Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local government capital expenditure is ‘ cash limited ’ , but current expenditure is cash limited only as far as the overall total of the Rate Support Grant ( RSG ) 3 is concerned . |
| 2 | In the Leisure Society the employed are an elite of highly educated and skilled professionals who work full-time , but the wealth created by the equipment they have designed and operate is dispersed rather widely so that the mass of the population are able to live reasonably well off the products of the automated machinery cared for by the core elite . |
| 3 | By the end of the evening all had come together very nicely and the Direktor knew the performance was ‘ set ’ for the rest of the Season . |
| 4 | Dreadnought 's anchor had come up easily enough when the salvage tug came to dispose of her . |
| 5 | Not feeling up to arguing the point , she left quietly , knowing everyone else in the Carlisle Flint team was wound up as tight as the drivers , waiting for the green light . |
| 6 | Even when the happy couple had left for their honeymoon , and the floor of the marquee had been cleared for the dance due to follow the reception , she still felt as though she was wound up as tightly as a spring . |
| 7 | Converters made of chromite and copper oxide were considered as long ago as the 1970s , but ruled out because they proved less effective than those containing the more precious metals . |
| 8 | A side-effect of the right of citizens to make foreign exchange deposits has been that , as inflation has continued and accelerated , the dinar value of these deposits has grown much more rapidly than the value of dinar assets held by households . |
| 9 | Latvian tombs , hoards of treasure found in Estonia , jewellery , statuettes and household articles discovered in Poland , together with objects from the Byzantine and Islamic worlds illustrate how this people of warriors and merchants expanded eastward as far as the Caliphate of Baghdad , while excavations in ‘ Norman ’ territory ( at Downham in Norfolk and in the vicinity of Rouen ) provide proof of Norse expansionism in another direction . |
| 10 | It is clear that the accounts of miracles in the Bible are written just as factually as the accounts of other events . |
| 11 | The trouble is that his men have done just as badly as the old guard . |
| 12 | A powerful challenge to such approaches was made as long ago as the 1930s by Professor E. E. Evans-Pritchard who lived with and studied the Azande of Central Africa , a technologically simple society whom Europeans therefore tended to assume were intellectually simple as well . |
| 13 | Things , however , have turned out slightly differently and the books have remained largely unopened . |
| 14 | And this was just one of a number of sites , known only to Halim and his team , where the early Chinese mariners had buried their dead together , as was their custom , with porcelain some of which had been fired in the imperial kilns of the Sung and Ming dynasties and dated back as far as the eleventh century . |
| 15 | ‘ A wall of water over forty feet high , ’ she repeated , recalling the roaring which had made her ears ache , and had grown unbelievably loud just before the wall hit her home . |
| 16 | The epicentre was near Bishops Castle in Shropshire , but the shaking was felt as far afield as the intensity 2 area . |
| 17 | Its influence is felt as far away as the London Underground , which is having its new , networked , interactive time-tabling system , Cart , programmed by a Delhi firm , CMC . |
| 18 | The shock of the sinking was felt as far away as the World 's Edge Mountains and is recorded in the chronicles of the Dwarf kings . |
| 19 | The pipeline , was built far more quickly than the trans-Alaskan pipeline , largely because of the 2,200 separate state and federal permits and construction sanctions needed by the oil companies involved in the US project . |
| 20 | In the second year , there is an in-depth examination of Scotland since 1660 ; this brings out how many aspects of modern Scotland were shaped as long ago as the late seventeenth century . |
| 21 | The similarities and differences between the two groups can be seen even more clearly if an attempt is made to formulate specific short-term objectives . |
| 22 | A pencil mark should be made on the pipe around the mouth of the fitting after the pipe has been pushed fully home so that the pipe can then be withdrawn about 10mm from the fitting on installation . |
| 23 | It was accepted quite early on that a seller would be bound by any description by which he had sold specific goods ( Shepherd v Kain ( 1822 ) 5 B&A 240 ) . |
| 24 | Well that was of the interesting things to come out of the study , erm something which was totally unexpected as far as I was concerned , and that was it seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes . |
| 25 | It seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes . |
| 26 | Well that was one of the interesting things to come out of the study , something which was totally unexpected as far as I was concerned , and that was it seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes . |
| 27 | the arrangement was placed low down so that the angle of view presented me this as interesting a set of shapes as possible . |
| 28 | The flow advances in a manner similar to that of pahoehoe flows on dry land , and the pillows are budded off so quietly that the cameramen were able to swim up to within less than a metre of the swelling pillows . |
| 29 | if he had been chasing his flying tent up from the machair on the west of the island , he might have got up as far as the bogland near the lochan , but surely the light from my cottage would not be visible until he had followed the road downhill past the curve and almost into Otters ' Bay . |
| 30 | An earlier wharf there had been used as long ago as the mid 17C. to off-load haematite brought up from Low Furness mines for the le Fleming family 's iron forge on Church Beck . |