Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In what was widely regarded as a politically motivated action Kitangan was arrested in January 1991 and charged with corruption . |
| 2 | As Minister of Defence between 1955 and 1957 , Zhukov had vigorously pressed for a less onerous regime of Party supervision and for greater General Staff autonomy in military — technical matters . |
| 3 | This fine-grained limestone is only developed over a very small area , usually thought of as a lagoonal deposit behind sponge reefs , though recently interpreted as deposits in offshore sediment traps . |
| 4 | It is merely intended as a very easy-to-fit deterrent which a car owner may use in place of an alarm or , as in the author 's car , the unit can complement an existing security system which previously had no visual deterrent . |
| 5 | This brochure is only intended as a very brief introduction to Carmarthen Bay & Teifi Valley . |
| 6 | But she had only checked in a very recent volume . |
| 7 | At the other end of all this research is the sick child , whose life has suddenly altered in a most dramatic way . |
| 8 | His voice suddenly dropped to a more intimate key . |
| 9 | A young girl who haunts the Feathers Hotel , a one time serving wench , and only seen by a very few . |
| 10 | With glass , for instance , the molecular structure is only disturbed to a comparatively shallow depth below the fracture surface and W is generally around 6 J/m 2 — in other words about six times G — and so , although lg , the critical crack length , is six times as high as it otherwise would be , it is still very short and glass is a brittle material . |
| 11 | That was rightly seen as a ludicrously intransigent position . |
| 12 | He comes from Dusseldorf , where he studied at the famous Academy with Gerhard Richter , and shows large landscape paintings in which the natural is disturbed by human interventions , all seen from a rather high vantage point . |
| 13 | ( Howell , in this volume , describes a similarly non-violent orientation among the closely related Chewong , but one apparently built on a much less fearful world view . ) |
| 14 | The sixteen-mile detour around Loch Leven was much preferred to a long wait at the ferry , and the journey was made palatable by the excellence of the scenery and the opportunity of shopping or refreshment . |
| 15 | The studies only agreed on a consistently high rate of dream reports from REM sleep . |
| 16 | The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way . |
| 17 | Beethoven is the historical fulcrum ; in his work the two aspects are perfectly balanced , and the uniqueness of the individual musical idea is organically integrated into a socially comprehensible but freely worked-out totality . |
| 18 | Abetting him in this is his childhood friend Yohei , a woebegone young husband much harassed by a matronly dragon of a mother-in-law . |
| 19 | During his second term changes in key advisers , the Iran-Contra scandal and Reagan 's growing inattention to his job all contributed to a less coherent administration . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , Bob Bigg 's Palace career was greatly reduced by a badly broken leg sustained at Newport in February 1937 , which kept him out of first-team action for fully 21 months , and some of the contemporary pundits reckoned that his absence cost us the single promotion place from Division 3 South in 1938–39 . |
| 21 | In defence he was steady and reliable even if , in a way , his sophisticated refined play was out of its element in the hurly-burly of 3rd Division South football ; Jimmy always appeared to be better suited to a more leisurely pace than that which usually pertained at Selhurst Park in the mid-1950s . |
| 22 | The insecurities remain because they were so entrenched at a very important developmental time when as children they were dependent and let down . |
| 23 | For example , economic practice contains raw materials , individual men , tools , etc. , all united in a more or less institutionalised process . |
| 24 | Machismo is receiving some challenge from women 's movements and organisations , but these are only supported by a very small number of women . |
| 25 | said : ‘ This court has on numerous occasions held that the effect of Ord. 29 , r. 1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 is that the contemnor must be personally served with a properly drafted notice which recites in clear and unambiguous detail the following : ( 1 ) the order of the court or undertaking given to the court in respect of which he has been found in breach ; ( 2 ) the respects in which it is alleged that he has been in breach ; ( 3 ) the findings of the judge as to the alleged breaches ; ( 4 ) the period of committal to which he has been sentenced and ( 5 ) that he may apply to the court to purge his contempt and seek his release . |
| 26 | The March Revolution was a spontaneous uprising because no-one had planned it ; it merely escalated from a seemingly harmless bread riot into a complete constitutional over-throw . |
| 27 | If anything Britten outdoes his models by the pointedness of his treatment , in which irony is constantly heightened into a more specific symbolism . |
| 28 | By approving the Act , Congress has endorsed controversial doctrines and practices hitherto conducted on a largely pragmatic and informal basis by the Commission . |
| 29 | These thoughts , which approached problems from many different angles , were not necessarily expressed in a very intellectual way . |
| 30 | So professors of jurisprudence teach their students that legal realism was an unnecessary exaggeration of facts about legal practice better described in a less heated way . |