Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | During his first term , Reagan and his staff eventually developed a better appreciation of the merits and responsibilities of legislators and came to realize that the making of policy required the executive branch to ‘ bargain with , cajole and otherwise court the legislative branch ’ . |
| 32 | Karita Mattila started on the flat side , but eventually developed the right glow and intensity . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | As widely expected the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of — Angola-Workers ' Party ( MPLA-PT ) won a majority of seats at national and provincial level to give it an absolute majority in the National Assembly . |
| 35 | Early explorers traded directly with Indians for furs , but the white trappers eventually evicted the native Americans so that they could control the precious resource themselves . |
| 36 | The RAF Squadron which claims to have accidently dropped the first bomb on Nazi Germany , has reached the final day in its long history . |
| 37 | Gresham 's School , Holt have made their contribution of players over the years and they are the current holders of the Henry Griserson trophy for the side which most impressed the XL Club by its performance on and off the field in 1991 . |
| 38 | It blessed the religious communities and thereby committed the Anglican Communion to an official acceptance of monks and nuns in a way which was so far unique to the Churches which came out of the Reformation . |
| 39 | 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 … |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | When de Lattre had visited Washington in September 1951 it was this theme , ‘ the ability of communist China to invade Indo-China and South-East Asia ’ that the State Department had chosen to stress in their briefing for President Truman and their up-beat assessment of the General who had transformed ‘ an army beset with defeatism into a force which has since won every major engagement against the communist forces ’ . |
| 42 | Piper , 26 , has been beaten only once in his 18-fight career , when he strayed 7lb above the super-middleweight limit and conceded an additional 10lb to Manchester 's Karl Thompson , who has since won the British cruiserweight title . |
| 43 | These then were Law 's senior colleagues in the work of opposition and would have presumably occupied the senior posts in a Law government ; they scarcely add up to the image of a party of ruthless businessmen and , if other probable ministers are added to the list — Lords Derby , Curzon , Salisbury and Crawford , together with Finlay and Cave , both lawyers — then it seems even less so . |
| 44 | They 've mostly enjoyed a high standard of living and voted conservative . |
| 45 | I live in Galway and have been supporting Leeds since 1977–1978 when I think we finished 5th in the first , endured the bad 80 's and have mostly enjoyed the 90's though a couple more trophies would n't go astray . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | He was widely considered a strong supporter of further European integration . |
| 48 | His integrity , charm , tact , and an insistence upon the highest standards , led to his being widely considered the finest literary editor of his generation . |
| 49 | The remaining chromosome 5 appeared normal but presumably contained a submicroscopic microdeletion in a subpopulation of cells . |
| 50 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | ‘ They 've not only developed a great understanding on the pitch . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | The perfect condition of everything had somewhat disguised the extreme age of the place , but now it was obvious . |
| 55 | 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 ’ . |
| 56 | Dauntless merely uttered a gibbering sound and abandoned the argument . |
| 57 | Today , we have not only halted the upward trend but have in fact reversed it , so that our costs are declining in real terms . |
| 58 | ‘ 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 . |
| 59 | Madness especially gathered a massive skinhead following in the beginning , but the music press were not prepared to leave politics out of their reviews . |
| 60 | Although his jarred shoulder is improving , and he has been named in the side for Saturday , he is still only given a 50–50 chance of playing . |