Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has defended the Mulroney government , whereas Mr Charest has discreetly distanced himself from the old regime . |
| 2 | She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer . |
| 3 | A name for the monk had instinctively formed itself in her mind . |
| 4 | He had since heard nothing from Mr Rowland . |
| 5 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 6 | I still had five , and I had rather expected something of the kind might happen . |
| 7 | Why , she wondered , when she had effectively let him off the hook ? |
| 8 | A second , related problem is that business ethics has mostly concerned itself with grand theorising , trying to answer questions such as ‘ Is capitalism ethically justifiable ? ’ and ‘ Can a profitable business ever be ethical ? ’ . |
| 9 | Escobar announced last month that he was declaring war on the state and the government has since blamed him for a series of bomb blasts in Bogota and other cities which have killed more than 40 people . |
| 10 | The Viennese modernists , Klimt , von Hofmannsthal , Hoffmann , Moser , had only joined them in this acceptance . |
| 11 | The generally massive expansion in financial services , the ‘ Big Bang ’ , the LDDC 's location close to the City , £400 million of public-sector support in the first five years of existence and its extensive powers to acquire land , all placed it in an exceptionally favourable situation . |
| 12 | His youth had perhaps exposed him to charges of being too much under the control of guardians ( bajuli ) but none is documented after Atto in 838 . |
| 13 | you 'd merely likened it to the bin-skips |
| 14 | Despite their common backgrounds , shared interests , and childhood ties , Gould 's pre-eminence had swiftly distinguished him beyond social association with his former colleague . |
| 15 | However , the talents of her mind amply compensated for the defects of her person ; and if , with so few advantages , she was capable of writing with so much credit to herself , there can be no doubt but , if her career had been prolonged , she would have greatly distinguished herself in the annals of female literature [ |
| 16 | He threw off the blanket , picked up the limp girl and gently placed her on the mat in front of the blazing fire . |
| 17 | The company , which has pretty much limited itself to the German market so far , is also looking to peddle its suite of software products across the border , in France , and is currently courting French distributors . |
| 18 | Farr-Jones has not only proven himself to be the world 's leading scrum-half , but his captaincy over the past four years has grown in maturity and stature with each test and tour match . |
| 19 | Though relieved , and fiercely delighted that she had apparently stopped him in his tracks , Polly was apprehensive about going back up on deck . |
| 20 | Your family has obviously sustained you through many crises . |
| 21 | Elsewhere it has been argued that ecosystems are ordered arrangements of matter in which energy inputs carry out work ( Stoddart , 1965 ) and that if the energy input is removed the structure will break down until the components are randomly arranged which with maximum entropy is the most probable state . |
| 22 | It would have been very hard for him to have suddenly dropped her after all she had endured . |
| 23 | You 've obviously enjoyed your career very much and we 've all enjoyed you over the years , would you be pleased if your grandchildren went into acting ? |
| 24 | She looked disappointed , so Toby had obviously disarmed her with his usual charm , and had probably promised some expenses , too . |
| 25 | So claimed his after two years recently and got about six thousand pound . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's not a carpenter , dear , he 's an architect , and a highly respected one at that . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've obviously caught you at a bad moment . |
| 28 | Hitherto he had only visualized her through Gabriel 's eyes , and he saw now that his little friend was not an accurate describer . |
| 29 | Well , well , well , Captain , I nearly did you a great injustice a minute or two ago , I thought you had not perhaps addressed yourself to the problem on hand . |
| 30 | Why he never troubled to publish his knowledge , I do not know , except that he was an aristocrat , and so perhaps considered it beneath him to publish . |