Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If Paul were to challenge successfully the adherents of Tammuz , Jesus would have to be able to match the older god , miracle for miracle .
2 In the coming year , every one of us must raise the level of our performance , enhance our personal skills and ensure that we meet successfully the challenges of the current market and our planned expansion .
3 Indirect Rule had far more ideological content than the Punjab creed : it was found necessary ceaselessly to draw attention — perhaps because it was a principle coming to be so explicitly disputed by those to whom it was applied — to the long and careful weaning required for the native to shed his primitive mode of thinking and adopt successfully the ways of the modern world .
4 Even if the catechisms of ‘ correct thought ’ are updated and find new roots , and old upbeat endings are set to more popular and contemporary tunes , they will not be able to generate the more intricate models or maps which are required to confront successfully the types of racism which are evidenced by our two transcripts .
5 Elected for Northamptonshire to the second Protectorate Parliament ( 1656–8 ) , he was prominent in the debates over the alleged ‘ horrid blasphemy ’ at Bristol of the Quaker James Nayler [ q.v. ] , revealing thereby the limitations of his own toleration .
6 Now I felt in a position to explore the fate of this culture , and thereby the roots of the contemporary political landscape .
7 So it happened that both Polybius and Posidonius were involved in exploring the lands of the West , and more conspicuously the lands of France and Spain — with the consequences which I hope to illustrate in my next lecture .
8 Rarely the valves of the heart can be involved .
9 Statesmen were rarely the tools of business in this period ; sometimes they made businessmen do their work for them and they were alive to the possibility of political influence being spread through such economic channels as chartered companies .
10 And little by little the guns with their horses and crews were tilted forward , sliding inexorably towards the freezing mud .
11 Its inhabitants were predominantly the members of the Issaq clan , and the SNM had been formed there in May 1988 .
12 The object of the book is not to analyse but to report , which is why it is predominantly the words of others taken from the radio series that I produced , In Other Words — David Bowie , a series that was narrated by Angie , David 's former wife .
13 46:34 : the Egyptian dislike of the nomadic shepherds is probably no different fro the feelings of most settled people towards wandering gypsies .
14 ‘ But thankfully the days of the rack and burning at the stake are gone , even in Ireland . ’
15 Purchasers have a responsibility to ensure that research is commissioned to evaluate properly the effects of the NHS changes .
16 It is necessary to handle properly the relations between the central and the local authorities . ’
17 So I think your point is in effect met , but we have to observe very properly the requirements of the law .
18 All that would reinforce the particular policy to which my hon. Friend referred and would damage tremendously the prospects of the British people and destroy countless jobs .
19 For example , the existence of ‘ multiple veto points ’ in the American system leads to pressure to distribute widely the benefits of a proposed enterprise strategy , in order to build a winning coalition from potential allies in Congress .
20 The clinching argument that Mr Dixon made about informing his father of his literary success was that probably Hank would need help in investing discreetly the earnings of the book , and it was well known that Mr Stych was an astute businessman .
21 Always check the service history , as a diesel car 's fuel pump is a piece of complicated mechanics which will not suffer gladly the attentions of DIY servicers .
22 And presumably the competencies of careers officers are in the part two
23 And presumably the reasons for these suspicions and degrees of mistrust lie in history ?
24 Presumably the builders of the Channel Tunnel are aware of this ?
25 Even their private quarters , presumably the scenes of touching fidelity , were equipped to make the lobbies of Gulf hotels seem intimate .
26 The court may then direct that these records or documents be brought to the attention of other persons including presumably the parties to the proceedings and any experts they intend to instruct .
27 Presumably the children of the poor are n't either .
28 It has been argued by some that training plays no part in refining the skills of headship which can only be learned through experience ; presumably the proponents of this view would say that it also applies to officers .
29 Peters ' work concerns mostly the tribes of the Saadi confederation ( Barassa , Magharba ) , rather than the Zuwaya ; but no evidence supports an argument that Zuwaya women were less important and active in this regard than women of other tribes .
30 Slowly the lines of pain smoothed from the old face , and Mrs Richards managed to open her eyes .
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