Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [coord] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The haemorrhage was successfully treated and prolonged freedom from bleeding achieved in all patients except 1 whose haemorrhage was caused by diffuse gastric infiltration with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and who had only short-term relief .
2 Prior to the mid 1960s , pollution issues received only limited and sporadic attention from a public whose interest was largely restricted to rather isolated localized pollution issues and the occasional air pollution episode .
3 The Conservative Party , which dominated the National government , operated a policy of ‘ appeasement ’ to which there was only limited and fragmented opposition from within its ranks .
4 The General Staff is , in the words of one expert , ‘ a highly centralised and powerful organisation with immense prestige ’ ; but it is not a law unto itself .
5 The outcome of these developments is , therefore , a ‘ highly differentiated and fragmented form of government ’ ( Dunleavy 1982 : 185 ) , in which co-ordination is achieved as much by negotiation and bargaining between agencies as by imperative , bureaucratic control mechanisms .
6 Two incidents marked his highly regarded but controversial career in Chicago .
7 His is a wilder , less contained or civilized view of Chopin 's nationalism than Artur Rubinstein 's in his rightly celebrated and most aristocratic 1966 RCA account ( 12/86 ) .
8 Piquantly , for the caring generation , the desire for natural quality materials has also caused a boom in the leather trade : it is an extremely committed and unusual member of the new elite who can resist the high style leather goods that now abound .
9 Speech is , of course , in its very nature a highly organised and complex sequence of sounds , but there is more to speech and language than sequential motor activity ( Poeck and Huber , 1977 ) .
10 The most highly organised and valuable system of giving in kind is the gift of blood .
11 A shaman is a much respected and highly-skilled member of the so-called primitive Indian tribes still to be found living in remote areas of the Amazonian rain forests .
12 The Cello Concerto ( soloist Eugene Ksaveriyev ) , is by some distance the most personally felt and individual work in this particular programme ( indeed the only one that fully avoids playing the stylistic ‘ magpie ’ ) .
13 It reminds me of those handsome bottles of fruit at Fauchon , their shape and colour not only preserved but given lustre by the amber syrup they bathe in .
14 As a result , although the coverage is not as lively or interesting as it would probably be if the editors had more freedom , it is not nearly as stilted as many people feared ; it is certainly much better than the terribly restricted and monotonous presentation of the Canadian House of Commons .
15 As the mind progressively clears in early recovery , the sense of guilt and remorse can be so powerful that the sufferer returns to the substance or process of addiction as the only known and practised method of suppressing unpleasant feelings .
16 Instead ‘ failure ’ is something endlessly repeated and relived moment by moment throughout our individual histories … . feminism 's affinity with psychoanalysis rests above all , I would argue , with this recognition that there is a resistance to identity at the very heart of psychic life .
17 The more highly convicted and at-risk profile of the AEC sample was also reflected by the fact that whereas nationally as many as 80 per cent of the persons commencing probation in 1988 had no additional requirements made to their probation orders , only six per cent of the probationers undertaking the AEC received this traditional type of probation order from the courts .
18 In other works , the pictures represent a record of the highly eroticised and mythological meeting of the artist and his model .
19 A right circular cylinder moving along its axis of symmetry makes a highly idealized but straightforward model of a deforming impactor .
20 It must not rely on its long established and unsuccessful policy of educating the public about the true nature of the auditors ' duties .
21 Design of course remains an essential factor contributing to future growth , and is another strength of Wedgwood and its associated companies , all of which are served by a large , highly qualified and experienced team of designers and modellers , with the added contributions of eminent contemporary artists .
22 The monkeys themselves turned out to be a highly evolved and accomplished band of thieves , and were treated by the Biranese as a neighbouring tribe .
23 We need a Government who will do better for our children and our young people , a Government with policies dedicated to making this country the best educated and trained nation in Europe .
24 London Scottish were the best organised and quickest side at the London qualifying tournament of the Worthington Best Bitter National Sevens and , along with other pool winners Harlequins and Saracens , progressed to the finals at Bath on April 26 .
25 Bill Glazier was Palace 's aptly named and superb goalkeeper throughout most of our sojourn in Division Three , 1961–64 , and he was ever-present during our praiseworthy recovery under Dick Graham in the second half of 1962–63 , then in the magnificent promotion season of 1963–64 when the number of goals conceded was easily the lowest in our Division .
26 As a result , she is no longer frustrated or angry deep within herself .
27 And ASK before you have your children 's hair cut children 's prices are n't generally fixed and most charge on a rule of thumb , height of head , sliding scale .
28 The Labour Party Conference : Straw calls for UK to become best trained and educated nation in Europe
29 Our aim is nothing less than than to make Britain the best trained and educated nation in Europe . ’
30 It acts merely as an easily identified and meaningful reference to the version of the package which is to be issued .
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