Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider , then , two genuinely peace-loving ‘ players ’ , each of whom would most prefer mutual disarmament . |
| 2 | Nominally they retained their autonomous status , but their provincial assemblies effectively became mere rubber-stamp bodies , and the powers of their provincial governments and judiciary were drastically curtailed . |
| 3 | Edward 's manipulation of the wool trade for his financial advantage intensified the divisions between the small group of wealthy merchants who stood to benefit from Edward 's schemes and the lesser merchants who eventually made common cause with the producers in opposing the monopolistic structure that Edward tried to create . |
| 4 | The perpetual spring Schorne had divined for his parish in time of drought came replete with gypsum , Epsom salts , and carbonic acid , and thereby lent considerable support to his posthumous reputation , principally as a healer of rheumatic and eye afflictions , but with an occasional talent in respect of dead oxen , the drowned , and the consolation of ‘ wretched , lonely boys ’ . |
| 5 | African-Americans in South Central mostly hate Korean store owners and there 's no getting around the fact , as Jesse Jackson tried to do when he said the assaults on Koreans were not racist . |
| 6 | Music business lawyer John Kennedy ( who successfully fought similar Stone Roses and Frankie Goes To Hollywood cases ) has been enlisted by Michael for his tussle with the corporate giant . |
| 7 | ‘ I would rather make pragmatic progress than theoretical progress . ’ |
| 8 | Despite the impact of the discount rate rise , which caused the dollar to fall in value , concerns were expressed on the international markets that a weak yen and high rates of domestic investment would mean an increase in Japan 's export capacity which would detrimentally affect global trade balances . |
| 9 | Last month Mr Alton met Tibet 's exiled leader , the Dalai Lama , in London and has since lobbied overseas development minister Lynda Chalker over the issue . |
| 10 | Hagfishes have a weakly developed symmetrical tail and the web is supported by poorly developed cartilage rods without associated muscles . |
| 11 | The Declaration of Rights was eventually given statutory force with the passage of the Bill of Rights in December , which included a further proviso that no Catholic could inherit the Crown . |
| 12 | to examine the most tax efficient structure for the deal , as regards the capital sums and future income which will accrue to you , and also to examine the opportunities for tax saving prior to the disposal |
| 13 | The most tax efficient way of repaying a mortgage is the pension mortgage . |
| 14 | In considering the payment of income maintenance , regard should be had to any mortgage interest which has to be paid if the matrimonial home is retained and to the most tax advantageous method of payment for both husband and wife . |
| 15 | Questionnaires and achievement scores may be used but they are rarely given high priority . |
| 16 | Varied repertoire of calls includes characteristic loud ‘ quee , quee , quee ’ and ‘ cooorwee , cooorwee ’ notes , and a rarely heard whimbrel-like titter . |
| 17 | Alix arrived at the gates , at the high wall , with its discreetly disguised barbed wire , at the porter 's lodge . |
| 18 | His third son , Theodore , eventually became technical head of London Transport ; Ernest , the second son , trained to become an art teacher but spent most of his life in industrial design and advertising ; the poet , too , possessed strong , capable , craftsman 's hands and the poet 's daughter , Myfanwy , still treasures many examples of her father 's skill as a carpenter and metal worker . |
| 19 | Although he remained as chairman of the Council of Ministers his influence waned compared to that of Brezhnev , who eventually became formal head of state in addition to party secretary . |
| 20 | A Japanese visitor to suburbia would be more upset by a straight path than he would by a strategically and discreetly placed converted shed — that nevertheless housed garden tools . |
| 21 | Much more controversially , it may also be a contempt to ‘ scandalise the court ’ and thereby undermine public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary . |
| 22 | Special glands beneath the tail produce a powerfully smelling white substance . |
| 23 | In 1854 the Revd Andrew Reed [ q.v. ] , a friend of Little 's , established the Royal Hospital for Incurables , and Little became medical examiner and a member of the governing board . |
| 24 | The meeting approved the admission to full membership of Brunei , Myanma , the Philippines and the Republic of Uzbekistan , thereby bringing total membership to 108 . |
| 25 | Then , as the foot begins its toe-off phase , the stored energy is released to spring the runner forward — thereby realising maximum speed potential . |
| 26 | In so far as the levels of government expenditure are fixed by general political considerations , if one group is expressly given favourable tax treatment the value of tax revenue lost is a cost that must be financed by other tax payers . |
| 27 | They are created diagrammatically using high-level software engineering modelling tools , and the environment can interoperate with other tools , such as Texas Instruments Inc 's IEF and KnowledgeWare Inc 's IEW , by exchanging model information stored in the CDE Repository with models stored in their repositories . |
| 28 | They are created diagrammatically using high-level software engineering modelling tools , and the environment can interoperate with other tools , such as Texas Instruments Inc 's IEF and KnowledgeWare Inc 's IEW , by exchanging model information stored in the CDE Repository with models stored in their repositories . |
| 29 | Once aware of what the problems are , the nurse can help the patient to develop alternative ways of detecting and responding to hazards in the environment , thereby maintaining maximum independence for this AL . |
| 30 | This involves increasing the number of cases heard in the county courts , thereby maintaining High Court hearings for public law cases , specialist cases and general list cases of importance , complexity and substance . |