Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be natural to assume that this attempt to create a rift between Offa and the papacy occurred before the visit of the legates in 786 and that the visit was part of a process of reconciliation , but this is not wholly justified for Hadrian 's letter could date to the late rather than the mid-780s , and reflect hostility to one or more of a number of Offa 's actions . |
| 2 | The venture that did most damage to Jinky 's bank balance was the ‘ Double J Bar ’ in Hamilton , a pub designed to cash in on his name , but destined like so many footballer 's pubs to become a financial nightmare . |
| 3 | It is this which ought to have been properly recalled in Freud 's later work , and he could then have introduced the term ‘ death instincts ’ to describe this basic , and in terms of the later theory , innate predisposition to kill other human beings . |
| 4 | Ace nudged Defries , grinned , and pointed proudly to the two largest pyres : they were the remains of two hover-speeders , presumably wrecked by Ace 's grenades . |
| 5 | The announcement managed to elevate the NT import to the level of a strategic operating system for DEC , which is embracing it as a ‘ corporate solution ’ , language rarely heard from DEC 's mouth unless it 's talking about VAX/VMS . |
| 6 | THE world of public relations has plenty of detractors but Michael Murphy , the founder and chairman of PR Consultants Scotland , has managed both to make himself wealthy and to run what is widely regarded as Scotland 's most professional home-grown consultancy , as well as its largest . |
| 7 | Ware , widely regarded as Britain 's top TV stunt artist and arranger , ran an agency called Havoc , which advised Crawford on his dangerous routines throughout the first two series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em . |
| 8 | For a small supplement your home for the day could be Chef Boyers ' Les Crayeres , widely regarded as Frances ' greatest hotel where Chef/Patron Gerard Boyer , three star Michelin giant , has just been awarded , by Gault illau , the accolade of France 's top chef for 1992 . |
| 9 | Steve Goldman talks to the man widely regarded as Europe 's best film-maker . |
| 10 | Commentators described the outcome of these votes as a tactical victory for Yeltsin 's supporters and a boost for Yeltsin 's prospects of being elected ( hitherto considered fairly slim ) , since Vlasov , who was widely regarded as Yeltsin 's main opponent for Supreme Soviet Chairman ( and Gorbachev 's choice for the post ) , now faced the onerous task of defending his government 's record in a Congress debate . |
| 11 | Daim was replaced by the Education Minister , Anwar Ibrahim , now widely regarded as Mahathir 's political heir . |
| 12 | Daim was replaced by Anwar Ibrahim , who was widely regarded as Mahathir 's political heir . |
| 13 | Patterson , widely regarded as Manley 's heir-apparent , had approved an import tax waiver for Shell Oil ( West Indies ) Ltd ( an offshoot of Shell International , UK ) , at the request of Mining and Energy Minister Horace Clarke who was also forced to resign . |
| 14 | Prior to his dismissal he had been widely regarded as Manley 's heir-apparent , and he had served as acting Prime Minister for several periods during Manley 's illness in 1990 . |
| 15 | The IDA won 23 seats and other smaller parties and independents , most aligned with Sharif 's government , won 14 . |
| 16 | An account of how Dostoevsky extrapolated his lifelong leading themes of somebody to be and somewhere to go from Cervantes 's huge rhetoric of quest , would be doomed from the start . |
| 17 | The role of Jiang Qing was bitterly resented by Mao 's male political colleagues , not least by Deng Xiaoping . |
| 18 | THE irritating Buzby has long since flown from BT 's nest . |
| 19 | The consequences of the revolution were ramified , and the outcome rarely depended on Qaddafi 's decision to issue a decree , or on a cadre 's negotiations with a shaikh over its implementation . |
| 20 | Samuel Palmer was what eventually led to Keating 's discovery . |
| 21 | His stepbrother , half-scandalized and wholly impressed by Herbert 's levity , never forgot the episode . |
| 22 | The Marcoses are widely blamed for Ninoy 's death . |
| 23 | Haq , a professor of economics at a Canadian university prior to becoming Finance Minister in August 1988 [ see pp. 36558-59 ] , was widely blamed for Bangladesh 's growing budget deficit , a trend which had strained the country 's relationship with Western financial institutions . |
| 24 | While in Paris Klee saw and admired Cubist works at Uhde 's , and he may have known the rapidly growing Rupf collection in Berne , but he remained most impressed by Delaunay 's scientific approach to the handling of colour , which fitted in with his own ideas ; in the autumn of 1912 he translated some of Delaunay 's notes on light for the review Der Sturm . |
| 25 | Secondly , the second Labour government collapsed in August 1931 as a result of the unwillingness of the Cabinet to wholeheartedly approve of Snowden 's demand that unemployment benefits should be cut by 10 per cent . |
| 26 | Guests will be lawful visitors to those parts of the hotel to which they have been invited , i.e. all public rooms ( lounge , reception , restaurant ) , their bedrooms , conveniences , etc. provided for guests ' use . |
| 27 | When the dispute was eventually resolved in Cyril 's favour , it was not by the Council but by a decision of the Emperor Theodosius . |
| 28 | Levein was widely reported after Hearts ' game with Dundee United 48 hours before the squad announcement as having said he would ‘ probably get in if Gordon McQueen is unfit . ’ |
| 29 | However , most media sources were reporting by mid- and late-March that the southern rebellion had been effectively subdued by Saddam 's forces . |
| 30 | Another , this time from a lance-corporal serving on the western Front and evidently of an extreme Nazi mentality , expressly referred to Hitler 's ‘ prophecy ’ in a malevolent tirade , thanking inter alia the Stürmer for remaining true to its principles on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ and applauding the introduction of the Yellow Star now also in the western occupied territories : ‘ … |