Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relationship between Government educationists and villagers was a political one , and created the seeds of resentment and conflict that eventually spilled over in 1979 with the overthrow of the Shah . |
| 2 | The stone slabs are known as Nagacoils and are mostly placed there by childless wives who vow to install a ‘ snake-stone ’ if they are blessed with offspring ; probably the greatest desire of the average female Indian mentality . |
| 3 | ‘ He very politely pointed out in each case , ’ recalled Mountbatten , ‘ that it was not the way he would have phrased it , and so it remained virtually unchanged . |
| 4 | There was n't nothing wrong with it — it was just a little bashed up on one end , that 's all . |
| 5 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 6 | I am speaking now of its Belgrade side , of the old men in the Academy who wished to complete Serb history because it seemed to them that it had not been properly completed back in 1918 . |
| 7 | In an aftermath when the relentless and remorseless inhumanity of the mill owner and his magisterial friends passed into local lore , an attempt was made to assassinate Cartwright and one was successfully carried out on another mill owner , William Horsfall , who had boasted his intent to ride up to his saddle girths in the blood of Luddites . |
| 8 | Daily food reintroductions were successfully carried out in 64 patients with subsequent exclusion of suspect foods . |
| 9 | Moxon was eventually caught behind for 80 off Allan Warner . |
| 10 | It would be like a strong wind tearing into the warmth , ripping the fabric of the old rugs , overturning the lamps , plucking loose all the hair so skilfully wound up into neat and careful buns , unravelling her mother 's dainty stitches , unravelling her mother . |
| 11 | He used to run ceilidhs in Toonagh — that 's a village near where my parents come from — every Friday night and we used to all go over there — ‘ t was the thing we most looked forward to all week . ’ |
| 12 | The Area successfully tendered for another section of the M74 ( Elvanfoot ) which will be mostly carried out in 1993 . |
| 13 | Or preferable , to be honest ; part of me rather looked forward to such taunting . |
| 14 | They are therefore viewed as costs that can not be justifiably carried forward to future periods because they do not represent future benefits or the future benefits are so uncertain as to defy measurement . |
| 15 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 16 | In the past , so-called biodegradable plastics have been viewed as fraudulent by environmentalists , as they have only broken down into smaller pieces . |
| 17 | The main Moslem militias had all withdrawn well before this deadline , ( Druse ) Progressive Socialist Party ( PSP ) fighters moving south to their Chouf mountain stronghold , and the rival Shia groups Amal and Hezbollah deploying even further south to the Iqlim al-Tuffah hills and other areas bordering Israel 's self-declared " security zone " . |
| 18 | Suspension : If dirt was merely broken up into small particles cleaning would not necessarily be able to take place as there would be nothing to prevent the dirt reforming and re-attaching to a surface . |
| 19 | These differences are better explained not by that kind of analogy , but by a recognition of the complex history of the text within the history of an ancient tribe — a history that is sometimes romanticized , sometimes idealized , and in which past and present are sometimes confusingly mixed . |
| 20 | Admittedly , the weather was worse , English fortunes were at a low ebb , and the higher charges may well have deterred many people , especially the Caribbean fans ; but one suspects that some thousands of people simply could not face the prospect of yet another day almost entirely given over to fast bowling . |
| 21 | All processes execute on the local client — not on the central host processor — and version control ensures the dictionary ( list of objects ) is only downloaded once to each client , on the first time of use . |
| 22 | One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years . |
| 23 | But in the last ten years , Britain 's butter consumption has suddenly fallen by about half , and margarine has reached a pinnacle of acceptance . |
| 24 | Anil Kumble took four of the seven wickets to fall today and England could only quibble with one of them — when Graeme Hick looked to have been wrongly given out for 47 , caught off bat-and-pad at short leg . |
| 25 | And when Laura had protested , as she frequently had , he had merely pointed out with brutal logic , ‘ You knew I was a businessman when you married me , Laura . |
| 26 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
| 27 | Luckily Mike Farquharson who had only come offshore for two days and ended up staying a week , volunteered to cover until my colleague Jim Gibb arrived . ’ |
| 28 | So I rang the midwife again , who decided she 'd better come over after all . |
| 29 | Yeah I think we 'd better come away from that , thank you . |
| 30 | Every year each region 's allocation was merely rolled forward with small additions to the previous year 's spending and extra to meet the current costs of new hospital premises . |