Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hit sectors and people who largely escaped before , the skilled , the clerical workers , the managers and the professionals who 've been badly mauled this time , and where last time around er the service sector was expanding to mop up some of those who 'd lost their jobs in manufacturing , this time the service sector too has been in deep trouble . |
| 2 | They have thereby developed few class allegiances and few commitments to large-scale theories about how society is , or should be , organised . |
| 3 | Neil Jenkins of Pontypridd was badly exposed last season and the summer tour to Australia was truly a baptism by fire , but he has the physique to return to the top level if his confidence can be restored . |
| 4 | At the 1981 Census 16.3 per cent of its employed men had successfully completed higher education , with the next highest region — the South West managing only 13.3 per cent and the Northern Region lowest at 11.5 per cent . |
| 5 | They were mostly crews who had successfully completed one tour of operations ( 30 missions ) , so they were not only skilful but also lucky . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Hagfishes have a weakly developed symmetrical tail and the web is supported by poorly developed cartilage rods without associated muscles . |
| 8 | She was eventually given two life sentences for murdering her seven-year-old daughter and her four-year-old playmate . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | My final point relates to the penalties that will be employed when North sea workers are eventually given some sort of legislative protection against victimisation . |
| 11 | Elsewhere , despite disturbance , some young are successfully reared each year , and Ringed Plovers seem to be developing an increasing tolerance of casual disturbance by man of their breeding sites . |
| 12 | Questionnaires and achievement scores may be used but they are rarely given high priority . |
| 13 | I have rarely heard such stability and depth of image from a moving-coil loudspeaker and these are factors which applied , moreover , across a remarkably wide listening area . |
| 14 | Varied repertoire of calls includes characteristic loud ‘ quee , quee , quee ’ and ‘ cooorwee , cooorwee ’ notes , and a rarely heard whimbrel-like titter . |
| 15 | Alix arrived at the gates , at the high wall , with its discreetly disguised barbed wire , at the porter 's lodge . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Some might think a little delayed public spending on roads would not have been a bad idea at that time . |
| 20 | Few described teaching methods in much detail and multicultural education and equal opportunities rarely received much attention . |
| 21 | ‘ He seemed quiet and rather withdrawn that morning , but he very often was so I did n't take too much notice . |
| 22 | 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 … |
| 23 | Since battle had been effectively joined last spring , when Major first considered going to the country , the parties had bludgeoned themselves into mutual exhaustion before the final clash of arms . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | This is clearly a much more sophisticated analysis of the phenomena than the empirically invalidated instrumental account . |
| 26 | The move anticipates tougher EC controls on sulphur dioxide emissions , widely expected next year . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Yet many of us do not really know how much we drink or the medically recommended sensible drinking levels . |
| 29 | So is it badly smashed this car or is it just the bumper ? |
| 30 | In the event the union of Foix and Béarn in 1290 effectively solved one aspect of the controversy — Roger-Bernard III , count of Foix and vicomté of Béarn , now embodied the claims of both houses to Bigorre . |