Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
2 | Rates have fallen most sharply in the South East , where the going rate now averages £3.80 a week , £1.40 less than last year . |
3 | She left the Tyne yesterday for six days of sea trials and ‘ our worry is that it will not come back to the river but will be completed somewhere else in the UK ’ , he said . |
4 | He would have preferred a special health-service pay factor , but had to settle for an above-average offer to the nurses , who most certainly were the priority group , having fallen badly behind over the previous ten years . |
5 | I believe that we have fallen badly behind in the three important areas of economic development , social policies and , sadly , the quality of our democracy . |
6 | They now seemed too cautious , too reluctant to admit to the most defective aspects of the post-medieval Catholic tradition , too little aware of the real situation in the Church of the southern hemisphere ( whose voice was heard remarkably little in the Council 's debates ) . |
7 | In the present case we shall take the view that the perception of two distinct types of phrase here can be explained rather simply by a divergence of relation at the intensional level . |
8 | The pope 's claims to decide on appeal were witnessed most clearly in the Canterbury election . |
9 | The mother-instinct of this ‘ redoubtable ’ lady seems to have developed rather late in the day . ’ |
10 | This note challenges this particular thesis that has been developed most clearly in the writings of Peter Townsend , Alan Walker , and Chris Phillipson , and suggests that concentration on the concept of structured dependency has deflected attention away from more progressive and optimistic views of the economic social status of the elderly in modern Britain . |
11 | Since there is a preponderance of special libraries and information units in the science and technology subject areas and , in the light of UDC 's consultative revision policies , UDC has been developed most fully in the areas of science and technology . |
12 | Erm , I , I , I did n't say the question lightly it 's just that I think it needs watching , and I wondered how it was , because I 've heard so often in the past , that people have so many lines of enquiries , but the money goes , and you know , it 's all marvellous , and I 'm not suggesting |
13 | She tried to shake her head , but found she was pressed so hard against the stack behind her that movement was impossible . |
14 | On the contrary , ‘ few things are regarded so cheaply as an animal 's life … |
15 | These systems use two endocardial defibrillator coils placed transvenously either as a single lead ( 12F ) or two separate leads . |
16 | A cowboy was out on the range when he came across an Indian with his ear pressed down hard against the trail . |
17 | When pressed down half-way , at which point it can be caught in a notch , the note is raised a semitone ; when pressed down farther to the second notch the note is raised another semitone . |
18 | Seagate Technology Inc says it has reached a multi-million dollar agreement with Corning Inc which will enable it to produce a hard disk drive that is sturdier and stores more than conventional drives : it will use Corning' glass-ceramic dubbed Memcor and developed over six years of research and development ; shipments of the material , which is thinner , stronger and more rugged than traditional aluminium substrates , and enables the recording head to be placed much closer to the surface of the disk , will begin shortly and output of drives will start in the third quarter . |
19 | Each criterion is broken down further into a number of different categories with varied weighted values . |
20 | Unit costs may be broken down further into the amount spent on teachers , books and equipment , ancillary staff , transport , and so on . |
21 | Direct discrimination against a married person occurs where a married person is treated less favourably on the grounds of marital status , than an unmarried person of the same sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances . |
22 | She reported that there was a general feeling of satisfaction with the standard of publicity that the Year had received so far from the media . |
23 | Some barbed quills have reputedly travelled so deep into the bodies of their victims that they have caused the deaths of the predators from the extensive damage caused to vital internal organs . |
24 | It was then that the Dwarves came to him , fed him , warmed him in their mansions and asked his purpose , for no mortal man had ever travelled so far into the mountains . |
25 | The substance or substances were placed down either on an object in front of the horse or somewhere on the front of the horse himself . |
26 | When he had finished Morse had the strong feeling that what he had just implied was surely true : there must be some connection between the disturbing events which had developed so rapidly around the Wolvercote Tongue . |
27 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
28 | What we want to do this morning is erm tt talk a little bit to you about er the quality system and the I S O Nine Thousand procedures and er documented er systems , which have been developed so far within the whole group . |
29 | This involved the creation of an Intendant-General of Finance and a number of Secretaries of State : the cumbersome system of councils on which the Spanish Habsburgs had relied so heavily in the previous century began to fall into disuse , the Council of Castile alone remaining important . |
30 | Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will . |