Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I went to the afterguard and said our boats are not optimised or going as fast as I would like and asked for recommendations , ’ said Koch . |
| 2 | The landlord will nevertheless wish to ensure that the premises are occupied and trading as soon as possible , particularly if they are located in a parade or shopping centre where the landlord 's adjoining premises could benefit from customers to the premises . |
| 3 | But with Barnet owing £1.3million and the players and staff unpaid for three weeks , Stein believes it is unlikely the crisis can be averted and went as far as to wish his players ‘ all the best for the future . ’ |
| 4 | There is a convincing body of research indicating that people are educated and trained more effectively if they are able to interact with the educational or training medium . |
| 5 | As Savage puts it , ‘ a hundred shares can be organised and directed more easily than a hundred workers ’ . |
| 6 | He hovered about the site restlessly , like one barefoot on thorns , all the while they were removing the debris of sagging , uprooted broom bushes , which Orrie phlegmatically loaded into a handcart and wheeled away along the riverside path to be unloaded and burned as far as possible from the sacred precincts . |
| 7 | Delinquency can be seen , depending on perceptions of society and its organization , as the result of poverty , deprivation and inequity , or as a personal iniquity to be identified , punished and discouraged as firmly as possible . |
| 8 | The form should be completed and returned as soon as possible to the North-Eastern Education and Library Board . |
| 9 | A traveller of extraordinary audacity of whom Mitford wrote ‘ Burton had dared and done more almost than any man living ’ . |
| 10 | But in times of growing resource and environmental problems it is essential that energy is used and distributed as efficiently as possible . |
| 11 | Secondly , and particularly in the Eastern District , the former , mutually supportive relationships between the Cambridge Board of Extra-Mural Studies and the District gradually shifted to become uneasy collaboration when the 1924 Regulations were interpreted and applied more flexibly as provision expanded . |
| 12 | That vast tracts can be bought and sold as casually as a loaf of bread is immoral . |
| 13 | They can be raised or lowered as well as moved horizontally from controls on the platform . |
| 14 | Because prayers had to be stimulated and informed as well as ordered , the preaching role of the church was no less important . |
| 15 | Newsround felt it was worthwhile to give readers information about the efforts that are being made by the Council to ensure its views on reform are known and presented as effectively as possible . |
| 16 | A less obvious and regrettably a more common example is where students are presented throughout the course with bodies of facts and procedures to be remembered and applied as faithfully as possible ; then in the final testing they are assessed on their ability to apply their knowledge and skills to new situations , or to explain , justify and discuss the reasons behind procedures . |
| 17 | Efficient waste management requires that hazardous materials are defined and treated more carefully than the very large volumes of non-hazardous wastes . |
| 18 | There is , it seems , absolutely no reason why Loxodonta africana should not be tamed and trained as readily as Elephas maximus . |
| 19 | At LA Gear , a fashion-clothing company , shorts have borrowed and sold no less than 40% of the stock . |
| 20 | More used to being asked to move along quietly today they were being encouraged to stay put and perform as loudly as they liked . |
| 21 | It is when an outgoing fish ceases to swim with the shoal and skulks , perhaps with fins folded and respiring more rapidly than usual , that something is suspect . |
| 22 | ‘ We do n't know that anyone was killed or injured near there so there should n't be anyone haunting it . ’ |
| 23 | Between them come Stravinsky 's Dumbarton Oaks concerto and Frank Martin 's Petite Symphonie Concertante , a work that grows in stature with every hearing , especially when conducted and played as well as it is here . |
| 24 | In all these activities the place of the elderly client in the family network should be maintained and enhanced as far as possible . |
| 25 | Always in the leading group , McMahon pushed to the front before the last where he was challenged by the favourite Over the Edge , but keeping his mount perfectly balanced and running as straight as a gun barrel , McMahon found something left in the ‘ Tank ’ and went on to score a snug success . |
| 26 | We will ensure that the card is returned or re-issued as quickly as possible . |
| 27 | A weekly Burmese paper called Khit Thit was also published and distributed as widely as possible throughout the country . |