Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was they who most resented the contempt of factory management , the humiliation of public examination for venereal diseases , the lack of privacy in the lavatories , the insecurity of their jobs , the degradation of their living quarters . |
| 2 | When her veils eventually parted a waft of smoke engulfed her and she laughed again , a deep-throated , jolly laugh . |
| 3 | The rehearsal had gone well , and it seemed as though he had successfully jumped the chasm between off- and on-Broadway . |
| 4 | The European Commission on Human Rights was of the view that seeking to persuade members of the armed forces to disobey military orders which rendered a particular person liable to prosecution for ‘ incitement to disaffection ’ properly justified a prosecution under Article 10 , paragraph 2 of the Convention . |
| 5 | In other words we 've effectively rebuilt the island of information that we used to talk about five years ago and the key motivation behind enterprise client server is really to integrate the efforts of these two groups . |
| 6 | FOR DECADES , professional and amateur politicians , encouraged by a vociferous band of scientists and engineers , have relentlessly pursued the reclamation of land for which the distant eye sees no use . |
| 7 | While the others went on to further success he fought and eventually won a battle against alcoholism , but his writing partnership with Cleese did not survive it , and , at his own choice , he was not a member of the Python film company Prominent Features . |
| 8 | Into that stream of pure gothic fiction there was eventually added the element of crime or suspected crime , thus bringing into existence the romantic suspense novel . |
| 9 | Dr Alan Solomon graduated in Mathematics from Cambridge University , and has since pursued a career in Defence , Textiles , Oil and the Stock Exchange . |
| 10 | The successful arguments were drawn from more general movements in the political and social culture and so formed a part of intellectual as well as legal history . |
| 11 | In short , the Report sensibly placed the emphasis on decentralization and on making the most effective use of existing resources , a sentiment echoed in the accompanying Circular . |
| 12 | The integration of research and breeding allows faster development of new disease-resistant strains ; information is more efficiently and creatively managed within an ‘ internal ’ market , especially given the advent of bio-technology . |
| 13 | Acher claimed that it had merely arranged the contract on behalf of Progresso , but representatives of the latter denied involvement in illegal activities . |
| 14 | He had looked and sounded alone , and inadvertently given the impression of paranoia . |
| 15 | To the knighthood , or chivalry , of the Middle Ages war had long given a sense of purpose . |
| 16 | His attempt to do so fostered a current of resentment that came to the surface in 1968 . |
| 17 | This action was very strange because Andries not only attracted a lot of attention to himself by the manner of his purchase but also the dinghy had a serial number on it which made it instantly traceable . |
| 18 | No firm action was taken on methyl bromide , a pesticide used as a fumigant , which has also been found to destroy ozone , and officials merely recommended a freeze on production and consumption at 1992 levels by 1995 , with a 25 per cent cut by the year 2000 . |
| 19 | It certainly camouflaged her ungainly figure , but its shade did not exactly enhance the heightened colour of her face which had obviously caught the sun on holiday . |
| 20 | Many bilateral and multilateral aid agencies have rightly upgraded the importance of monitoring and evaluation in their activities , and as Chapter 2 has indicated , quantification and measurement of the impact of soil conservation are essential . |
| 21 | But Mr Smith has merely scratched the surface of Labour 's election promises . |
| 22 | Britain was still recovering from the long hard years of the second World War and the population had long felt the pinch of rationing and having to make do . |
| 23 | The five had always perhaps accepted the necessity of compromise . |
| 24 | In 1949 , for example , it emerged before the Lynskey Tribunal that George Gibson , the chairman of the North Western Board , had somewhat unwisely accepted a gift of clothing from the flamboyant contact man , Sidney Stanley . |
| 25 | They have all seen the game on TV , they know that if they get to the table they can build big breaks and if you make one mistake they go for your jugular . |
| 26 | The Department had long seen the field as part of Ninian for taxation purposes until this break-through . |
| 27 | This does not mean that anyone has necessarily suffered a dose of radiation exceeding safety limits . |
| 28 | The Leningrad city and regional Communist Party first secretary and leading conservative , Boris Gidaspov , had been the most prominent local party leader to ignore party recommendations and had refrained from standing in the elections to the Russian Supreme Soviet , having apparently anticipated the kind of defeat inflicted at the polls on March 4 and 18 on many other Russian city and regional party secretaries . |
| 29 | A Hungarian living in Edinburgh taped the pronunciation of difficult place names and luckily one of our team had lived in Hungary , so had a wealth of background information . |
| 30 | I 've only got a bit of French and German so I can help you with the essay if you like . |