Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We would also like to record publicly our overwhelming sense of gratitude to all the hospital staff who did so much to save Jo 's life , skilfully repair the dreadful injuries and to effect a good measure of rehabilitation .
2 But they are much more akin to many modern skyscrapers : they rather symbolize the social ambitions of their makers — and the comparative difficulty of self-expression on an ample scale in the crowded streets of a medieval city .
3 Isolated , earning low wages , they mostly lose the statutory benefits which it has taken most of the century to establish — sick pay , paid holdiay , paid maternity leave , national insurance and redundancy notice and compensaiton .
4 To add to this gloomy picture of girls lagging behind boys at the top attainment levels in this country are the results of national mathematics competitions , where year after year boys overwhelmingly gain the top scores .
5 But they 're not going fast enough for some residents of nearby welland , last night at a private meeting there was suggestions that a vigilante group should take the law into their own hands and forcibly evict the remaining travellers .
6 I find that they bitterly regret the Labour party 's dogmatic commitment to repeal , contrary to the wishes of the college principals , the Bill going through the House precisely because the Opposition Front Bench are acting at the behest of a few backwoodsmen Labour county councillors throughout the country .
7 This would encourage separatism , and thereby undermine the whole integrity of the Church of England , which it had been the aim of the Tories all along to protect .
8 The victory of supporters of Rafsanjani 's " moderate " administration in the October elections for the Assembly of Experts [ see above ] , coinciding as it did with higher oil revenues and regional political developments as a result of the Gulf crisis , worked to strengthen the administration and effectively silence the Islamic regime 's " radical " wing suspicious of internal reforms and of economic and political opening to the West .
9 Now , if you make a cup very deep and turn the sides over , you eventually make a lensless pinhole camera .
10 Some aspects of American Far Eastern policy were thus object lessons in how little influence the British might have over their own fate .
11 Then vigorously rub the right hand into your left elbow saying that you are going to rub the coin away .
12 His feet wearily repeat the old pattern , dragging him round the dance floor in a last slow spin .
13 It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward .
14 People only rarely make a positive choice , weighing up one credit arrangement against another .
15 Center Parcs have done their market research — they know that their target market want the healthy Nineties lifestyle and duly provide a huge sports hall .
16 I rather pity the young who live in London because they must be having a particularly difficult time .
17 Glass bevels , placed throughout the composition , poignantly suggest the shattered debris from a synagogue and shop windows .
18 Like Peking and Sian , the main streets here are spacious and tree-lined , but we rarely explore the back streets , which you see branching off everywhere , alley-ways where the people live in hovels which would make the slums of European cities appear spacious mansions — but even these alleyways look clean and well-cared for , in spite of their higgledy-piggledy mud- or wood- or brick-walled dwellings .
19 Unless they did so , he warned , he would abandon the bipartisan sprit of the negotiations and publicly denounce them ; he also threatened to veto all spending bills and thereby trigger the automatic Gramm-Rudman cuts .
20 and nervously steer the wobbling steels
21 Beach lovers rarely fault the International as it backs directly , down a few steps , onto the sands and sea .
22 The pelagic zone also includes a few creatures that are land-based , but none the less make a significant contribution to the marine ecology : birds such as the puffins , gannets , boobies , auks , terns and penguins ; the pinniped carnivores — seals , sea-lions , fur seals , and walruses ; other carnivores — the sea-otter and the polar bear ; reptiles such as some marine crocodiles and the marine , herbivorous iguana of the Galapagos Islands .
23 The door was flung wide , and inside lay a dark cave .
24 Inside lay a green woollen balaclava , a green sleeveless pullover and a pair of navy blue corduroy shorts .
25 The walk is expected to last all day so bring a packed lunch .
26 The evidence he has collected shows that working people of the last century were able to hold an image of society from their own experience and so articulate a political consciousness .
27 Undoubtedly , the fact that both mothers and daughters are able to have babies and so enact a continuing cycle makes their dilemma of finding a harmonious balance difficult .
28 This will , of course , only introduce a new level of complexity .
29 The experiments just mentioned not only introduce a much-needed control procedure but they also extend the generality of the effect .
30 As Smith points out , ‘ Conditions of conduciveness merely make the hostile outburst possible .
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