Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards , when he [ Chlothar ] had gladly received these titles from his older brother [ Childebert ] , he considered in his own kingdom what ought to be added there , and what further should be included , and he ordered clauses 84 to 63 [ for 93 ? ] to be fixed . |
| 2 | Article 118A also allows majority voting in the Council , so offering obvious political attractions to the Commission and to the European Parliament who are thereby given greater powers over the legislation . |
| 3 | To the north , however , at the south-western end of the Faeroe-Shetland Channel , the stronger bottom currents have locally exposed debris-flow sediments at the sea bed . |
| 4 | They were mostly crews who had successfully completed one tour of operations ( 30 missions ) , so they were not only skilful but also lucky . |
| 5 | The Declaration of Rights was eventually given statutory force with the passage of the Bill of Rights in December , which included a further proviso that no Catholic could inherit the Crown . |
| 6 | My final point relates to the penalties that will be employed when North sea workers are eventually given some sort of legislative protection against victimisation . |
| 7 | Right given two sides plus right angle |
| 8 | This has effectively banished explicit work on religious concepts in most primary schools , because children in those age-groups are deemed unable to think in abstract terms , but only concretely . |
| 9 | Some might think a little delayed public spending on roads would not have been a bad idea at that time . |
| 10 | The Front has since received many messages of support from both Tamils and Sinhalese . |
| 11 | Pioneering entomologists undoubtedly saw Laboulbeniales quite frequently while examining insects , but mostly regarded these oddities as some sort of malformed exoskeletal growths . |
| 12 | ‘ Queen Margaret believes , ’ he continued , ‘ that her husband was murdered at Flodden by a member of Les Blancs Sangliers who have since waged continuous war against those who advised her late husband , such as Selkirk and Ruthven . ’ |
| 13 | There was thus little organised public concern over the ethical treatment of animals until the formation of the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , in Britain in 1822 and the United States in 1866 . |
| 14 | In the event the union of Foix and Béarn in 1290 effectively solved one aspect of the controversy — Roger-Bernard III , count of Foix and vicomté of Béarn , now embodied the claims of both houses to Bigorre . |
| 15 | This is not required in the accounts of wholly owned subsidiary undertakings of companies incorporated in Great Britain . |
| 16 | Nigel said ‘ Your place or mine ? ’ when they 'd both duly impressed each other with lies . |
| 17 | The few ‘ intensive care ’ or ‘ medium-secure ’ units in ordinary NHS hospitals which accept mentally disordered offenders are nearly all sited in badly designed old wards in large hospitals . |
| 18 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 19 | The party also successfully targeted marginal seats in key areas such as in New South Wales where the Liberal-National state government was proving unpopular and in Queensland where the ALP exploited the legacy of corruption associated with the years of National Party rule . |
| 20 | Japan experienced a brief period of European contact in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries , but in 1639 the government of Japan , the Tokugawa ( Edo ) Bakufu , effectively severed all contact with the West . |
| 21 | … which Calcutta-born journalist with a flair for illustration eventually won international acclaim through novels about the English class system ? |
| 22 | Firms who have substantially reduced their work force include Formica ( with 550 employees in 1987 , compared with more than 1200 in the early 1970s ) , Welch 's ( a locally owned sweet manufacturer with 130 employees , compared with 200 in the early 1970s ) , Universal Bedding ( with 350 employees in 1982 , compared with 500 in 1973 ) , and Great Northern Knit wear ( with 75 employees in 1987 , compared with 115 in 1973 ) . |
| 23 | The police rapidly destroyed the remnants of the ‘ People 's Will ’ and successfully contained underground activity during the rest of the 1880s . |
| 24 | Is my hon. Friend aware that with the help and advice of the income generation unit , a business man in my constituency has successfully installed private telephones in hospitals in the north-east , paid for by advertising ? |
| 25 | Humane societies plan to file charges against Stanford University and the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital following the discovery of a badly wounded Samoyed dog in the corridors of the hospital , where Stanford researchers were working . |
| 26 | He seems to have entered the paper-making trade in the late 1830s at a boom time and eventually owned six paper-mills in Kent and Buckinghamshire , branching out from the family businesses of coal and timber merchants and , especially , seed crushing . |
| 27 | My Department has vigorously pursued reported delays with the authorities concerned . |
| 28 | According to Leat and Gay : ‘ Payment for care schemes attempt to overcome the weaknesses of bureaucratically organised statutory care by buying in the strengths of care in the private domain whilst at the same time overcoming the weaknesses of informal sector care ’ . |
| 29 | He maintained that the distribution of tillites and patterns of glacial striations produced by ice sheets during the Late Palaeozoic glaciation ( now termed the Gondwana Ice Age ) found in the now widely dispersed continental areas of southern Africa , Australia , South America , India and Antarctica indicated that these land masses were contiguous at that time and probably located fairly close to the South Pole . |
| 30 | ‘ Is n't it totally unsatisfactory that the Health Secretary has apparently given more weight to the wishes of the health authority than the parents of the children ? ’ |