Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [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 | Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) . |
3 | And he urged a new emphasis on the victims , saying they were badly treated under the present system . |
4 | It , too , split with the Roman orthodoxy and eventually coalesced into the Coptic Church . |
5 | After asking for help from passers-by , they were eventually pointed in the right direction . |
6 | Among these were many of those most favoured in the ancient world , including agate , carnelian , jasper , lapis lazuli , sard and turquoise . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | More generally , although civil contempt is not properly regarded as a criminal offence . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | The mayorazgos had been bitterly criticized since the sixteenth century for encouraging laziness as well as being an injustice to younger children . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Provided the springboard doctrine is sensibly applied and injunctions granted only in the clearest of cases so that the recipient of the information is not effectively placed in a worse position than if he had not received it , the interests of both the supplier of the information and the recipient can be satisfied . |
21 | Two prose characters for whom sympathy has wholly evaporated by the final scene are Parolles ( All 's Well ) and Lucio ( Measure for Measure ) . |
22 | MR Lamont is not widely regarded as a great Chancellor . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Nevertheless , Muoi was widely regarded as a cautious leader who would be unlikely to speed up the pace of reform . |
27 | 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 ) . |
28 | The elections were widely regarded as a major setback for the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT ) and for President Lee . |
29 | Widely regarded as a principal rival and potential successor to Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhaven , Chaovalit had given little indication of his likely response to the Cabinet invitation which had been made after he announced his intention to retire early from the Army command [ see also p. 37188 ] . |
30 | The four Cambodian factions represented on the all-party Supreme National Council ( SNC ) had met in Beijing , the Chinese capital , on Nov. 7-8 in what was widely regarded as a last-ditch attempt to save the UN plan from virtual collapse . |