Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The uncertainty of such stop-go policies arguably reduced business confidence and discouraged investment . |
| 2 | Lotus Development Corp duly launched Release 3 of its Lotus Notes client-server applications environment for workgroups last week ( UX No 428 ) . |
| 3 | Her teeth badly needed treatment . |
| 4 | Group sales director Roger Little presented production directors ( Alexandra ) and ( Imperial ) with specially-inscribed Black Basalt items at the presentation ceremony . |
| 5 | as if to remove any doubt about the prevalence of an American view contrary to the English view , an 1889 United States Supreme Court decision expressly denied enforceability to the ‘ negligence ’ exemption . |
| 6 | I had n't any LM so gave Mill 6C which stopped the haemorrhaging but led to such severe abdominal pains the GP was called . |
| 7 | Again , some psycholinguists maintained that top-down constraint merely facilitated recognition , while others argued that top-down information had to produce hypotheses to compensate for inaccurate acoustic information . |
| 8 | The higher profile can only result in more visitors to the existing steam railway operation , and therefore to the Bodmin area as a whole , as well as present much needed employment opportunities . |
| 9 | Tolkien perhaps found difficulty in explaining to a Jesuit why a ‘ fundamentally ’ Catholic work should cut out references to religion , but the reason is clear : he thought , or hoped , that God had a plan for pre-Catholics too . |
| 10 | The way in which authorities apparently withheld information about the explosion and fire at the Zaporizha plant in central Ukraine will also generate fresh opposition to the industry seven years after the Chernobyl disaster . |
| 11 | When they sighted Sturgis ' command on 8th September , the Nez Perce suddenly turned south . |
| 12 | ‘ Melanie merely lost interest in marriage to a busy consultant . |
| 13 | For example , if mutations reduce adult survival 16 times more than they reduce juvenile survival ( that is , v= 16 ) , a net mutation rate reduces juvenile and adult survival from their optimal values ( 0.945 , 0.505 ) to ( 0.866 , 0.155 ) ; if the mutations only affected adult survival , a mutation rate U 0.067 would reduce adult survival to zero . |
| 14 | By scheduling rationalization to avoid compulsory redundancies and by offering employment security in return for skill flexibility , Pilkingtons purposefully mobilized workforce commitment to the change process . |
| 15 | I did n't have time to get paranoid about blood poisoning as my heart suddenly stopped beating . |
| 16 | Surprisingly the recall data appeared to show enhanced recall of information in the arousal condition , both for peripheral and central information , though this contrast only reached significance for the central information . |
| 17 | Only one subject who had received 6.25 µg cholera toxin observed no increase in stool frequency , however , in this case only decreased absorption and not secretion was observed in the test segment . |
| 18 | For instance organically farmed food is more expensive . |
| 19 | The defendant accepted as a fact that he was holding the revolver when the fatal shot was discharged , but the case for the defence was that the revolver went off accidentally in the course of a struggle during which the defendant forcibly placed Paulette in the driver 's seat . |
| 20 | In the past , this practice effectively promoted endowment contracts as borrowers were encouraged to combine protection with investment . |
| 21 | And Matey badly needed help ; indeed , she was looking at him with something like approval . |
| 22 | When Powell and the five survivors eventually reached safety , ragged , half-starved and exhausted , their expedition was hailed as one of the most courageous feats of exploration of the time . |
| 23 | The administration of vague rules and guidelines effectively removed control of pollution policy from the politicians who had framed the laws , and put a stop to any parliamentary scrutiny . |
| 24 | Words only represented reality . |
| 25 | The tents and rucksacks all passed muster |
| 26 | The Employment Department took the view that the TEC wrongly paid money to employers who had been running their own training schemes outside the Youth Training orbit ; this enabled the TEC to meet its government-imposed target of training weeks . |
| 27 | The study only found evidence of food reactions in 15 per cent of the patients , compared with 70 per cent in another major study . |
| 28 | Earlier Frankish successions from the sixth century onwards had divided the heartlands , the patrimony , between royal brothers as well as assigning whatever acquired regna were available : the 806 and 817 projects , by contrast , gave the first-born son the patrimony entire , leaving the younger brothers only acquired regna . |
| 29 | It was argued that ERDF resources did not in fact represent truly additional aid for problem regions if such aid merely replaced expenditure that national governments would otherwise have incurred themselves . |
| 30 | The bear suddenly stopped eating and glared at the knight , its small , piggy eyes red with hatred . |