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

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1 Pippo continued to bother us , though we had long since stopped taking any notice of him , and the Allied air attacks continued .
2 Managers and clinicians had rather come to view each other as protagonists in the constant battle for resources .
3 We may eventually need to relate these factors to one another or to other events in a child 's life , such as educational progress , length of stay in care or destination on exit .
4 Having acquired a dominant position in a market , a firm will presumably seek to exploit that position , unless it is constrained by the threat of potential competition .
5 Guards should properly refer to ‘ switching on the darks ’ , since what they call lights seem expressly designed to suck all traces of illumination out of the carriage , casting shadows into every corner .
6 I had long intended making this proposition to the Secretary of State , but I was urged sooner to it perhaps because I felt that I was reduced in circumstances and thrown from my position in Society , and I hoped by a grand effort to establish a permanent claim on the consideration of Her Majesty 's Government .
7 Well , er , equity accounting , James is better placed to answer that question than me .
8 The institutions themselves , being closer to the work in question , were much better placed to fulfil that responsibility .
9 It is probably true , its probably the case that every single person in the room is better placed to write this procedure then Jenny .
10 It was to change the nature of France 's regime , so that the nation would be better placed to meet any challenge or resolve any problem that it might have to face .
11 ‘ It does n't look a big enough building to house this lot , ’ D'Arcy observed .
12 Europe , with its temperate climate and its vegetation greatly modified by cultivation , is less calculated to stimulate such observations ; in moist tropical forests , in the Sahara , and in the tundras , the close connexion between the character of the vegetation and the conditions of extreme climates is revealed by the most evident adaptations .
13 Forty patients with active duodenal ulcer disease and H pylori colonisation of the gastric mucosa were randomly assigned to receive either omeprazole ( 20 mg twice daily ) and amoxicillin suspension ( 500 mg four times daily ) for two weeks ( group I ) or bismuth subsalicylate ( 600 mg three times daily ) , metronidazole ( 400 mg three times daily ) , tetracycline ( 500 mg three times daily ) , and raniditine ( 300 mg in the evening ) for two weeks ( group II ) .
14 Forty patients who qualified for admission to the study ( Tables I and II ) were randomly assigned to receive either omeprazole ( 20 mg twice daily ) ( Antra , Astra Chemicals , Wedel/Holstein , Germany ) before meals and amoxicillin suspension ( 500 mg four times daily ) ( Amoxypen suspension , Grünenthal , Stolberg , Germany ) before meals and at bedtime for two weeks ( group I ) or bismuth subsalicylate ( 600 mg three times daily ) ( Jatrox , Röhm Pharma , Weiterstadt , Germany ) before meale , metronidazole ( 400 mg three times daily ) ( Clont 400 , Bayer , Leverkusen , Germany ) and tetracycline ( 500 mg three times daily ) ( Hostacylkin 500 , Hoechst , Frankfurt , Germany ) after meals , and ranitidine ( 300 mg at night ) for two weeks ( group II ) .
15 The netting thrown over the tree in the background is obviously intended to trap these newcomers as they arrive to mob the owl .
16 I only mean to preface this discussion of cultural difference with an awkward question : in the world we have , is it possible for us — any of us — not to have at least some inferior others ?
17 But this elaborate operation it 's claimed only goes to prove that hooliganism rather than disappearing is just lurking beneath the surface .
18 If in addition we require that the production function is said to satisfy the Inada ( 1963 ) conditions , but we do not necessarily want to impose these restrictions .
19 So bang went any chance he might have had of hearing things he did not know .
20 American owned rival Whyte and Mackay made its long awaited swoop this morning and now owns around fifty five percent of the Leith based company .
21 American owned rival Whyte and Mackay made its long awaited swoop this morning and now has control of the Leith based company — making the combined group the third biggest scotch whisky firm .
22 We obviously want to see those companies continue as viable units .
23 It is not necessary to use the form to make a defence , the defendant only needs to submit some document indicating that the claim is disputed .
24 I 'm , I do n't but with this T G I they have got a manual for T G , T G I and it may be that the procedure for T G I only needs to reference that manual if that manual is and it may be that if B T need a similar thing they will obviously have one specifically for B T.
25 HONG KONG — China reacted angrily yesterday to Hong Kong 's decision to move a centrally-located British naval base to an outlying island , a switch apparently designed to undercut any plans China had for a high-profile military presence after 1997 , writes Kevin Hamlin .
26 The Open University 's Patterns for Living : Working Together has generated much interest in this area ( Open University 1989 ) .
27 A hard-to-define British artist , Long has attracted much attention in America with his use of stones and landscape .
28 Perhaps Mr. Cowan should resume his more normal incessant political instruction on those matters that puzzle the lesser members of our own contemporary society , who are obviously deemed to lack any ability to think for themselves .
29 That might seem like the wackiest of wacky ideas but it becomes ever more fascinating as it is explored in a barrage of speculation , invective and anecdotes , all designed to prove that money , in a practical rather than puritanical sense , is the root of all evil .
30 In the meantime , many hope that the world travel industry , conservationists and national governments will together strive to achieve this balance .
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