Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finance ministers Theo Waigel of Germany and Michel Sapin of France said after talks in Bonn that close co-operation between their two countries had successfully fended off speculative attacks on the franc . |
| 2 | It comes with prostration , after several days and is most often found in patients of poor vitality , rather broken down weak constitutions who are subject to catarrhal illnesses ; most often needed in the elderly and in young infants . |
| 3 | She is past the menopause and she and Abraham have long since given up sexual intercourse . |
| 4 | Though the unit had long since given up any pretence of cooling the room , it did turn out to have a curious talent for magnifying the pigeons ' footfalls so that their tap dance rang out like a drum-roll at six every morning . |
| 5 | He lay on the examination couch , and his left cheek was badly grazed down one side . |
| 6 | We have successfully carried out this procedure in 18 patients . |
| 7 | I 'm thinking actually of here in the university itself , we 've got three different groups in those areas that are now collaborating , and I think we 've got a good chance of _ especially in the area of schools curricula — but also in the area , I think , of helping business people , and I 'm thinking now of senior management , who might be your and my age , Brian , for whom computers did n't exist when we went through university or college , erm who 've probably more or less given up any hope of understanding it and understanding the computer boffins who have taken over — almost taken over the company at times , one suspects . |
| 8 | I myself have long given up any hope of a more permanent relationship . ’ |
| 9 | Because of that , I have merely pointed out incontrovertible facts , and left them to draw the inevitable conclusions . ’ |
| 10 | Lauda only picked up four points from the two races . |
| 11 | It was not outsiders who began and brutally carried on this war . |
| 12 | Fashions in dress and diet , ceremonies and customs , art and architecture , engineering and technology , all evolve in historical time in a way that looks like highly speeded up genetic evolution , but has really nothing to do with genetic evolution . |
| 13 | Many people felt that the advantages of being disabled not only cancelled out any disadvantages there might be but actually outweighed them . |
| 14 | I did n't know what crows ate , so picked up some cabbage leaves and a lump of congealed moussaka from a dish in the Corporal 's kitchen . |
| 15 | No effort has been made to enhance the room , unless you count three small prints randomly hung on separate walls , Une Baigneuse by Seurat , a Degas of a woman drying her hair and a Bonnard of another woman in a bath . |
| 16 | However , railways only made up 3 metres of every kilometre squared of territory as opposed to 200m/1km 2 in Britain . |
| 17 | of course If the forecaster has merely averaged out considerable fluctuations to give an overall steady state that is less useful than a genuine steady state . |
| 18 | Yeah I mean we do get people who come in on the sort of the Friday morning and they 've already got their done their business perhaps sought out professional advice elsewhere |
| 19 | Chris was stunning in a green Chinese-style gown with a long slit up one side . |
| 20 | He was in Northumberland with the wife 's mother for ten days , only got back three days ago . |
| 21 | US intelligence assessments actually made in October 1990 , but only handed in two days before the Nov. 20 signing of the CFE treaty , had led US officials to assume that Soviet weapons had been withdrawn behind the Urals only shortly before the signature of the treaty . |
| 22 | It is not the commonly occurring long drawn out explanatory warning ( 'If you do n't stop whining I 'll get cross with you and then put you in time out until you stop' ) . |
| 23 | Oh I 'm all bunged up this morning . |
| 24 | To give a brief example , in Nepal population pressure has in the last decade or so brought about many intensifications of cropping patterns such as the introduction of wheat as a winter crop . |
| 25 | As to costs if proceedings are wrongly brought in High Court — see above . |
| 26 | The team was only set up 3 years ago when the rink was built and is now ranked 13th in the country . |
| 27 | For a time he adopted a Stoical attitude to outface suffering , but this only brought on middle age prematurely . |
| 28 | As they did not regard the existing ‘ Democratic Republic ’ as representative of the people of Annam and Tonkin ( the question of Cochinchina tended not to be raised ) this obviously ruled out serious negotiation . |
| 29 | Although President dos Santos had long expressed his willingness to form such a government , the agreement marked a significant policy change for Savimbi who had hitherto ruled out political co-operation with the MPLA-PT . |
| 30 | They were so run down that passenger trains were rarely entrusted to them if anything else could be found , and they were to be seen hauling coal trains as on this occasion when No. 46156 ‘ The South Wales Borderers ’ passed Holmewood heading south in 1964 . |