Example sentences of "perfectly [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And sitting , as they do , in parliament , but without real power , they are perfectly placed to intervene with ministers who are making decisions which might affect their own region . |
| 2 | A former editor of Izvestia , who was at the Central Committee plenum of 1964 which ‘ accepted ’ the resignation of his father-in-law on the grounds of age and health , Mr Adzhubey is perfectly placed to recall the ‘ stifling atmosphere ’ in the Politburo court at the time . |
| 3 | Three perfectly placed corner kicks in the first 15 minutes had the Swindon goalkeeper , Digby , throwing more punches than a boxer as he beat out volleys , headers and rebounds , and his defenders helped clear off the line . |
| 4 | All in all the Acapulco is perfectly placed for you to enjoy all the best parts of Las Americas . |
| 5 | Situated right in the centre of the town and directly facing Malcesine 's picturesque harbour , the Centrale is perfectly placed to enjoy this attractive lakeside resort . |
| 6 | Hammer had the consolation of an excellent goal , Des O'Byrne hitting an unstoppable volley from Andy Powell 's perfectly placed cross . |
| 7 | Northampton is perfectly placed as a touring centre with a wide range of accommodation to choose from , ranging from luxury fourstar to comfortable family-run hotels and guest houses . |
| 8 | With associate offices in Malta and Gozo , we are perfectly placed to offer the widest selection of new and re-sale properties . |
| 9 | He realised that this steamy tropical island with its huge natural harbour , just 80 miles north of the equator , was perfectly placed to become the British Empire 's power-base in the East . |
| 10 | Umpire Douglas Sang Hue , who interestingly had moved into a square-on position and thus was perfectly placed to adjudicate , gave the startled batsman run out . |
| 11 | Perfectly placed for the man from the city whose idea of a good time was to get a Roe or a Red in his telescopic sights and blast it with a soft-nosed slug . |
| 12 | Cordelia Oliver , writer and critic , who knew the artist quite well , is perfectly placed to tell her story , which she does succinctly , affectionately and with a fine interweave of biographical detail and critical insight . |
| 13 | With our London office , we are perfectly placed to compete with solicitors all over the country , and , what 's more , we charge less . ’ |
| 14 | It is perfectly placed in relation to the canal whose placid waters reflect the boldly modelled figure . |
| 15 | Kim Milson , who won the first match , once again won his section and was leading the series , yours truly in second place and perfectly placed going into the third match which was to be fished on the Grand Union Canal at Slapton . |
| 16 | A free kick 25 yards out perfectly placed and left the Derby defence bemused and helpless . |
| 17 | An ideal filter would perfectly transmit signals at all desired frequencies and completely reject them at all other frequencies . |
| 18 | His talents and character perfectly qualified him for his role and his motives expressed ‘ an awful sense of his duty as a Christian ’ . |
| 19 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 20 | Small but perfectly formed for pub rocking ( ie sweaty and restricted view from all but the front three rows ) . |
| 21 | For a band that has been performing for around a decade , their output is remarkably small , but perfectly formed . |
| 22 | As they watched , he skinned a pregnant female and pulled a perfectly formed foetus from its belly . |
| 23 | Preformationists held that there must be , in the egg , a miniature but perfectly formed adult : ‘ development ’ then consists merely of growth in size . |
| 24 | It was small but perfectly formed , as Dudley Moore is fond of saying of himself . |
| 25 | The killing of Polanski 's wife — who was in her last month of pregnancy and carrying a ‘ perfectly formed ’ baby son , also murdered — along with three friends and a totally unconnected young man of eighteen who had been visiting a caretaker living in the grounds , naturally caused Polanski extreme mental torture , made worse by the knowledge that he had promised to return to the house himself and had not made it in time . |
| 26 | Donald 's perfectly formed lips began to tremble . |
| 27 | Some natural diamonds are found as perfectly formed octahedrons , with a considerable visual appeal . |
| 28 | Rivette 's shortened masterpiece is small but perfectly formed |
| 29 | ‘ So innocent and young , showing off your pretty body , so thin and perfectly formed . |
| 30 | Small but perfectly formed … ? |