Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King was also widely criticized for in effect putting his conscience above his role as head of state . |
| 2 | Afghan rugs employing the typical Afghan " Elephant 's foot " ( or Gulli ) gul are rarely referred to as Bokharas , and are usually marketed under the name of the weaving village , district or tribe , or simply as Afghan rugs . |
| 3 | Such a policy of extensification would avoid food mountains and ensure that our land was properly looked after by farmers who want to work and who expect a reasonable return for their efforts . |
| 4 | This helps to reinforce the meaning of the structures students are learning , and ensures that form is rarely looked at in isolation . |
| 5 | For example , the constraints of women 's lifestyles and their domestic and family responsibilities often mean that they are effectively discriminated against in terms of availability for election and service . |
| 6 | Although the court order should specify a time-limit in which the conveyance must be completed ( so that compliance can be enforced — see Chapter 8 ) such time-limit is rarely adhered to in practice . |
| 7 | York 's a historic city of some hundred and four thousand people , covering some two thousand nine hundred hectares , but that city itself is only part of the settlement that I think we would all regard as as York itself , that covers a larger population of some a hundred and thirty five thousand people , er contained er within the York outer ring road , and referenced to the the map submitted with my H One submission , and also the greenbelt plan which we 've we 've just put up on the board there , er will show you the the broader extent of the urban area . |
| 8 | On Oct. 3 the German Democratic Republic ( GDR or East Germany ) ceased to exist when the five Länder ( states ) which had been re-established on its territory in July 1990 [ see p. 37661 ] became part of the Federal Republic of Germany ( FRG , hitherto referred to as West Germany ) . |
| 9 | This sample text yielded 30 or 40 such positions , henceforth referred to as data points . |
| 10 | Since ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ is constantly referred to in Russia and the West as Stavrogin 's Confession , it occurs to me to note that the word confession does not appear anywhere in the chapter . |
| 11 | Her pupils were not entirely decided upon by Miss Hatherby . |
| 12 | Oranges only came in in October for Christmas . |
| 13 | Injuries , pulls and strains can be swiftly attended to at Feethams where Nigel can perform a speedy diagnosis to decide how serious the problem is . |
| 14 | And as anurans , with their soft vulnerable bodies , are much sought after as food , they need all the defences they can muster . |
| 15 | This highlights the predicament of chimpanzees , the ape closest to homo sapiens and consequently much sought after by researchers . |
| 16 | Bees raised on a hillside of wildflowers produce a fine wax that is blended into a hand cream much sought after in Bath and beyond . |
| 17 | A woman of taste and energy , Mrs Baer goes right to the source — provincial villages in France — for her fine curtains , natural linens and variations on the theme of blue ( or beige or grey ) and white stripes so sought after by decorators . |
| 18 | Visual sources , pictures , sketches and paintings , photographs and engravings are usually eagerly sought after for use in teaching history . |
| 19 | Much approved of by Mrs Lirriper : ‘ a pretty little town with a great two-towered cathedral … and another tower atop of one of the towers like a sort of stone pulpit … and a market outside in front of the cathedral , and all so quaint and like a picture . ’ |
| 20 | They 're not angst-ridden outsiders and they exhibit no signs of the burgeoning self-importance , self-pity and self-aggrandisement we became so used to during John Hughes ' years as Tycoon of Teen . |
| 21 | we asked for space , and they said oh mid April , and that actually is the next schedule step down action and that 's going to be on Europe and that 'll run from April till June , erm but from now till April if anybody would like to write the country which is Chile and this is because they 're , they suppose that they have extend the death penalty in Chile to include the murder of an off duty police witnesses , at the moment it 's only erm , the death penalty only exists for on duty police officers |
| 22 | Narrative illustration , in the sense given here , is rarely highly thought of by adult critics . |
| 23 | It was highly thought of by Stephen Hales [ q.v. ] , |
| 24 | Most farm animals , however , still endure conditions devised in days when they were merely thought of as meat machines . |
| 25 | Record companies have become far more adept at monitoring and exploiting new acts , and their links with the smaller labels — who they once only heard about by way of the left-field rock press — are now thoroughly institutionalized . |
| 26 | To protect the City from abuse of power by Poland , the High Commissioner of the League was given the express power to veto any treaty purportedly entered into by Poland on behalf of the City that was in excess of Poland 's authority . |
| 27 | In relation to third parties the matter was most sensibly dealt with by Bingham LJ at p625 . |
| 28 | ( b ) to be able to appreciate the interlinking of everything and the force of cumulative evidence , and that what is done and learnt in school can not be divorced from what happens outside ; ( c ) to appreciate that religion challenges head-on any view that regards knowledge as something only arrived at by reasoning and scientific experimentation ; ( d ) to be concerned about conviction for or against religion , but to be open to evidence and to experience — not to have the answers all neatly sewn up , but to see life as a journey of exploration with exciting prospects and a sense of fulfilment in actually moving forward and , if necessary , changing in order to accommodate fresh insight . |
| 29 | He added : ‘ We have never said we would never sign up to a charter , but we are convinced this proposal would mean Community interference in areas like industrial relations law which are much better dealt with in Community countries . |
| 30 | That they are not such statements is in accord with the fact , rightly insisted upon by Hume , as already noted , that causes can not be said to be in a certain logical connection with their effects : the fact that it is not contradictory , however mistaken it may be , to assert that a causal circumstance for an event existed but that the event did not occur . |