Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us now turn to one of the definitions most favoured in the literature , albeit mostly in an implicit form . |
| 2 | ‘ No regular job , but does n't draw social security or benefits from the unemployment office — ’ I knew that was a con for a start , as the cops rarely liaised with the Social Security people , let alone with the income tax ferrets , thank God' — and yet no known criminal source of income . |
| 3 | In some ways employers effectively connived with the unions in sustaining costly work practices . |
| 4 | The narrator makes his presence most felt by a series of moralistic or sacrilegious apostrophes : comments on events within the text . |
| 5 | He did , and with a most impressive gargling technique rarely heard outside a waste disposal unit , coming up for air to declare the stuff just as peculiar as could be expected , ‘ as no two bottles are ever the same ’ . |
| 6 | It might finally be observed that in its short life , Article 100A , which derogates from Article 100 by allowing the Council to act by qualified majority in co-operation with the European Parliament in order to complete the internal market , has already been used to anticipate new competences expressly recognized in the Maastricht amendments : two of these relate to the encouragement of ‘ trans-European networks ’ and measures in the sphere of energy , yet Article 100A had already been used to enact Council Directive 90/547 on the transit of electricity through transmission grids and Council Directive 91/287 on the transit of natural gas through grids . |
| 7 | On Jan. 9 , however , only days after it had begun , the Brazilian Justice Minister , Gen. Saulo Ramos , announced that the operation had ended , a decision widely seen as a concession to mining interests . |
| 8 | The woods worst affected by the storms were those with mainly uniform , planted stands of trees , whereas those comprising trees of different ages and species were better able to withstand the high winds . |
| 9 | Yesterday 's drama came a year and a day after the North Yorkshire shootings in which Special Constable Glenn Goodman was killed and PC Sandy Kelly badly wounded by a hail of bullets fired by on-the-run IRA terrorist Paul Magee . |
| 10 | In addition , it has been shown that Ac-ASA is the form of the drug predominantly found in the rectal mucosa of patients taking oral sulphasalazine . |
| 11 | Precision and consistency are the keys to success : the half-dozen friers in the long kitchen discreetly tucked behind a panelled wall are obviously highly disciplined . |
| 12 | Kenneth Markham , who works for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research , funded by the New Zealand government , analysed flavonoids , photo-protective pigments which are synthesised in plants when they are exposed to harmful UV-B radiation , the wavelength most affected by the depletion of stratospheric ozone . |
| 13 | The gradual extension of the state 's role in crime control certainly affected some sorts of crime , particularly property crime , but government institutions rarely worked in the ways intended by higher officials . |
| 14 | I do not remember whether we enlivened the day with a penny ride on a donkey round the White Stone pond but I regarded these donkeys with the respect and admiration rarely afforded by the keenest jockey for his mount and one of my day-dreams ( only once realised and then somehow a little disappointing ) was to save up three weeks ' pocket money and have a 3d ride in place of a Id one , which took you for at least a hundred yards along the Spaniards Road . |
| 15 | He opened up a correspondence with the more pliable officers among Dara 's army and with promises of rewards secretly won over a sizeable proportion of his opponent 's force . |
| 16 | In an age of central heating and renovation Greystones presumably featured as a rare unspoiled habitat . |
| 17 | The house had been furnished with a lot of money badly spent in a mixture of styles . |
| 18 | Antennae keenly tuned by the hopes of lucrative business , the new director , Bernard Herdan , was quoted in the Independent on Sunday as looking forward to even greater wonders : ‘ The day is not too far distant when we will be able to tell the ordinary public whether it is going to rain in their street within the next hour . ’ |
| 19 | Are any weatherproof switches properly protected from the elements ? |
| 20 | And I returned to the States in considerable agitation : if national white media continued their de facto denial of his campaign , Jackson might really lose the game on grounds of fair-play relentlessly circumvented for the purpose of defeating him . |
| 21 | The Guardian disclosed in July that the Ministry of Agriculture secretly agreed to an investigation as soon as the US findings were known . |
| 22 | If by the late seventies the intellectual arguments of poststructuralism began to seem virtually unanswerable , resistance eventually crystallized around the question of history . |
| 23 | Cardiff slowly pushed at the door , widening the thin jet-black wedge . |
| 24 | Why is it , for example , that every single Trust employee above the level of gardener 's mate speaks with an exquisite Wykehamist accent of the kind rarely heard outside the better cavalry regiments ? |
| 25 | Ten minutes later , dressed in aqua-coloured jogging pants and a white T-shirt , her hair vigorously tamed into a ponytail and with trainers on her feet , Lindsey stepped out on to the crew deck into bright May sunshine and a temperature of seventy degrees . |
| 26 | These two patterns of behaviour both involve layers in which there is convection due to the driving component little modified by the presence of the other component . |
| 27 | The principal matter discussed by Kaifu during his tour of the region was the apportionment of Japanese financial support to those states worst affected by the crisis , the scale of which was intended to demonstrate Japan 's commitment to opposing the Iraqi action , even though the country was debarred by its Constitution from any overseas military involvement . |
| 28 | The mass rarely extended throughout the entire colon . |
| 29 | However , before considering the statements on the curriculum eventually produced by the DES let us summarise some of the issues of the ‘ debate ’ . |
| 30 | Even if there were no such provision expressly contained in the contract , such a right may be implied for very material breaches of warranty . |