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

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1 ‘ BR has spent a great deal of time and money building up nationally known brand names and images .
2 Local councils can get a warrent to tow away illegally parked caravans .
3 Clear-cut quinine resistance emerged in Asia in the early 1980s when this drug became more widely used , even though quinine has the shortest half-life of all antimalarials and is not given prophylactically .
4 The unions flourished , gaining over 4 million more members by 1945 , and collective bargaining became more widely accepted .
5 David O Selznick no longer owned a part of him .
6 So competition for markets from the cheaper products made on newly installed machinery would hold price increases down to the existing rate .
7 Along with Francois Truffaut , Claude Chabrol and other contributors , he became a director himself , and the brilliance of their early work was one of the reasons their views became so firmly enshrined .
8 Your steel-mesh underflesh has n't quite knitted properly .
9 For example , if an authority has granted planning permission to A but building has not yet started , B might be able to get the permission revoked .
10 Hitachi was one of six Japanese companies invited to invest in Kaleida ( CI No 1,931 ) , and of the other five , only Toshiba Corp has so far stuck its head above the parapet with an agreement with Apple to license Kaleida technology and use it in jointly developed products ; others invited to join were Matsushita Electric Industrial Co , Sharp Corp , Sony Corp and NEC Corp .
11 These are useless for feeding — but the time for feeding has long since passed .
12 British Rail has not yet put an investment proposition to the Department for the west coast main line .
13 The protestant Christian has too quickly jumped to the conclusion that Catholicism regards the Holy Communion service as a work of salvation whereby the priest offers afresh the offering of Christ and pleads for salvation .
14 But the story has only just begun .
15 Yet aposematic coloration has not always evolved among kin-grouped prey and we need to identify the variables that are of evolutionary importance .
16 The phenomenon of certain mundane objects becoming so firmly associated with an individual that they are understood as literal extensions of that individual 's being was discussed in some detail by Levy-Bruhl ( 1966 : 100–27 ) .
17 The most obvious reason for this is that neuro-science has not yet reached the point where it is possible to describe language as a direct manifestation of underlying physiological of neurological states .
18 Young babies , whose sensitivity to temperature change has not yet developed , are also particularly at risk .
19 This caution is all the more necessary when we realize that there are varieties in which this change has not yet taken place , more than three centuries later , and that there are yet other varieties in which different changes have taken place .
20 Technological change has not only brought about a drastic decline in the number of farm workers , but has fundamentally altered the nature of the work which they now perform .
21 Thirdly , concern about the supposed negative consequences of benefit ‘ dependency ’ in creating an ‘ underclass ’ of individuals and families who have no self-motivation has very much focused on lone-parent families ( Field , 1989 ; Murray , 1990 ) .
22 Our Gas Turbines division has now firmly established a world centre of excellence in the repair and overhaul of gas generators in Aberdeen .
23 erm Novelists in this country , it seems to me , are drawn from a much narrower social band , and you can not have this ethnic richness , this melting pot richness , erm that American fiction has very clearly demonstrated I think since the Second World War .
24 The Vatican has never officially recognised Indonesia 's annexation of the territory , but it is privately conceded that the Papal visit constitutes de facto recognition of the status quo .
25 And Severn Trent has n't yet decided which way to go .
26 If the golden age for Byrd 's motets has only just begun to dawn , then Byrd 's songs are still in their dark ages .
27 One is that Mr Lawson has not yet succeeded in getting a handle on domestic demand , and the signs of success this summer were misleading .
28 But to enjoy these blessings near you , to see you daily , to tell you all my thoughts in their first birth , and to hear yours , to be mingling identities with you as it were , — the vision-wearing fancy has indeed often pictured such things , but hope never dared whisper a promise .
29 To live in a beautiful country & to inure myself as much as possible to the labors of the field , have been for this year past my dream of the day , my Sigh at midnight — but to enjoy these blessings near you , to see you daily , to tell you all my thoughts in their first birth , and to hear your 's , to be mingling identities with you , as it were ; — the vision-weaving Fancy has indeed often pictured such things , but Hope never dared whisper a promise ! ’
30 It is noteworthy that only London Authorities appear as most deprived by these criteria .
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