Example sentences of "[adv] a [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun Microsystems has a deal going with another Russian concern , this one operating under the improbable name Elvis+ : seems they 've cut some kind of technology licence and co-development pact for wireless network communications technology to be used in Sun 's nomadic computing strategy ; Elvis is apparently a privately held company run by one Alexander Galitsky , who by repute was involved in the Soviet space programme , but all should be clear when the pair go public March 16 . |
| 2 | Schmidt 's main interest is in a highly focused peer group norm , which is apparently a linguistically mixed code possessing characteristics both of Dyirbal and of English . |
| 3 | ‘ Surely it would be possible to fit this disgusting effigy with some kind of hessian kilt ; or , failing this , perhaps a strategically planted row of shrubbery might serve . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps a locally organized competition to find a suitable challenger for the ‘ National Idiot of the Year ’ . |
| 5 | They may have contained either small units of the regular army or perhaps a locally raised militia . |
| 6 | The dividing wall was placed so a well established laburnum remained in one corner of their garden . |
| 7 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 8 | The household , still the main private economic unit , was not only a carefully regulated institution , it was also ( like the extra-household partnerships by ‘ thirds ’ and ‘ halves ’ ) an institution which resulted in the transfer of wealth between individuals . |
| 9 | She hesitated , torn between the unaccountable shyness she always felt in Louise 's presence and the overwhelming desire to be in on whatever it was they were giggling about , even if she was only a barely tolerated spectator . |
| 10 | It is of note that workers at the coal face ( cutters , hewers , and getters ) have only a slightly raised SMR for gastric cancer ( 113 ) which is not as great as that for the remainder of the mineworkers . |
| 11 | A repeated Barium swallow showed almost complete disappearance of the tumour ; only a slightly narrowed segment with a length of 2 cm remained at the level of the carina ( Figs 6 and 7 ) . |
| 12 | Given the size of large corporations , this is impossible , owing not only to the cognitive limits of human beings , which can tolerate only a severely bounded form of rationality ( March and Simon , 1958 , ch. 7 ) , but also to ‘ process limits ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ The world is crumbling around me , Wilson , ’ she said , the words so faint only a finely attuned ear could have heard them . |
| 14 | The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 embodied his division of the world between them along a not-very-precisely defined meridian line running about 45° West . |
| 15 | The idea that the Renaissance could be named , classified , described , and interpreted so that it was rendered readily comprehensible within some generalised scheme of the humanities was no longer a clearly defined process . |
| 16 | Nevertheless a carefully designed receptionist role that would take these misgivings into account , may be worth discussing . |
| 17 | Although at the end of Bair 's lengthy work a number of contradictions and conflicts do remain , this is nevertheless a meticulously researched study which provides many insights into de Beauvoir 's world . |
| 18 | Just a neatly typed sentence in the middle of a sheet of As-size paper . |
| 19 | Continental crust is also present beneath most of the shallow seas of the world , such as the 200-metre-deep North Sea , which is in geological terms just a temporarily flooded bit of the European continent . |
| 20 | Reviewed in the light of these population shifts , the findings in subjects with phenylketonuria suggest that a high proportion of early treated subjects — not just a poorly managed minority — exhibit some degree of intellectual impairment and that the major impact is in early childhood before there is any question of relaxing or stopping treatment . |
| 21 | Though physically a lightly built rugby player , he never hesitated to go for the top league and would be bounced and shaken regularly . |
| 22 | Hooking it over a conveniently placed rack , she walked through to the sitting-room . |
| 23 | For a while Athelstan lay listening to Cranston 's heavy snoring and fell asleep almost at the very instant when , back in the darkened cemetery outside St Erconwald 's , shadows flitted across the graveyard to crouch over a freshly dug grave . |
| 24 | The backfist , although not a completely controlled technique , since difficulty arises in judging its strength and speed , is especially effective at short range . |
| 25 | One is to disconnect the CMOS-backing or other built-in batteries for about five minutes in order to check that it is not a previously cleared fault which is being ‘ remembered ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ If there 's not a properly controlled Government cull , fishermen are going to start shooting them from open boats and you are going to end up with injured seals . |
| 27 | In this chapter we are dealing with a set of phenomena for which there is not a clearly identified name and which therefore presents different faces in different theories . |
| 28 | The ‘ human ’ machine is not a well balanced adult ; it is terrifyingly brilliant at reading , ‘ riting , and ‘ rithmetic , but dysfunctionally uncreative , unoriginal , profoundly deaf , and at all times dependent on us . |
| 29 | This possibility is not a sufficiently retained interest under the settlement to enable the section to come into operation ( Walker 's Trustees v IRC ( 1955 ) 34 ATC 135 ) . |
| 30 | It was not a directly elected body , though it was given the right under the Treaty to draw up proposals for direct elections . |