Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So competition for markets from the cheaper products made on newly installed machinery would hold price increases down to the existing rate . |
| 2 | Along with Francois Truffaut , Claude Chabrol and other contributors , he became a director himself , and the brilliance of their early work was one of the reasons their views became so firmly enshrined . |
| 3 | The phenomenon of certain mundane objects becoming so firmly associated with an individual that they are understood as literal extensions of that individual 's being was discussed in some detail by Levy-Bruhl ( 1966 : 100–27 ) . |
| 4 | If the golden age for Byrd 's motets has only just begun to dawn , then Byrd 's songs are still in their dark ages . |
| 5 | It is noteworthy that only London Authorities appear as most deprived by these criteria . |
| 6 | Controlling activities arc so closely linked to Planning and Decision-making activities that it would be advisable to study the next two chapters in conjunction with Chapters 16 and 17 . |
| 7 | Almost as large and heavily built as Caspian Tern , but in summer has orange-yellow bill and more distinct crest , in winter ( but not during the moult ) has unstreaked white forehead , and at all times has more deeply forked tail , paler undersides of primaries , and higher-pitched call , a trilling ‘ kir ’ . |
| 8 | It is the evaluators ' impression that the responsibility for producing agendas , convening and chairing meetings , and producing and circulating minutes has most often fallen to the Principal Adviser for Educational Resources and the ACL:E&SS but has remained throughout an area of uncertainty and indecision . |
| 9 | However , as quota sampling methods became more widely used much greater levels of accuracy were routinely achieved . |
| 10 | As pesticides became more widely used by most farmers , ‘ organic ’ farming took on a broader meaning — the crops were not sprayed with synthetic pesticides either . |
| 11 | In the late 1980s two meta-analyses reported significantly lower pooled odd ratios for cardiovascular death ( 0.75 and 0.78 ) . |
| 12 | Tremendous publicity was given to the circumstances in which this movie had been made and to the way in which the director had shot some forty reels ; ‘ the eight-hour day for movie fans has not yet dawned ’ was the thankful comment of Robert Sherwood , but few critics doubted that the film conveyed much of the anger , ugliness , and brutality of the novel . |
| 13 | The powerful hydrogen bonding capacity of fluoride , discussed by John Emsley , has been known for some time , but its potential for interfering with the vitally important hydrogen bonds between biomolecules has only recently begun to receive attention . |
| 14 | The view that texts simply impose their meaning on readers has long since crumbled in the face of the evidence , as audience studies have pretty conclusively shown . |
| 15 | The National Union of Journalists has once again discussed the situation at their annual Delegate Conference . |
| 16 | Although the number of marketmakers has not substantially changed in the 3 years since the Big Bang the membership has . |
| 17 | A different approach might aim to show that our perception of ourselves as intentional subjects has not always existed , and might then suggest that it arises as a feature of capitalist ideology . |
| 18 | FIERCE competition between building societies and National Savings has so far spared savers even sharper cuts in interest as the base rate falls . |
| 19 | The advantage of the group system is that it ensures that members of the respective parties put forward clear cut views at the meetings of the council . |
| 20 | , tutors operating under differently specified tutoring roles . |
| 21 | The West Country woollen districts seem unusually well documented on these matters , but there is evidence from other trades . |
| 22 | It draws on the form of words suggested by the Williams Committee for their scheme of prohibition , and the purpose is simply to redefine the essence of the deprave-and-corrupt approach for those for whom the old form of words seems too far removed from the values and habits of today : |
| 23 | Jones , still only 30 , already had a reputation as an experienced seaman and he began his new career by capturing several British ships in the Irish Sea , but his announcement that he intended to raid Whitehaven in Cumberland and burn the vessels moored there nearly provoked a mutiny , for his crew , already disgruntled that so many ships had been sunk instead of seized , saw their prospect of prize money once again going up in smoke . |
| 24 | And if some savage peoples had so clearly fallen behind in the race , others , as some authorities maintained , might well represent not simply retarded , or imperfectly evolved , but actually degenerate forms of earlier civilization . |
| 25 | By this time , of course , Mwafrika and its successors had long since lost their former political stance . |
| 26 | The two brothers had not always got along very well but in spite of their differences , Spencer would never do anything to harm the firm or his brother . |
| 27 | For those whose husbands had not yet returned , which included my own husband , it was a time of unhappy waiting . |
| 28 | Nevertheless by 1980 Apple was a $300 million company and personal computers had so successfully invaded the office that in 1981 IBM — which had originally scorned the little machine — introduced its first model called simply the IBM PC . |
| 29 | The delicacy of the children seems to have been passed on to them by their mother , and in any case a succession of pregnancies had very probably weakened her own constitution severely . |
| 30 | Longer-term relationships had generally only developed where particular business interests were more or less directly involved . |