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

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1 A long term test of the Tempa Rossa 2 well has been successfully completed and good production rates were achieved from a sidetrack to the original discovery well .
2 The fact that goods have not been paid for does not prevent ownership in them passing to the purchaser unless , of course , they are subject to a properly communicated and valid retention clause .
3 The haemorrhage was successfully treated and prolonged freedom from bleeding achieved in all patients except 1 whose haemorrhage was caused by diffuse gastric infiltration with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and who had only short-term relief .
4 In these respects , the EC has taken a very proactive role , guided by the importance of the single market which can not effectively exist if intellectual property rights vary from one Member State to another or if they can be used to restrict the free movement of goods .
5 The rest is up to the children , music included ; as Runswick and music director Terry Edwards discovered on their rounds of the schools at an earlier stage in the project , the teachers had only to supervise , rarely to prompt or invent-solid preparation indeed for the GCSE 's new emphasis on composition .
6 5% Discount off Contents and Personal Possessions premiums if your home is protected by a professionally installed and maintained burglar alarm system .
7 It is widely claimed that English speech tends towards a regular alternation between stronger and weaker , and tends to adjust stress levels to bring this about .
8 On the other hand , patients with locally confined but palpable disease who are treated by either radiotherapy or radical prostatectomy will show five year survival rates of 75–85% and will enjoy a life expectancy comparable to that of an aged matched male population .
9 The day after the resignation , Sir Geoffrey Howe , the Foreign Secretary , accused Heseltine of presenting ‘ a wholly exaggerated and misleading picture ’ of the Prime Minister 's conduct of the Westland issue .
10 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 ] .
11 He was admitted to the most lavishly decorated and furnished room he had ever been in .
12 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 .
13 It means money for the clubs and we have a tremendously committed and talented unit who genuinely care about the game . ’
14 Longer-term relationships had generally only developed where particular business interests were more or less directly involved .
15 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 .
16 Data from other herbaria , personally gathered or acquired MS documents .
17 She says that they have n't even had long enough to see if burning animal clinical waste has caused any problems .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 The outcome of these developments is , therefore , a ‘ highly differentiated and fragmented form of government ’ ( Dunleavy 1982 : 185 ) , in which co-ordination is achieved as much by negotiation and bargaining between agencies as by imperative , bureaucratic control mechanisms .
22 There are only a few isolated examples of Jacobite riots or demonstrations in England during the 1690s , perhaps suggesting that Jacobite sentiment was not particularly widespread .
23 Exposure to the context alone given after latent inhibition training will , according to the theory , allow extinction of the context-stimulus association that has already been formed .
24 Since fewer than ten English harpsichords survive from this period it was therefore something of a rarity , and quite obviously a highly prized and valuable acquisition .
25 Does he share their view that they work hard for their money , that they pay quite enough tax and national insurance and that they do not want to see what would be the worst disaster for such businesses in future — an increase in income tax and national insurance , as proposed by the Labour party ?
26 On the more serious side , it is doubtful that the elephants have anything to gain from their new highly polluted and noisy environment .
27 The War Artists Advisory Committee was set up , not only to stimulate and artistic record of war and related activities , but also to help ensure that at least some of the artists would be saved from First World War carnage .
28 Instead , in an open world economy , unemployment is more likely to be genuinely structural , a problem of an underskilled workforce in an economy that demands highly socialised and trained labour .
29 This is harassment , plain and simple , ’ she charged him grittily , only to see that insolent grin appear on his face .
30 He was shrewd enough to realize that western-style government could not easily be grafted on to a chiefly structure profoundly resistant to rapid and uneven modernization .
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