Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly every child if properly taught loves to draw and paint . |
| 2 | We have publicised the plight of arctic terns , seals , badgers and intensively reared animals . |
| 3 | Intensively reared piglets are weaned at two to four weeks old , so the sow comes on heat again as soon as possible . |
| 4 | Sometimes they resorted to ‘ divide and conquer ’ strategies ( e.g. hiring immigrant labour to undercut white wages ) , they deskilled workers to reduce their craft monopoly , used sympathetic newspapers and journals to disseminate anti-union propaganda and successfully lobbied politicians . |
| 5 | It will be suggested perhaps that , instead of simply feeling himself pulled between a thirst for new experience and a dread of losing his pension , a rational man would ponder conflicting principles , ‘ It is good to welcome new experience ’ and ‘ One ought not to risk one 's pension ’ , and judge between them by deducing from more general principles combined with verbally formulated facts about Bali and himself . |
| 6 | Computationally realised models of word form realisation for these languages will be constructed in order to get some insight into the precise nature of the formal mechanisms needed to account for the range of possibilities that languages display in this area . |
| 7 | Some communities have successfully completed revisions and some are still in the process of doing so . |
| 8 | In the past year , for instance , doctoral candidates have successfully completed theses on the acquisition of English as a foreign language by speakers of German , the teaching of advanced writing skills in English for specific purposes , and the stylistics of narrative fiction . |
| 9 | All the students had successfully completed Longlands College 's preparation for entrance to the uniformed services course . |
| 10 | Indeed , hundreds have successfully completed modules over recent years and it is evident that the National Certificate 's flexibility is as viable in prisons as in any other centre . |
| 11 | They can also run courses or help with internal courses , e.g. : ‘ Members of staff registered to attend courses and they provide tutors/input to locally arranged courses ’ . |
| 12 | This could be a formidable task in a society where even widely travelled soldiers firmly believed that Thomas Cook 's wagon-lits were the spearheads of the Third International since the latter word could be read in Cyrillic on the side of carriages . |
| 13 | Those banks that chose to ditch their exposures to Mexico and Argentina mostly received kudos for doing so . |
| 14 | It reads more like a series of loosely joined essays than an integrated work . |
| 15 | ‘ I hear you have been seen going into the House of Oliver , ’ she said , her immaculately painted lips tight with fury . |
| 16 | I 've rarely heard musicians use that term ; it 's more usually the record companies . |
| 17 | Mining Awareness was superseded by other locally formed groups . |
| 18 | Bad lighting and badly placed cables and furniture can cause unnecessary accidents . |
| 19 | For this ‘ miracle that God let be born in Salzburg ’ , every musician has since humbly given thanks . |
| 20 | Some of the traps and carts were decorated with delicately painted designs . |
| 21 | The similarities between such a scheme of reclamation and discipline and those widely mooted proposals of the 1980s to reclaim the youth through compulsory job-training or ‘ community service ’ should not pass unnoticed . |
| 22 | On the northern coalfield the rejection of badly filled corves on the grounds that they had been deliberately underfilled — " they will sometimes be so roguish as to set these big coals hollow at the Corfe bottom , and cover them with some small coals at the top of the Corves , and make it look like a full Corfe " — was a long-running grievance which led to a strike at one mine in 1751 . |
| 23 | This approach effectively placed services for the black communities on the margin of mainstream service delivery and turned collective issues concerned with race into individual case work ( Ben-Tovim et al . |
| 24 | The proposals , based on the premise that " cosmopolitan " laws put French people at a disadvantage , effectively placed immigrants in a separate category of those who could not be joined by their families and should not be eligible for certain benefits , while French people would take priority for jobs and housing . |
| 25 | Existing comprehensive schools in Coventry , for example , had successfully developed forms of organization based upon the ‘ house ’ — a unit in which a pupil would remain throughout his school career , and to which also belonged a group of teachers . |
| 26 | Visualizing your opponent as he really is , without his fearsome trappings , is not easy ; and concentrating the mind , to allow you to visualize , is also an acquired skill ; but both concentration and visualization are widely taught techniques which can be mastered with practice . |
| 27 | It is not that testing rigorously formulated theories from deduced hypotheses is never done , only that it is not the standard of scientificity . |
| 28 | Human readers can understand many badly formed letters and seemingly illegible words due to information gained from the surrounding context . |
| 29 | Badly formed characters and even illegible words can be understood in context because human readers use their knowledge of language and the world to guide their processing . |
| 30 | A programme of accounts monitoring of ‘ at risk ’ firms commenced in January , aiming to cover 650 visits per year , and a fraud intelligence officer was appointed , to be based in the Society 's Monitoring Unit , Measures to reduce conveyancing-based fraud were also adopted ; cards warning on property fraud and loosely given undertakings were circulated . |