Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Ian Renilson , operations manager for Fife Product Innovation , said he believed product innovation was the most fundamental method of wealth creation which could be harnessed more effectively to generate real economic growth . |
2 | Surely , Desmond Bonney argued , if the parish boundaries had been defined after the construction of the earthwork , they would have used it as the ‘ natural ’ boundary — much like motorways and railways have been used more recently to define new local authority boundaries . |
3 | Baldersdale was largely unaffected by contact with outside influences — to travel further than Barnard Castle , a prim and pretty little market town which could scarcely claim to be cosmopolitan , was virtually unheard of and such visitors as there were never stayed long enough to impart revolutionary new ways and ideas . |
4 | There were frequent complaints that the limits were too low and should be increased more regularly to avoid unnecessary administrative waste , with increasing numbers of applications for extensions , delay , irritation and so on . |
5 | Bomb-grade plutonium and uranium have been kept securely enough to persuade most potential proliferators that , if they want a bomb , they will have to make their own nuclear material , not just steal or buy it . |
6 | An aggressively commercial approach was required not only to solve some short-term problems but to provide a record of profit that would possibly be attractive for future tender . |