Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After selection , both these systems are manually pumped out using a fore-and-aft lever beside one 's right thigh with an extending red-topped handle like a heavy walking stick . |
| 2 | Jefferson had obviously set out to design the ultimate high-tech putter and had , to a great extent , succeeded . |
| 3 | The six note left hand rhythm is literally punched out to lend a strong , exultant ring to the proceedings . |
| 4 | Peggy rather hoped that Rosalind was not all dressed up to meet a new boy-friend , but with a letter going off to Richard it looked as if she were . |
| 5 | I have been in Paris for 4 days and just got back to read the 100 messages from the list ! |
| 6 | At Huddersfield , a strong reserve force had been a vital factor in the Championship run , and Chapman soon set about building a similar force at Arsenal . |
| 7 | But the Hornets deservedly held on to win a fourth-round trip to Blackburn , leaving the FA Cup as Leeds 's only realistic hope of silverware this season . |
| 8 | They soon had to leave the School Cottage where they had lived , but they were granted a payment of £5 for " the bath and fittings " left in the cottage , which was quickly rented out to provide a valuable £35 a year of extra income . |
| 9 | Money may have disappeared down a black hole ( the budget was $40m according to Hurd , though industry sources put it nearer $50m ) , but it has all been spent on spectacle , not marquee names : Ed Harris ( from Jacknife ) and Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio star as an oil-rig foreman and the project engineer , both brought in to rescue a striken nuclear submarine . |
| 10 | When using stripes of weaving , the design should be fairly simple , like Card 1 or Design 1 ( above ) or carefully worked out to include the blank areas . |
| 11 | His career and mine have followed a similar course : he and I both followed ‘ Syllabus B ’ , and both ended up taking a deep interest in stylistics , the study of the use of language in literature . |
| 12 | At the same time , some smart security companies have wised up and realized that such people are bad for business and they have duly set out to recruit the New Bouncer , who is trained to smile and defuse , rather than scowl and disembowel . |
| 13 | The commission , originally set up to investigate the violent suppression of the demonstration on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which triggered the revolution [ for its report see p. 37737 ] , had examined files on elected deputies in both the federal and the two republican parliaments . |
| 14 | Previously I always had difficulty in arranging a caretaker for the cottage , and often ended up spending the entire weekend gardening and doing the housework . ’ |
| 15 | Within the quantitative framework , the instances of each variant are usually simply added up to produce a gross sum . |
| 16 | Plastic pins simply pushed in to secure the lower half of the handle to the body of the mower . |
| 17 | This will further strengthen the company and ensure that it is well set up to face the next decade with confidence . |
| 18 | Federalists and functionalists alike regarded it as a great achievement and a decisive breakthrough in the fight for a united Europe , and immediately set out to make the new body a more effective organ of integration than was apparent in its charter . |
| 19 | Planning permission for a new kitchen was eventually granted for the listed building , and the wall between the dining room and kitchen has been partially knocked through to create a greater feeling of space . |
| 20 | And then , before that , if you if you was to make the mealy puddings the it that always had to be cut into bits and emptied and washed well in cold water , and with salt and that , and that was They would done that for three days before they were then filled up to make the mealy puddings . |
| 21 | New dealers are then brought in to replace the dishonoured ones . |
| 22 | Every landing should be made fully held off to ensure a low touch down speed . |
| 23 | At the gates , frustration turns on the police , once again called on to enforce an industrial relations strategy . |
| 24 | The expansion of settlement soon became based on a hollow frontier as settlement moved west leaving a trail of erosion and siltation behind until by 1939 , Charles Kellogg felt that 75 million acres ( 28 million hectares ) of this [ ( 450–500 million acres/180–200 million hectares of eroded land ) ] were too worn out to return a living wage under any system of farm practices . |
| 25 | WOMEN AGAINST WAR IN THE GULF ( WAW-ITG ) was recently set up to build a mass women 's campaign within the wider anti-war movement . |
| 26 | Following legal suits by citizens ' organizations , the EPA reluctantly set out to devise an alternative plan . |
| 27 | In I Know Where I 'm Going ( 1945 ) , Wendy Hiller plays a go-ahead girl who , when forced to choose between the sort of rural mysticism the filmmakers previously invoked in A Canterbury Tale and a ‘ good ’ marriage , is only reluctantly brought round to accept the former . |
| 28 | Lawrence , Larkin , Lowry , T. S. Eliot and even the image of a ‘ proletarian Proust ’ are dutifully lined up to create an appropriate artistic canon within which the film may take its rightful place . |
| 29 | For example , if an offline system were designed which destroyed all offline copies when bringing a module back online , then there is a possibility that files could be lost if the system crashes immediately following the restore before the online version had been safely backed up using the normal VMS system back-up procedures . |