Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have n't revealed their presence because our solar system is being treated rather like a nature reserve — that they do n't want to interpose themselves and spoil a very classic example of study of a lesser civilization growing up . |
| 2 | We were most often directed to library skills and study skills lessons in which children were being taught rather unimaginatively a range of things from the Dewey Decimal Classification to the use of the full stop ! |
| 3 | The methods he used then had altered little over the years , but he was aware change was in the air . |
| 4 | Since each inter-probe distance need be calculated only once the execution time is dependent primarily on the number of probes , not the number of clones . |
| 5 | Between Hendaye-Plage and its parent of Hendaye , there is much water side , because Hendaye is hidden defensively away a mile from the sea , on the wide estuary of the river Bidassoa . |
| 6 | The Countryside Commission says its plans have been calculated especially so the path avoids the beautiful National Trust village of Buscot . |
| 7 | Allen thought that if they were delayed long enough the Friar would return and then something might be done … unless it was the Friar who had betrayed them . |
| 8 | In all the examples given so far the syllabic has been following another consonant ; sometimes it is possible for another consonant to precede that consonant , but in this case a syllabic consonant is less likely to occur . |
| 9 | Sideshows have varied little over the years . |
| 10 | We have not stressed so frequently the importance of liaison with our own colleagues , arguing ( with sometimes dubious validity ) that because it ‘ happens all the time ’ it does not need to be explicitly provided . |
| 11 | The commission responsible for undertaking this revision was convoked only once a week by its president , Ottaviani . |
| 12 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 13 | Thus , if Brazil was already the major producer of coffee , the state of São Paulo , which is predominantly identified with this crop in our century , as yet harvested only about a quarter of the production of Rio and at most a fifth of the entire country ; about half the production of Indonesia and only about twice as much as Ceylon , where the development of tea-culture was still so negligible that exports were not separately registered until the second half of the 1870s , and then in tiny quantities . |
| 14 | Perhaps out of guilt , Harriet discontinued her writing and stopped seeing Mill , with whom she had dined alone twice a week , in order to nurse her husband . |
| 15 | They had left the paddock gate open , and Joe had taken advantage of it to go in search of more of the nice green apples he remembered having enjoyed so much the previous day — but this time he did n't reach Jessica Turvey 's orchard ; he got himself trapped in the marsh . |
| 16 | We have considered so far the daily rhythms of humans in health . |
| 17 | Donaldson , whose previous works have included a biography of the Canadian skier , Steve Podborski , has quizzed just about every available friend , colleague and observer of Villeneuve 's . |
| 18 | She reckoned that she 'd considered just about every possible course . |
| 19 | This car has rewritten the rules that underline the supermini concept , since it won European Car of the Year in 1983 ( Peugeot 205 was second ) and it has won just about every award possible . |
| 20 | He had come home late the previous evening from a tedious conference to find Sylvie in a strangely seductive mood , a champagne bottle at the ready , her favourite music pulsing through the house . |
| 21 | Katherine 's mother had come home only the day before they were due to leave . |
| 22 | Mary seems at first sight to have carried still further the process of reversion : ‘ numbers cause great confusion , ’ remarked Count Feria , Charles V 's ambassador . |
| 23 | That car 's been parked there over a week , and I was just beginning to wonder about ringing the police . |
| 24 | So far most research and development programmes have addressed comprehensively only the science and technology phase . |
| 25 | And during this time he must have trodden pretty much every footpath there . |
| 26 | It was the target of an IRA bomb in December 1991 , just before the pantomime and was reopened yet again the following spring . |
| 27 | The new provinces occupied pretty much the same areas as they do today . |
| 28 | If the product is a high-quality , high-cost item , then distribution costs will probably represent a small proportion of total costs of manufacturing and marketing it , and so physical distribution may be considered very much a secondary issue . |
| 29 | If the process is carried too far the material will however be weakened and eventually broken . |
| 30 | Mr Justice Simon Brown , the High Court judge , had expected too high a standard of care and expertise in the firm 's performance of its duties towards the Luxmoore-Mays . |