Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had just overwhelmingly repulsed an unprovoked attack by a European power , and their past history gave them little cause to regard Europeans with favour . |
| 2 | If God can not be identified with man as a product of evolution , and thereby given a credible definition , then any effort to create a new and successful conception of God will founder on the same rocks of contention that have wrecked every religion that was ever believed in . |
| 3 | By a resolution passed by 305 votes to 36 , with 41 abstentions , Gorbachev was effectively given a free hand to dictate the process of economic reform by decree , to manage the state budget , and also to supervise law and order . |
| 4 | Wimpey joined forces with Taylor Woodrow and Amec to form the Kuwaiti British Fire Group and the consortium successfully completed a major contract for damage assessment and subsequent refurbishment of two oil fields . |
| 5 | WEST HAM have paid £225,000 for Partizan Belgrade central defender Budimir Vujacic after the central defender successfully completed a ten-day trial at Upton Park . |
| 6 | The US space shuttle Columbia successfully completed a 14-day flight on July 9 , the longest ever by a space shuttle crew , during which the prolonged effects of weightlessness on the human body were further studied . |
| 7 | They think , perhaps , more in terms of what knowledge and skills they would hope to find in a secondary school entrant rather than of those one might expect from a child who had successfully completed a primary school course . |
| 8 | All these factors are increasing the complexity of the work of further education teachers of whom , at present , under half of the full-time staff , and even fewer of the part-timers , are trained in the sense that they have successfully completed a full programme of professional teacher training leading to qualified teacher status . |
| 9 | This is to certify that … has successfully completed an advanced training course in the following subjects : Information Management , Plant Information Systems , Database Design and Construction , Word Processing , and Personal Computer Operating Systems ; and that he has demonstrated his abilities in these subjects by constructing a database of the Economically Useful Plants of India . |
| 10 | He has since completed a splendid four-timer when making all to take the Group Two Richmond Stakes at Goodwood last week . |
| 11 | They have since developed a wide range of contacts and membership to the group is now by election . |
| 12 | Still , they met us with fire trucks ; we were politely assigned an armed guard and warned not to take pictures . |
| 13 | In contrast , the culture of precursors and purified epithelium alone remained small and was alymphoid , even though the epithelial cells had successfully formed an intact structure and still expressed a cortical epithelial cell phenotype , including MHC class II antigen expression ( b ) and ERTR4 ( ref.16 ) and 4F11E ( ref.17 ) expression ( not shown ) . |
| 14 | He had metaphorically shaken a large fist , impotently , at some looming energy-field , and got on with his work , his work . |
| 15 | Eventually , the authorities were convinced that the special circumstances of the Kadanwari field , coupled with the need to provide demonstrable incentives for future exploration , properly justified a new price regime . |
| 16 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
| 17 | Bush 's announcement effectively lifted a 10-year ban on US arms sales to Taiwan , in place since the signing of a 1982 Sino-US communiqué stating that US arms sales to Taiwan " will not exceed either in qualitative or quantitative terms the level of those supplied in recent years … |
| 18 | He has successfully rescued a whole series of major houses , without a penny of historic buildings grants , by adapting them as self-contained houses and cottages . |
| 19 | They 've mostly enjoyed a high standard of living and voted conservative . |
| 20 | These ecological considerations , together with the economic advantages that are apparent , must commend the system as one that has successfully modified a traditional subsistence system into a more economic one without major detrimental effects . |
| 21 | He was widely considered a strong supporter of further European integration . |
| 22 | The remaining chromosome 5 appeared normal but presumably contained a submicroscopic microdeletion in a subpopulation of cells . |
| 23 | Davies ( 1979 and 1981 ) , in a study of Wandsworth , describes how a small number of newly elected backbench councillors in the controlling Labour group crucially developed a whole range of new planning and industrial policies . |
| 24 | ‘ They 've not only developed a great understanding on the pitch . |
| 25 | However , although it was not unusual for preachers to criticize social abuses and injustice , this was not necessarily given a revolutionary tone ( 230 , pp.291 , 296 ) , and the significant point about Ball was that he adapted a traditional idea to revolutionary ends . |
| 26 | We had recently finished with the Douglas car company but wanted to keep the series topical and so developed a new setting in which our hero uses his amoral cunning to preserve part of Britain 's disappearing heritage ’ . |
| 27 | Dauntless merely uttered a gibbering sound and abandoned the argument . |
| 28 | ‘ One man has apparently sustained a serious head injury after the belay on his rope failed and he fell fifty feet down a pitch to the rock floor . |
| 29 | Madness especially gathered a massive skinhead following in the beginning , but the music press were not prepared to leave politics out of their reviews . |
| 30 | Blacker Miller , still then Foreign Minister [ see above ] , was invited to address the meeting formally ( whereas San Román was only given a private hearing ) , and described the outcome as " adequate " . |