Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This galloping course will suit his action and he is not badly treated at the weights on his best form . |
| 2 | Now the increasingly hard-nosed tactics of the popular press have driven society gossip underground , and gossip columns are mostly filled with the doings of the lower echelons of café society on the make . |
| 3 | The transcripts were handed over to the Serious Fraud Office , and duly and properly given to the defendants in the criminal proceedings . |
| 4 | Proposals to improve the quality of life coincided with the tenure of the National Unity Government under the initial premiership of Shimon Peres , widely regarded outside the territories as the most promising Israeli proponent of a peace settlement . |
| 5 | This meant that in spite of their class selfishness and legalistic pedantry they were widely regarded as the defenders of liberty and established rights ( the two were still largely synonymous ) against royal autocracy and ‘ ministerial despotism ’ . |
| 6 | The arrangement , however , was successfully pressed by the friends of the Duke of Montrose , in order , hopefully , to heal the threat of division in the county , lest feelings of dislike be aroused to the point of threatening the stability of the Montrose interest in parliamentary politics . |
| 7 | There are regular guided tours of the state rooms of the chateau , whose contents and decoration were mostly arranged during the restorations of the nineteenth century and are not very remarkable , with the exception of the tapestries . |
| 8 | The sharp opposition of state and civil society was fundamentally altered in the years of the Weimar Republic when a much friendlier set of public bodies served partly as framework for the Bauhaus , and for Brecht 's and Piscator 's theatre . |
| 9 | But not even Michael had known about the other sum — smaller , but just as regular — that Holdfast had dourly diverted to the fighters on his own side of the great divide . |
| 10 | Two of the younger ones rather shyly explained about the workings of the creamery . |
| 11 | In some ways employers effectively connived with the unions in sustaining costly work practices . |
| 12 | He dispassionately and properly referred to the feelings of locomotive drivers . |
| 13 | Her last bathroom back in the squat had been mouldy , iced-up in winter , and mostly decorated with the husks of dead bugs in spiderwebs . |
| 14 | Furthermore , it is tremendously varied in the languages of the world . |
| 15 | They are intrigued by the process , interested in the machinery and most impressed by the skills of the people . |
| 16 | ‘ Obviously , by background and experience I 'm wholly committed to the benefits of the capitalist system . |
| 17 | Logic points to the emergence of a party that draws on both the Marxist traditions of the Prague Spring and on the social-democratic movement that was forcibly amalgamated with the Communists after 1948 . |
| 18 | Budgetary information is rarely included in the accounts of a profit-oriented or Type A non-profit organization . |
| 19 | ‘ Having been brutally denied her rightful place to be an elected leader of her people , Aung San Suu Kyi remains courageously committed to the principles of freedom and democracy , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The new ‘ sociologists of deviance ’ who emerged from this background have been loosely grouped under the headings of symbolic interactionists , transactionalists and societal reaction theorists . |
| 21 | Indeed the major criticism is properly addressed to the advocates of nationalisation , who had given far too little attention to the general question of pricing and investment rules by which the public sector should operate . |
| 22 | It is the media department of the agency that is constantly exposed to the approaches of media salespeople , who may well be offering interesting new ideas — occasionally . |
| 23 | Only through membership would her economy be sufficiently exposed to the rigours of competition . |
| 24 | Nell wears those large white Peter Pan collars much favoured by the wives of men involved in sex scandals , when they get photographed on their way to church the Sunday after the story breaks . |
| 25 | Her uniform was festooned with epaulettes , badges and stripes : Amiss wondered why a profession so given to the trappings of power stopped short of medals . |
| 26 | Both the previous meal , which was regurgitated prematurely , and the next , which starts with the advantage of high pH , would therefore be less exposed to the effects of stomach acids and the bone accordingly less strongly modified . |
| 27 | Lloyd 's has hitherto relied on the promises of rich men and women to meet exceptional insurance losses from their personal resources ; in recompense for this personal risk , they were often handsomely rewarded . |
| 28 | In this case , a simulated prison was created and twenty-four volunteers were randomly assigned to the roles of ‘ guard ’ or ‘ prisoner ’ . |
| 29 | During the years of their operations , however , they were frequently referred to as Lestai ( Brigands ) or as Sicarii ( Daggermen ) , the name deriving from the sica , a small curved dagger especially favoured by the Zealots for political assassinations . |
| 30 | Craftsmanship in wood , leathern iron and silver was quite highly developed among the Yakuts in the seventeenth century , and they were almost the only north Siberian people to make pottery . |