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

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1 A second , related problem is that business ethics has mostly concerned itself with grand theorising , trying to answer questions such as ‘ Is capitalism ethically justifiable ? ’ and ‘ Can a profitable business ever be ethical ? ’ .
2 The Viennese modernists , Klimt , von Hofmannsthal , Hoffmann , Moser , had only joined them in this acceptance .
3 Despite their common backgrounds , shared interests , and childhood ties , Gould 's pre-eminence had swiftly distinguished him beyond social association with his former colleague .
4 Your family has obviously sustained you through many crises .
5 Elsewhere it has been argued that ecosystems are ordered arrangements of matter in which energy inputs carry out work ( Stoddart , 1965 ) and that if the energy input is removed the structure will break down until the components are randomly arranged which with maximum entropy is the most probable state .
6 It would have been very hard for him to have suddenly dropped her after all she had endured .
7 So claimed his after two years recently and got about six thousand pound .
8 ‘ He 's not a carpenter , dear , he 's an architect , and a highly respected one at that .
9 And seeing Nicole had only reminded her of that fact .
10 In their defensive exchanges , they ceased to value what had first so attracted them to each other .
11 only seen it in that .
12 But I 've only seen it in some of the
13 Radical change by Government edict was not thought to be appropriate in England , where teachers had for long seen themselves as equal partners in the process of educational development and change .
14 I mean you liked it at night but I mean we 've got people right but some Friday nights we 've only got them in that bar .
15 Yeah but , they 've only got them in that flavour , I do n't like cherry .
16 ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’
17 And they 've only got it to seven ?
18 You 've only had them on one morning .
19 These are the new rate books , we 've literally only had them through this week .
20 I learnt their use in the early 1970s from Dr P B L Muldoon , physician at the North Staffordshire Hospital Centre , and have personally used them since 1974–5 .
21 Japan , too , had joined the conflict on the Allied side on 23 August 1914 and had swiftly helped herself to German possessions in the east , including the Carolina group of islands on 7 October and Kiauchau on 7 November .
22 Isabel Marshall had been added at the age of fourteen , when her gawky , bony clumsiness had suddenly transformed itself into dazzling beauty , and Clara , her especial friend , was added a year later when her breasts grew .
23 But this Sunday they 've all got something in common — it 's Father 's Day , the one day of the year when they can expect to be thoroughly pampered and spoiled by the rest of the family for a change .
24 The Building News , The Gentleman 's Magazine and The Ecclesiologist all reprinted it in full .
25 Charles had so convinced himself of this that he did n't ring in to the production office until ten-thirty , deliberately giving the producer time to sober up his intoxicated imagination .
26 In line with his overall political goal of proving that Labour was ‘ fit to govern ’ , Macdonald abandoned the visions of democratic diplomacy which had so excited him in 1917 and proceeded to adjust to the reality of a balance of power mediated through the League , helping to resolve the Ruhr crisis by lending his support to the rescheduling , rather than the abolition , of German reparations payments .
27 I 'd only experienced them through other people and it was something I could n't bear to think about , really , because my mother had died of it and all I could remember was a series of silences and around the silence was terror to me .
28 Top performers jealously protected themselves from all types of misrepresentation , so it is hardly surprising that record companies did n't try it on .
29 Er I would also point out that erm even though there was a respectable response to the public consultation exercise , I think the number of respondents in total only represented something like seventeen percent of the number of households in the Harrogate and Knaresborough area .
30 He had not said that he believed her , had only touched her for that fleeting moment , but she knew what she had felt .
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