Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] an [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | A crew was predominantly a male group , like any other city gang , yet the skinhead girls eventually became an accepted part of the scene . |
| 4 | When he eventually became an overnight star after fourteen years of hard labour in Hollywood , the seekers of his past came knocking on the doors of his tutors and former friends . |
| 5 | Slatter also served on the county committee for 30 years , edited the club handbook , and eventually became an Honorary member of both Buckinghamshire and the Minor Counties Cricket Association . |
| 6 | IL-8 presumably plays an important part in neutrophil diapedesis through vascular endothelium and focal recruitment at inflamed sites . |
| 7 | Besides building an 18-hole golf course , and charging trainers to exercise their horses on the track , he is instigating another new concept in this country by constructing American-style barns so that training can be done at the track as it is in the United States . |
| 8 | Still , they met us with fire trucks ; we were politely assigned an armed guard and warned not to take pictures . |
| 9 | The bright light — this was what had struck them first — issued from an old street lamp , leaning at a crazy angle , rather suggesting an amateur production of Tales of Hoffmann , fitted , in place of glass , with sheets of mauve plastic , and trailing a long cable which disappeared down the companion . |
| 10 | In contrast , the culture of precursors and purified epithelium alone remained small and was alymphoid , even though the epithelial cells had successfully formed an intact structure and still expressed a cortical epithelial cell phenotype , including MHC class II antigen expression ( b ) and ERTR4 ( ref.16 ) and 4F11E ( ref.17 ) expression ( not shown ) . |
| 11 | The House of Lords , while accepting that some elements of natural justice could apply to investigations and preliminary determinations , held that an opportunity to see the counter-statement was not required : no final decision was being made and if the taxpayer could comment on the counter-statement the Commissioners would wish to comment on those comments , thereby producing an endless succession of exchanges , bringing the administration to a standstill . |
| 12 | Straw is largely seen as a waste product but treatment with caustic soda , ammonia or urea can increase its nutrient content , thereby producing an economical animal feed which could supplement existing hay and silage feed systems . |
| 13 | James Beck 's long awaited monograph looks at the man and his achievement ; in his pages , Jacopo della Quercia is championed as the least provincial and most ‘ Italian ’ of fifteenth-century sculptors , an artist sensible to his environs , constantly adjusting his own stylistic language , and eventually producing an individual synthesis of classical , gothic , and contemporary influences in his major works . |
| 14 | But once one team has started to dominate the gene pool of a species it thereby has an automatic advantage . |
| 15 | The proportion of urban dwellers has changed little during the present century , though in reality over 90 per cent of the population now effectively lives an urban form of existence . |
| 16 | he vigorously used an ancient notion of personal worth as resting in an original standard substance , and variation as introduced by society . |
| 17 | Herein lies an important clue , but also a further puzzle . |
| 18 | He was accepted as a younger brother of the Hull Trinity House in 1749 , eventually becoming an elder brother and three times warden , 1779 , 1785 , and 1792 . |
| 19 | Doubtless they represent a thorough-going attempt to adopt the sort of Roman style envisaged by Fortunatus , and they presumably drew an admiring response from some of the more backward-looking members of the Gallo-Roman aristocracy . |
| 20 | Though since to find an alternative word was n't going to alter matters at all by the look of it , Fabia began to wonder if perhaps Vendelin Gajdusek was coming back from Prague today to keep his appointment but had been delayed for some reason or another . |
| 21 | Such activity eventually causes an electrical breakdown of their membranes and this is called ‘ cell fusion ’ . |
| 22 | And the principles underlying it , despite short-term political bargaining over boundaries , were relatively simple , too : to have major services , councils had to have populations large enough to sustain an efficient delivery system ; to have strategic planning functions , still larger bodies were needed , to reflect the need to attract technically adequate staff and to interest political leaders of a sufficiently high calibre . |
| 23 | They would perhaps build an occasional Bailey bridge between one another because of Sam . |
| 24 | As young people were being encouraged , if not forced , to raise the stakes of involvement , by the pressures of the wars , brutal police , terrorist causes and other assorted hostilities , violence suddenly became an integral part of the youth movement as the feeling of the impending apocalypse heightened . |
| 25 | The Country was suspicious of an executive headed by a King who not only lacked an hereditary title , but who was also Dutch , employed Dutch favourites ( notably William Bentinck , who became the Earl of Portland ) , and who was a Calvinist . |
| 26 | Old phone books apparently make an ideal alternative to straw , and they 're far cheaper . |
| 27 | This means that the owner of an equitable lease can only grant an equitable sub-lease , not a legal lease , irrespective of the mode of the sub-tenancy 's creation . |
| 28 | Experience of being in the pew naturally plays an important part in forming perceptions of how to plan and conduct worship , and the place of music within it . |
| 29 | Wills were normally made shortly before death , as many a shaky signature can testify ; some people left it so late that they could only make an oral statement ( or nuncupative will ) , which was written down and sworn to by witnesses . |
| 30 | Crosier ( 1975 ) found fifty definitions so we had better make an early stab at identifying the notion of marketing that is being applied in this book . |