Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could n't be the same Rover , because they 'd have recognised the car , although he hoped they had n't stopped long enough to get the number . |
| 2 | It dropped five bound volumes through a chute into a Committee meeting , and strongly suggested they leave off debating what colour the new Nempnett Thrubwell skimover ought to be painted long enough to ponder the problem . |
| 3 | The ideas developed so far provide a very incomplete story when the flow is adjacent to a solid boundary . |
| 4 | Polls suggested that Kennedy 's approval rating amongst his Massachusetts constituents had fallen so dramatically following the episode that he might fail to secure re-election in 1994 . |
| 5 | It is considered better therefore to have a longer set of allowable candidate strings which includes the correct word although this may often include rarely occurring words . |
| 6 | Most of the modes considered so far require the involvement in each state of an agency of central government as well as the competent official ( parquet , etc. ) at the local level . |
| 7 | Below Knox 's supposed home once stood the Netherbow Port , a gateway in the town wall , outside which began the abbey 's separate burgh of Canongate . |
| 8 | The failure to recall the current gear suggests that gear changing often does take place without a specific episodic memory being formed , in fact it is likely that this is the normal state of affairs , the relative infrequency of the failure being reported probably simply reflects the fact that the need for conscious awareness of the current gear is itself rare . |
| 9 | " You have come here chiefly to hunt the rare wild animals in our jungles so that the people of America will be able to see them on display in the Sherman Museum in Washington . |
| 10 | The papers included here also tackle the main features required to implement effectively the new approach which we have outlined above . |
| 11 | Most of the functions attributed to rises are nearer to grammatical than attitudinal , as in the first three examples given below ; they are included here mainly to give a fuller picture of intonational function . |
| 12 | The successful birds had two young which were feathered well enough to show the black bar along the grey wings which distinguishes immature kittiwakes . |
| 13 | Although the abandonment of overfunding has meant that this problem has ( although maybe only temporarily ) been resolved there still remains an issue as to the relationship between central government and the local authorities . |
| 14 | She says everyone 's done so well to raise a quarter of a million pounds — we 're just wondering what we 're going to do next ! |
| 15 | It grew colder still as the night fell , a crackling frost under a sickle moon , but the coldness did not reach into the Norderns ' flat and it would not have done so even had the central heating broken down , the joy and relief of the family generating enough warmth to melt the polar ice-cap if necessary . |
| 16 | At times , such as during the long wars with France from 1793 to 1815 , they seem to have done so especially to fill the labour gap created by absent men . |
| 17 | They say that America would have done better simply to import the Canadian system of national insurance financed by taxes . |
| 18 | However , the Ombudsman found that the UK and Gibraltar funds were closely linked and that , if the Department had moved swiftly enough to revoke the UK licence , the Gibraltar fund could not have continued to exist . |
| 19 | Contributions which he and his workmates have made so far exceed a splendid £1,576 . |
| 20 | Much of what he had seen so far confirmed the assessment of the Imperial survey — that the stage of development Tarvaras had reached was equivalent to that which was thought to have existed during the Terran medieval period . |
| 21 | Still clad in her tattered working clothes , her wellingtons pumped away assiduously to give the instrument the breath it required . |
| 22 | Added to this the partner of the black hole must have swollen to the giant stage in order that material can be transferred rapidly enough to give an accretion disc that produces detectable numbers of X-rays . |
| 23 | The body was moved once more to make the pockets accessible and Fox searched them — there were only those in his trousers ; he was wearing a cardigan in place of a jacket . |
| 24 | In later records , notably the census returns of 1841 and 1851 , he was said more specifically to follow the trade of fancy weaver , that is the manufacture of waistcoats and other garments with decorative patterns . |
| 25 | Since employee interests will not always be best served by a policy of profit maximisation , it is follows that section 309 , on this first interpretation , will sometimes require , or at least permit , management behaviour to diverge from that which in Chapter 1 was provisionally accepted as best serving the general interest . |
| 26 | Without this productivity increase exports could not have expanded fast enough to balance the additional imports required to sustain the 1955–61 expansion . |
| 27 | When the four remaining parts of the lower dome have been built high enough to form a complete circle within the walls of the square , this circle provides the basis for supporting the actual dome . |
| 28 | Indeed , if the results in London had been repeated throughout the country , Labour would not have done well enough to gain an overall majority in a putative general election . |
| 29 | It follows that whenever a large system is about to be built there always exists a considerable uncertainty about many aspects of its required behaviour , the interaction with its environment , its constituent components and their interrelationships . |
| 30 | The process by which a decision is made almost invariably affects the outcome . |