Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had just overwhelmingly repulsed an unprovoked attack by a European power , and their past history gave them little cause to regard Europeans with favour . |
| 2 | If God can not be identified with man as a product of evolution , and thereby given a credible definition , then any effort to create a new and successful conception of God will founder on the same rocks of contention that have wrecked every religion that was ever believed in . |
| 3 | By a resolution passed by 305 votes to 36 , with 41 abstentions , Gorbachev was effectively given a free hand to dictate the process of economic reform by decree , to manage the state budget , and also to supervise law and order . |
| 4 | With only ninepence in their pockets , they founded an old boys ' association that went on to include a thriving club ( albeit minus clubhouse ) , a sports field and four football teams competing in the Zingari and Old Boys Associations ' leagues . |
| 5 | THE fight is on to include an old power station site within a country park . |
| 6 | Can I can I say that in my opinion that the county council 's current budgeting strategy which effectively imposes a two percent efficiency saving which I might add in figures come to something like one point five million erm is , is of concern but what is of greater concern is the further possibility of a four percent er reduction which is being sought in blocks of three percent and one percent next year for ninety four ninety five which is to the amount of two point eight million at the current prices will in my opinion decimate the present level of service provision in policing . |
| 7 | Wimpey joined forces with Taylor Woodrow and Amec to form the Kuwaiti British Fire Group and the consortium successfully completed a major contract for damage assessment and subsequent refurbishment of two oil fields . |
| 8 | WEST HAM have paid £225,000 for Partizan Belgrade central defender Budimir Vujacic after the central defender successfully completed a ten-day trial at Upton Park . |
| 9 | The US space shuttle Columbia successfully completed a 14-day flight on July 9 , the longest ever by a space shuttle crew , during which the prolonged effects of weightlessness on the human body were further studied . |
| 10 | Former weaver Reay McKew ( right ) has successfully completed a two year apprenticeship to become a qualified ‘ Overlooker . ’ |
| 11 | They think , perhaps , more in terms of what knowledge and skills they would hope to find in a secondary school entrant rather than of those one might expect from a child who had successfully completed a primary school course . |
| 12 | All these factors are increasing the complexity of the work of further education teachers of whom , at present , under half of the full-time staff , and even fewer of the part-timers , are trained in the sense that they have successfully completed a full programme of professional teacher training leading to qualified teacher status . |
| 13 | This is to certify that … has successfully completed an advanced training course in the following subjects : Information Management , Plant Information Systems , Database Design and Construction , Word Processing , and Personal Computer Operating Systems ; and that he has demonstrated his abilities in these subjects by constructing a database of the Economically Useful Plants of India . |
| 14 | He has since completed a splendid four-timer when making all to take the Group Two Richmond Stakes at Goodwood last week . |
| 15 | By the time he arrived at school-leaving age , he had realized the value of education for his career and so enrolled on a day-release college course , eventually completing a Full Technological Certificate , whilst training to be a painter and decorator . |
| 16 | The first stage in the transfer is a preselection process , involving informal discussions with tenants where they may make their own alternative suggestions , which eventually produces a single applicant to go forward to the final stages . |
| 17 | Progressive rock was over-dressed , the music of a leisured rock aristocracy , who possessed the money to lavishly construct a LUXURIOUS palace of sound , and the time to squander in excessively fastidious attention to detail . |
| 18 | Reshevsky went on to lose an interzonal play-off for the World Championship in 1964 and was beaten again in the quarter-finals four years later . |
| 19 | On 24 November the lawyers replied ‘ respectfully to state our opinion that Your Majesty may properly grant a Royal Charter ’ , but it was not until 14 February 1844 that Thomas Turner was able to report to the standing committee of veterinary surgeons that their determined efforts had been rewarded and that the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons had been incorporated . |
| 20 | Her brother , Merfyn , began training with his uncle as a motor engineer and eventually became a technical journalist . |
| 21 | So this individual , who I would n't have given three stripes across , eventually became a Chief Inspector . |
| 22 | The arrangement eventually became a sore point in relations between the US and Panama , which regarded the original treaty as an affront to its sovereignty . |
| 23 | At first resisted by conservatives who feared its materialistic implications , evolutionism eventually became a central theme of late nineteenth-century thought , the foundation for a unified philosophy of biological and social progress . |
| 24 | His second son John West Wilson was a resident agent in Gothenburg and eventually became a naturalized Swede . |
| 25 | It , too , eventually became a vital piece in the evolutionary jigsaw that Darwin was to assemble with the help of John Gould at the Zoological Society . |
| 26 | He flung himself into athletics and , eventually became a top-flight international sprinter ; which is just as well , for , had he not realized his early promise , he would have been stuck in a sports shop with no qualifications — which would not have reflected what he considered his genuine educational aptitude . |
| 27 | A crew was predominantly a male group , like any other city gang , yet the skinhead girls eventually became an accepted part of the scene . |
| 28 | When he eventually became an overnight star after fourteen years of hard labour in Hollywood , the seekers of his past came knocking on the doors of his tutors and former friends . |
| 29 | Slatter also served on the county committee for 30 years , edited the club handbook , and eventually became an Honorary member of both Buckinghamshire and the Minor Counties Cricket Association . |
| 30 | It was already chaotically busy with officials and administrators knitting together the many responsibilities which would eventually make a successful tournament . |