Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1975 onwards the rising crime-rate is justifiably referred to as in a stage of ‘ hyper-crisis ’ ( Kinsey et al . , |
| 2 | It would n't surprise me to hear it was locally referred to as the sugar sifter ( a metaphor at last ! ) , one of those useless gadgets dispensing too little or too much in cheap cafés . |
| 3 | In 1899 , when there was a sharp increase in the number of reported cattle thefts , H. W. Brodhurst , the Government Agent , attributed it to false cases which were instituted because the magistrate was inexperienced : ‘ I therefore attach little importance to this apparent recrudescence of a crime which was once the curse of the Province , but has been little heard of in late years . ’ |
| 4 | The precise costing of the alternatives was difficult ( particularly since the nationalised rail and coal industries both refused to give guidance on their future prices which were a crucial element in the analysis ) , but by 1950 a working party chaired by Sayers concluded that , on balance , a higher-voltage superimposed network — Citrine insisted it be more elegantly referred to as the ‘ Supergrid ’ — would be worthwhile . |
| 5 | It appears that he had a recurring dream in which he was told , " Socrates , be an artist " , a command which he ignored at first , supposing that nothing could be a higher " art " than his own philosophizing , but eventually complied with by writing some poetry while waiting for death in prison . |
| 6 | Luckily the victim put up a fight and a couple of passers-by joined in , so that the assailant failed to accomplish what the local newspaper delicately referred to as ‘ his appalling purpose . ’ ’ |
| 7 | But the case is widely referred to as ‘ the Baltimore affair ’ because of the surprising lengths to which he has gone to defend Dr Imanishi-Kari . |
| 8 | The Z1 Carbonate is also widely referred to as the Zechsteinkalk and in N.E. England it is known locally as the Lower and Middle Magnesian Limestone ( Brueren 1959 ; Füchtbauer 1964 and 1972 ; Richter-Bernburg 1955 ; Rhys 1975 ; Smith 1980 ; Taylor 1981 ; Taylor and Colter 1975 ; van Adrichem-Boogaert and Burgers 1983 ; Wagner et al . |
| 9 | The fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina , coupled with the forced expulsions of one ethnic group by another ( in particular of Moslems by Serb forces ) — a practice widely referred to as " ethnic cleansing " , precipitated a major increase in the numbers of people fleeing their homes in June and July . |
| 10 | I like somewhere to go to in the morning . |
| 11 | the descriptive matter printed below an illustration , mostly referred to as a caption . |
| 12 | The King was also widely criticized for in effect putting his conscience above his role as head of state . |
| 13 | It has been loosely referred to as any mode of policing other than the rapid-response crime control type ; an alternative which specifically seeks to make constables part of the community by making them responsible for a geographical area , known as ‘ permanent ’ or ‘ home ’ beats ; a means of developing communication between the police and the local community ; and a process by which responsibility for crime control and prevention is shared with the community , both also known as ‘ community relations ’ ( Weatheritt 1983 : 4–5 ) . |
| 14 | This is loosely referred to as an Ehlers transformation ( Ehlers , 1957 ) . |
| 15 | As a result , what is often loosely referred to as the ‘ environmental movement ’ or ‘ the environmental lobby ’ now encompasses an enormous range of groups from anarchic ‘ eco-freaks ’ to establishment institutions like the Countryside Commission and from small , parochial amenity societies to multi-national pressure groups like Friends of the Earth . |
| 16 | Afghan rugs employing the typical Afghan " Elephant 's foot " ( or Gulli ) gul are rarely referred to as Bokharas , and are usually marketed under the name of the weaving village , district or tribe , or simply as Afghan rugs . |
| 17 | Paper records exist in the various departments , but they tend to be self-monitored , and are rarely referred to by other departments . |
| 18 | The occasion of a partner leaving or joining the firm should always be taken as the opportunity to update the provisions of the agreement and , since each single provision is properly looked at in the context of the entire document , it is the whole agreement which should then be reconsidered and not simply isolated clauses . |
| 19 | Such a policy of extensification would avoid food mountains and ensure that our land was properly looked after by farmers who want to work and who expect a reasonable return for their efforts . |
| 20 | It is clearly undesirable and often more expensive to admit or keep in district general hospitals or long stay hospitals old or mentally ill or mentally handicapped people who could be properly looked after in the community . |
| 21 | I have been asked to see that you are properly looked after in your retirement . ’ |
| 22 | UKCCCR guidelines n the handling of animals for laboratory studies were rigorously adhered to throughout these investigations . |
| 23 | This helps to reinforce the meaning of the structures students are learning , and ensures that form is rarely looked at in isolation . |
| 24 | From being a peripheral aspect of police practice , unrecognized in the courts and rarely adverted to as a ground for arrest , detention followed by interrogation has become a central pivot in the battle against crime . |
| 25 | While Robson 's view is , today , largely rejected by academic observers , the agency model is still widely adhered to by many practitioners at local level — both councillors and officers — who in the second half of the 1980s see central controls inhibiting their freedom to act in what they regard as the local interest . |
| 26 | For example , the constraints of women 's lifestyles and their domestic and family responsibilities often mean that they are effectively discriminated against in terms of availability for election and service . |
| 27 | Disabled people are widely discriminated against in most types of employment including the health and caring professions . |
| 28 | Although the court order should specify a time-limit in which the conveyance must be completed ( so that compliance can be enforced — see Chapter 8 ) such time-limit is rarely adhered to in practice . |
| 29 | David Clark 's committee of 25 years ago , irreverently referred to in some quarters as the ‘ Dave Clark Five ’ although it contained 13 people , took as its main brief the worsening financial position of the game consequent upon the postwar trend of falling attendances for first-class matches and declining membership of county clubs . |
| 30 | York 's a historic city of some hundred and four thousand people , covering some two thousand nine hundred hectares , but that city itself is only part of the settlement that I think we would all regard as as York itself , that covers a larger population of some a hundred and thirty five thousand people , er contained er within the York outer ring road , and referenced to the the map submitted with my H One submission , and also the greenbelt plan which we 've we 've just put up on the board there , er will show you the the broader extent of the urban area . |