Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 The ideas developed so far provide a very incomplete story when the flow is adjacent to a solid boundary .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 !
6 Contributions which he and his workmates have made so far exceed a splendid £1,576 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 But , to return one final time to Bakhtin , in case he is appropriated yet again to legitimate a selective and ludicrously ahistorical celebration of ‘ carnival ’ :
12 But in verse one , the word used there simply means a relative .
13 The hands should be pre-set slightly forward to encourage a descending strike .
14 It was tolerated well enough to become a useful drug , but it had a very brief period of action ; 6-MP is attacked by the enzyme xanthine oxidase , a normal constituent of the human body ( and of widespread occurrence elsewhere ) and is converted to a substance , thio-uric acid , which is not active against tumours .
15 The ommatidia are packed closely together to form a multi-faceted compound eye .
16 Note : Bed linen is not provided so please bring a sleeping bag and towels with you .
17 They had spent so long reaching a place of safety , and were now so near .
18 But the novel by Valery Bryusov from which the opera is derived also symbolically re-enacts a tense , real-life emotional triangle that involved Bryusov himself and two other Russian symbolist poets , Andrey Bely and Nina Petrovskaya .
19 I 've already eaten enough today to do a man for a week .
20 Even so , she had lingered long enough to watch a tanker ploughing a parallel course , though in the opposite direction , probably bound for the big oil refinery .
21 Bob Greener died in February 1970 and the club he loved and had served so well printed a moving obituary in the Programme for 21 February 1970 .
22 He had hoped then also to find a publisher who was prepared to offer a comparable insight into the operation of an academic publishing house , but no publisher had accepted the brief , possibly for fear of revealing intimate company details .
23 ‘ You 've taken long enough to do a simple errand , I must say .
24 The chemical structure of the polymer is also an important feature in the crystallization ; for example , polyethylene crystallizes readily and can not be quenched rapidly enough to give a largely amorphous sample whereas this is readily accomplished for isotactic polystyrene .
25 The chlorophyll traps are left temporarily positively charged a ( so making them chemically highly reactive ) while the electrons are put to use in synthesising NADPH and ATP on the other side of the membrane .
26 The trends I have identified here clearly occupied a central place in the political thought of Max Weber , of Marxist thinkers such as Bauer and Hilferding , of Schumpeter , and of their numerous followers and successors .
27 The message to be output then simply acquires a sign vocabulary , and the response buffer has speech and sign mixed .
28 Jones , still only 30 , already had a reputation as an experienced seaman and he began his new career by capturing several British ships in the Irish Sea , but his announcement that he intended to raid Whitehaven in Cumberland and burn the vessels moored there nearly provoked a mutiny , for his crew , already disgruntled that so many ships had been sunk instead of seized , saw their prospect of prize money once again going up in smoke .
29 Among the challengers , excellent boxers from the Army who were stationed nearby often took a chance to make an extra pound or two , although if caught , would be for the high jump , as this sort of contest was strictly against regulations .
30 Having the crust to attempt a poem in 100 or 120 cantos long after all mankind has been commanded never again to attempt a poem of any length , I have to stagger as I can .
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