Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pippo continued to bother us , though we had long since stopped taking any notice of him , and the Allied air attacks continued . |
| 2 | It was also reported that work was under way to clear Iraqi mines from the coastal waters around Kuwait , in preparation for the amphibious assault which was widely expected to accompany any allied ground offensive . |
| 3 | Managers and clinicians had rather come to view each other as protagonists in the constant battle for resources . |
| 4 | Guards should properly refer to ‘ switching on the darks ’ , since what they call lights seem expressly designed to suck all traces of illumination out of the carriage , casting shadows into every corner . |
| 5 | A group of shearling rams , currently being prepared for sale this season , is widely considered to contain some of the best sheep the flock has ever produced . |
| 6 | I had long intended making this proposition to the Secretary of State , but I was urged sooner to it perhaps because I felt that I was reduced in circumstances and thrown from my position in Society , and I hoped by a grand effort to establish a permanent claim on the consideration of Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 7 | Well , er , equity accounting , James is better placed to answer that question than me . |
| 8 | The institutions themselves , being closer to the work in question , were much better placed to fulfil that responsibility . |
| 9 | It is probably true , its probably the case that every single person in the room is better placed to write this procedure then Jenny . |
| 10 | First , Britain 's position in world trade in 1950 resulted from a temporary advantage since , despite enormous difficulties , she was better placed to make some immediate recovery from the effects of the world war than the devastated economies of Europe and Japan [ Milward , 1984 ] . |
| 11 | It was to change the nature of France 's regime , so that the nation would be better placed to meet any challenge or resolve any problem that it might have to face . |
| 12 | " Senator and Madame Sherman , I am highly honoured to welcome such a distinguished family as yours to French Indochina , " he said , speaking sonorously in his own language . |
| 13 | Europe , with its temperate climate and its vegetation greatly modified by cultivation , is less calculated to stimulate such observations ; in moist tropical forests , in the Sahara , and in the tundras , the close connexion between the character of the vegetation and the conditions of extreme climates is revealed by the most evident adaptations . |
| 14 | Forty patients with active duodenal ulcer disease and H pylori colonisation of the gastric mucosa were randomly assigned to receive either omeprazole ( 20 mg twice daily ) and amoxicillin suspension ( 500 mg four times daily ) for two weeks ( group I ) or bismuth subsalicylate ( 600 mg three times daily ) , metronidazole ( 400 mg three times daily ) , tetracycline ( 500 mg three times daily ) , and raniditine ( 300 mg in the evening ) for two weeks ( group II ) . |
| 15 | Forty patients who qualified for admission to the study ( Tables I and II ) were randomly assigned to receive either omeprazole ( 20 mg twice daily ) ( Antra , Astra Chemicals , Wedel/Holstein , Germany ) before meals and amoxicillin suspension ( 500 mg four times daily ) ( Amoxypen suspension , Grünenthal , Stolberg , Germany ) before meals and at bedtime for two weeks ( group I ) or bismuth subsalicylate ( 600 mg three times daily ) ( Jatrox , Röhm Pharma , Weiterstadt , Germany ) before meale , metronidazole ( 400 mg three times daily ) ( Clont 400 , Bayer , Leverkusen , Germany ) and tetracycline ( 500 mg three times daily ) ( Hostacylkin 500 , Hoechst , Frankfurt , Germany ) after meals , and ranitidine ( 300 mg at night ) for two weeks ( group II ) . |
| 16 | The essence of the Gaullist critique is brought out well in his highly publicised comment that |
| 17 | By the time of Anselm 's death the question was essentially settled and Anselm 's successor Ralph was fighting in a hopeless cause : by the time of Ralph 's death , the instruments of universal government had become sufficiently highly developed to make all that Lanfranc and Anselm had stood for in this aspect of their work a thing of the past . |
| 18 | The netting thrown over the tree in the background is obviously intended to trap these newcomers as they arrive to mob the owl . |
| 19 | This list is by no means exhaustive and is only intended to illustrate some of the most commonplace reasons for the non-reporting of crime . |
| 20 | American owned rival Whyte and Mackay made its long awaited swoop this morning and now owns around fifty five percent of the Leith based company . |
| 21 | American owned rival Whyte and Mackay made its long awaited swoop this morning and now has control of the Leith based company — making the combined group the third biggest scotch whisky firm . |
| 22 | HONG KONG — China reacted angrily yesterday to Hong Kong 's decision to move a centrally-located British naval base to an outlying island , a switch apparently designed to undercut any plans China had for a high-profile military presence after 1997 , writes Kevin Hamlin . |
| 23 | Perhaps Mr. Cowan should resume his more normal incessant political instruction on those matters that puzzle the lesser members of our own contemporary society , who are obviously deemed to lack any ability to think for themselves . |
| 24 | That might seem like the wackiest of wacky ideas but it becomes ever more fascinating as it is explored in a barrage of speculation , invective and anecdotes , all designed to prove that money , in a practical rather than puritanical sense , is the root of all evil . |
| 25 | Indeed the York greenbelt is entirely designed to do that . |
| 26 | Dexter smiled : Blanche had obviously decided to show some independence now that the press conference had begun . |
| 27 | The Marriage Guidance Council , in its infancy in England as the Fifties began , expanded its clientele by 30 per cent to about 18,000 people , and it was then only prepared to counsel those whose sexual relations took place within marriage . |
| 28 | Glover only decided to do another sequel because the original people were involved . |
| 29 | Traditional Christians had long struggled to escape this identification . |
| 30 | As Asian countries have built up their own knowledge industries and have begun to export knowledge products , they have naturally moved to regulate this complex trade . |