Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did it support the ‘ geographic fiction ’ that evidence to be produced in the United States was not ‘ abroad ’ even though it was in fact located in a foreign country or must be gathered or otherwise prepared abroad . |
| 2 | This trend was then halted or even reversed thereafter as large companies especially in manufacturing transferred their excess labour into smaller subcontractors or satellite companies . |
| 3 | One ‘ grey ’ area is where to put active over 60 's — in future if the class is fully mobile , even though at a more sedate pace , the class should be included as Recreational specifying ‘ active retired ’ etc. but if the range of movement is limited or mainly seated then the class should be on the Specialised List . |
| 4 | Problems are individualized or even suppressed rather than openly explored with all the possible difficulties that this entails . |
| 5 | The second is to ensure that as many products as possible can be re-used or easily repaired instead of being thrown away after just ‘ one trip ’ . |
| 6 | Catcleugh was stocked with a Loch Leven strain of fish , pink-fleshed , which were splendid fun to catch and always fought furiously . |
| 7 | The ability of ductile metals to be permanently distorted and therefore shaped either cold or hot is of course an outstanding advantage of metals . |
| 8 | That said , Home Alone 2 is a highly professional job , well shot , superbly paced , brilliantly edited and seamlessly stitched together . |
| 9 | It is completely sealed so that any accidental spills are contained and easily wiped away , while the double pan supports offer a flush area for easy and safe movement of heavy pans across the hotplate . |
| 10 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 11 | The old woman came and silently cleared away , without once looking at me , even when I pointed at the few cakes left and praised them in my stilted Greek ; the hermit master evidently liked silent servants . |
| 12 | His survival as a traditional monarch was exceptional in a period when , elsewhere in Africa , tribal authority was denigrated and often pushed aside as an antique obstacle to the path of modernization and national self-determination . |
| 13 | To lose one 's cover is to lose one 's soul , to be undone in the sense of socially ruined and spiritually taken apart . |
| 14 | With it , she put on stockings with the holes and ladders neatly darned , saved for Sundays , and a pair of round-toed , low-heeled , strapped shoes , very old but nicely polished and also kept only for Sundays . |
| 15 | But these were receding and soon ceased altogether , after a burst of three in rapid succession . |
| 16 | very light on the pocket as well on the scales , the Odyssey is nevertheless well made and strongly put together . |
| 17 | A small friendly old pub pleasantly furnished and discreetly tucked away behind The Scotsman office . |
| 18 | Catarrhs of mucous membranes ; discharges start thin and excoriating and later become more thick and bland . |
| 19 | And last night he enthralled fans from six to sixty with a brilliant set of old and new numbers , cleverly arranged and expertly put together . |
| 20 | This failed and actually caught more than a single 18 mm bottom bait . |
| 21 | Tacitus lamented that Britain had been ‘ completely conquered and immediately thrown away ’ . |
| 22 | These are commonly 1000 km or more across and are either entirely enclosed and therefore drained internally , such as the Lake Eyre Basin of Australia and the Chad and Kalahari Basins of Africa , or they are breached by one or more major river system , such as the region drained by the Zaire ( Congo ) river system ( Fig. 4.1 ) . |
| 23 | Notions of real structure are at least suspect and often rejected altogether . |
| 24 | This is not simply a matter of becoming uncomfortably aware that the rapid increase of world population and accelerated industrialization pose a serious threat to the environment both by the massive consumption of finite material resources and by the emission of man-made heat and chemicals into the atmosphere ; a situation dramatically portrayed in a report by the Club of Rome ( Meadows et al. , 1972 ) , subsequently much criticized but now taken more seriously again , which concluded that : ‘ If the present growth trends in world population , industrialization , pollution , food production , and resource depletion continue unchanged , the limits to growth on this planet will be reached some time within the next one hundred years . ’ |
| 25 | Tree branches , whole trunks , were blasted into the air , then fell to the ground , only to be interred or repeatedly thrown upward by further explosions ; likewise mangled machinery and dismembered human bodies and those of horses . |
| 26 | I was abused and almost attacked once . ’ |
| 27 | If the sitting incumbent — or his bishop — was obstructive , a writ of quare impedit would assign the matter to a local jury to decide whether the living was void or not ; there is convincing evidence to show that such juries were often packed and demonstrably found falsely for the king 's clerk . |
| 28 | After what seemed an eternity the engine was restarted and gradually faded away into the night . |
| 29 | In this way , conventional practices are rationalized and so made more adaptable , as both Brumfit and Krashen point out . |
| 30 | The court held that a new car which is damaged and then repaired so as to be " as good as new " can still be regarded as " new " . |