Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth pausing here momentarily to observe that such legally provided remedies can be morally justified even when applied to people who are not subject to the authority of the government and its laws . |
| 2 | The artist is highly regarded internationally and has exhibited in many countries . |
| 3 | I caught an early edition , read about the ruckus , and thought I 'd better come home and see what was happening about the five grand . ’ |
| 4 | Rain fell heavily ; the plain they were crossing became inundated ; the policeman 's Scotch terrier was suddenly carried away and drowned in a swollen torrent . |
| 5 | Sylvia suddenly moved forwards and grabbed the book . |
| 6 | The time can be shortened , however , if those members who were supposed to make some enquiry or obtain some information , or to write a short factual statement , have not only done so but have informed the Hon. |
| 7 | ‘ It was like , well , these groups have all got together and thought ‘ Well , we 'll get these haircuts and these clothes and it will give us a concept that people can grab hold on to straight away ’ . |
| 8 | After a while the leaf began to bend , and in some hours the end of the leaf was so bent inwards as to touch the base . |
| 9 | The townspeople sensibly stayed indoors and closed their shutters . |
| 10 | In all cases , however , the broken ends of the DNA on either side of the initial cut are apparently sealed so as to form hairpins , as Martin Gellert ( NIH ) showed , before they are nicked to form the final joint ( a process reminiscent of the reaction mechanism employed by topisomerases ) . |
| 11 | Rescheduling the debt has merely deferred rather than solved the problems of increasing internal efficiencies and domestic savings rates . |
| 12 | Sometimes he would even say that Tom had not only gone home but had subsequently died of cancer . |
| 13 | In Margaret 's opinion the marriage had been moderately happy until 3 weeks before the overdose when her husband suddenly left home and went to live with a close friend of hers . |
| 14 | I was , as a newly arrived curate , somewhat taken aback and went home to lick my wounds . |
| 15 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 16 | The coming of new and dramatic types of treatment , however , only heightened rather than diminished the controversy over the old hospitals . |
| 17 | He concluded , in the language of the time , that the early sea-urchin was a ‘ harmonious equipotential system ’ in the sense that the parts all functioned so as to generate a normal organism . |
| 18 | The source added : ‘ Di told Enya that she is her number one fan , and they have since met again and have now become quite good friends . ’ |
| 19 | It is generally accepted now that to speak of self-sufficiency in the face of such quantities of material is absurd . |
| 20 | Travelling strongly for much of the way , Ballystate had just moved ahead when belting the final flight . |
| 21 | Dad just turned away and did n't reply . |
| 22 | The teams have already met twice and have remained deadlocked . |
| 23 | If remnants of the white middle class remain in them , they are generally tracked separately and have little contact with their poorer peers . |
| 24 | But he had finally done so and had seen other eagles , each in his own cage , all mature , all seeming big and threatening . |
| 25 | This connection is normally secured theoretically and depends upon well- established law-like relationships which are not only expressed mathematically but also indicate measurement units , as in the case of the thermometer . |
| 26 | Food , desperately needed now that produce from last year 's harvest is running out , had become garbage . |
| 27 | That this was significantly new is demonstrated by the bitter resistance to it from people who had been near the heart of the Church , yet it was finally approved overwhelmingly and constitutes the most precise dogmatic statement within this ‘ dogmatic constitution ’ . |
| 28 | And so it is not easily worn away or eroded . |
| 29 | It gives a blow-by-blow account of the stages involved in action research , with an early emphasis on reflection , finding out what is already known elsewhere and refining research questions . |
| 30 | If you want a job just run upstairs and say McCloy to Mr Burden . |