Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Social class becomes significant when we realise that patterns of recruitment are not distributed randomly from all social strata : managerial and education , motivation , and personality variables , but this is not so significant that social background can be altogether dismissed as a relevant factor in work behaviour .
2 It had also successfully lobbied for a prestigious residential development under the Community Development Block Grant programme , although the sale prices far exceeded the borrowing capacity of the majority of local residents ( median income was less than $7,000 in 1980 , whilst unemployment stood at three times the city average ) .
3 Joint-ill should be vigorously treated with a prolonged course of broad spectrum antibiotics and often flushing out of the affected joints with sterile saline , under deep sedation .
4 At one end is the minimalist approach , which postulates that the narrower the field the greater the likelihood that the project will be successfully completed within a reasonable time .
5 More generally , although civil contempt is not properly regarded as a criminal offence .
6 As the plains became higher and colder , so another memorable Andean beast appeared — the guanaco , country cousin to the llama , brother to the vicuña and the alpaca , and properly regarded as a small and humpless camel .
7 Provided the springboard doctrine is sensibly applied and injunctions granted only in the clearest of cases so that the recipient of the information is not effectively placed in a worse position than if he had not received it , the interests of both the supplier of the information and the recipient can be satisfied .
8 MR Lamont is not widely regarded as a great Chancellor .
9 The decision of the House of Lords in R v. Greater London Council ex parte Bromley London Borough Council ( 1981 ) , confirming that of the Court of Appeal , has been widely regarded as a political decision , no doubt because it gave a ruling in an acutely political controversy .
10 During his 12 years in the post Späth had consolidated Baden-Württemberg 's reputation as a prosperous state and he had been widely regarded as a possible successor to Kohl .
11 The assembly also elected three party vice-presidents , namely : ( i ) incumbent vice-president Anwar Ibrahim , the Education Minister widely regarded as a future party leader ; ( ii ) incumbent vice-president , former Defence Minister and Anwar 's long-time rival Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ; and ( iii ) Agriculture Minister Sanusi Junid .
12 Nevertheless , Muoi was widely regarded as a cautious leader who would be unlikely to speed up the pace of reform .
13 In what was widely regarded as a defiant challenge to President Mobutu Sese Seko , on Aug. 15 delegates to the national conference elected as Prime Minister Etienne Tshisekedi , leader of the opposition Democratic Union for Social Progress ( UDPS ) .
14 The elections were widely regarded as a major setback for the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT ) and for President Lee .
15 Widely regarded as a principal rival and potential successor to Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhaven , Chaovalit had given little indication of his likely response to the Cabinet invitation which had been made after he announced his intention to retire early from the Army command [ see also p. 37188 ] .
16 Chuan , who had experience as a Cabinet minister in the mid-1970s , was widely regarded as a moderate and a " clean " politician .
17 The four Cambodian factions represented on the all-party Supreme National Council ( SNC ) had met in Beijing , the Chinese capital , on Nov. 7-8 in what was widely regarded as a last-ditch attempt to save the UN plan from virtual collapse .
18 In Bohemia under Joseph II opposition to the burial of Protestants in cemeteries hitherto reserved for Catholics was so great that it required the presence of a considerable force of cavalry to ensure that one such burial took place ; while the disastrous flooding of 1785 , when the Danube broke its banks , was widely regarded as a divine punishment for the emperor 's impious attacks on the Church .
19 Rao 's appointment was widely regarded as a temporary measure ; he was in poor health following recent open-heart surgery and was not standing in the current general election .
20 The extensive series of domal uplifts traversed by the East African Rift System has been widely regarded as a clear example of active rifting with uplift preceding the development of rift structures .
21 Welch is the first to admit that when the Theatre Royal opened in 1982 it was widely regarded as a white elephant , which quickly became little more than a stopping off point for second-rate touring products .
22 Mr Gonzalez managed to win a vote of confidence in the first round only with the support of a Canary Islands deputy who is widely regarded as a parliamentary spokesman and lobbyist for the Tenerife banana planters .
23 Mr Gonzalez managed to win a vote of confidence in the first round only with the support of a Canary Islands deputy who is widely regarded as a parliamentary spokesman and lobbyist for the Tenerife banana planters .
24 The outcome was widely regarded as a considerable rebuff for Rhee and a weakening of his position , underlined by the number of successful independents .
25 Linda Nicholson is a member of the London Fortepiano Trio and is widely regarded as a leading fortepiano player .
26 Muoi , widely regarded as a conservative force at the time of his appointment as Premier in 1988 , had tended to confound his critics by generally supporting Linh 's reformist line .
27 Meggitt contrasts the ‘ ritualised ’ literacy supposedly apparent in Melanesian politico-religious movements with a model of what literacy ‘ really ’ is in a way that obviously owes much to Goody : ‘ It seems that writing was rarely treated as a straightforward technique of secular action , one whose prime values is repeated and surrogate communication of unambiguous meanings in a variety of situations ’ ( 1968 , p. 302 ) .
28 In much of this material there was little attempt to relate such antipathy and prejudice to a consistent and coherent theory of behaviour , but the assumption and arguments on which it was based can be seen as the origins of a racial nationalist ideology which was to be more rigorously formulated at a later date .
29 Delicately placed on a slight ridge , left-centre and midway between gatehouse and river , the surviving columns of the forum balanced , lifting the eyes to the exactly right focal point in a sky of scintillating , tearful blue feathered with airy clouds .
30 Corners of the garden which are awkward and difficult to plant decoratively because of their size and soil state , could be successfully filled with a container-grown herb or herbs , even changing the display as the seasons alter .
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