Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the dream that we all had about Great Britain acknowledging it 's theatre and funding it properly has suffered a lot of setbacks since the ‘ sixties ’ . |
| 2 | Over the years , Carry On has become a cult . |
| 3 | My analysis hitherto has shown the interrelation of three concepts in Gandhi 's thought , namely , Truth , ahi sā and satyāgraha . |
| 4 | But I do not regard these factors as justifying sweeping away the law which for so long has regulated the conduct of charitable corporations . |
| 5 | Still , no-one I spoke to in any organisation could name any cases where environmental opposition alone has stopped a course being built . |
| 6 | Yassa estimates that the loss of salmon and steelhead stocks alone has cost the fishing industry $1 billion over the past 20 years . |
| 7 | Change the camshaft for a standard one as , without increasing the compression ratio , improving the breathing and other engine modifications , the high lift cam alone has reduced the engine 's performance and reduced its torque . |
| 8 | This cost factor alone has brought the power of a computer for storing , retrieving and processing information quickly and very efficiently to the wealth of small businesses and professions who previously could not even have considered computerisation . |
| 9 | Training of users is also an issue and , helpfully , BT BIS has taken the line that their natural user group , the smaller firms , not only need training in how to use the system — which is , after all , not terribly difficult — but also in what the information available can be used for and , to some extent , how to use it . |
| 10 | Trite though it may sound , the Pacific , unlike its sister seas , is an ocean of many worlds indeed — and at the same time by being so has become the world ocean , as dominant and all-encompassing as its immensity suggests it has to be . |
| 11 | This is because until the commencement of the lead time period , the seller has probably not started work on the order , and so has incurred no expense . |
| 12 | Environmental Issues , which spotlights this and other surveys on page 11 , is well aware of young people 's interest in green matters and so has introduced a section specifically for them . |
| 13 | But the last week or so has provided a couple of classics , little exchanges that appear to have nothing to do with policy and everything to do with ego , bitterness and vendetta . |
| 14 | In addition , the marker has responded as master-craftsman to apprentice , so to speak : he knows what a court report ought to be like , and so has helped the pupil-writer towards that understanding , and has directed his attention to the part where the reader was confused . |
| 15 | King Hussein of Jordan no less has beaten a path to Costa Teguise , selecting Lanzarote , a land of unusual beauty , for his get-away-from-it-all home . |
| 16 | He did n't do badly in F. Ford , but F3 beckoned soon enough , a step which his biographer Eion Young rightly says proved a rite of passage from racing as a hobby to racing as a profession . |
| 17 | All independently of each other going round to the , well I say independently , but they obviously get fed a lot of information from head office where we have a telesales operation . |
| 18 | But when companies are fined for breaking the health and safety laws , they only get fined a pittance , compared to what damage is caused to employees through companies ' neglect and law breaking . |
| 19 | The goal looked good enough to give United the draw as well , but with just a minute to go they cracked . |
| 20 | If you had kept your mouth shut , Friar , we might perhaps have gained the truth . |
| 21 | As the car 's lights disappeared round the corner , it occurred to Charles that he should perhaps have asked the man to wait . |
| 22 | ‘ We should perhaps have asked the Trees the best path to take , ’ said Floy , presently . |
| 23 | She peered out of the window again , hoping that she might perhaps have imagined the scene below , but Miss Hardbroom had not moved and was now almost hidden from view by the smoke . |
| 24 | We never tried to see one another 's faces : that would perhaps have spoiled the purity of the experience . |
| 25 | It was a great nature , checked by some hunger of the soul , which ( this is the source of all beautiful desire ) would perhaps have destroyed the soul , had it been satisfied . |
| 26 | This may have seemed an odd way of treating a friend , but if one knew Emily it would perhaps have caused no surprise . |
| 27 | If perhaps the Government were to fund victim support properly , Erm , Mr who was burgled and has never got over it might perhaps have had a visit and some counselling from a victim support worker , and that would be a very good thing . |
| 28 | Johnson , never under an obligation to generate social ease , dismissed that by saying ‘ The intimacy is such as one of the professors here may have with one of the carpenters who is repairing the college , ’ Johnson 's point being that the printer , having printed some of Warburton 's works , might perhaps have bought the copyright in one or two of them . |
| 29 | Robert Penfold 's advocacy of pulsed controllers for model railways in the April issue should perhaps have contained a motor health warning ! |
| 30 | The editor might also have noted the colloquial sense of roaming around which the verb shatatsya carries , for this may perhaps have encouraged the switch from Shaposhnikov to Shatov as the novel began to define itself . |