Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During early system evaluation it was found that experts much preferred a simple direct dialogue style that presented basic diagnostic information such as test point values and component values , whereas the inexperienced required more directed problem analysis and advice . |
| 2 | Rebate-only plans apparently offered a free pension , as all the money came from the Government . |
| 3 | If they were relatively inactive and presented their demands through what the councillors defined as the " proper " ( private ) channels then their demands rarely secured a favourable response . |
| 4 | Needless to say , standards of rug-making went into rapid decline , and , exacerbated by the widespread introduction of poor quality dyes , the reputation of Anatolian rugs soon reached an all-time low from which it has only recently recovered . |
| 5 | Magnus was a great orator whose rousing speeches soon created a massive following among the common folk of the Empire . |
| 6 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 7 | Islanders also staged an unprecedented protest demonstration in St Helier on May 13 , during which the Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey , Air Marshal Sir John Sutton , was shouted down as he tried to explain the decision . |
| 8 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 9 | One persuasive argument says that many dinosaurs probably needed a high metabolic rate when they were not fully grown , since they had to grow , as we have seen , at a great pace . |
| 10 | The Hospital Infection Society Working Party 's guidelines also suggested a two tier approach and gave a list of 16 inoculation risk categories of patients . |
| 11 | While these authors also noted a slight decrease in the proliferative activity of the distal colon , they found that this difference remained constant regardless of the risk status of the subject ( normal controls , small or large adenomas , colon cancer ) . |
| 12 | The poor girl had gone off to her camp before she had formulated any hypotheses ; she had no idea as to what theory or concepts her work was to throw new light on , and so , to be on the safe side , she had recorded everything she could think of over a period of about six weeks and her notebooks practically filled a medium-sized suitcase . |
| 13 | But pale eyes often held a far-away look which he tended to associate with insanity . |
| 14 | It had further taught them that bomb casualties in Protestant districts frequently included a substantial proportion of Roman Catholics . |
| 15 | Many quite fluent Dyirbal speakers simply represented a dead end in that their intuitions could not be accessed . |
| 16 | A group of Czech teenagers allegedly made a few hundred copies of locally-produced computer software packages and sold them for $10 a piece , after advertising them via direct mail-shots . |
| 17 | In England in 1226 it had been made clear to the king that he could not tax the clergy diocese by diocese ; such an attempt in that year had been frustrated by the request of the Salisbury cathedral chapter for consultation with the clergy of other sees ; the proctors of the cathedral and collegiate clergy subsequently attended a provincial council armed with instructions from their ‘ constituents ’ . |
| 18 | The four gentlemen actually danced a ring-a-rosy when they regained the pavement . |
| 19 | But the associations only built an extra 14,500 homes in 1991 — not enough to keep pace with demand , according to Coun Dixon . |
| 20 | In both cases coalition governments were established in which communists swiftly assumed a dominant position . |
| 21 | ‘ KME differed little from conventional organisations and fell well short of co-operative ideals ’ ; and again , ‘ the worker directors apparently adopted an autocratic style and barely communicated with their fellow members . ’ |
| 22 | The claims of democracy would never have been admitted in the present liberal democracies had those countries not got a solid basis of liberalism first . |
| 23 | Their religious lives thus combined an internalized and private spirituality with the warmth and conviviality of good fellowship , or as they themselves called it , ‘ holy sympathy with the godly ’ . |
| 24 | Police Court trials usually included a miscellaneous collection of well-known ne'er-do-wells picked up over the weekend and arraigned on Monday morning to face drunk and disorderly charges . |
| 25 | CIYMS 13 The visitors clearly demonstrated a greater determination in the opening stages and in particular their pack was decisively impressive forcing Portadown unto the defensive . |
| 26 | West Indian plantations also provided a growing demand for fish , grain and timber which was met by North America . |
| 27 | During 1990 the Commissioners also commenced an extensive warehousing scheme designed to replace the old quayside transit sheds and cater for changes in port users ' storage needs dictated by the new trends in cargo handling , particularly by the containerised mode . |
| 28 | Some patients who used potent corticosteroids also used a mild compound for the face , in which case only the potent steroid was monitored . |
| 29 | The inexperienced technicians also employed a standard diagnostic approach as a result of using the expert system . |
| 30 | The two companies also signed a joint marketing agreement , under which IBM promotes OLAS . |