Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These included ensuring the consultations would be ‘ meaningful , open-minded and fully taken account of before the final decision ( on closures ) is made ’ . |
| 2 | But unfortunately unless this restraint is very clear and firmly upheld children will rapidly learn , by making a great scene , particularly in public , that they can get their own way . |
| 3 | Essentially this relates to the on the failure by researchers , and for that matter policy makers and practitioners , to operationalize a clear and widely agreed definition of what constitutes abuse . |
| 4 | the skills enabling pupils to put forward ( and interpret ) clear and properly supported statements of personal feeling , opinion or viewpoint ; |
| 5 | Of the British version , Miss Benn says : ‘ Ms magazine will provide a clear and much needed voice in current British political and cultural debate — feminist and otherwise . ’ |
| 6 | Other items supplied with the PT 425SX , and included in the price , are TK Check Diagnostic Software , the Microsoft Productivity Pack , Free Hot-line Support for Life and a series of clear and nicely presented user manuals . |
| 7 | Industry will especially be looking to the polytechnics to provide a further and much needed stimulus to innovations already taking place in higher education ; in particular , in the development of mixed degree courses , modular courses coupled with practical experience , and of the sandwich system of education and training generally , and in the opening up of opportunities for women in all branches of higher education , not least science and technology . |
| 8 | The forest looked quite interesting and probably held elves or gnomes , perhaps both . |
| 9 | Having formed the habit of buying lots of fresh fruit and vegetables , fish , white meat and low fat alternatives to dairy products , we need to cook interesting and attractively presented dishes . |
| 10 | This is the most interesting and well preserved specimen of sixth century Byzantine church building in the west . |
| 11 | Now an inspiring white-painted and immaculately maintained watermill nestles idyllically in wooden grounds and all is serenely reflected in the calm , cool mill pond . |
| 12 | This could even have the elusive and much desired effect of reducing the appeal of smoking as a ‘ grown up ’ activity through reconstructing it as an essentially teenage pursuit . |
| 13 | Custom is the source of our strongest and most believed proofs . |
| 14 | In Open events there can be up to 36 fences — a combination of natural hazards such as water , rails and ditches of up to four feet six inches high ; hedges of up to six feet high and specially built fences like steps and tyres . |
| 15 | Many were the types of trailer bodies manufactured for these motor tugs to haul : special flats , cattle trucks , high and low sided types , open and covered , sliding roofed etc . |
| 16 | Previously Manupur had been divided into a number of well-defined hereditary and hierarchically ordered groups or castes whose jobs , social status and economic relationships ( i.e. the share they got of their own and each other 's profits ) were pre-determined by tradition . |
| 17 | They were never very significant , few are well-documented , and many are now abandoned , but they represent , in the old and densely occupied county of Somerset , one of the few cases where an area was colonised and settled . |
| 18 | It seems probable that if the programme had addressed the curriculum in a more direct and sharply focused way , concentrating attention and resources on particular curriculum areas at a time , then the impact on the quality of children 's curriculum experiences , and hence on their learning , would have been much greater . |
| 19 | In conditions below ten knots a masthead drifter , set flying from a tack point on the extended and heavily reinforced pulpit structure , should help Q2 in what are anticipated to be her least favoured conditions . |
| 20 | John arrived first in Australia in 1791 , aged 18 , as a lowly and poorly paid Ensign in the New South Wales Corps , an ill-disciplined and motley band of renegades raised in Britain and sent out chiefly to police the penal colonies . |
| 21 | James Byam Shaw CBE , the distinguished and much loved art historian and connoisseur of drawings , died 18 March . |
| 22 | I would not claim specialist knowledge of penal systems in Britain or overseas but offer my observations as those of an interested and reasonably informed member of the general public . |
| 23 | The Leeds conference announces ( under the general title of ‘ Subversions ’ Objects ’ ) that it will ‘ investigate forms of art and art history often regarded as subversive or marginal : the social history of art ; feminist studies ; sculpture , printmaking , the decorative arts and design ; popular and electronically produced culture ’ . |
| 24 | Because of the artist 's status as a household name and his command of spectacular prices at auction , the museum exhibition was inevitably both a highly popular and broadly attended show . |
| 25 | Mr. Harrison 's careful and closely argued submissions opened by pointing out what he described as the ‘ commercially absurd consequences of the landlord 's case . ’ |
| 26 | The trial judge in his careful and anxiously considered judgment , having heard oral evidence , formed a different view , which on this aspect of the appeal I would not seek to upset . |
| 27 | One of the most charming and intricately made toys is the toy theatre . |
| 28 | Only a detailed and carefully chronicled narrative could do justice to the subtle complexities of the project in each school . |
| 29 | During the 1970s he began to lose faith in the whole Freudian programme , and in his recent book , Skeptical Engagements , he provides detailed and substantially supported arguments for abandoning it . |
| 30 | Two more detailed and better considered responses to this question were those of Wundt and Tylor . |