Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taiwan was delicately situated for preserving American lines of communication between Okinawa and the Philippines . |
| 2 | It is clear that the Committee " s project of combating the " diseased " majority cultures and sustaining a healthy sense of Englishness by mobilizing literature in education , has little place for serving industrial needs . |
| 3 | They 're not , it 's true , much given to murdering old men and children ; they do n't force Cardinals to ride facing the tails of donkeys through the streets . |
| 4 | His description is more sophisticated than that of the social anthropologically derived traditional community study which was rightly criticized for ignoring basal factors at the structural level . |
| 5 | On May 31 he had urged President Hosni Mubarak to submit to parliament legislation better targeted at combating Islamic fundamentalism than the emergency legislation in force since late 1981 . |
| 6 | There are in fact three superb courses in Kitzbühel , all surrounded by inspiring alpine scenery that 's usually bathed in summer sunshine . |
| 7 | Larger companies , including Philips and GE Thorn , are surprised that Intersource have apparently succeeded in overcoming technical problems with the design . |
| 8 | Although this was an extremely delicate operation for Nizan to perform , given that in 1934 he had carried out the rather complex act of ideological rehabilitation designed to demonstrate that Gide 's intellectual itinerary was such as to lead him inevitably to a commitment to communism , he none the less succeeded in combining professional respect for Gide 's qualities as a writer with penetrating criticism of what he considered to be Gide 's superficial analysis and hasty dismissal of the Soviet state . |
| 9 | Moreover , leading politicians , so committed to maintaining full employment , became deluded into thinking that the achievement of this target was direct proof of the maximisation of economic efficiency and social welfare . |
| 10 | These benefits will all greatly assist in meeting present and future discharge consent limits . |
| 11 | He had been so moved by reading Political Justice that in 1794 he had decided to found a Godwinian state in a remote part of America . |
| 12 | Ted was signed for the Palace by Manager Jack Tresadern from Preston in the summer of 1934 and had a magnificent first season , only prevented from making full appearances by an injury sustained in our Christmas Day fixture at Torquay . |
| 13 | Foreign manufacturers could only benefit by starting new factories in Britain , again creating jobs . |
| 14 | I think my style basically came from copying other people 's stuff , but it was never that important to me to get it perfect . |
| 15 | De la Pole 's unpopularity was essentially political and personal ; he was associated with the failure of the war in France and was rightly suspected of exploiting royal favour in the interest of himself and his friends ( Ch.22 ; 147 , pp.44 , 62 ) . |
| 16 | On March 2 the current President of Yugoslavia 's Collective State Presidency , the Serbian representative Borisav Jovic , apparently acting without consulting other members of the Collective State Presidency , approved the JNA intervention in what he called an attempt " to prevent escalation of intercommunal clashes " . |
| 17 | In the Supreme Court 's ruling , the normally conservative Sandra Day O'Connor , the only female justice , voted with the liberal minority ; the decisive vote proved to be that of David Souter , Bush 's only appointee to the Court , whom abortion rights advocates had long suspected of harbouring anti-abortionist views . |
| 18 | They can only succeed by imposing long-run discipline upon capitalists . |
| 19 | According to the County Council 's published figures , the most successful of these would only succeed in releasing reducing traffic flows on the A sixty one by thirty one percent . |
| 20 | The selection of the correct key added on another minute or so and Sandison could only look on feeling helpless and frustrated . |
| 21 | People with Down 's syndrome can be greatly helped by having extra time spent with them . |
| 22 | And indeed the little creature merely sighed before lying motionless , the fateful twitching stilled at last . |
| 23 | Fifa is awaiting action from the IOC and the Chilean government against the doctors of the Chilean Olympic Committee and the national forensic medical service , all accused of supplying phoney medical certificates . |
| 24 | The pace , however , was very much dictated by changing American attitudes towards the USSR and the creation of some measure of unanimity in Washington . |
| 25 | We are so encumbered by having British literature in our foreground that … one must speak of it in disproportion . |
| 26 | Homes , like teapots , can be kept much warmer by the addition of a ‘ cosy ’ and heating bills can be greatly reduced by installing efficient insulation . |
| 27 | So the next two days were spent in readying and arming a mixed squadron of available craft , merchanters all , but every one necessarily accustomed to using defensive artillery to protect themselves from the English pirates who infested the Norse Sea . |
| 28 | Rather , the time spent negotiating detailed heads of terms is usually better spent on starting due diligence or negotiating the main agreement . |
| 29 | At the end of the day , however , recognition as an actor was also inexorably linked to becoming rich and famous — Warren Beatty 's words — and even a modest hope of that seemed as far away as ever . |
| 30 | Looking for lines of descent with modification had not merely led to finding interesting fossils , but had also produced better understanding of how existing species fit together . |