Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , Vernon ( 1971 ) defined a multinational to be a firm with wholly or partly owned production facilities in a minimum of six foreign countries . |
| 2 | Choice occurs chiefly in the areas of popularizations , introductions to a subject field and textbooks , where badly or unsuitably written texts may be rejected because there are alternatives available . |
| 3 | Surveys of technique often include more rewarding art criticism than either chronologically or geographically based books . |
| 4 | It is possible to convert between annually and semi-annually compounded yields using the following formulae : or between annually and quarterly compounded yields using the following formulae : where rm q rm s : and rm a are respectively the quarterly , semi-annually and annually compounded yields to maturity . |
| 5 | It is possible to convert between annually and semi-annually compounded yields using the following formulae : or between annually and quarterly compounded yields using the following formulae : where rm q rm s : and rm a are respectively the quarterly , semi-annually and annually compounded yields to maturity . |
| 6 | The idea of a systematic and serious , observationally and experientially based study of nature , called ‘ natural philosophy ’ , was one which Locke shared with others of course , and in particular with his colleagues in the Royal Society . |
| 7 | Hitherto , music other than the anonymous , never written down and therefore lost music of the people — had been the affair of the Church or the court or great nobles . |
| 8 | Mounds of englacially and sub-glacially deposited sand and gravel ( middle ground , right ) mark the position of a stillstand during the retreat of the ice . |
| 9 | Although the legend refers mainly to the late-lamented Glasgow Empire , actors have long and highly trained memories , and having the theatre demolished in the middle of Act Three is not an experience that the Brotherhood of Thespians is liable to forget in a hurry . |
| 10 | I was invited to join in but always found excuses not to do so , saying that I had early afternoon lessons . |
| 11 | ‘ Profligate spending has not only driven employers and would-be employers away and thus lost jobs , but resources have been taken away from other areas by the rate support grant formula as the spiral of inner city decline causes the rate base in inner city areas to diminish , while their needs … grow ’ |
| 12 | Waqar , relieved after only one over with the new ball , came on for the 17th over and soon caused umpire Shepherd to scowl as he bounced the ball into Atherton 's left arm and Smith 's helmet . |
| 13 | In the two figures on the right in particular the earlier striations and hatchings have given way to more discreetly and subtly modelled planes delineating the component parts of the trunks and limbs of the figures ; these planes are angled away from each other along clearly defined ridges in some passages , but softly opened up into each other in others . |
| 14 | Thirdly , however , the focus on ethnicity as part of the discourse of cultural pluralism and diversity pays scant attention to the highly complex , contextually variable and economically and politically influenced drawing and redrawing of boundaries that takes place in encounters within the minority communities and in relation to white groups . |
| 15 | There is a complex range of institutions and practices involved in local political activity , including economically and socially based organizations . |
| 16 | Most spectacular of all were Burlamachi 's services as a sort of unofficial paymaster , notably of English and English-financed expeditions abroad , which provided the occasion for a multitude of ways and means advances in anticipation of slowly and irregularly mobilized government funds . |
| 17 | Many women have permanently or temporarily adopted children from other families and are establishing community child-care facilities . |
| 18 | Then John had more or less made fun of him . |
| 19 | This tension between locally-based life and nationally or internationally based markets and governments leads to what Giddens calls ‘ ontological insecurity ’ , a condition in which people have a limited understanding and control over their circumstances and the processes affecting their daily lives . |
| 20 | The point has already been made that industry here can include nationally or internationally orientated services like DHSS Longbenton . |
| 21 | Top positions in the body politic may be held by monarchs , directly or indirectly elected presidents , rotating office-holders , parliamentary committees and collegiate bodies . |
| 22 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 23 | I had only once or twice done jobs for high SenFed aristocrats or , for royalty . |
| 24 | Mr Fryer and Mr F.W. Dee were Managing Director and Company Secretary at the Brewery respectively and both played golf at Peppard . |
| 25 | And it would seem as if he had always loved men , always and only loved men . |
| 26 | CP is therefore a quickly and easily arranged alternative to a bank loan . |
| 27 | A SHAKE-OUT in Hong Kong sent shudders through London yesterday and almost brought FT-SE 's record-breaking run to a halt . |
| 28 | In doing so , he shows how the socially and historically constructed opposition between blackness and whiteness takes on the absolute , unquestionable authority of a natural fact . |
| 29 | I did that one day when things got hairier than usual , went down to where some bandit was trying to rip us off and practically rubbed beards with him and shouted into his face I Want To Work For Christ 's Sake Let Me Work , but Vic said that was n't being helpful . |
| 30 | It needs a huge injection of cash to equip it with a fully computerised national IT system , more and better trained staff and commercially experienced management . |