Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rex is a man of strong opinions unflaggingly put into practice . |
| 2 | Rebate-only plans apparently offered a free pension , as all the money came from the Government . |
| 3 | With these funds at their disposal , various governments , central banks or monetary authorities actively supported Arab bank involvement in the recycling operation rather than leaving it entirely to non-Arab banks . |
| 4 | The gables of this temple were adorned with the huge Gorgon-masks in moulded and painted terracotta already mentioned ( p. 16 ) . |
| 5 | Dr Stroud , 37 , his frost-bitten fingers still taped up , said : ‘ I hope very much I remember just how bad and difficult this was — and never do anything like it again . |
| 6 | One prominent analysis of this maintains that the interaction between political institutions broadly defined and media institutions is one of ‘ dependence and adaptation ’ . |
| 7 | The gnathostome condition , with paired nasal sacs not associated with a through duct , would therefore be a derived condition . |
| 8 | The 1959 Mental Health Act defined mental disorder as : mental illness ; arrested or incomplete development of mind ; and psychopathic disorder — the last a controversial category further defined as ‘ a persistent disorder or disability of mind … which results in abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct … and requires , or is susceptible to medical treatment ’ . |
| 9 | Evidence suggests that working class wives were prepared to put up with occasional drinking bouts by their husbands and the physical abuse that sometimes accompanied them rather than lose the economic support normally provided . |
| 10 | Orthographic projections are right angled views ideally suited to the study of everyday objects . |
| 11 | Consequently capital owners or allied groups directly tied to them should control the state in industrial society and run it in their own interests . |
| 12 | In 785 Charles ' inflexible attitude and persistent presence finally paid off ; the main nationalist leader , Wittikind , sued for peace and was given his life in exchange for his surrender and baptism . |
| 13 | There was one exceptional year that proved the rule : in 1980 , the economic recession so emptied British industry 's order books that firms were able , and keen , to deliver faster than anticipated with embarrassing consequences for the accounting officers in post at the time . |
| 14 | My mental and emotional states also improved , because there is nothing like continuous pain to make one feel depressed and worn out . |
| 15 | The case may mark the end of the political protection long enjoyed by the logging companies . |
| 16 | Although the round table voted to oppose foreign participation in the campaign for the March 18 election , West German party political support rapidly assumed a high profile . |
| 17 | As a consequence , the eubacterial rooting previously obtained from ATPase evolution is inconsistent as it was based on phylogenetic trees in which these two paralogous families were mixed in single trees . |
| 18 | In the preceding decade London and other large metropolitan cities recorded massive population losses ; medium-sized cities either lost people or experienced only slow growth . |
| 19 | In 1988 , following one of the most extensive investigations ever conducted by the SEC , charges were filed against leading Wall Street firm Drexel Burnham Lambert , for whom Milken worked , alleging , inter alia , insider dealing , stock manipulation , and numerous other securities law violations . |
| 20 | If you read it , you read a clear , if unintended , exposition of why socialism is the most idiotic political creed ever taken seriously , and you could also discern a genuine , if sentimental , belief in the capacities of the people Labour was formed to represent , the British working class . |
| 21 | In addition to the economic policies already discussed , development boards have been established in some rural areas where particularly acute social and economic problems exist . |
| 22 | Below the main array a full-width sub-panel carries the rotary fuel selector ( fuel is carried three underbelly tanks with triple fillers neatly recessed in a panel just behind the door on the left side of the fuselage and accessible from the floats ) , switches for magnetos , generator , fuel pumps and all the other electrical equipment . |
| 23 | He had taken a lot of trouble with his appearance this morning , Briant noticed , his heavy gray hair carefully slicked across his head , his knitted red tie carefully arranged against the collar of his pink shirt . |
| 24 | Meredith averted her eyes from the breadth of muscular chest sharply defined beneath the crisp linen shirt by the movement . |
| 25 | In the M-form enterprise , in contrast , the company is organised into separate product divisions , each with responsibility for many of the administrative operations formerly performed by the head office and its sub-offices . |
| 26 | Li also pointedly gave support to leftist agricultural policies reportedly opposed by Deng , endorsing collective service networks and ideological education campaigns in rural areas . |
| 27 | The second part of the chapter comprises a narrowing of the focus from arts education in general , to one area in particular , namely English lessons and the fictional literature typically offered to whole classes of pupils in the lower years of secondary schools ; the ‘ class reader ’ . |
| 28 | As to what steps may be effective to prevent a holding out , there may be some discrepancy between what will suffice for the Law Society to exempt a salaried partner from compliance with the professional rules already referred to and what the Court might regard as appropriate in proceedings brought by a creditor of the firm . |
| 29 | He had in his pocket the key to an office where 5,000 match programmes , a historic souvenir eagerly sought , were stacked . |
| 30 | After several hours of futile combat , in which the Norman minstrel Taillefer perished in a glorious suicide ride and the knights were unable to smash the fyrd 's defensive rings , the battle turned , the Saxon ranks broke line under their own enthusiasm rather than the Norman ruse always reported , and Harold was eventually mortally wounded by the repeated rain of arrows which , lacking sufficient archers , the English were unable to return . |