Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In 1974 , only 18% of the population had completed primary and 3.6% secondary schooling and 0.8% had successfully completed a university degree .
2 Originally a three-year trained teacher , by 1976 he had successfully completed a part time B.Phil degree and subsequently had tried , unsuccessfully , to obtain the pastoral experience which he considered to be necessary in order to move up the comprehensive school hierarchy .
3 David Gettings , manager of Binns , Darlington , has presented certificates to four of six members of staff who have successfully completed a sign language course to enable them to communicate with deaf customers .
4 BRIAN Robinson last season successfully completed a masters degree at Loughborough College .
5 Since the prohibition order was made , he had undertaken a stringent cleaning routine every night after closing and had also successfully completed a hygiene course on the advice of Sefton Council 's own public health experts .
6 Later the same day , the receiver successfully completed a sale agreement with the same purchaser .
7 But it is unlikely that the ICC could have successfully mounted an exercise to codify contract rules governing commercial agency agreements , though a Working party of the ICC 's Commission on International Commercial practice under the chair-manship of professor Fabio Bortolotti has successfully completed a model form of agency contract for international trade and is proceeding with work on a model distribution contract .
8 Richard Parkyn , a chartered accountant from Tiverton in Devon who has suffered from diabetes since childhood , has successfully completed a 750-mile bike ride from John O'Groats to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in just 10 days despite having his bike stolen in Kidderminster and suffering from increasingly sore knees .
9 With her hooded eyes loaded with mascara she was often likened to Myrna Loy and was eventually given a film test , a frequent occurrence for beauties in the 1920s .
10 Writers were poorly paid , rarely given a screen credit and never encouraged to take a fresh approach .
11 Yvonne joined the class , became ‘ hooked ’ and herself eventually became a Medau teachers .
12 He began by building up the scout movement in the NorthEast and eventually became a scout commissioner .
13 That is a point of view which I understand , but which I should not commend against a background in which Parliament , when removing the unfettered right of a land owner to develop his land as he wished , thought it right to enable a land owner to get a second opinion if the local decision on his application was adverse .
14 Given the choice , most of us would rather eat a choccy bar than a stick of celery , but good eating habits will pay dividends .
15 It is perhaps significant that whereas Haycocks I eventually produced a DES Circular , this one was issued only as an ACSTT Report , endorsed by the Advisory Committee as a whole and over the signature of the Chairman of the Sub-Committee .
16 Since then the search has been on to acquire a Lockheed Constellation for the collection .
17 DARLINGTON sailor Julie Carroll , 20 , is looking forward to a life on the ocean waves on the type 42 Destroyer HMS Southampton after successfully completing a radar operator course at Portsmouth .
18 The value to the holder , apart from the intrinsic expertise developed , is only rewarded in some local education authorities where an extra scale point may be offered to an otherwise fully qualified teacher on successfully completing a Diploma course .
19 Whilst Apple were undoubtedly the first to successfully market a desktop publishing system , it was Xerox who invented it , the business world tends to run on PC-type systems rather than Macintoshes .
20 For example , hire purchase will generally be fixed-sum , restricted-use , debtor-creditor-supplier ; credit card use will generally be running-account , restricted-use , debtor-creditor-supplier , and additionally involve a credit token .
21 Rarely has a Merseyside derby — and there have now been 147 of them in the League — had such significance for one of the managers .
22 Weeell , to our knowledge , no-one else quite sums up the paper over the past ten or so years — rarely has a pop personage and his relationship with a music paper produced so many sparks , so much debate , so much excellent copy , and ( ahem ) so many yards of Angst .
23 To enter , just send your name and address , together with your caption and choice of video — Derby or Forest — to : I 'D RATHER WIN A VILLA VIDEO COMP , ZZAP ! .
24 We found , and searched , a by-now passengerless train and eventually located a luggage van containing an enormous , hairy , and morose dog in one corner and a small morose guard in the other .
25 I am slowly becoming a travelling salesman called Pete .
26 The Israeli Cabinet again endorses Shamir 's " peace plan " , thereby resolving a government crisis provoked by hardline opponents .
27 A MAN who successfully traced a forces pal through the columns of The Northern Echo said yesterday it had brought bad news .
28 Reports suggested that Lekhanya might have successfully forestalled a coup attempt — Radio Lesotho reported that a large cache of arms had been found at the home of Lt.-Col. Sekhobe Letsie .
29 The plan is for publishers to donate their unsold magazines , presumably gaining a tax benefit in the process , and these will then be shipped overseas .
30 ‘ Once you 've got that basic drawing of a person sitting sideways on a chair , if you draw straight lines around him you 've more or less got a pyramid shape .
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