Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ffyona , 26 , was left with a badly swollen and cut left eye . |
| 2 | Reports of takeover ‘ conflicts ’ are widely publicised and provoke considerable debate on the gains and losses caused by the takeover . |
| 3 | He was badly shaken and needed nine stitches in a head injury . |
| 4 | Unless there is a physical risk to the object , it may be borrowed by curators or directors of public collections for special exhibitions that are properly organised and meet adequate security standards . |
| 5 | Baxter 's subjects were remarkably varied and included sentimental treatments of religious and romantic themes , prints of typical London figures , and newsworthy events . |
| 6 | As I explain in more detail in a recent report for the Electricity Consumers ' Council ( Nuclear Power and the Economic Interests of Consumers ) the CEGB 's figures for nuclear fuel-cycle costs are extremely limited and contain internal inconsistencies . |
| 7 | They were walking along a smallish road to the left of the extraordinary green-and-white-striped cathedral and David suddenly stopped and put both hands on Julia 's shoulders . |
| 8 | Having heard that he was much respected and had great influence in these parts , I felt it was as well to do as he told us . |
| 9 | In maths and language they were less distracted and spent more time on work and routine activities , although in art the pattern was reversed : older children were more often distracted and did less work . |
| 10 | In classrooms where there were two adults , children were generally less distracted and spent more time working than in classrooms where there was only one . |
| 11 | By 1880 the result was already a highly concentrated and mechanized industrial system . |
| 12 | The government said that these limits had not only inhibited and delayed necessary rationalisation of schools provision but also had ‘ acted as a barrier to the exercise of effective parental choice ’ . |
| 13 | An attempt to hold elections in 1987 had been abandoned after polling stations were attacked by members of the Tontons Macoutes , the remnants of the Duvaliers ' much feared and hated private army . |
| 14 | Their plans were strategic in the sense that an idealized future ( say 20 years hence ) was projected which would accommodate all assumptions as to likely change : there would be no great population growth ( why should there be ? — the 1930s had been a decade of population stagnation , if not decline ) ; inter-war regional drift would be halted ; the housing shortage would be made good ; the necessary population redistributions would be implemented , so reducing densities to an acceptable level in the inner districts ; areas for suburban expansion would be identified and selected against a background of open space and protected countryside ; lines for improved road communication would be safeguarded and the commercial areas , particularly town centres , would be better defined and made architectural show-pieces . |
| 15 | All bedrooms are tastefully decorated and have luxury bathroom radio , colour television ( with movies ) , telephone and mini-bar . |
| 16 | Philip Wilbraham has built a group quickly by taking advantage of lower prices , Philip Ames is buying up cheap high street sites for 4 Play Records and Roger Myers , who has already built and sold one restaurant group , is now doing it all again . |
| 17 | erm I 've always believed that consistency is an overrated virtue so I 'm not gon na criticise the Conservatives for changing their minds but you have to ask yourself why is this recorded on the agenda today when the sub-committee , planning sub- committee has already met and discussed these matters and things have moved on a little further Well we we really have to look at how the resolution in this paragraph came about in the first place . |
| 18 | Crofting townships occupy this land which is largely fenced and comprises improved grasslands . |
| 19 | Extraordinary that the Soviets had not already grilled and broken this man , unbelievable that they had permitted a trial for espionage to go ahead without the evidence of a confession . |
| 20 | Officers on Operation Bumblebee have already arrested and charged 3,640 people in connection with house break-ins . |
| 21 | Her defences were already activated and registering red alert , and he had n't said a word yet ! |
| 22 | The problems which those words can create are illustrated by a provision such as : If the Buyer fails to pay any instalment promptly in accordance with the terms of this contract the Seller may terminate the contract , recover goods already delivered and retain all payments already made . |
| 23 | Advertising is a potent force in maintaining smoking as an apparently socially acceptable habit : it swamps the health education message , reinforces the habit for those already hooked and recruits new smokers , the great majority of whom start as children . |
| 24 | The maintenance of the right of silence in police station interviews — the Commission 's own research showed that this right is little used and has little effect on the decision of the police whether or not to prosecute or on the outcome of the proceedings . |
| 25 | This is the most handsomely designed and arresting photographic book of the 1980s . |
| 26 | ‘ I am unable to be confident from Mr. Eliot 's writings , ’ iris Murdoch once reproachfully wrote in a theoretical defence of realism , ‘ that he has ever enjoyed and admired any novel . ’ |
| 27 | Did Theo remember that mill on the road out of The Hague where they had once sat and pledged eternal friendship so passionately , over their glasses of milk ? |
| 28 | We have not always agreed — I think that he was profoundly wrong on war crimes — but we have always respected and liked each other . |
| 29 | This was one of the finest and largest churches here but , having survived much of the bombardment of the First World War , it was seriously damaged in the fire of 1917 when its wooden roof was totally destroyed and caused great ruination when it collapsed into the church . |
| 30 | Our small friendly Hotel centrally located and overlooking the sea in Regency Square has recently been totally refurbished and offers superior accommodation with easy parking . |