Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the stigma is a more or less clearly defined blood sinus through which haemocytes move from the lacuna of the costa into other veins ( Arnold , 1963 ) . |
| 2 | The four working grown-ups are employed by a ‘ township enterprise ’ — a Deng-era euphemism for a more or less privately owned company — in the construction business . |
| 3 | Wirbel ( UK ) supply industrial cleaning machines , and have launched two workshop vacuum cleaners which can be used either as ordinary cleaners , or as remotely switched dust extractors . |
| 4 | Although not officially made public , details from the report were released by the Caribbean News Agency which obtained a copy of the document . |
| 5 | Although not officially appointed locomotive superintendent until 1902 , Churchward was effectively in control of the locomotive , carriage , and wagon departments from 1899 and so continued until his retirement at the end of 1921 , with the new title of chief mechanical engineer from 1916 . |
| 6 | Five years ago DIP entered its second phase , thanks to the development of software that not only handled image storage and retrieval but actively managed the routing and movement of images around an organisation . |
| 7 | There are several signs in the twelfth edition that the writer still hankers for the old methods , despite the necessity for tempering some of the more repressive advice , and the book remains far more authoritarian in tone than more recently written baby books . |
| 8 | Thriving small settlements must have an active and mostly locally based economy . |
| 9 | Delayed gastric emptying as a result of gastroparesis is probably the best known and most extensively evaluated motor disturbance of the gastrointestinal tract in diabetic patients . |
| 10 | It developed the direct-action methods of earlier campaigns into new and more dramatic forms and it took up an issue which was the central and most widely felt grievance of Derry Catholics — housing . |
| 11 | Despite a great deal of recent literature on the subject , Henry Manne 's 1966 book remains the most thorough , and most widely quoted statement of the case against prohibiting insider dealing . |
| 12 | Your officers has members from all over the country will try to apply a broad view but there are changes that will be necessary but they will attempt to do them in the most sympathetic and most broadly based way . |
| 13 | 700 the area of circulation of the sceatta or penny , introduced probably in Kent in the 670s , was widening to embrace the Thames valley and Hamwic , near Southampton , was emerging as an important trading settlement to become within a few decades ‘ possibly the largest and most densely populated town in eighth-century England ’ . |
| 14 | It was the focal point for one of the richest and most densely populated farming counties in England . |
| 15 | £60 Straightforward if rather opaquely written account of the life and work of one of America 's great painters , not sufficiently celebrated outside his own country . |
| 16 | The other unusual and perhaps best known characteristic of Trolls is that their flesh is able to regrow almost as quickly as it is damaged . |
| 17 | A similar and perhaps better appreciated situation can happen in yacht racing where it is possible to ‘ take the wind ’ out of another 's sail . |
| 18 | He was probably only at the mill for a brief period , and perhaps only occupied part of it . |
| 19 | We have had a good if somewhat sparsely attended debate . |
| 20 | Even when negotiation fails and children are removed compulsorily there is an assumption that parents will be kept fully informed and only exceptionally denied access . |
| 21 | NARA has had difficulty defining itself programmatically because members who are part of denomination staffs struggle primarily with their own immediate projects rather than the more distant and less easily defined communication tasks of WACC . |
| 22 | However , even if this is true , there is a more fundamental and less easily answered question . |
| 23 | Between 1898 and 1923 the development of a more complex and less easily controlled society confronted the monarchy of King Alfonso XIII with a series of new challenges . |
| 24 | According to coeditor and exhibition curator , Richard Kendall : ‘ The decision to publish the symposium papers was taken to provide a more leisurely and less highly charged opportunity to study the issues , and to bring new material and new insights to the attention of a wide audience ’ . |
| 25 | Eventually the proprietress admitted that the General was in the hotel , and somewhat hesitantly led Serrigny upstairs . |
| 26 | De Maizière , a Protestant lay official , had only recently and apparently reluctantly entered politics . |
| 27 | Future technology is a more real and more easily grasped way to present the past , and as such presentation becomes more widely used , more and more people will come to realize what archaeologists and historians have known for so long — that the past is the key to the future . |
| 28 | At the same time , the post-war years have provided a larger and more easily identified target for racial animosity in the new populations of Caribbean and Asian immigrants . |
| 29 | The rebuilding and refurbishment carried out in the reactor building at Hunterston B have provided a more pleasant and more easily cleaned environment . |
| 30 | There was by now a continual branching off of sub-orders , and more easily acquired food enabled basic structure changes to get under way . |