Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Chauthala eventually resigned as Chief Minister in May , but his replacement , Banarasi Das Gupta , was a close associate so that the Lal clan remained in control of the state [ see p. 37452 ] . |
| 32 | He was admitted to the most lavishly decorated and furnished room he had ever been in . |
| 33 | It was widely reported that armed police had besieged the state-owned Jerada colliery , which had been occupied for 10 days in late December 1988-early January 1989 by 400 miners . |
| 34 | On Nov. 7 it was widely reported that Nigerian Alpha jets had bombed NPFL positions in the Monrovia suburbs of Gardnersville , Mount Barclay and Stockton Creek the previous day , and had also attacked areas close to the rebel headquarters at Gbarnga , 160 km north of Monrovia on Nov. 5 . |
| 35 | It means money for the clubs and we have a tremendously committed and talented unit who genuinely care about the game . ’ |
| 36 | Social change , therefore , was unlikely to come from the top and the peasantry were badly educated and impoverished smallholders . |
| 37 | Moran was the best player and mostly won but that night he attributed his winnings to the cards he had been dealt . |
| 38 | In the large public company it is now accepted as part of conventional wisdom that the shareholding is so widely dispersed that each shareholder does not own a significant enough proportion of the company to perform any of the functions of monitoring and supervising the directors that the legal model casts upon him . |
| 39 | No constituency should be allowed to have an extraordinarily small electorate on the pretext that it comprises widely dispersed and isolated communities . |
| 40 | Each yoke carries a properly designed and built-in PTT button , unlike some of the Jubilee clipped-on afterthoughts I have seen on a great many Wichita and Lock Haven singles , with the associated ‘ curly cable ’ disappearing behind the lower instrument panel . |
| 41 | It was our opinion and that of , badly photocopied and written sheets of paper which did not even fit into the folders was not a good advertisement for our Institute . |
| 42 | Longer-term relationships had generally only developed where particular business interests were more or less directly involved . |
| 43 | It has been much better publicised and early results have been encouraging . |
| 44 | It goes without saying that old birds can , equally , be used for potting , but they are much less delicate , need very long slow and thorough cooking , a larger proportion of fat ham ( or pickled pork but not smoked bacon ) , and must be carefully drained of their cooking juices before they are prepared for chopping and pounding , otherwise sediment seeps through , collects at the bottom of the little jars and causes mould . |
| 45 | ‘ I remember that my invitation extended to 14 days , but it was so arranged that any visitor who might have to leave for the day could do so and could return again . |
| 46 | Data from other herbaria , personally gathered or acquired MS documents . |
| 47 | The scraggy neck and brutally squared and misshapen breasts put one in mind of an old woman , worked over by a lifetime of misfortune . |
| 48 | She says that they have n't even had long enough to see if burning animal clinical waste has caused any problems . |
| 49 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 50 | He certainly engages in speculation as to what might have happened but treats it as such , continually emphasising that multiple interpretations of the data are possible , that there are many important matters to which he has not had access and that only limited and tentative conclusions may be drawn . |
| 51 | Prior to the mid 1960s , pollution issues received only limited and sporadic attention from a public whose interest was largely restricted to rather isolated localized pollution issues and the occasional air pollution episode . |
| 52 | The Conservative Party , which dominated the National government , operated a policy of ‘ appeasement ’ to which there was only limited and fragmented opposition from within its ranks . |
| 53 | Why do some countries have a structure which is characterised predominantly by either highly centralised or industry-wide agreements , whereas others have far more decentralised arrangements ? |
| 54 | The General Staff is , in the words of one expert , ‘ a highly centralised and powerful organisation with immense prestige ’ ; but it is not a law unto itself . |
| 55 | The winner of this year 's Avia Foursomes and the amateur medal at the British Women 's Open at Ferndown , the undeniably gifted Cheshire golfer was distressed to find that she was no better placed than second reserve for England in the Home Internationals and , further , that she was not given a place on the " B " team sent to Italy . |
| 56 | Clubs were better placed than inexperienced individuals to profit from advertising , which began to expand the commercial potential of sport in the 1930s . |
| 57 | Underpinning government faith in UDCs is the belief that a single-minded agency with limited objectives , using streamlined administrative procedures and free from political ambiguity is better placed than local authorities to turn round a closely defined area ( Adcock , 1984 ) . |
| 58 | However , English solicitors are best placed to take advantage of the market that the 1992 provision will offer ; the profession is arguably better placed than any other to advise international clients on the legal aspects of doing business in the ‘ global village ’ . |
| 59 | The district judge in Hong Kong was far better placed than this Board to make such a judgment , as part of his assessment of the situation as a whole . |
| 60 | The high cost of transport meant that areas with access to the sea or to navigable rivers such as the Danube were better placed than inland areas . |