Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As a breeding bird the Mallard is widely distributed throughout the county and not always confined to wet habitats ; breeding has been established in several downland localities , for example Rewell Wood . |
| 32 | Hence Dahl argues against Walker that ‘ he insists upon interpreting as if they were normative or deontological certain writings that were mainly if not wholly intended to set out descriptive empirical theories ’ . |
| 33 | It meant that Yorkshire , if not previously committed to open plan , had no choice than to adopt one . |
| 34 | By contrast , the presence of a relatively small number of unions — even if not entirely structured according to the principle of one per industry at least covering large sections of industry — appears to be associated with markedly fewer inter-union jurisdictional disputes . |
| 35 | Many of the suspicions which existed when the unit was set up , both about the political motivation for its creation and the likely effects of national monitoring on the curriculum , have been allayed ( if not entirely put to rest ) by the way in which the exercise has been carried out , by the sensitivities displayed by the monitoring teams , by the way in which groups of teachers up and down the country have been involved in the development , trialling and pre-testing of materials , and by the cool , impartial way in which the results have been presented . |
| 36 | If J. A. Hobson was justified in speaking of a ‘ crisis of Liberalism ’ in 1909 , it is equally if not more justified to think of the Edwardian period in terms of a ‘ crisis of Conservatism ’ . |
| 37 | ‘ A good example of the sort of player who should be a great beneficiary of this scheme is James Lenton — a tremendously hard worker who has struggled financially and once even had to quit to resort to coaching , ’ Lewis added . |
| 38 | Parliament reconvened at York in late January 1333 , and once again declined to offer Edward any positive support for action in Scotland . |
| 39 | If men naturally enjoy mathematical stimuli more than social stimuli then I would have thought they were at least equally well equipped to deal with the socially isolating position of working at home — and possibly better equipped to deal with everyday geometrical shapes such as vegetables , kitchen sinks and washing machines . |
| 40 | The Central Committee plenum , which met on 19–20 September 1989 , approved the Platform with minor changes and more generally sought to define the party 's line in an area in which its decisions had been inadequate and for the most part purely reactive . |
| 41 | Again , about 100 years ago chimpanzees were fed on beer and sausages and more recently made to have tea parties to amuse the visitors . |
| 42 | However , Kayley had come round quickly and probably never stopped breathing . |
| 43 | I went down on my knees carefully and as carefully turned to face the other way , south . |
| 44 | After raising his score to twenty-nine and now uniquely entitled to wear the ribbons of both the DSO and the DFC , each with two silver rosettes denoting two bars , Braham 's luck ran out over Denmark on 25 June 1944 . |
| 45 | The early wind Serenade made a showpiece for the Halle 's excellent wind section and he obtained rich and often subtly detailed playing in the tone-poem Also sprach Zarathustra . |
| 46 | They are classified into steady-state and collision margins and then further subdivided according to the nature of the crust on the interacting plates , the mode of plate interaction and the type of orogen or island arc formed . |
| 47 | Queensland aborigines believe they can sing a man to death , and indeed recently managed to sing the state 's premier — a white man , a New Zealand migrant who cared little for ‘ black fellows ’ — out of office . |
| 48 | Twice more he drew back his arm and twice more failed to strike . |
| 49 | Fortunately , my spirit was less of a coward than me and quite simply refused to roll over and play dead . |
| 50 | The diversity of museum collections in general requires that these practices be sufficiently flexible to accommodate the unusual object or set of circumstances , and yet sufficiently disciplined to ensure that realistic standards can be established and maintained . |
| 51 | We stumbled and fell many times , and yet always managed to struggle up again and continue . |
| 52 | I did n't know at what rate I was now travelling and no longer bothered to work it out . |
| 53 | By good fortune , Jean Coulter was already booked to travel to Glasgow the following day and very courageously agreed to go to the hotel with a male friend . |
| 54 | Sunday December 7 , 1941 was a typical lazy morning and very little stirred giving the Japanese a free hand . |
| 55 | They did not necessarily have any particular treatment in mind , and certainly not forced feeding which is always a measure of last resort , designed to maintain life rather than to cure . |
| 56 | She collects samples , takes measurements and no doubt makes the tea : she is not expected to analyse the data she collects , and certainly not required to think about the questions those data might answer . |
| 57 | For pupils of high ability , too much of the curriculum was often taken up with preparation for exams , and too little done to stretch them in the earlier years . |
| 58 | These are both too well known and too widely misunderstood to introduce here in detail : Turing , it will be remembered , wanted to cut through philosophical discussion with a Wittgensteinian fervour . |
| 59 | If Westminster MPs are too haughty to consider a role for themselves as a junior revising chamber of the European Parliament and too short sighted to invite Strasbourg experts on to their own select committee on EC affairs , they , not the MEPs will be the eventual losers . |
| 60 | But the grown-ups just carried on talking and never even bothered to look up . |