Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jamal al-Afghani had travelled widely encouraging religious reform and ideas of liberal constitutionalism , which even had a brief effect on Khedive Tewfik . |
| 2 | The same acute musical intelligence is brought to bear on the rest of the performance : the second movement is a ‘ Dumka ’ which has often received rather heavy-handed treatment in the past . |
| 3 | According to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters , which has just celebrated its centenary , of the thousand-odd portraits undertaken professionally each year , hardly any are commissioned by their subjects . |
| 4 | Unheated propagators must be placed somewhere warm . |
| 5 | If they are not going to fit into school then they must be placed somewhere more suitable . |
| 6 | Thus , though the placid British jurassic sediments have received vastly more than their fare shair of study , it is curious that some of their more spectacular features have been relatively neglected . |
| 7 | Yes , I think they get treated rather tough do n't they , I think the batsmen take advantage of the , of the always be in the umpire 's mind and he 's got to be certain . |
| 8 | The fact that we are situated right next to the park does not escape our notice and we have in fact had people in from the park who sleep rough there . |
| 9 | Loretta was aware that she had consumed rather more Rioja than she had intended , certainly enough to make her glad that Bridget was driving . |
| 10 | When using the tuba as an independent bass to the trombones in held chords the most satisfactory result is obtained if the tuba is placed rather low , even if this results in a big gap between it and the bass trombone . |
| 11 | The little ship had given remarkably good results and was immediately put into service to carry bulk cargo across the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea . |
| 12 | These findings of fact were given remarkably short shrift by Lord Parker C.J. who held that the conduct could not amount to insulting behaviour . |
| 13 | KITCHENS SINGER Patrick Fitzgerald has a way with egotistical comments : ‘ Our tour manager 's fallen right down-to-earth , ’ he beams at one point during tonight 's proceedings . |
| 14 | Moreover , although the Party probably enrolled rather more members among workers , intelligentsia , and artisans than either the Mensheviks or the Bolsheviks in this period , the prime constituency towards which it turned — the peasantry — remained very difficult to organize . |
| 15 | On the other hand , it is just because the fibre tubes can be crushed locally that wood can be nailed and screwed without splitting , provided we do not abuse the wood too much . |
| 16 | Again we have been given right royal treatment by a preserved railway , following our wonderful trip to the Llangollen last year . |
| 17 | His ‘ Organ ’ Symphony , recorded in Les Invalides , never sounded particularly impressive on LP given rather cloudy sound which took the edge off what was obviously a fine performance , but CD remastering has done wonders for the engineering and the results are most exciting . |
| 18 | So a snarling , spitting , clawing prey is given rather more respect than it may appear to deserve . |
| 19 | Now Norman would have er hopefully explained most that on the phone . |
| 20 | However , it would be undertaken predominantly outside MAS , with inputs from MC , and provided to clients not subject to the City Code . |
| 21 | A whole range of questions stemming from why one form of parenting is seen as acceptable and another unacceptable , or why the same form of parenting is acceptable in one context but not in another , had received little systematic analysis . |
| 22 | Conventional analysis of F-– data measured on Carboniferous cores using the standard Archie relationship , has historically given widely varying values of the cementation exponent m and coefficient a . |
| 23 | disturbances of conventional word order , literal and metaphorical senses interwoven , periphrasis , ellipsis , leading notions alluded to rather than declared , abstractions personified , persons becoming abstractions , widely different words becoming synonyms , synonyms being given widely different meanings … |
| 24 | These fish have developed remarkably tough gullets due to the high proportion of fresh water crustacean in their diet . |
| 25 | Moore 's view seems to be that the only non-fallacious cases are those where we are given merely some obvious synonym for the most basic sense of ‘ good ’ , like ‘ intrinsically valuable ’ . |
| 26 | Formed only 18 months ago , the Faculty has already attracted a membership approaching 7,000 — and rising . |
| 27 | These " cosmic ripples " were estimated to stretch as far as 59 billion trillion miles in space and were calculated to have been formed only 300,000 years after the " Big Bang " ( the original event which scientists believe had created space and time ) . |
| 28 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 30 | She dropped a curtsey and was waiting to be allowed through the door when Mrs Eckley said , ‘ Is this not Wilson , whom I have heard so much about , Ba ? ’ |