Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Olsen has therefore concentrated on four periods when the paintings connect most directly with historic events : from 1797 to 1814 when Napoleon 's Empire imposed a kind of unity on the country ; from the restoration of the monarchy until mid century when historic Romanticism came into conflict with Realism and gradually waned as a moving force in Italian art ; the triumph of Realism in parallel with the rapid progress towards unification from 1849 to 1870 ; and the final period from 1870 until the end of the century when Realism evolved under wider European influences into Symbolism and Divisionism . |
| 2 | Another of UnivEd 's functions is the formation of campus companies through which products and processes discovered by staff can be developed commercially together with industrial partners . |
| 3 | Speculation about his death centred most persistently on financial worries . |
| 4 | Continued diplomatic lobbying by France resulted on April 5 in the adoption by the UN Security Council of Resolution 688 condemning the " repression of the Iraqi civilian population in many parts of Iraq , including most recently in Kurdish populated areas , the consequences of which threaten international peace and security " . |
| 5 | Walk on round to those cliffs and you come to what seem like utterly derelict sheds hanging on the edge of the precipice , stinking of goat : these are stacked with piles of skins for tanning , which goes on below in Brobdingnagian wooden barrels and enormous concrete troughs . |
| 6 | The success of this approach will depend on finding sequences for oligonucleotides that bind sufficiently well to viral genetic material to cripple the virus , and yet do not bind to normal cellular DNA or RNA . |
| 7 | Self help , one of the fastest growing areas of the voluntary sector in recent decades , fits in well with Conservative Party notions of self reliance , individual responsibility and active citizenship . |
| 8 | King Lear is a play which fits in perfectly with contemporary society in its portrayal of family tragedy . |
| 9 | Although many years later Braque recalled how strong an impression tribal art made on him , it is hard to see any direct reflection of this in the paintings executed at the time when Picasso was reacting so positively to tribal sculpture ; even in a painting like the Nu any influence from tribal art seems to have come at second hand , through Picasso 's Demoiselles . |
| 10 | You are directly discriminated against if treated less favourably than a person of the opposite sex is or would be treated , or if you are treated less favourably on racial grounds . |
| 11 | In minutes she had garlic , onions , carrots and celery cooking together gently in olive oil . |
| 12 | Just how acute the RFI threat has become for industry can be pieced together only from indirect evidence , as no statistics exist on the number of incidents . |
| 13 | In spite of these affinities , however , it should be remembered that the Kingscote mosaic itself is assigned only tentatively to integral group ( a ) : it could overlap with , or be considered part of , integral group ( b ) . |
| 14 | Yet the idea that this is a ‘ women 's form ’ persists : it is as though people want to believe Lakoff because her account fits so well with prevailing ideas . |
| 15 | And since the unconscious can be approached most nearly through unmeasurable , unrepeatable events in the analytic situation , psychoanalysts , even more than other psychologists , retain for themselves the power of being the only subjects able to explain subjectivity . |
| 16 | So today 's typical organization in which knowledge tends to be concentrated in service staffs , perched rather insecurely between top management and the operating people , will likely be labeled a phase , an attempt to infuse knowledge from the top rather than obtain information from below . |
| 17 | What about the argument that male and female speech styles should be conceptualised separately from the workings of power because these styles appear most clearly in single-sex interaction ? |
| 18 | The University continues to foster this relationship with its neighbouring college of higher education , while at the same time recognising that the changes proposed most recently in initial teaching training are likely to have a significant impact on its provision in Education . |
| 19 | Their deliberate , low-key approach means that Derry 's preparations have been carried on virtually behind closed doors but they have nothing to hide . |
| 20 | A dark colour on the exposed surface ensures that it blends right away with urban roofscape environments , making it ideal for the maintenance and renovation market . |
| 21 | Though fever and diarrhoea still linger as killing diseases in parts of southern and south-eastern Europe , and malaria was only beginning to give way before D.D.T. in 1945 these diseases now linger on only in backward districts . |
| 22 | They wandered on together at random . |
| 23 | Some grow much better in damp places where the fish could nibble at them when they felt like it or if they needed to — in a similar way to a dog eating grass — and for much the same reason . |
| 24 | He , the lemon lady 's husband , eulogised Tremayne , who winced only slightly over Top Spin Lob being slurred to Topsy Blob , and a minion in the livery of Castle Houses brought forth a tray bearing the award itself , a silver bowl rimmed by a circle of small galloping horses , an award actually worthy of the occasion . |
| 25 | Some seeds are difficult or very slow to germinate , and grow only slowly into full-size plants . |
| 26 | So it is clearly right to argue as Dahrendorf does that the emergence of an underclass excluded apparently permanently from dominant economic life is a potent condition of rising crime . |
| 27 | Probably the most accessible and immediate Milltown Brothers single so far with clever use of the fashionable Hammond organ and subdued horn section . |
| 28 | Probably the most accessible and immediate Milltown Brothers single so far with clever use of the fashionable Hammond organ and subdued horn section . |
| 29 | Environmental degradation in this region is not confined to pre-independence times ( before 1955 ) as post-independence practices and policies have not fared much better despite considerable financial assistance from the World Bank ( Wallach 1988 ) . |
| 30 | In countries like Brazil , the original financing had come so heavily from foreign loans that by the mid-1980s , SOE debt was over half of the total foreign commercial debt . |