Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This remains one of the strongest reasons why so many parents still want their children to have RE even though they themselves have long since given up having much to do with religion . |
| 2 | The P. pictus were very active and could be seen at all times of the day , the Bumble Bees were a lot more secretive and only ventured out to grab some quick grub and late at night . |
| 3 | Frank Bruno , after only three fights since quitting pantomime , is apparently lined up to fight both champions . |
| 4 | Although a staged procedure — that is , preliminary colectomy , may have reduced the risk of performing a restorative proctocolectomy on unidentified Crohn 's disease patients , this policy was also unreliable as nine of 45 patients who had a previous colectomy eventually turned out to have definite Crohn 's disease ( n=3 ) or indeterminate colitis ( n=6 ) despite careful review of the colectomy specimens . |
| 5 | Just dropped in to say all the best . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah , downstairs , Clara and erm and one just carried on going straight and I got seventeen things that I can eat |
| 7 | He went out to Nigeria in 1900 with his mind already made up to employ such a system , once he had conquered the country . |
| 8 | Once king , Henry soon set about making heavy demands of the French . |
| 9 | Irina had already set off carrying two suitcases . |
| 10 | In addition to the secretary of state for the environment , the director-general of water services , and the EC commissioners , regulators include the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( which has already stepped in to prevent unwelcome mergers ) ; the local authorities ( responsible for monitoring and controlling the standard of clean water supplies ) ; the Drinking Water Inspectorate ( the auditor of technical standards ) ; the National Rivers Authority ( responsible for monitoring and controlling pollution in rivers , lakes and coastal waters , and for maintaining sea walls ) ; Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , HMIP ( which grants consents for the release of toxic substances into the environment ) ; and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food ( responsible for granting consents for disposals at sea ) . |
| 11 | In a tree and branch network , all the input signals are fed into a main trunk and branches successively split off to serve each subscriber individually . |
| 12 | Some , like the Yorkshire , have battle-plans already worked out to repulse unwanted bidders . |
| 13 | This situation carried on for a few weeks , she would try to talk but always just ended up leaving some food on the step . |
| 14 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |
| 15 | ‘ In prayer we are gradually hollowed out to become more ‘ capax Dei ’ ’ ( capacity for God ) , said Maria Boulding , and someone pastoring others will be only too aware of the need to receive even at the price of felt ( and often uncomfortable ) emptiness . |
| 16 | Later on as a teacher Mr Dear was once called on to teach English and , ‘ Naturally used Phil 's methods . |
| 17 | After Stead 's appointment , the RCM deliberately set out to become broad church . |
| 18 | Readers are also referred back to figure 5.1 and the Bogue and Buffa V-curve . |
| 19 | To a less immediately visible extent the institution of policing is also set up to control those who would publicly demonstrate against the state and its executive powers . |
| 20 | Were the other stones also set up to locate other sky times ? |
| 21 | The Junkers also set about diverting social pressures that emerged from the spread of industrial and urban society and the creation of national identity away from socialist revolutionary solutions into naval and military expansion , anti-socialism , and the manufacture of a threat from the east that justified the maintenance of traditional German life — a life that was , of course , best represented in the continued existence of the Junkers . |
| 22 | Edward Knoyle inherited the manor in 1533 , and probably set about building this mullioned and gabled beauty about ten years later around a humble medieval hall . |
| 23 | Both of us nearly ended up blasting each other but came to a reasonable compromise instead — which is the true story of our lives . |
| 24 | when they arrive in school in September they were level two and they 've now moved up to level three . |
| 25 | The body is full of compensatory mechanisms , and corrective treatments which are adopted for apparently sound reasons have often turned out to do more harm than good . |
| 26 | It was in the large , dimly-lit room below and to the left of the ramp , one of those cheerless spaces which Victorian architects ( or their clients ) felt bound to utilise , as with the arches of urban railway viaducts which were originally blocked off to make cheap classrooms for council schools and are now occupied by small garages and furniture makers . |
| 27 | Lorcan Wyer who has since gone on to become one of the most stylish jockeys in England was associated with most of the Scott winners in those days . |
| 28 | Nurses are increasingly called on to develop managerial skills even if their job does not formally include management . |
| 29 | Her gaze lingered on Jazz , but she was too well brought up to let any doubts show . |
| 30 | She should be a tracksuit granny who jogged and did aerobics and presumably finished up having two ribs extracted to make her waist look smaller . |