Example sentences of "a [adv] [vb base] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a properly shape world , all the pupils could walk there and home again . |
| 2 | In a properly run business — a sufficiently benevolent dictatorship — they should be unnecessary . |
| 3 | This is not because of the often quoted ‘ collection of mulm at the front so that it can be syphoned off ’ which simply does n't happen in a properly run undergravel filtered tank . |
| 4 | Already he is delighted with the back-up he has had from a professionally run franchisor . |
| 5 | In an interview on Danish radio , the former liberal minister of finance said that , although the proposals in their current form had ‘ improved a lot ’ since the commission started discussing Mr MacSharry 's plan three months ago , they still presented a danger of destroying farming as a professionally run industry . |
| 6 | In classical tragedy as we know it , [ the tragedy of Aeschylus ( 525–456 ) and Sophocles ( 496–406 ) ] , the drama , as represented in the dialogue , gives a uniformly Apolline impression of form , precision , lucidity and beauty , much like Homeric epic . |
| 7 | Despite the reservations of his trainer he next went for the Melbourne Cup : he started even-money favourite , but pulled his way to the front in a slowly run race against the wishes of his jockey and faded in the straight to finish third . |
| 8 | In a slowly run race , it was older brother Morley Street who quickened the better on the run-in to land the Elite Hurdle . |
| 9 | The size of groups can be difficult to measure , because dolphins apparently travelling separately may in fact be part of a widely spread group in acoustic communication with each other . |
| 10 | Change a widely help opinion , if this no longer reflects the true status or position of the company and its products . |
| 11 | With encouragement from the paper 's enlightened sports editor Clifford Makins — ‘ he was a widely read man with respect for The Word , who believed that sports writers who are insular are doubly boring ’ — and a chance opportunity to write a boxing piece , McIlvanney was on his way , armed with Makin 's almost religious guidelines . |
| 12 | ‘ Each nation in its natural state , ’ wrote a widely read commentator in the 1740s , ‘ must be considered as the enemy of all others ; or as disposed to be such . ’ |
| 13 | If you were to be talking in a discussion group on television , or writing an article for a widely read magazine , such a statement would then be quite unacceptable . |
| 14 | It resulted in a widely read book ‘ Unwillingly to School . ’ |
| 15 | Elsewhere , the major infiltration seems to have occurred in the course of the fifteenth century : the Signet Office had a predominantly lay staff from 1437 , the Exchequer from 1500 , if not before . ’ |
| 16 | Presentation varies greatly , from an almost exclusively sensory form to a predominantly motor form , and it has been described as ‘ a variable constellation of signs of an acute peripheral neuropathy ’ . |
| 17 | However , the Pacific-North American plate boundary has undergone significant changes over the past few million years with the subduction of part of the East Pacific Rise spreading ridge and the evolution of a predominantly transform margin . |
| 18 | Some houses , particularly those built in the 1930s and before , still have a predominantly lead system . |
| 19 | ‘ No problem ! ’ she said and fetched a little scissor jack . |
| 20 | She wore a loosely cut silk dress in vibrant tropical colours , mainly greens , which set off her wild halo of rusty-red hair , tanned skin and generous dappling of freckles . |
| 21 | You may be happiest asking a professional to cut out your mount unless you are confident that you will do it properly , as it is a skill that takes a long time to perfect , and a badly cut mount is as off-putting as a badly made frame . |
| 22 | BRITISH and Commonwealth lightweight champion Billy Schwer took only three rounds to stop Mexico 's Mauricio Aceves with a badly cut eye at Wembley 's Grand Hall last night . |
| 23 | This is a critical feature on such an instrument , as a badly cut nut here would wreak havoc on playability . |
| 24 | He was at least four rounds ahead when Swiss referee Franz Marti stopped the fight as Fabrice Benichou , the French challenger , had a badly cut mouth . |
| 25 | His fight with Kid Milo this summer saw Eubank facing a badly cut opponent . |
| 26 | A badly run panel interview will alienate the very people it is hoping to recruit as highly qualified and confident candidates are more than likely to be antagonized by a poor interview situation . |
| 27 | Ecology and animal origins The teacher ( in role ) has inherited a badly run circus or zoo . |
| 28 | RSPCA officers who have to deal with the animals in a badly run zoo . |
| 29 | The taxation argument will fail because voters know a piddly tax cut is nothing if there is no free NHS . |
| 30 | In Britain in the late 1980s the idea of the Anthropic Principle , a hitherto obscure doctrine in physics , became the subject of conversation at cocktail parties , was probed exhaustively in a 700-page book and was summarized in popular science magazines and television documentaries . |