Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he urged a new emphasis on the victims , saying they were badly treated under the present system . |
| 2 | It , too , split with the Roman orthodoxy and eventually coalesced into the Coptic Church . |
| 3 | After asking for help from passers-by , they were eventually pointed in the right direction . |
| 4 | Among these were many of those most favoured in the ancient world , including agate , carnelian , jasper , lapis lazuli , sard and turquoise . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Two prose characters for whom sympathy has wholly evaporated by the final scene are Parolles ( All 's Well ) and Lucio ( Measure for Measure ) . |
| 11 | Hassan al-Turabi , 60 , widely regarded as the chief ideologist of the National Islamic Front ( NIF ) regime in Khartoum , was attacked as he arrived at Ottawa airport , Canada on May 25 . |
| 12 | The Hungarian minority was already complaining bitterly then of persecution — their plight widely regarded as the unfortunate flip-side of Ceausescu 's ultra-nationalism , which at least kept the Russians at bay . |
| 13 | Author Penny Junor — widely regarded as the royal writer closest to the prince — said the latest allegations were deliberately damaging to the Royal Family . |
| 14 | On Dec. 31 talks were held in the offices of the Hebrew newspaper Kol Ha'Ir between Teddy Kollek , the mayor of Jerusalem , and Faisal al-Hussaini , who was widely regarded as the unofficial representative of the PLO in the city . |
| 15 | Ever since , it has remained a popular favourite — surely the most popular of all major orchestral work by a native Englishman , and widely regarded as the very essence of the spirit of England . |
| 16 | One patient ( patient VIII ) , however , had a stone successfully manipulated from the cystic duct into the gall bladder where the stone was fragmented at subsequent lithotripsy . |
| 17 | It may be that some of the produce offered to the temple for the gods and goddesses was discreetly diverted to the royal household ; it may also be , as with many later monarchies , that the royal authority depended on the religious establishment for validation . |
| 18 | The Edinburgh Conference decisions , particularly on " non-intervention " in Spain , were widely resented in the Labour movement . |
| 19 | The rate of interest is set by the lender and is governed by a host of economic factors , all widely publicised in the national press . |
| 20 | In spite of all Diana 's effort it was badly crushed in the short journey to St Paul 's . |
| 21 | Like Meese , Porfiry was most fascinated by the final part of Raskolnikov 's paper , in which ‘ you hint … at the existence of certain people who … are , as it were , above the law . ’ |
| 22 | The Church settlement was bitterly resented amongst the Scottish nobility , and also amongst many of the established clergy , more than half of whom refused to accept the abolition of episcopacy . |
| 23 | Perhaps some consideration might be additionally given to the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the interiors of unlisted buildings within conservation areas … ’ |
| 24 | The European Community ( EC ) , for example , actually came into existence largely through an acute perception of French national interests by Jean Monnet , who was mainly responsible for creating the European Coal and Steel Community — the precursor of the Common Market — as a means of protecting French industry and especially French steel makers from their more efficient German competitors ; and it is widely recognized at the present time that national interests continue to play a major part in the debates and decisions of the Community . |
| 25 | The therapeutic properties of amber were widely recognized in the classical world . |
| 26 | Earlier this month he was rapturously received by the American Congress ; he was also briefly entertained by President Bush at the White House . |
| 27 | The plant and the soil it grew in have long since spilled from the toppled pot and been washed away in the winter rains . |
| 28 | When you say , " Do you understand me ? " , you are really asking if you have successfully communicated to the other person what you had in mind . |
| 29 | It is exclusively produced in tropical countries and mostly consumed in the industrialized North . |
| 30 | Earlier Soviet statements in the 1980s only rarely referred to the Soviet interest ‘ in having Afghanistan remain a neutral and non-aligned state and its good neighbour ’ ( my emphasis ) . |