Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often people will move up to a better word processor or spreadsheet , but will want to carry on using the other applications in their integrated package . |
| 2 | This process implies that forecasts effectively became the annual budgets . |
| 3 | It is the debate about the forces which determine this equilibrium which fundamentally separates the various schools of thought in macroeconomics . |
| 4 | We will be making regular reports to the AEA Audit Committee in the interim and vigorously pursuing the remaining actions as an integral part of our strategy for commercial success . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We would also like to record publicly our overwhelming sense of gratitude to all the hospital staff who did so much to save Jo 's life , skilfully repair the dreadful injuries and to effect a good measure of rehabilitation . |
| 6 | But they are much more akin to many modern skyscrapers : they rather symbolize the social ambitions of their makers — and the comparative difficulty of self-expression on an ample scale in the crowded streets of a medieval city . |
| 7 | to the Senate the pass and classified lists of candidates who have successfully completed the final examinations leading to a degree , diploma , certificate or other academic distinction of the University ; |
| 8 | Isolated , earning low wages , they mostly lose the statutory benefits which it has taken most of the century to establish — sick pay , paid holdiay , paid maternity leave , national insurance and redundancy notice and compensaiton . |
| 9 | To add to this gloomy picture of girls lagging behind boys at the top attainment levels in this country are the results of national mathematics competitions , where year after year boys overwhelmingly gain the top scores . |
| 10 | It was this " vague image " which had to be translated into a form which could be explored , even tested , empirically using the pattern-searching techniques of variable analysis . |
| 11 | This result can be confirmed analytically using the following expressions for the three-phase static torque/rotor position characteristics : The resultant torque from two of the phases excited is simply the sum of the separate phase torques : Both graphical and analytical results indicate that the only difference between the excitation schemes is in the equilibrium positions ; with two phases excited the equilibrium position is between the positions corresponding to separate excitation of each phase . |
| 12 | But they 're not going fast enough for some residents of nearby welland , last night at a private meeting there was suggestions that a vigilante group should take the law into their own hands and forcibly evict the remaining travellers . |
| 13 | Despite 300 years of conflict , the Merovingian kings and their Mayors ( who eventually became the Frankish kings in their own right ) had found it impossible to subdue the Saxons on any permanent basis . |
| 14 | Too much control and predictability might eventually subvert the organizational goals . |
| 15 | EDWIN POUNCEY sifts through the latest crate of weirdness from the States , including The Cramps , Green On Red and a farmhand singing the psychedelic blues |
| 16 | Genetic engineers , working for the company , have successfully altered the genetic characteristics of a commercial cereal crop , to enable it to resist disease , pest attack and intemperate conditions . |
| 17 | Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier . |
| 18 | They were too eager for his hands , too ready to leap into a fierce throbbing as he groaned harshly in his throat with pleasure and delicately manipulated the rosy tips with his finger and thumb . |
| 19 | By mid-February opponents of the government 's privatization law , narrowly approved by Congress with Colorado support in late September 1991 , had successfully gathered the 12,000 signatures constitutionally required to continue their campaign for a referendum on privatization . |
| 20 | Many of them were difficult to reconcile with orthodox Marxism , but on the other hand , the Soviet Communist Party , for instance , had long since annexed the great Russians of the past to grace the progress towards Stalin or Khruschev or Brezhnev ( or whoever reigned in the Kremlin ) , Ceauşescu 's hagiographers chose Alexander the Great , Napoleon , Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln ( among others ) to compare with Romania 's new president — in fact , he combined in himself all of their virtues . |
| 21 | After successfully completing the initial phases we move everyone on to our Sun Screen Cream , Protection Factor 8 . |
| 22 | Innocent did not associate Philip with the murder , but relentlessly sought the true murderers who were finally brought to justice in Rome in April 1203 and sent to the Holy Land . |
| 23 | This last point implies that psychoanalysis , as such , is not concerned with the truth or falsity of religious beliefs , and that it rather counteracts the earlier arguments about religious beliefs being neither justified by sense experience nor rational arguments . |
| 24 | The rising sun slowly turns the drab greys and dull browns of the mountains to patches of pale gold and dusty pinks . |
| 25 | Early explorers traded directly with Indians for furs , but the white trappers eventually evicted the native Americans so that they could control the precious resource themselves . |
| 26 | He argues that the traditional forms of representative government , which effectively excluded the popular masses or isolated and controlled them through local notables , is ‘ no longer an adequate instrument ’ . |
| 27 | Local education officers and civil servants rarely used the biologised terms of debate common within the Eugenics Society or the wider , scientific community . |
| 28 | We felt it right to accept the inevitable costs at this stage in the economic cycle and not to cut back on long-term plans that will strengthen the economy . |
| 29 | In trying to go home he simply pressed the wrong buttons — and kept on pressing the wrong buttons , taking his human passengers backwards and forwards , and in and out of time and space . |
| 30 | He reached for her and his hands cruelly threaded her hair , slowly winding the bright strands around his fingers . |