Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 That pattern can also be called liberal , or bourgeois , civilization and it was most developed in the industrialized countries , least in the agrarian east and south .
7 Their use is most developed in the social insects , where each nest has a unique odour .
8 Among these were many of those most favoured in the ancient world , including agate , carnelian , jasper , lapis lazuli , sard and turquoise .
9 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 .
10 Most of the guests seemed to be either journalists , politicians , or fashion designers , the three occupations most favoured by the nascent New Delhi chattering class .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 But as many as are thus sottish , let them enjoy their own wildness and ignorance , it is sufficient for a good man that he is conscious unto himself that he is more nobly descended , better bred and born , and more skilfully taught by the purged faculties of his own mind.2
18 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 .
19 Why is it , for example , that every single Trust employee above the level of gardener 's mate speaks with an exquisite Wykehamist accent of the kind rarely heard outside the better cavalry regiments ?
20 More generally , although civil contempt is not properly regarded as a criminal offence .
21 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 .
22 The mayorazgos had been bitterly criticized since the sixteenth century for encouraging laziness as well as being an injustice to younger children .
23 A creature has a practical grasp of a domain if its behaviour is , within limits , successfully adjusted to the underlying constraints of the domain .
24 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 .
25 Those most coveted by the early civilizations of Egypt and Sumer , notably lapis lazuli , had been drawn from remote sources since Predynastic times .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 Two prose characters for whom sympathy has wholly evaporated by the final scene are Parolles ( All 's Well ) and Lucio ( Measure for Measure ) .
29 MR Lamont is not widely regarded as a great Chancellor .
30 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 .
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