Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harold P. Ford , a long-serving and widely respected former CIA analyst , portrayed Gates as a self-serving careerist who curried favour with his superiors and did not manifest the necessary independence of judgment . |
| 2 | He did so well he has since won three England caps as a midfielder and Liverpool decided he was the man they wanted , although they have tried him back in his striking role in recent games . |
| 3 | Furthermore , ERM membership has effectively disciplined many EC governments unable to cure inflation for themselves ; this has been a major factor in the creation of prosperity in Western Europe . |
| 4 | The accent was good enough to fool Canadian-born Bernard Braden , who had appeared in The War Lover but had not met Crawford during the filming , into thinking he really was American . |
| 5 | Yet the might of the Western war machinery moves swiftly to implement some UN resolutions but not others . |
| 6 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 7 | The Adour , which is much the wider , is also the clearer , approximately water-coloured , you could say ; the Nive is the rich colour nearly of chocolate , which is appropriate enough given that Bayonne was long famous for the chocolate that it made and in which it traded . |
| 8 | Another chapter was added recently when work on the long awaited new St Patrick 's Junior School was suddenly halted when the main contractor went into receivership at the beginning of this year . |
| 9 | Seen at Reno in 1986 undergoing engine runs , Tiger Destefani 's much modified P-51 Strega N71FT romped home in this year 's Unlimited Gold Race on September 20 , breaking the dominance of Bearcat Rare Bear . |
| 10 | GAA : Micheal McGeary sets the scene for today 's eagerly awaited All Ireland hurling final between Galway and Kilkenny at Croke Park , Dublin |
| 11 | GAA : Micheal McGeary sets the scene for today 's eagerly awaited All Ireland hurling final between Galway and Kilkenny at Croke Park , Dublin |
| 12 | Will he confirm that not only has British Telecom invested — this is what the Opposition keep talking about — £20,000 million in new technology , but it has contributed no less than £1,000 million in corporation tax to the Exchequer ? |
| 13 | He got there in 1912 only to find Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him to it . |
| 14 | Motorists are only permitted two Sunday outings a month . |
| 15 | Reg apparently came most Sunday afternoons to help welcome the anxious new arrivals . |
| 16 | Both Nazi sympathies and anti-Semitism had declined in the past decade , in part reflecting the deaths of Germans old enough to remember Nazi Germany before the war . |
| 17 | So listen this Friday afternoon and you 'll hear the latest video news . |
| 18 | Speaking of elections , can anyone explain why long serving former Darlington councillor Jimmy Whelan was in the Borough Solicitor 's office last Tuesday morning ? |
| 19 | Hostility between the two necessarily frightens tiny Taiwan , with a population one-fiftieth the size of China 's . |
| 20 | And this Thiercelin who was persecuting him , now he came to think about it , much resembled young Yakovlev , whom he had slain in sport all those years ago . |
| 21 | By a writ dated 19 October 1987 the plaintiffs , Mary Wood and John Stuart Seveld , the executors named in a will dated 30 June 1978 of Percy Winterbone deceased who died on 20 April 1986 , claimed against the defendants , Clive Smith and Gwendoline Harvey , as legatees named in a pretended codicil purportedly dated 18 April 1986 , the pronouncement of the court in solemn form of the will dated 30 June 1978 . |
| 22 | SNES-owning Mario fans , enviously eyeing Super Mario Land 2 on Game Boy , will feel a warm glow of contentment when Super Mario Kart goes on sale on Monday . |
| 23 | The US Senator Jesse Helms said in Washington yesterday he had reports from Panama that General Noriega had personally shot dead Major Giroldi , the commander of the ‘ Urraca ’ company charged with defending the Defence Force headquarters from where the uprising was launched . |
| 24 | A third sack holds 1,882 Kislevite gold roubles — Imperial money-changers will only give 1 GC for 3 of these . |
| 25 | I warmly welcome existing CBSI members , and hope that new members from both banks and building societies will be attracted by the more marketable qualifications that the merged Institute will offer . |
| 26 | Given the rugged nature of the area , I was shocked , indeed horrified , to find that although it contained several hundred of Prince Charlie 's caves , it only boasted three Munros . |
| 27 | So we have no knowledge on that and Peter and team working and Tony is in the , the body of the hall we had quite an extensive discussion over a period of time but perhaps cumulating last Friday , a week last Friday , on the N treble C and we are calling a special lay- delegates conference on the first of July in Sheffield , with one item on the agenda team working . |
| 28 | In the lighted deckhouse he could not only see old Willis , fiddling about with what looked like tins and glasses , but Janet , wearing her other trouser suit . |
| 29 | But she could only see little Gabriels , wearing small red anoraks and sporting hair that stood on end no matter how she tried to brush it down . |
| 30 | That 's enough to video this Abu Dhabi . |