Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Few of Gallotta 's ideas are developed rigorously enough to see all their possibilities , and too many degenerate into rituals for marking time .
2 We had come so far to find this .
3 Ian Renilson , operations manager for Fife Product Innovation , said he believed product innovation was the most fundamental method of wealth creation which could be harnessed more effectively to generate real economic growth .
4 This small , wall-powered unit can be installed almost anywhere to allow one Ethernet connection to become eight .
5 This small , wallpowered unit can be installed almost anywhere to allow one Ethernet connection to become two .
6 This small , wallpowered unit can be installed almost anywhere to allow one Ethernet connection to become four .
7 Kaifu also expressed his determination " not to let history repeat itself " and stated that " the Japanese people are resolved never again to repeat those actions which had tragic consequences " .
8 Publicity for homelessness was part of the business and I know one lad said he 'd only got two pounds of sponsorship and er I thought well you 've you 've done rather well to get two quid .
9 Would she have searched so ardently to find that patch of dull revealing blankness ?
10 Yes , there must be be a reason and as I 'm sure , I mean like like the objective , and then what you can do at this stage in the design process is once you 've got the objective then you select those themes or ideas from your what you 've done just now to support that objective , so that when you come up my objective is to convince you or my objective is to inform you then the information that you 're going to give out supports that objective .
11 The landscapes differed from those of the last day 's walk , and were seen in another mood ; the rain-clouds floated high , the road lay over rocky ridges , the homesteads had an amplitude of stone wall fencing over these exposed seaboard cliffs ; and they were built more compactly to withstand all assaults .
12 You 've had my rooms searched often enough to know that ! ’
13 Mm mm , you 've done well then to get that one
14 There are two things that could be done relatively easily to ameliorate this situation .
15 I assess the student 's ability and level of performance , and I might come to the conclusion that they had done pretty well to get those grades ; or it might be obvious that they could have done better . ’
16 The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off .
17 The remedies used most frequently to relieve urinary retention are causticum and staphisagria .
18 But in this context the term ‘ interference ’ is commonly used more narrowly to designate those theories that try to explain latent inhibition in terms of the interaction of standard ( usually associative ) processes of learning or performance and without recourse to attentional constructs of the sort employed by the theories discussed in Chapter 3 .
19 Surely , Desmond Bonney argued , if the parish boundaries had been defined after the construction of the earthwork , they would have used it as the ‘ natural ’ boundary — much like motorways and railways have been used more recently to define new local authority boundaries .
20 He held his shoulders well back and straight , and although Camille had never got close enough to make certain , she was convinced that he strode with his eyes half closed and a small , smart smile on his lips : unique , invincible , the splendid solitary leader of the procession , never to be challenged , usurped or tripped up .
21 Co-operative R&D ventures are more flexible than full integration and can be realigned more easily to meet changing circumstances .
22 At age 16 the General Certificate of Secondary Education ( GCSE ) should be the main form of assessment , especially in the core subjects ; ( e ) the results of assessment should be used both formatively to help better teaching and to inform decisions about next steps for a pupil , and summatively at ages 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 to inform parents in simple and clear terms about their child 's progress .
23 the results of assessment should be used both formatively to help better teaching and to inform decisions about next steps for a pupil , and summatively at ages 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 to inform parents in simple and clear terms about their child 's progress .
24 Reports pointed out that though the act had been passed for women 's protection , it seemed it was being used almost exclusively to punish poor women .
25 He concluded that not only had the respondents agreed negatively not to sell other petrol but that they had agreed positively to keep their garage open for the sale of the appellant 's petrol at all reasonable hours throughout the period of the tie .
26 Remember that even the best ideas have to be drawn very accurately to look correct .
27 We saw that this term was used very generally to describe various sorts of tension which arise in social practices , or between them , and which may provoke changes in the structure of society .
28 Exchange rates had only been adjusted as a last resort by deficit and surplus countries , and so were not used speedily enough to prevent prolonged payments imbalances and exchange rate crises .
29 Baldersdale was largely unaffected by contact with outside influences — to travel further than Barnard Castle , a prim and pretty little market town which could scarcely claim to be cosmopolitan , was virtually unheard of and such visitors as there were never stayed long enough to impart revolutionary new ways and ideas .
30 Throttle should be set so that normal hovering RPM is maintained when the throttle/pitch stick is pulled right back to give full negative pitch .
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