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

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1 They had just overwhelmingly repulsed an unprovoked attack by a European power , and their past history gave them little cause to regard Europeans with favour .
2 If God can not be identified with man as a product of evolution , and thereby given a credible definition , then any effort to create a new and successful conception of God will founder on the same rocks of contention that have wrecked every religion that was ever believed in .
3 His rebuke to the Congress , that " if this leadership is to succeed , it must have the men it wants " , effectively made the second vote on Yanayev a vote of confidence in Gorbachev , and Yanayev was then elected by 1,237 votes to 563 .
4 By a resolution passed by 305 votes to 36 , with 41 abstentions , Gorbachev was effectively given a free hand to dictate the process of economic reform by decree , to manage the state budget , and also to supervise law and order .
5 After Mao 's death and Jiang Qing 's fall , the ‘ moderate ’ regime of Deng accused Madame Mao and her associates in the Gang of Four of being the cause of all China 's woes , thereby sparing the late Chairman from the most bitter criticisms .
6 Virgin duly made the appropriate rerelease but nothing happened .
7 The mainstream Labour left thinks it can call Mr Major 's bluff : he would rather swallow the Social Chapter , they guess , than lose the whole treaty .
8 Wimpey joined forces with Taylor Woodrow and Amec to form the Kuwaiti British Fire Group and the consortium successfully completed a major contract for damage assessment and subsequent refurbishment of two oil fields .
9 WEST HAM have paid £225,000 for Partizan Belgrade central defender Budimir Vujacic after the central defender successfully completed a ten-day trial at Upton Park .
10 The US space shuttle Columbia successfully completed a 14-day flight on July 9 , the longest ever by a space shuttle crew , during which the prolonged effects of weightlessness on the human body were further studied .
11 Former weaver Reay McKew ( right ) has successfully completed a two year apprenticeship to become a qualified ‘ Overlooker . ’
12 They think , perhaps , more in terms of what knowledge and skills they would hope to find in a secondary school entrant rather than of those one might expect from a child who had successfully completed a primary school course .
13 All these factors are increasing the complexity of the work of further education teachers of whom , at present , under half of the full-time staff , and even fewer of the part-timers , are trained in the sense that they have successfully completed a full programme of professional teacher training leading to qualified teacher status .
14 When the process has been successfully completed the following message will appear :
15 Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 .
16 Having successfully completed the first year of the new Teachers ' Training Course the students have gone away to grapple with their holiday assignments .
17 He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office .
18 , personnel secretary at Ipswich , has successfully completed the first stage of a three year course in personnel management at the Suffolk College .
19 They have successfully completed the basic food hygiene courses run by the borough council .
20 This is to certify that … has successfully completed an advanced training course in the following subjects : Information Management , Plant Information Systems , Database Design and Construction , Word Processing , and Personal Computer Operating Systems ; and that he has demonstrated his abilities in these subjects by constructing a database of the Economically Useful Plants of India .
21 This use of generally , in I9 , effectively separates the previous set of sentences from the next set describing a particular habit of the individual involved .
22 He has since completed a splendid four-timer when making all to take the Group Two Richmond Stakes at Goodwood last week .
23 The first stage in the transfer is a preselection process , involving informal discussions with tenants where they may make their own alternative suggestions , which eventually produces a single applicant to go forward to the final stages .
24 Progressive rock was over-dressed , the music of a leisured rock aristocracy , who possessed the money to lavishly construct a LUXURIOUS palace of sound , and the time to squander in excessively fastidious attention to detail .
25 In an upwards market this would benefit the landlord , who could never hope to achieve a full market rent pursuant to an interim rent application , but would disadvantage the tenant , who would presumably prefer the old rent to continue during negotiations , thereby acting as a negotiating factor .
26 I find that they bitterly regret the Labour party 's dogmatic commitment to repeal , contrary to the wishes of the college principals , the Bill going through the House precisely because the Opposition Front Bench are acting at the behest of a few backwoodsmen Labour county councillors throughout the country .
27 On 24 November the lawyers replied ‘ respectfully to state our opinion that Your Majesty may properly grant a Royal Charter ’ , but it was not until 14 February 1844 that Thomas Turner was able to report to the standing committee of veterinary surgeons that their determined efforts had been rewarded and that the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons had been incorporated .
28 Her brother , Merfyn , began training with his uncle as a motor engineer and eventually became a technical journalist .
29 So this individual , who I would n't have given three stripes across , eventually became a Chief Inspector .
30 The arrangement eventually became a sore point in relations between the US and Panama , which regarded the original treaty as an affront to its sovereignty .
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