Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the 1960s , when a number of new social movements — among them the student movement , various national and ethnic movements , and the women 's movement — became extremely active in political life , a great deal more attention has been given by sociologists to such forms of political action , which may be seen not only as constituting a basis or context for the development of more highly organized political activities , but also as political forces in their own right , existing alongside and sometimes in conflict with , established parties and pressure groups . |
| 2 | Even then , there may be limits to an exclusion — if it is drawn so widely as to protect a party from all liability , even for total non-performance , its effect may be that the party has promised nothing ; there is therefore no contract , or at best only a unilateral one . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 4 | One bar had even gone so far as to put a few tables outside , and on impulse Zen settled down to enjoy the sunlight and watch the show on the Corso . |
| 5 | ‘ Social imperialism ’ suggests that the main beneficiaries of this policy were British consumers , and indeed one writer has gone so far as to argue a direct link to the Attlee government 's social reforms : ‘ The nationalisations , medical provision and expansion of education so magnanimously legislated by the Labour Ministry were largely achieved because the Bank of England kept the Sterling Area show on the road . ' |
| 6 | The courts have not gone so far as to give a cause of action in damages for the breach of such a promise , but they have refused to allow the party making it to act inconsistently with it . |
| 7 | The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition . |
| 8 | ONE OF Czechoslovakia 's most prominent dissidents , Stanislav Devaty , has gone underground rather than face an appeal hearing which could have confirmed a 20-month jail sentence . |
| 9 | Barclay 's has gone as far as to create a ‘ high technology ’ unit to examine requests for finance from possible customers . |
| 10 | Eire is planning to use its forthcoming Presidency of the European Commission to press Britain to embark on a major upgrading of road and rail links between North Wales and the Channel Tunnel , and the Shadow Irish Transport Minister Gay Mitchell has gone as far as proposing an Irish Sea Tunnel to be constructed using Channel Tunnel equipment and an allegedly largely Irish Channel Tunnel workforce . |
| 11 | By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes . |
| 12 | Then great standing stones brought to mark the way at intervals , and on a bank leading up to a mountain ridge or down to a ford the track cut deep so as to form a guiding notch on the skyline as you come up . |
| 13 | The lateral sclerites usually comprise two plates on either side , closely hinged together so as to form a fulcrum between the head and prothorax . |
| 14 | Immediately underneath the stone lay a cist containing several rude cinerary urns , and alongside of it were found a gold fibula and an armilla of a peculiar type made from a broad band of gold beaten out so as to form a convex centre , on each side of which was a fluted ornamental border , and a raised rim returned at the edge . " |