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

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1 That effectively made the game safe for the tourists , but there was little to commend in a cold and often bitter contest .
2 Onward goes the pilgrim band … ’
3 Almost at once , those who had most favoured the change start squealing .
4 There go right to see the Palazzo Erba-Odescalchi , a sumptuous palazzo built by the Cusani family in the early 1500s , although it takes its name from a later Archbishop who used it as his palace in the eighteenth-century .
5 In 1974 , only 18% of the population had completed primary and 3.6% secondary schooling and 0.8% had successfully completed a university degree .
6 Originally a three-year trained teacher , by 1976 he had successfully completed a part time B.Phil degree and subsequently had tried , unsuccessfully , to obtain the pastoral experience which he considered to be necessary in order to move up the comprehensive school hierarchy .
7 David Gettings , manager of Binns , Darlington , has presented certificates to four of six members of staff who have successfully completed a sign language course to enable them to communicate with deaf customers .
8 Since the prohibition order was made , he had undertaken a stringent cleaning routine every night after closing and had also successfully completed a hygiene course on the advice of Sefton Council 's own public health experts .
9 Later the same day , the receiver successfully completed a sale agreement with the same purchaser .
10 But it is unlikely that the ICC could have successfully mounted an exercise to codify contract rules governing commercial agency agreements , though a Working party of the ICC 's Commission on International Commercial practice under the chair-manship of professor Fabio Bortolotti has successfully completed a model form of agency contract for international trade and is proceeding with work on a model distribution contract .
11 Richard Parkyn , a chartered accountant from Tiverton in Devon who has suffered from diabetes since childhood , has successfully completed a 750-mile bike ride from John O'Groats to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in just 10 days despite having his bike stolen in Kidderminster and suffering from increasingly sore knees .
12 By the Jan. 31 deadline a further nine parties had successfully completed the registration process .
13 With her hooded eyes loaded with mascara she was often likened to Myrna Loy and was eventually given a film test , a frequent occurrence for beauties in the 1920s .
14 Clark owned an estate in Tetbury which was eventually given the name Highgrove by his grandson John Paul Paul .
15 The full manufacturers ' list of 24 models which were considered not satisfactory ( and presumably failed the government test ) is : Boots 500 ; Brother MF1200PW and MF3200DB ; Electrolux NF4061 , NF4065 and NF4076 ; Goldstar ER350ME and ER535ME ; Hoover H6312 ; Matsui 260TC ; Moulinex 059 ; Philips AVM625 and AVM734 ; Proline M3030 ; Russel Hobbs 8504 ; Samsung RE570D , RE576D and RE990CT ; Sanyo EM2714BR ; Sharp R-7A50M and R-8H50(B)T ; Toshiba ER9610EW-1 and ER9630E ; Tricity MH1081 .
16 Writers were poorly paid , rarely given a screen credit and never encouraged to take a fresh approach .
17 He began by building up the scout movement in the NorthEast and eventually became a scout commissioner .
18 It acquired its stake in the early 1980s , hoping eventually to acquire the tobacco group .
19 For the growth of a forest , the fires have to be stopped and some enrichment planting of early successional species tried , e.g. Canarium zeylanicum ( Burseraceae ) , Artocarpus nobilis ( Moraceae ) and Vitex pinnata ( Verbenaceae ) , etc. to restore the tree cover .
20 However , the presence of CFCs , which have strong absorption bands in parts of the infrared spectrum , may induce their own ‘ greenhouse effect ’ within the stratosphere , thereby offsetting the carbon dioxide effect ( Ramanathan , 1975 ) .
21 That is a point of view which I understand , but which I should not commend against a background in which Parliament , when removing the unfettered right of a land owner to develop his land as he wished , thought it right to enable a land owner to get a second opinion if the local decision on his application was adverse .
22 But making permanent appointments to a group that has the authority to make decisions creates an elite , and effectively transforms the peer group into a hierarchy .
23 Given the choice , most of us would rather eat a choccy bar than a stick of celery , but good eating habits will pay dividends .
24 After Martin 's death his son Jean continued to reside at the rue de Harlay , and presumably became the master maker of the workshop .
25 Aquino 's choice was criticized in some quarters for threatening the possibility of splitting her support — between those who would remain loyal to the LDP and those who would support Ramos — and thereby allowing an opposition candidate to win .
26 Though the group which dominated the executive board of the National Association tended to be drawn from the secularist , radical circles of the metropolis , the women and men who effectively led the repeal movement came from the same provincial backgrounds which sustained many other mid-century reform groups .
27 Both cultures , however , have recently spawned new restaurants in London which thankfully drag the eating-out experience from the outmoded , plastic-flexing Eighties into the less-affluent Nineties .
28 Added to the Right-On readers , they effectively expanded the core group and provided a viable number of buyers .
29 Your English teacher will supply you with ideas but you are expected to read widely using the School Library and other sources of material to further your knowledge and your reading skills .
30 DARLINGTON sailor Julie Carroll , 20 , is looking forward to a life on the ocean waves on the type 42 Destroyer HMS Southampton after successfully completing a radar operator course at Portsmouth .
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