Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When the pope nevertheless steadfastly refused to give way , Henry intensified his attack on the church ; in the summer of 1530 he issued a charge of praemunire against fifteen clerics , including the four bishops who had supported Catherine , on the grounds that they had aided Wolsey in the exercise of his legatine authority and thereby given support to papal jurisdiction within his realm . |
| 2 | The Soviet Union may eventually accept a loosely formulated neutralisation of this country if Vietnam proves tractable . |
| 3 | A loosely formulated neutralisation of Afghanistan , involving superpower guarantees of that country 's non-aligned status , mutual DRA and Pakistani pledges of non-interference and non-intervention , the withdrawal of Soviet troops ( though perhaps not military advisers ) combined with the cessation of external assistance to the mujahidin , and the retention of the PDPA as an important Afghan political force in a future coalition government , appears in principle acceptable to Soviet leaders . |
| 4 | Kings themselves rarely travelled south of the Loire . |
| 5 | At least one of these computational models of the lexicon will be linked to an existing computationally realised grammar in order to explore its interaction with the syntax . |
| 6 | The earlier deluge had eventually given way to more normal rain , and now finally that too had passed . |
| 7 | In his eighties he was a recipient of his union 's rarely given citation for ‘ services to the acting profession ’ . |
| 8 | Hungarian football has since fallen victim to the corruption and match-fixing scandals . |
| 9 | Like all Far Easterners , Chan likes his action thick and fast and has since fallen victim to a perversion of the game known as Pai Gau poker — a game of pure chance , played as fast as mah-jong for very large amounts of money . |
| 10 | The consequences of inadequately treated infection in pregnancy — acute pyelonephritis and premature delivery — are serious enough to warrant a cautious therapeutic approach and careful microbiological follow up . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In contrast , Roy Parker ( 1988 ) has successfully gathered information about the assisted emigration of children in care to the colonies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from records held in the offices of governments , shipping companies and voluntary agencies . |
| 13 | Of the 68 patients entered , two were retrospectively excluded from analysis : one patient had an incompletely healed ulcer at the time of entry , and the other had a substantial prepyloric ulcer associated with small duodenal erosions . |
| 14 | has since received sponsorship from the Ipswich Grain Terminal to help with her work . |
| 15 | Please make sure that you only have one clear circled point on the scale for every person . ’ |
| 16 | A large , badly painted portrait of Mayor Donlevy hung over the desk . |
| 17 | But Stanley Baldwin was sent to Hawtrey 's , near Slough , which was almost exclusively an Eton preparatory school , although there followed a not wholly explained change of plan and he went to Harrow in 1881 . |
| 18 | Against these factors , one must recall that in the Northern Tier countries ( Poland , GDR , Czechoslovakia ) , the earmarking of the national armed forces for participation in the cutting edge of offensive war against NATO has rarely provoked dissent from their commanders . |
| 19 | That is , they were more highly concentrated in the older staple industries which were in acute and widely recognized need of restructuring , the labour shortage was most acute in some of the highly skilled sectors of these very industries , and their loss would be acutely felt , at least in the short term . |
| 20 | A widely recognized consequence of early marriage or entrance into a conjugal union is the lengthening of the period that women spend as married or sexually active during their childbearing years which , without birth control or infecundity , results in higher completed fertility at age 50 . |
| 21 | ‘ It has been the largest and longest sustained fall in unemployment in the history of this country . ’ |
| 22 | This is fundamentally useless and it is amazing that anyone ever manages to get a properly aligned document as a result . |
| 23 | Joanne has since given birth to Feathers ' daughter . |
| 24 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 25 | The latest unit to go in IBM Corp 's cutting loose of its surplus manufacturing plants , which started with four factories in Europe last week , is IBM Canada Ltd 's Toronto manufacturing division , which is to become a separate , wholly owned subsidiary with a different , but as yet undetermined , name and logo : the Toronto division employs about 900 and has export revenues of some $800m annually ; all employees will be offered positions with the new company , which will continue to manufacture products for IBM — for the time being at least , and will also seek work outside the company . |
| 26 | My own bank , Ulster Bank Ltd , a wholly owned subsidiary of National Westminster Bank PLC , operating independently throughout Ireland , is keen to work with those engaged in international trade . |
| 27 | The company , which is a wholly owned subsidiary of AGB Research , had been chosen by Ben Lowe partly because it had done market research for other papers , including an abortive workers ' co-operative , the Scottish Daily News . |
| 28 | ANGUS Fine Chemicals Ltd , a wholly owned subsidiary of ANGUS Chemical Company , Chicago , having established a new substantial fine chemical multi-purpose custom manufacturing facility at Ringaskiddy , Co . |
| 29 | NeXT Computer Inc has been banging the drum for its forthcoming NeXTstep 486 object-oriented operating environment for 80486-based personal computers , reporting that Chrysler Financial , a wholly owned subsidiary of Chrysler Corp , will buy 2,500 copies of NeXTstep 486 . |
| 30 | Wedging itself in between Texas Instruments Inc 's announcement of the Tsunami Sparc chip on October 9 ( UX No 406 ) , and Sun Microsystems Inc 's expected introduction of the first Tsunami box on November 10 , MIPS Technologies Inc , now a wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Graphics Inc , is due to upgrade its 64-bit R4000 chip to the R4400 this week with a major performance boost . |