Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 2 | The upsurgence of the motor car was forcibly rammed home when the cross-country holiday route , the Midland & Great Northern Joint line from Peterborough across Norfolk to Great Yarmouth Beach station was shut on 28 February 1959 . |
| 3 | Use of naturalistic information is wholly disallowed only if there can be some settlable choice of cognitive methods where all of our naturalistic information is available only if we resolve the choice in one of the possible ways . |
| 4 | The observers that took part in the raid do not in any way represent the residents of this estate and are widely regarded here as being little better than police stooges . |
| 5 | Team spirit rarely mattered much since dealers were paid commission on their own business and preferred to develop their own methods of achieving this . |
| 6 | Persons of inferior degree rarely owned more than a single parcel , irrespective of whether they lived on it themselves or let it to a tenant . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the bipartite system remained in place and would be fundamentally modified only if a powerful political will to do so could be mobilized . |
| 8 | On the one hand , various syntactic rules seem to be properly constrained only if one refers to pragmatic conditions ; and similarly for matters of stress and intonation . |
| 9 | Financial constraints on investment were relatively unimportant and only developed subsequently as political concern with state enterprise deficits prompted efforts for greater commercialism . |
| 10 | They may be better placed financially than many tenants , but their security of tenure can end with retirement . |
| 11 | Yet , I will go on to argue that black kids seriously involved in sport tend to be rather better placed academically than others who may not be immersed in sport . |
| 12 | In my view there was indeed an inconsistency here , though it was an inconsistency which Friedman only recognized implicitly when he started putting forward an alternative model , radically different from his accelerationist hypothesis , which denied any direct role for aggregate demand in influencing the level of employment . |
| 13 | It is worth pausing here momentarily to observe that such legally provided remedies can be morally justified even when applied to people who are not subject to the authority of the government and its laws . |
| 14 | Gwendolen started to scream at this hard-heartedness , but suddenly stopped again as Auguste rose to come to her aid . |
| 15 | United have recruited three new players … who should form the backbone of a new look team … five have gone this summer … all given away except for Robinson who 's career has been finished by injury … |
| 16 | And the clink of teacups is perhaps heard less than the sizzling of barbecue sausages . |
| 17 | It has only polled more than 10,000 votes once in 30 years , when as the SDP/Liberal Alliance it benefited from the special by-election atmosphere . |
| 18 | Here , in Mixed Life , he relates that individual experience of Christ in every man to the Christ who transcends individual limitations and is expressed by the whole body of those in whom he is born in time through their knowing and doing : It is precisely because of these " sundri wirchynges " in the lives of individuals dictated by their particular talents and circumstances that discussion of active and contemplative life tends to polarise life-styles which are then also subject to evaluation in which contemplation is more highly esteemed simply because it relates to a greater state of spiritual awareness . |
| 19 | Throughout the spawning the Scats paid no attention to the eggs , being gently nudged away if they came too close . |
| 20 | ( In fact , this is an important question because empirical studies suggest that both c and v are less than 1 , so damped rather than explosive cycles are likely . ) |
| 21 | More than 75 million Soviet citizens lived outside their ‘ own ’ republic ( Kazakhstan alone contained more than 100 different nationalities ) , and very often they had little knowledge of the language of the republican majority . |
| 22 | THE arrival of effective anti-viral drugs has been eagerly awaited ever since penicillin began its war against bacterial infections during the 1940s . |
| 23 | She did not talk to Anna , only responded mildly when Anna spoke to her . |
| 24 | A constitutional assessment would be highly recommended particularly as thrush tends to be a recurrent or chronic problem — see Conditions Requiring Constitutional Therapy on page 137 . |
| 25 | Should they be compulsorily edited so as to be accurate and balanced , that is censored ? |
| 26 | Thus , if the corporations in their study were divided into three groups depending on the size of their annual sales , then they calculated that those with sales over $1 billion constituted 42 per cent of all corporations but committed nearly three-quarters of not only all violations but all serious violations , whereas those small firms with sales with less than half a billion dollars constituted nearly one-third of firms analysed but only committed less than 10 per cent of all violations . |
| 27 | I 'VE never been so moved before as I was when I saw on TV the rescue of a boy who had collapsed on his way to a feeding centre in Somalia . |
| 28 | Because Cheddar has been the yardstick of the British cheese industry , it has perhaps suffered more than any of our other cheeses , as it has been forced into mediocrity through extensive mechanisation of the various stages of making . |
| 29 | It means that the parties are better prepared probably than ever before . |
| 30 | Olympia has perhaps done more than any other company to stimulate interest in the highways and byways of russian music , as is typified by six of their most recent releases . |