Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 This opens up possible discussion about dramatic structure .
32 Is n't that what we 've come to expect from this worn out useless Government , that at the moment of decision making they run away ?
33 In addition , the British brought in large numbers of Indians who settled in Kenya , Tanzania and Uganda .
34 Because the dollar had a privileged status as a reserve currency , theoretically interchangeable with gold , the United States was free to run up huge balance of payments deficits , print money to cover these deficits , and then export their inflation through foreign investment , in the process buying up foreign companies .
35 But even here the administration was careful to build up formal channels of access that it could control and that would in turn support the regime , as in the case of traditional leadership , which was recruited as a legitimizing instrument of government in the localities .
36 This brought in new people such as Robert Hunter as head of the Department of Energy Office of Basic Research , and one of his first acts was to reorder some of the research funds.l This caused some research activities to be trimmed at Oak Ridge , Los Alamos and Princeton , where the dt experiment was postponed for at least another three years .
37 This brought in new allies , particularly from inland Karia , and new revenue .
38 However , it is difficult to find evidence that this brought about fundamental ideological shifts on the part of different groups — notably , within Whitehall .
39 As they were fanatically tidy this took on enormous importance .
40 A series of constitutions from AD 529 to 531 brought in new and radical reform .
41 When women do try to make such claims , this sets up predictable antagonisms between brothers and sisters .
42 The UCITS ( undertaking for collective investment in transferable securities ) Directive of 1985 sets out minimum requirements for unit trusts , in terms of information policies of owners , investment policies of trusts , and marketing aspects .
43 I hope Speed and Wallace are back to give up some gizz up front .
44 12 Follow up specific ideas but do not pester the media after general mailings .
45 This , plus strengthening of the laws against vagrancy in 1714 , 1740 and 1744 , meant that many of the lower orders found it more difficult and more risky to move over long distances .
46 In times of full employment , employers are more willing to take on disabled people of all kinds and there is a direct economic incentive to ensure that those who can work do .
47 A man who , through choice or redundancy , decides to work from home , may be willing to take on simple cooking and housework so that his wife can return to full-time employment .
48 Vermuyden had faced remarkable difficulties , not least the age-old problem of clients who want the profit at the end of the day , but who are not prepared to lay out sufficient capital to achieve it .
49 That 's that 's the present case , but I think er impact would say that with a fifty-fifty split , then those trustees should elect their own chairman and should be free to bring in independent trustees , so if you had a board of say four company members and four elected by the members er of the pension fund , they might decide to have two outside independents , one of which they would choose as the Chairman .
50 Already the local people were disposed to make over various small sums for the use of the Schoolmaster .
51 In response , the Public Health Act 1872 set up new local sanitary authorities to police legislation .
52 By the time of Napoleon 's war against Prussia and his defeat of Frederick William III 's armies at Jena and Auerstadt in 1806 , the people of Danzig were far from disloyal to the Prussian cause , far from willing to throw off Prussian rule , lest they be handed over to some form of Polish domination .
53 This comes in useful when the time comes to mark the position of the mortises .
54 They knew where I was , and it left them free to follow up other leads and so on .
55 But that came in useful .
56 Using this approach , it is possible to pick up incipient warning signs as the company starts to decline well in advance of it crossing the solvency threshold , allowing much more time for action to be taken .
57 The microprocessor makes it possible to pick out ore-bearing rocks fast enough for 64 separate air jets to deflect them .
58 John Townsend , of Reading University 's geography department , told New Scientist that the images are so good it is possible to pick out individual hedgerows .
59 If they are to have any explanatory bite it must first be possible to pick out particular causal connections against a fairly stable set of background conditions .
60 The purpose of the first test was to reveal the definition obtainable with this device , the second was to see whether it would be possible to pick out bright spots and define a measure of reflectance by weighting for brightness .
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