Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn saw for the first time that Melissa was a little drunk ; her eyes had that bright , fixed look , and her words were pronounced with the extra care of someone who had consumed rather too much alcohol . |
| 2 | I think she must have been quite well off some time , had fallen on really hard times . |
| 3 | The soloists are placed rather too close in relation to the rest , which does not help , and more seriously the central Andantino is too romantic in style . |
| 4 | Dream incorporation was judged to have taken placed on about half the occasions . |
| 5 | Hymes intends that these contextual features should be regarded rather as general phonetic features are regarded . |
| 6 | That 's particularly important in systems like ours , where you can divert your telephone , so even though you 're certain that you dialled the right number , you could end up absolutely anywhere , because the number you dialled could be diverted somewhere completely different , so it 's very important when you answer the telephone to say who you are . |
| 7 | Because of uncertainties about the design and monitoring of these trials , the GUSTO study ( Global Utilisation of Streptokinase and t-PA for Occluded coronary arteries ) has been undertaken in over 40,000 patients . |
| 8 | In one study , necropsy was undertaken in about half of the patients who died , and showed graft occlusion only in patients given aprotinin . |
| 9 | Cos what we have heard so far this morning is certainly placing me in all of the local authority . |
| 10 | A hundred thousand homes have been repossessed so far this year . |
| 11 | Two and one half inches of rain had fallen in about two hours , the sky clearing just before sundown . |
| 12 | I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority . |
| 13 | When you have gathered together as much information as possible you set about defining your client 's image . |
| 14 | Do you know we had bales of , bales of til tins all pressed together as big as that machine , yeah and they 'd dump into the ship and they used to have magnets , put 'em into a net and these er bales of tins , any old tins , they used to find , used to go in there , we used to tip 'em , we used to tip them into the hold they cut the ship right up and that that 's what we 're getting back in motor cars now . |
| 15 | Much footway damage is natural deterioration of course , but it has been estimated that overriding by vehicles is implicated in over half of the cases where planned maintenance work is carried out . |
| 16 | When completed in about 18 months time , the stations , which are about four miles apart , will stop raw sewage from three outfalls that serve 42,000 people being discharged on to the foreshore . |
| 17 | The Los Angeles-San Francisco drive can be completed in about nine hours , but to digest the scenic delights fully and sample the occasionally bizarre sights along the way will take take two or three leisurely days , stopping on a whim at one of the hotels or bed and breakfast inns that proliferate along the way . |
| 18 | Data collection and interpretation will be completed in about 2 years after which a decision will be made on whether to drill . |
| 19 | The updating task can be completed in about 15 minutes . |
| 20 | Once again the rural areas are being treated less favourably that the towns . |
| 21 | Since the US Patent Office opened in 1790 over four million patents have been issued — yet women have received only about 60 000 ( or 1.5% ) . |
| 22 | It would not be practical to attempt to list all the fund raising activities that have been undertaken so far this year but I would like to pick out some highlights for you . |
| 23 | Excusably perhaps , neither Edmund Wilson nor any one else could understand , or could credit , the scale on which Pound was working : 120 cantos , and by the time Pound died in 1972 , the poem had fallen only just short of that . |
| 24 | Possibly they are priests or temple attendants wearing animal masks : the Minoan religion had certainly not developed so far that such things were incongruous . |
| 25 | People who contact ACE for information about services — older people , relatives , carers , potential volunteers , students , researchers , reporters , Age Concern groups , other organisations , and many more — will be given much more accurate and appropriate details . |
| 26 | These two easily ( or too easily ) targeted objectives of personality and performance are given much more extensive treatment than the more politically contentious issues of professional status and recognition , and the basic conditions of teachers ' work . |
| 27 | Situated only about two miles from where the threshold of Heathrow 's runway 27L is today , Hanworth was once a fascinating place and home of all kinds of interesting flying machines , as well as a flying training school . |
| 28 | But what of Dorothy 's reputation , which she herself had guarded so zealously all these years ? |
| 29 | Although methadone can be given in police custody only under supervision , its advantage is that it needs to be given only once daily . |
| 30 | The least coverage has been in the realm of news and current affairs , where until the recent AIDS and Clause 28 reportage gay stories have been given only very occasional attention . |