Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the north , however , at the south-western end of the Faeroe-Shetland Channel , the stronger bottom currents have locally exposed debris-flow sediments at the sea bed . |
| 2 | Last month Mr Alton met Tibet 's exiled leader , the Dalai Lama , in London and has since lobbied overseas development minister Lynda Chalker over the issue . |
| 3 | Hagfishes have a weakly developed symmetrical tail and the web is supported by poorly developed cartilage rods without associated muscles . |
| 4 | The Declaration of Rights was eventually given statutory force with the passage of the Bill of Rights in December , which included a further proviso that no Catholic could inherit the Crown . |
| 5 | Questionnaires and achievement scores may be used but they are rarely given high priority . |
| 6 | Varied repertoire of calls includes characteristic loud ‘ quee , quee , quee ’ and ‘ cooorwee , cooorwee ’ notes , and a rarely heard whimbrel-like titter . |
| 7 | Alix arrived at the gates , at the high wall , with its discreetly disguised barbed wire , at the porter 's lodge . |
| 8 | A Japanese visitor to suburbia would be more upset by a straight path than he would by a strategically and discreetly placed converted shed — that nevertheless housed garden tools . |
| 9 | tripping over electric cables or badly placed electric fires ; |
| 10 | Since the 1950s the USSR has tried to persuade Latin American governments that trade with the eastern bloc should be ‘ a major element in the Latin American countries ’ drive for economic independence' , since it would enable them ‘ to gain more favourable terms with the industrially developed capitalist states , to consolidate their forces in the struggle against foreign monopolies [ and ] to expand their export ( sic ) and develop their industry and agriculture ’ ( Gladkov : 1975 , p. 11 ) . |
| 11 | In so far as the levels of government expenditure are fixed by general political considerations , if one group is expressly given favourable tax treatment the value of tax revenue lost is a cost that must be financed by other tax payers . |
| 12 | This has effectively banished explicit work on religious concepts in most primary schools , because children in those age-groups are deemed unable to think in abstract terms , but only concretely . |
| 13 | Some might think a little delayed public spending on roads would not have been a bad idea at that time . |
| 14 | Hilton 's attempt to revive the idea of Lollard influence on the revolt by redefining Lollardy as something more than the following of Wyclif ( 78 , p.213 ) disregards the general character of later Lollardy , which only rarely developed revolutionary tendencies . |
| 15 | Two members of the French side were given their marching orders and have since received substantial suspensions . |
| 16 | for placing students in relation to the most widely recognized public examinations |
| 17 | The Privy Council in Chan Man-sin advised that the owner of a credit at the bank or of a right to draw on an account " has , clearly , the right as owner to draw by means of a properly completed negotiable instrument or order to pay and it is … beyond argument that one who draws , presents and negotiates a cheque on a particular bank account is assuming the rights of the owner … |
| 18 | ‘ Queen Margaret believes , ’ he continued , ‘ that her husband was murdered at Flodden by a member of Les Blancs Sangliers who have since waged continuous war against those who advised her late husband , such as Selkirk and Ruthven . ’ |
| 19 | This is clearly a much more sophisticated analysis of the phenomena than the empirically invalidated instrumental account . |
| 20 | There was thus little organised public concern over the ethical treatment of animals until the formation of the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , in Britain in 1822 and the United States in 1866 . |
| 21 | Yet many of us do not really know how much we drink or the medically recommended sensible drinking levels . |
| 22 | It could cost from £1,200 for professionally installed secondary windows , and from £3,500 for replacement windows in maintenance-free materials . |
| 23 | This is not required in the accounts of wholly owned subsidiary undertakings of companies incorporated in Great Britain . |
| 24 | The few ‘ intensive care ’ or ‘ medium-secure ’ units in ordinary NHS hospitals which accept mentally disordered offenders are nearly all sited in badly designed old wards in large hospitals . |
| 25 | The party also successfully targeted marginal seats in key areas such as in New South Wales where the Liberal-National state government was proving unpopular and in Queensland where the ALP exploited the legacy of corruption associated with the years of National Party rule . |
| 26 | The conflict has since dominated Syrian politics . |
| 27 | … which Calcutta-born journalist with a flair for illustration eventually won international acclaim through novels about the English class system ? |
| 28 | Firms who have substantially reduced their work force include Formica ( with 550 employees in 1987 , compared with more than 1200 in the early 1970s ) , Welch 's ( a locally owned sweet manufacturer with 130 employees , compared with 200 in the early 1970s ) , Universal Bedding ( with 350 employees in 1982 , compared with 500 in 1973 ) , and Great Northern Knit wear ( with 75 employees in 1987 , compared with 115 in 1973 ) . |
| 29 | We question , however , Schröder 's implication that effective treatment exists , believing that his assertion that ‘ radiotherapy and radical prostatectomy are effective in treating locally confined prostatic cancer ’ is particularly misleading . |
| 30 | It was a little grey-haired old lady , propped up on cushions and staring intently at something Meg could n't see . |