Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right got ta make sure she sends me a birthday card . |
| 2 | So the judge was calling a witness who was an important link in the prosecution case and was thereby assisting in making that case . |
| 3 | Taiwan was delicately situated for preserving American lines of communication between Okinawa and the Philippines . |
| 4 | It is clear that the Committee " s project of combating the " diseased " majority cultures and sustaining a healthy sense of Englishness by mobilizing literature in education , has little place for serving industrial needs . |
| 5 | carry on sunbathing without applying any more cream , in the hope that you 'll tan more quickly |
| 6 | In fact , Byrne knew better and eventually resigned without making another move because he realised that he was due to be mated within four moves ! |
| 7 | Tuna can be successfully caught without killing any dolphins . |
| 8 | In production , therefore , they continue to play safe and so refrain from using one of the terms until they have worked out more fully what difference in meaning ( here a difference in language ) is associated with the observable differences in form . |
| 9 | They 're not , it 's true , much given to murdering old men and children ; they do n't force Cardinals to ride facing the tails of donkeys through the streets . |
| 10 | They 're not much given to advertising such things . |
| 11 | He was much given to quoting that wonderful phrase to describe the endless battle between man and nature : ‘ the mild continuous epic of the soil ’ . |
| 12 | His description is more sophisticated than that of the social anthropologically derived traditional community study which was rightly criticized for ignoring basal factors at the structural level . |
| 13 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 14 | Those languages which have number and gender distinctions in their pronoun system are less constrained in using this cohesive device , since different pronouns can be used to refer to different entities within a text with less possibility of confusion . |
| 15 | On May 31 he had urged President Hosni Mubarak to submit to parliament legislation better targeted at combating Islamic fundamentalism than the emergency legislation in force since late 1981 . |
| 16 | There are in fact three superb courses in Kitzbühel , all surrounded by inspiring alpine scenery that 's usually bathed in summer sunshine . |
| 17 | I have to observe that there are some business leaders who have apparently succeeded in doing this , very frequently by forming conglomerates ; but I have never believed very much in the conglomerate . |
| 18 | Larger companies , including Philips and GE Thorn , are surprised that Intersource have apparently succeeded in overcoming technical problems with the design . |
| 19 | Although this was an extremely delicate operation for Nizan to perform , given that in 1934 he had carried out the rather complex act of ideological rehabilitation designed to demonstrate that Gide 's intellectual itinerary was such as to lead him inevitably to a commitment to communism , he none the less succeeded in combining professional respect for Gide 's qualities as a writer with penetrating criticism of what he considered to be Gide 's superficial analysis and hasty dismissal of the Soviet state . |
| 20 | Cash greatly impressed in defeating 25th ranked David Wheaton , and then by taking Lendl to 7–6 in the 3rd set in the final . |
| 21 | Kelly 's clumsy handling of the affair has done immense damage to the authority of his own office and he has only succeeded in attracting more attention to the ineptitude with which football is run . |
| 22 | England twice beat them easily enough in the World Cup ( by 138 runs and eight wickets ) , but in the opening match of that competition , Pakistan only succeeded in defending 267 against them by 15 runs . |
| 23 | Moreover , leading politicians , so committed to maintaining full employment , became deluded into thinking that the achievement of this target was direct proof of the maximisation of economic efficiency and social welfare . |
| 24 | There may be several reasons , concede Laws and Dennison ( 1990:276 ) , why primary heads appear so attracted to doing many things themselves . |
| 25 | I leave with him the thought , especially as Labour is apparently committed to adding another £9 a week to national insurance contributions for 3 million or more people , that if such a policy had been pursued , contributions for an employee on average earnings and his employer would now be about £9 a week more than they are . |
| 26 | These benefits will all greatly assist in meeting present and future discharge consent limits . |
| 27 | Ok , I see your point now ; - ) Im sure he would nt need to learn much from Wilko at all tactically etc , maybe in the practical aspects of mgt — so I cant see MUCH benefit from sitting next to him in the dug out . |
| 28 | He had been so moved by reading Political Justice that in 1794 he had decided to found a Godwinian state in a remote part of America . |
| 29 | Ted was signed for the Palace by Manager Jack Tresadern from Preston in the summer of 1934 and had a magnificent first season , only prevented from making full appearances by an injury sustained in our Christmas Day fixture at Torquay . |
| 30 | Foreign manufacturers could only benefit by starting new factories in Britain , again creating jobs . |