Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The powerful Banking Association reportedly welcomed the treaty as an important step in improving Panama 's international image despite the fact it had successfully lobbied to preserve regulations guaranteeing banking secrecy which the USA had wanted removed . |
| 2 | ( 1 ) François Seurel , narrator , mostly sprechgesang to set scenes , describe locations and weather . |
| 3 | It was clearly a short-term appointment , arguably calculated to reassure members of the renamed Overseas Civil Service that , at a time when morale might falter as career opportunities shrank with the imminence of independence , at least one of them and not ‘ a Whitehall warrior ’ was at the helm . |
| 4 | ‘ And we shall eventually want to take statements from everyone — in particular , the six ladies who baked these cakes . ’ |
| 5 | Bridges are being built between different confessions , and a new atmosphere of mutual respect is slowly helping to find ways of overcoming what were once felt to be absolutely irreconcilable differences . |
| 6 | Word processed documents , drawings and music , etc. produced using packages which facilitate the making of these works are protected by copyright as original literary , dramatic , musical or artistic works in their own right . |
| 7 | Roland GR-1 Guitar Synth The popular image of guitar synthesis is that of a tired old dog people have long since stopped throwing sticks for . |
| 8 | All being well , it will slowly qualify to make decisions upon progressively more major matters . |
| 9 | The radicals were widely expected to lose seats after a committee judging the suitability of candidates prevented about 1,000 of the 3,000 hopefuls from taking part , including several well-known radicals . |
| 10 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares jumped almost 8.5% on Friday on hopes that the government will spend heavily on a major new communications network : Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said on Thursday that an economic stimulus package , widely expected to include funds for a network of high-speed fibre optic cables , would be even larger than 1992 's supplementary budget ; if the government steps in with new funding , the state-controlled phone company would likely end up laying the cable and providing services ; the project is the one first mooted back in the early 1980s to connect every home and business in Japan . |
| 11 | Mr Getty bought Sutton Place in the 1960s , and this was the period when he most enjoyed acquiring pictures . |
| 12 | While not denying the clinical value of the EEG as a non-invasive technique it is probably fair to conclude that electro-physiological research has so far not contributed anything new to our knowledge of cerebral asymmetry but rather has corroborated findings from other areas of investigation . |
| 13 | He rarely visits climbing walls ‘ they are not hard enough ’ and prefers the old maxim that the best training for climbing is climbing itself . |
| 14 | Given that we wish to give British industry the flexibility to employ part-time workers , is not this another effort by Labour to hit the people who most want to seek jobs ? |
| 15 | These contacts are widely reported to improve students ' motivation , and all the more so within Compact where achievement of student goals is directly linked to offers of employment . |
| 16 | Any insider who sets out to pursue a reflexive anthropology of policing eventually has to face difficulties which arise when he reaches an objective and analytic understanding of his society and its own specific versions of reality . |
| 17 | The EC is spending large sums on projects expressly designed to support cattle farmers : building refrigerated abattoirs in Burkina Faso , improving cattle breeds in Mali and fattening cattle in northern Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana . |
| 18 | The input of new seedlings was small and the number eventually contributing to mature rosettes in the pasture seemed insignificant in comparison with the contribution from clonal growth . |
| 19 | In addition , despite a disarmingly pleasant manner , Reagan was widely considered to harbour views that placed him outside the mainstream of American politics ; there was a possibility that he might tamper with social security or lead his country into war . |
| 20 | Also presumably designed to confuse tourists . |
| 21 | These limitations on the availability of the interlocutory procedures are presumably designed to prevent AJRs becoming bogged down by complex factual arguments , thus unduly delaying public programmes . |
| 22 | But the minerals themselves are rarely concentrated enough to support mining projects . |
| 23 | ‘ My immediate family knew only that I was mad enough to go to savage lands where I would live in the jungle , menaced by lions and snakes , and might be lucky to escape the cooking pot . |
| 24 | It makes me feel more than somewhat persecuted to have items of the British public lurking about my property — particularly when most of them have n't read two lines of my verse together . ’ |
| 25 | Compared with the previous county elections in 1989 , the Liberal Democrats ' vote rose most in the south of England — where they were generally better placed to win seats . |
| 26 | During a visit to Moscow made by Raúl Castro in mid-July 1960 , the USSR not only arranged to supply arms to Cuba , but Khrushchev ‘ reaffirmed that the Soviet Union would use everything to prevent US armed intervention against the Republic of Cuba ’ ( Soviet — Cuban Communiqué , Pravda , 21 July 1960 , p. 1 ) . |
| 27 | She went out of business in April 1990 but , because the contract specified a minimum term of three years , only stopped making payments last May . |
| 28 | In Nigeria federal authority is very naturally devolved to state ministries , but these are larger in size and population than many sovereign African states , so it is within states as well as within smaller nations that true devolution is to be sought . |
| 29 | We inadvertently tend to reinforce individuals for keeping their ideas to themselves . |
| 30 | Certainly they will have a presence in the instant sector that will be created but they will only want to hold shares in two or three companies . |