Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a direct challenge to Urban , who had not been consulted or even properly informed . |
| 2 | The meeting with Picasso , which probably took place around the time this picture was being painted or soon after , must have encouraged him in turning his back completely on Fauvism . |
| 3 | As regards board structure , the Proposal suggests that , for all public companies ( PLCs ) , whether or not their shares are listed or otherwise publicly traded , a distinction should be drawn between directors responsible for ‘ supervision ’ on the one hand and ‘ management ’ on the other . |
| 4 | Ignoring for the moment the force of the word ‘ really ’ in this argument , we can still feel confident that even if we give up talking of knowledge , granting that a necessary condition for knowing is unfulfilled , we can happily continue to talk about justified belief , distinguishing some beliefs as justified or as more justified than others and others as less justified or even completely unjustified . |
| 5 | Products tend to be misplaced or even completely lost or they get in the way but somehow they never happen to be available when wanted . |
| 6 | Anywhere that was obviously occupied he drove on past , as he did with any place that was exposed or too close to the main road , but deserted-looking buildings on village outskirts and elevated rows that were set back from the road generally rated at least a circling-around and a second look . |
| 7 | Conversely , it has also been shown that in the absence of another meal , the previous one may be kept in the stomach for more than twice as long as usual ( Chitty , 1938 ) , presumably with a gradual increase in stomach acidity , and the bones in this instance are likely to be strongly modified or even totally destroyed . |
| 8 | But it is often forgotten that even less physical sports such as bowls , and even snooker , where the same movement is repeated many times , can cause problems , too . |
| 9 | But it is sometimes forgotten that as far back as 1909 he built his own aeroplane in which he then made the first recorded flight over Ireland . |
| 10 | It can not be claimed that even as much testing as was possible of the information retrieval systems during the Resource Centre Project has been applied to the discussion in these subsequent pages . |
| 11 | Cost savings have been made in levels of management , although it is claimed that only around 50 jobs have gone . |
| 12 | ‘ If there any doubts … do n't take it ’ advises the book , easy to say , less easy to obey for someone in pain or distress , not so easy w hen it is considered that even too much coffee , cola drink or chocolate will register a positive result . |
| 13 | A number of Conservative MPs south of the Border have repeatedly protested that just over 50,000 voters are needed to elect a Scottish MP in Glasgow compared to the 80,000-plus required in the south of England , which returns a large number of Conservative MPs . |
| 14 | The relatively fine grained unimodal sand deposits from many parts of the world yielded similar characteristics : beach sands were well sorted and negatively skewed , whereas river sands were less well sorted and usually positively skewed . |
| 15 | It was in fact , ‘ by no means a bare collection of what was scattered in the former … but a performance so well designed and so well executed , … very acceptable to all who make gardening either their profession or diversion. , |
| 16 | The paddle is light and therefore not over strong ; even the clothing and buoyancy aids are especially designed and often not man-enough for white water touring and too garish for quiet flat water paddling . |
| 17 | my my guess is that by a side wind er can mix all the erm items on the list , terms would include erm maybe committed and maybe not committed expenditure expenditure and that if it does affect because erm there are some items erm in the erm not clear whether it 's committed or not Market Square er which we do n't want to support . |
| 18 | ‘ Among us the sin of schism is too often committed and too quickly condoned . ’ |
| 19 | If possible , bonus should be paid in the week in which it is earned and certainly not later than the following week . |
| 20 | She hopped down to the floor , but it seemed further away than she had expected and now suddenly it was rising up crazily to meet her . |
| 21 | The workmen 's dialogue , which he co-authored , though filled with pieces of carefully observed slang , is none the less stilted and sometimes too obviously theatrical . |
| 22 | Most women grow up absolutely torn and still somehow knowing that they have to make some kind of choice . |
| 23 | They had been busy in the department all day , a steady stream of non-urgent cases that kept her occupied and largely out of his way — until the middle of the afternoon , at any rate . |
| 24 | James Moir , head of BBC TV light entertainment , said : ‘ His unique gruff humour , his exceptional ability to use the English language to produce brilliant comic effect has rarely been equalled and surely now will never be surpassed . |
| 25 | I was still on the shores of the same great sea and yet had been transported into quite another world , a place on the edge of a China which seemed to have nothing in common with those islanders so forgotten and so far away . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Certain players were dropped and never adequately replaced . |
| 28 | This chart is designed to show at a glance exactly how many rooms have been let and exactly how many rooms are still available to be let and their type . |
| 29 | A cursory examination shows that the items on the list are not mutually exclusive , and thus the criteria used for compilation are mixed and also not mutually exclusive . |
| 30 | School trips and real experience supplemented and sometimes even replaced traditional book learning . |