Example sentences of "a [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of local authorities , universities and polytechnics are offering courses for governors , but the Labour Party maintains that there should be a properly funded national scheme . |
| 2 | We must look at the behaviour from a properly defined structural viewpoint . |
| 3 | These should be carried out and applied by a properly trained multidisciplinary team . |
| 4 | A properly functioning two-party system has a centrifugal dynamic . |
| 5 | A properly set uniform emission fee that charged a given sum for each unit ( say , 1 tonne ) of pollutant emitted , for example , could achieve a collectively established level of air quality at the least total control cost to society ( Krier and Ursin , 1977 ) . |
| 6 | In a properly organized political community the state exists for society and not society for the state ; yet , however socially advanced a people may be , the society which it constitutes made up of families , clubs , churches , trade unions , etc. — is not to be trusted to maintain itself without the ultimate arbitrament of force . |
| 7 | The Privy Council in Chan Man-sin advised that the owner of a credit at the bank or of a right to draw on an account " has , clearly , the right as owner to draw by means of a properly completed negotiable instrument or order to pay and it is … beyond argument that one who draws , presents and negotiates a cheque on a particular bank account is assuming the rights of the owner … |
| 8 | In these circumstances I thought it would better serve the interests of air safety generally if a properly appointed accredited representative had the right to do the same thing . |
| 9 | Investment Business Gazette Number 10 ( October 1990 ) sets out the minimum compliance requirements for such firms , included in which is the obligation to conduct a properly documented annual review of compliance procedures . |
| 10 | ‘ Look : I ca n't say this strictly , as a scientist , but it is my feeling that a bonfire , grilling a kipper or lighting a cigarette all release greater concentrations of dioxins than you 'd be likely to find at the end of the pipe of a properly run high-temperature incinerator . ’ |
| 11 | The knock-on effect is unacceptable to the Government , because it means having a properly resourced training programme , a properly resourced pre-school education programme , proper training opportunities and the development of measures to counter unemployment . |
| 12 | It is a principle of limited government based on the ideas that what was required was ‘ a properly equilibrated political system in which power was checked by power in such a way that neither the violent urges of kings , nor the arbitrariness of legislatures could impinge directly upon the individual ’ . |
| 13 | In a case such as this , involving humans , it is not possible to perform a properly designed cause-to-effect experiment . |
| 14 | In April 1984 the National Union of Mineworkers called a national strike against pit closures , including that of the lately closed pit at Cortonwood in south Yorkshire , and in favour of a vastly increased basic wage . |
| 15 | It would only take a marginally improved thrust to give the aircraft a vastly improved ground-to-air time , a higher ceiling and a greatly boosted top airspeed . ’ |
| 16 | [ Two ] persons entitled to vote upon the business to be transacted , each being a member or a proxy for a member or a duly appointed corporate representative , shall be a quorum . |
| 17 | [ Two ] persons entitled to vote upon the business to be transacted , each being a member or a proxy for a member or a duly appointed corporate representative , shall be a quorum . |
| 18 | A locally constructed gas-cleaning precipitator was evaluated to reduce the need for frequent filter changing and the gasifier also incorporated a tar condensate trap . |
| 19 | A correspon-dent of the Small Ads Magazine complains : ‘ My eye was caught by an advert offering a locally made manufactured item , payment part cash , part Acorns . |
| 20 | Although there was an ‘ official ’ village community within which landowners , farmers and clergy were included and which was occasionally celebrated in traditional ( and public ) rituals and ceremonies , there was another community , a locally based working-class sub-culture , which excluded ‘ them ’ in authority . |
| 21 | According to the general theory of relativity , space-time is represented by a connected C ∞ Hausdorff manifold M together with a locally Lorentz metric g . |
| 22 | This replaced the system of public assistance , a locally administered means-tested benefit . |
| 23 | A locally admired civil servant , known to be gay , is murdered in his home , and the killers flee without their trousers . |
| 24 | Firms who have substantially reduced their work force include Formica ( with 550 employees in 1987 , compared with more than 1200 in the early 1970s ) , Welch 's ( a locally owned sweet manufacturer with 130 employees , compared with 200 in the early 1970s ) , Universal Bedding ( with 350 employees in 1982 , compared with 500 in 1973 ) , and Great Northern Knit wear ( with 75 employees in 1987 , compared with 115 in 1973 ) . |
| 25 | The followers of a charismatically inspired prophet may , for a while , feel and act as if they were all equally members of God 's elect , but if the community is to survive , the " routinization of charisma " , to use Weber 's term , always recreates a hierarchically ordered social structure . |
| 26 | A rewarded training trial consisted of transporting a rat in a slowly rotating opaque box from an adjoining room and putting it into the arena at and facing the centre of the N , S , E or W side-wall ( shown as an unfilled circle ) from which it could move around freely until it found the F+ feeder ; a non-rewarded trial lasted 60s and was conducted without either landmarks or feeders . |
| 27 | In addition , the tubercle bacillus in patients with sarcoidosis may be present in the form without a cell wall as a slowly growing bacterial infection so agents directed toward the cell wall mycolic acid such as isoniazid would be ineffective . |
| 28 | Yet , with only a slowly emerging technical understanding of how to build on the large scale in durable materials and with immense difficulties of transport , lack of communications and inadequacy of power , vast buildings were erected and these cathedrals and churches of Romanesque Europe still stand as testimony to the determination of man when his spirit is sufficiently aroused . |
| 29 | Graham Greene , who lived in Saigon before the French left , and wrote articles on the war for a number of papers , describes in his novel ‘ The Quiet American ’ life with a remarkably accommodating Vietnamese mistress , which was perhaps based on his own experience . |
| 30 | In one big country , Tanzania , there is a widely accepted national language , Swahili . |