Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the wording of a trust has been omitted and the other provisions accord with what ought to have been written , by analogy with institution as heir and with legacies a trust will be understood to be duly given and insufficiently expressed in writing . |
| 32 | Emmie felt very odd : a little frightened but chiefly bored and irritated . |
| 33 | Macmillan eventually realised that only Australia and New Zealand would resist the pressure and advised South Africa not to press for readmission as a republic . |
| 34 | Conversely , of course , the TGI -based material described above can be justifiably regarded as inadequately precise from the creative planning point of view , even if it is extremely helpful for media planners . |
| 35 | The aim therefore , according to the government document ‘ Firecode : Policy & Principles ’ ( DHSS , 1987 ) is to ensure that outbreaks do not occur ; and if they do , that they are rapidly detected , effectively contained and quickly extinguished . |
| 36 | ‘ We need love to break the chain of evil , ’ Jesus tells a crowd about to stone the prostitute Mary Magdalene ( rising star Barbara Hershey is badly miscast and totally unconvincing ) . |
| 37 | They were written up to 37 years ago ; following them now could result in walkers , ‘ getting lost , trespassing or even being injured on over-used , badly eroded and now quite dangerous routes ’ . |
| 38 | Its pictures should be artistically entrancing as well . |
| 39 | ( c ) It is far better to invest in reliable commercially designed and thoroughly field-tested equipment than rely upon inadequate Heath-Robinson-like d-i-y alternatives . |
| 40 | The fact that flat-dwelling in the public sector has become a relatively stigmatised form of housing in this country means that women dependent on public sector housing are caught in a design ‘ Catch 22 ’ : deviance is punished with badly designed and poorly maintained housing ; conformity is rewarded with better standard living conditions that nevertheless tend to reproduce patriarchal power relations . |
| 41 | I also removed a Building Society book in the name of Francis Maclean , which I reckoned had about £450 in the account , and an Access card in the same name which I rarely used and certainly had nearly a grand 's worth of credit on it . |
| 42 | In the first place , the British homosexual movement was badly organised and severely divided when Clause 28 appeared : there was no national organisation for lesbians and gays in England at the time . |
| 43 | It was a celebration of their talents because , by being confined — so to speak — to those steps which they most enjoyed and thus performed best , they positively sparkled . |
| 44 | ‘ Vibe ’ is both specific and all embracing , criminally over-used and somehow essential . |
| 45 | One white collar union safety officer has attributed this emphasis to the poor design of early equipment and its installation into an environment that was often " badly lit and badly ventilated and ergonomically disastrous " . |
| 46 | Ironically , it was a track which Lauda had always opposed on safety grounds and there had been much discussion about the Ring 's lack of safeguards and medical access ( the track is so long , – kilometres , that marshals and safety equipment were not only widely scattered but often whole stretches of the track , such as that where Niki 's car went off , could not be seen from any marshal 's post ) . |
| 47 | gear with my forehead with such force that my goggles , which I was wearing luckily , were shattered and my face badly bruised and bleeding profusely . |
| 48 | Charman complained if he felt gigs were not properly organised and quickly became frustrated . |
| 49 | Aliki had returned from Cyprus in time to cater for the event , but nobody displayed much appetite for the food she had prepared and most departed as soon as decency permitted . |
| 50 | Japanese reactions to Western contact as a whole were widely varied and highly ambiguous . |
| 51 | The Commission 's record on attacking cartels and concerted practices is impressive , for it has vigorously pursued and successfully secured the termination of a substantial number and variety of concerted practices . |
| 52 | I can not remember to what extent organ donation was common in 1967 , but the Latey Committee expressly recommended that only 18-year-olds and older should be authorised by statute to consent to giving blood : see paragraphs 485–489 . |
| 53 | This policy was eventually modified and finally reversed some eight years later . |
| 54 | The Shandwick Stone , a pictish symbol stone found in a field near Tain , had been badly cracked and crudely rejoined with heavy metal bands by a local blacksmith about a century ago . |
| 55 | It also helps to vary the shapes of the flowers as well as their colours : for example , hydrangeas are much more pointed in shape than roses , and the petals of potentillas are widely spaced and so give a more pronounced petal shape . |
| 56 | Air vents in stone-built barns were normally slits or single holes , often widely spaced and sometimes arranged in rows . |
| 57 | Armed with walkie-talkies so we could trail her progress at a distance , we waited until noon when she nervously approached and then eagerly ate all her dinner , with the added sedatives . |
| 58 | it had been badly repaired and clumsily painted , but these things I could remedy . |
| 59 | Such testimony was not necessarily regarded as morally wrong . |
| 60 | Portsmouth must take some of the blame for the stalemate for they came defensively formed and defensively minded , and content to rely on breakaways to snatch an equaliser and , faintly possibly , a winner . |