Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain the reforms which were introduced in the White Paper Working for Patients in 1989 were never widely understood and have still not won public support . |
| 2 | They picnic and bathe either lightly clothed or naked , completely absorbed in their own company and activities . |
| 3 | Since the prohibition order was made , he had undertaken a stringent cleaning routine every night after closing and had also successfully completed a hygiene course on the advice of Sefton Council 's own public health experts . |
| 4 | Goals are often too readily set and aims too ambitiously expressed and unless a systematic ( scientific ) examination is made of the methods utilised to achieve these ends , there is the danger that progress may be slowed or even upset … . ’ |
| 5 | Primate societies are remarkable among relatively long-lived and large-brained animal groups in that they have the capacity to store and retrieve much independently acquired information about their environment . |