard and turquoise .
6 If the money is available fitted carpets are a good investment , particularly those that are patterned in a mid-shade of the colour most favoured by the elderly person , as this will not show either marks or dust so much as a plain light- or dark-coloured carpet does .
7 The US Magellan spacecraft launched in May 1989 [ see p. 36674 ] was successfully placed in an elliptical orbit around the planet Venus on Aug. 10 .
8 Joint-ill should be vigorously treated with a prolonged course of broad spectrum antibiotics and often flushing out of the affected joints with sterile saline , under deep sedation .
9 Shown here is the Queen Mother looking at the display relating to Frank Griffiths , the sole survivor of a Halifax that was shot down on a supply mission , and who was successfully hidden by the local Resistance .
10 They came back on the Northern Line , a tall handsome man in a long overcoat and a man whose face was mostly hidden by an upturned collar and a hat pulled well down .
11 A new mood of optimism prevails at Grace Road , where fundraising has been successfully completed for an indoor cricket school , building work on which will start in September .
12 At one end is the minimalist approach , which postulates that the narrower the field the greater the likelihood that the project will be successfully completed within a reasonable time .
13 AS the self-proclaimed party of law and order the Tories appear to have the most to lose in the emotive debate on escalating crime .
14 As a significant movement of popular protest over sex purity marked a successful assault on the authority of male professionals , thereby drawing into the political arena groups hitherto denied access or without a voice .
15 One can rarely dip into a Pollini recording as a series of edited highlights ( except perhaps as a demonstration of superlative digital execution ) , as he rarely ever plays ‘ for the moment ’ ; one is irresistibly drawn towards hearing the whole work , as only then does the integrity of his vision register with its fullest potency .
16 Terry McLaughlin , the deputy editor of the Irish News , said some of the material shown to him was marked ‘ top secret ’ , the highest security classification , and went beyond the type of photo-montage material that has been widely leaked over the past month .
17 More generally , although civil contempt is not properly regarded as a criminal offence .
18 The mid seems a little biased towards the upper part of the frequency band and at low level that also adds bite to the top end , creating a good , solid midrange tone .
19 Standing on the rim of Ngorongoro Crater , I watched the pastel purple of the Tanzanian dawn slowly change to a golden red .
20 A polymer in very dilute solution can be effectively regarded as an isolated chain whose shape is governed by short and long range inter- and intra-molecular interactions .
21 The debt at the end of the American war had been sixteen to seventeen times the revenue , and prophets of doom were widely heard amid the financial gloom .
22 He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people .
23 Two prose characters for whom sympathy has wholly evaporated by the final scene are Parolles ( All 's Well ) and Lucio ( Measure for Measure ) .
24 MR Lamont is not widely regarded as a great Chancellor .
25 The decision of the House of Lords in R v. Greater London Council ex parte Bromley London Borough Council ( 1981 ) , confirming that of the Court of Appeal , has been widely regarded as a political decision , no doubt because it gave a ruling in an acutely political controversy .
26 During his 12 years in the post Späth had consolidated Baden-Württemberg 's reputation as a prosperous state and he had been widely regarded as a possible successor to Kohl .
27 The assembly also elected three party vice-presidents , namely : ( i ) incumbent vice-president Anwar Ibrahim , the Education Minister widely regarded as a future party leader ; ( ii ) incumbent vice-president , former Defence Minister and Anwar 's long-time rival Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ; and ( iii ) Agriculture Minister Sanusi Junid .
28 Nevertheless , Muoi was widely regarded as a cautious leader who would be unlikely to speed up the pace of reform .
29 In what was widely regarded as a defiant challenge to President Mobutu Sese Seko , on Aug. 15 delegates to the national conference elected as Prime Minister Etienne Tshisekedi , leader of the opposition Democratic Union for Social Progress ( UDPS ) .
30 The elections were widely regarded as a major setback for the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT ) and for President Lee .
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