Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sylvia suddenly moved forwards and grabbed the book . |
| 2 | After a while the leaf began to bend , and in some hours the end of the leaf was so bent inwards as to touch the base . |
| 3 | Rescheduling the debt has merely deferred rather than solved the problems of increasing internal efficiencies and domestic savings rates . |
| 4 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 5 | The coming of new and dramatic types of treatment , however , only heightened rather than diminished the controversy over the old hospitals . |
| 6 | He concluded , in the language of the time , that the early sea-urchin was a ‘ harmonious equipotential system ’ in the sense that the parts all functioned so as to generate a normal organism . |
| 7 | Travelling strongly for much of the way , Ballystate had just moved ahead when belting the final flight . |
| 8 | That this was significantly new is demonstrated by the bitter resistance to it from people who had been near the heart of the Church , yet it was finally approved overwhelmingly and constitutes the most precise dogmatic statement within this ‘ dogmatic constitution ’ . |
| 9 | City had already surged forward and stretched the Quakers ' defence several times in search of an equaliser when Sean McCarthy beat the offside trap to a long through-ball , and was brought crashing down by Mark Prudhoe on the edge of the box . |
| 10 | Questions should be open ended so as to get the candidate talking . |
| 11 | But Sir Bob wants it to build on what BR has already achieved rather than restructure the rail service . |
| 12 | I feel there can be few more worthy objects for the book-collector who is suitably placed geographically than gathering the printed products of his town or city through the centuries . |
| 13 | Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion . |
| 14 | The IRA has always known better than to attack the security forces of the Republic , since it would instantly lose whatever support it has and could provoke the Irish government to order internment , as it did in the distant past . |
| 15 | Despite hopes to the contrary , the war gradually worsened rather than alleviated the problems of the rural population . |
| 16 | Thus its surface may only occasionally be punctuated by groups of waterlilies and its margins graced with a restrained selection of marginal plants carefully placed so as to balance the visual aspect of the pool and yet not spoil it reflective qualities . |
| 17 | Electrical household goods may be unsuitable for many countries , for example , but the application of a creative marketing process may lead to alternative inexpensive , manually operated machinery being developed which can be both produced easily and suit the needs of the population . |
| 18 | One by one , everyone else , with the exception of Mait and the woman beside him , also stepped forward and tossed a coin . |
| 19 | The exclusionary rule was later extended so as to prohibit the court from looking even at reports made by commissioners on which legislation was based : Salkeld v. Johnson ( 1848 ) 2 Exch. 256 , 273 . |
| 20 | The hotel is centrally heated throughout and has a fully licensed restaurant and separate bar . |
| 21 | Representative government , parties and elections are now seen increasingly as providing an essential framework but as inadequate by themselves to establish a democratic society in the more radical sense of government by the people . |
| 22 | The method is perfectly structured internally but has no necessary connection to anything outside itself ; there is no analytical purchase on it from without . |
| 23 | The former s39 ( now repealed so as to open the way for MDPssee below ) prohibited solicitors from acting as agents for unqualified persons . |
| 24 | So he had not destroyed most of the buildings , along with their inhabitants , had even erected more and improved the walls and defences . |
| 25 | The UK agreements are not concerned with principle or with the ‘ spirit ’ of the agreement : they are trickily worded and legalistically interpreted so as to maintain the maximum freedom to advertise . |
| 26 | Some general practitioners have even banded together and threatened a wholesale withdrawal of funding unless the local hospital provides dermatological services in the community . |
| 27 | The disk is round to pentagonal , delicate and frequently damaged so as to obscure the shape ; covered with skin without any plates ; disk diameter up to 25 mm . |
| 28 | The cross-rails are then rotated so as to tip the samples into the resin pots . |
| 29 | Downstairs the bar 's lay-out has been cleverly designed so as to lend a feeling of space without losing a certain cosiness . |
| 30 | Thus the illustration contributes nothing to the text , which runs ‘ Edward [ actually Edgar ! ] lightly sprung aside and avoided the cut aimed at him , and then delivered a blow with all his force just in front of the ear , and the man dropped again as if shot . ’ |