Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 He badly wants to complete the task and continues hoping to pick up more lift on the way .
32 Of the eleven who won the Cup for Manchester United in 1948 , most of whom were internationals and all in the first rank of senior professionals , five went into football coaching and management , three ran newsagents ' shops ( customers presumably enjoyed discussing the sports headlines with men who had once made them ) , two worked in factories , and one became a night-telephonist .
33 However , it may form the basis of a new approach to problems in which lawyers and advisers will not seek to establish the legal nature of the problem and then find the relevant law , but will rather seek to establish the nature of the problem and then contemplate whether any part of the law might be relevant .
34 After the first eight days of action — during which 19 of his 31 officers were killed and seven wounded , and the battalion was reduced to 40 per cent of its original strength — he himself was badly wounded leading a counter-attack .
35 Arab peacemakers will presumably seek to find a successor to Muawad .
36 Arab peacemakers will presumably seek to find a successor to Muawad .
37 But this omission is a consequence of my claim that individualism is fundamentally designed to sustain a conception of individuals as agents .
38 A long and somewhat rambling discussion followed during which the judge effectively tried to persuade the barrister that he must get up before the jury in order to say , ‘ in terms that the remark that you made was a remark which should not have been made and apologise , and you can say in terms that one of the reasons why it was a remark which should not have been made was that you had never seen the document ; you did not know what it contained . ’
39 I do rather enjoy having the flat to myself , despite a constant battle with my clutter !
40 LC were enriched from BALB/c TE-EC ( ref. 22 ) , stained with M5/114.15.12 ( anti-I-A d and anti-I-E d , ATCC ) and FITC-goat ( Fab' ) 2 anti-rat IgG ( TAGO ) and additionally purified using a BDIS Facstar Plus flow cytometer .
41 True , some of these seem expressly designed to bring the country into confrontation with America .
42 The customs establishment was one of the more extensive branches of the eighteenth-century bureaucracy , and the fact that its officers were necessarily widely dispersed enhanced the attraction of the service for freeholders , burgh councillors and their friends , for an appointment in their home district was not an unreasonable objective .
43 Coun Dixon said the corporation 's support proves that Darlington is widely considered to have a housing crisis .
44 Long hair has been delicately feathered to frame the face .
45 Even more profound changes happened in the internal structures of the brachiopods , partly those concerned with supporting the lophophore — these changed from simple loops to complex ‘ doubled back ’ structures , or to fantastic spirals and whorls — all presumably designed to increase the ways of food-gathering , and its efficiency .
46 Dounreay has apparently given AECL a quotation and AECL is now considering it .
47 Not least BARRY MOONCULT who went so ape-dropping crazy , he was spotted stumbling out of the party while it was in full swing armed with a stash of joke bombs , which despite being pretty harmless ( containing about as much genuine explosive as your average cap pistol ) make a loud enough bang to put the fear of God into the most ardent of atheists .
48 I 'm a car owner who 's actually thinking of selling my car because I do n't use it much in Glasgow I do n't need to , I can actually walk to work and to come to somewhere like Edinburgh tonight I would much prefer to use the train , but I think we could have much more adequal plans to do with pedestrianizing city centres so that cars were banned from them altogether , they could bring back trams which are much less in terms of pollution , they might not make us big profits for the company 's but they are a very good way , we , a lot of European cities still use trams .
49 Thus " information handling " does not merely cover using the microcomputer to find references to aspects of pollution such as ACID RAIN but to the whole process of learning done in the classroom and the school library .
50 Unless it grows fast enough to sustain recropping the birds must move elsewhere .
51 We will go further , and will create a Scottish Environmental Protection Agency to bring together powers to ensure the quality of our air , rivers and bathing waters .
52 Sandwich was better situated to meet a threat from Scandinavia ; Wight , where Harold 's ships awaited William the Conqueror long and unsuccessfully in the summer of 1066 , implies a connection with the south or west , and perhaps particularly Normandy .
53 So developed did the cult of personality in Northern Nigeria become that even in dealing with rude and warlike pagans it was bad form to stoop to securing their acquiescence in the will of the government by resort to force .
54 He could n't get an immediate break-down of where the money had gone so asked to see the manager .
55 Hour by hour , they were of course sizing things up : nobody was better placed to judge the feeling in the House .
56 The new centralised system will also be better placed to improve the quality of the figures , which seems to have deteriorated sharply in recent years .
57 The corollary is that some areas will be better placed to initiate a shift away from the isolated role of special schools .
58 Kingfisher 's 700-plus Woolworth outlets and the Superdrug chain are better placed to weather the slowdown .
59 The big companies will also be better placed to finance the development of new technologies , turning this traditionally low-tech industry into something closer to chemical engineering .
60 From his present position , Larsen would be better placed to keep a lookout for trouble and provide backup .
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