Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is Tom Courtenay , the programme says so , but beneath a straggly white wig , black beret and tattered frock coat with trousers surely cast off by Cyril Smith and insecurely fastened by an army of safety pins , it is difficult to recognise him . |
| 2 | The move was widely regarded as an expression of his increasing dissatisfaction with the Labour Party , with which his Yahad party had merged in 1986 [ see p. 34770 ] . |
| 3 | Many similar examples can be found around the world , but in Britain there is substantial historical evidence which suggests that sharing with relatives outside the nuclear family in adult life has never been widely regarded as an ideal to be aimed for ( see chapter 2 ) . |
| 4 | Local government , however , is also widely regarded as an instrument of democratic self-government . |
| 5 | The move , described as " a balancing act " , was widely regarded as an attempt by the government both to pacify religious fundamentalists critical of recent changes in its policy towards Afghanistan [ see pp. 38725-26 ] , and to secure closer co-operation from the ISI . |
| 6 | In short , even a genuinely mulitilateral world system effectively dominated by an oligarchy of the important states , such as was envisaged in the Security Council as originally set up , would not be an international system in which most nations and nation-states played a significant role . |
| 7 | What we find in Guerrillas is a narrative of unfailing fascination which delivers to the senses of the reader a country very like the countries he knows in the real world : equally , his experience of that country is very like his experience of Naipaul 's India , in being rarely subdued by an awareness of the writer 's more deliberate meanings . |
| 8 | I mentioned in my last letter to Fiona that Lord Lovat had been badly wounded during an attack on the enemy positions on the evening of 12th June . |
| 9 | At that time there was a war raging in Europe , and the next year he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front and was badly wounded during an attack by the enemy army . |
| 10 | These ‘ signatures ’ were mostly added by an employee of Kahnweiler 's when they reached his gallery ; this was usually , though clearly not always , within a few weeks of being painted . |
| 11 | The training was not very comprehensive and was really only intended as an introduction to the cutters , but we all enjoyed ourselves as I recall , although a few of us with previous experience considered ourselves as veterans . |
| 12 | The argument only turns into an argument about understanding if we take a special view about understanding , as mentioned earlier . |
| 13 | The neighbouring city of Napier was entirely rebuilt after an earthquake in 1931 and this is not only a feature of the museum but many of the buildings are still in the style of the period , Art Deco . |
| 14 | She only changed from an ultra-leftist to an ultra-rightist . |
| 15 | At this stage he is thinking of something comparable with the Advanced Sea Kayak Club , perhaps operating as an offshoot of the Open Canoe Association of Great Britain in parallel with the Open Canoe Sailing Group . |
| 16 | It provides the framework for an interpretation of action but the full story is only revealed by an examination of the rules which direct action and which provide for the interpretation of situations . |
| 17 | Effective rule of any kingdom necessarily depends on an understanding of its particular characteristics . |
| 18 | This approach will not only result in an appreciation of the literary merits , but also foster an understanding of stagecraft . |
| 19 | Staff and students sat down together to engage in an exercise in creative thought . |
| 20 | He had most of the presents and all the adults to himself , and it only came to an end for him when he was very sick late in the morning , but whether from too much excitement or too many sweets , nobody could tell . |
| 21 | The miners ' action , based on demands for higher wages , better conditions and changes in the national political leadership , only came to an end on May 10 when a decree was issued transferring the control of the mines in the Russian Federation to the RFSFR government [ see p. 38204 ] . |
| 22 | It should be noted that an agreed change will not necessarily result in an alteration to computer programs . |
| 23 | In the 1920s America had witnessed some of the problems of the modern world that was emerging after the First World War ; the confusions and uncertainties that revealed themselves became more acute as prosperity suddenly came to an end in 1929 . |
| 24 | His examples include [ 11 ] , which is not so obviously related to an apposition of phrases : If [ 11 ] is an example of apposition , then the assumption that cases of loose apposition are reductions of non-restrictive or appositive relative clauses can not be maintained . |
| 25 | It is no real objection to Bentham that we can only look for an approximation to the truth about these matters of pleasure and pain . |
| 26 | Because capitalism is the servant of technology , and technology dictates the scale of modern life , so capitalism is being inexorably transformed into an economy of planning . |
| 27 | Fired off in rapid succession questions merely sound like an inquisition with the result that you will be creating anxiety , not ideas . |
| 28 | Stockman , Regan and the president all made it clear that compromise was not on offer — a position that Jones rightly interpreted as an assault on congressional prerogatives . |
| 29 | Where the seller is successful in adding his additional clause , the guarantee obviously acts as an exclusion of liability . |
| 30 | The possibility that the generalist advice worker would become less valued through an increase in specialists has not been borne out in practice . |