Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of inappropriate forms of assessment to grade and rank-order pupils ' work for the purpose of making comparisons or to achieve so-called ‘ unified standards ’ is illustrated by the worst abuses of norm-referencing , which has been roundly and justifiably criticized by many writers , even in those areas of the curriculum where one might expect this system to be welcomed . |
| 2 | While conventional theories of ‘ modernization ’ have identified TNCs as carriers of democratic values and practices to the Third World , such views have been powerfully criticized from many quarters . |
| 3 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 4 | Just such a programme has been successfully undertaken over many years by the Scottish Heatwise programme whose funding has never , alas , matched its innovation and enterprise . |
| 5 | As all Iraqis know , Saddam himself is Sunni , despite his claim to descent from Ali ; and the putative victory over Iran was presumably won by all Iraqis , Shia and Sunni alike . |
| 6 | I was forcibly reminded of these circumstances when I read Minuchin 's description of an anorexic 's family in which there were ‘ no closed doors ’ and where the anorexic girl felt that all her actions , even her thoughts , were observed by others , and therefore as much their property as her own . |
| 7 | Capt Forgrave 's citation said he ‘ became widely respected by all sides as a courageous , totally honest and highly capable officer . ’ |
| 8 | Though agreed between the parties , these proposals were bitterly attacked by some Conservatives as destroying the traditional upper House and by a few Labour members as creating a large new area of patronage for the Prime Minister . |
| 9 | The central core of the town was mostly occupied by those families which had lived in Dronfield before the momentous decision was taken in 1873 by the new company of Wilson Cammell to found a large steelworks specializing in the manufacture of rails made from Bessemer steel . |
| 10 | Essentially , it had a directing and supervisory role , ensuring that the policies laid down by the Politburo were known and vigorously pursued at all levels . |
| 11 | His dominant inclination ( he wrote ) had always been towards philosophy , " and even in my philological studies I have been most attracted by those topics which seemed important for the history of philosophy or for ethical and aesthetic problems " . |
| 12 | This catalogue raisonné has been keenly awaited for several years ; work began before the artist 's death in 1988 , aged eighty-six . |
| 13 | The maker hand-cuts the kerfing ( the triangular-section strip around the inside edge that increases the gluing area of the sides for securing the front and back ) so that the saw-cuts are widely spaced in some areas and closely spaced around the tight curves of the cutaway . |
| 14 | She was not scrapped and remained at Wroughton where on March 16 , 1956 , she was officially transferred to the RAF 's Historical Aircraft Collection , which at that time was widely dispersed at such locations such as Gaydon and Fulbeck . |
| 15 | CIE , the US-based Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility , and the International Organization of Consumer Unions , have all collaborated on many projects , and there are literally hundreds , perhaps thousands of transnational networks now monitoring the TNCs all over the world . |
| 16 | ‘ We are greatly honoured by these distinctions since we have truly dedicated all our lives , with passion , to the knowledge and diffusion of Italian art ’ . |
| 17 | Direct Debits are an ideal way of collecting large volumes of low value receipts and are greatly favoured by many institutions such as local authorities and building societies . |
| 18 | Mr Hicks ' framework is well presented but much travelled by many companies , set on improving the quality of cost information based on sound and robust examples . |
| 19 | The Council indicated a few limited examples of such circumstances ( e.g. to the newly baptized in a Mass following their baptism ) , but here again , once admitted , the essential rightness of Communion under both kinds became more and more widely recognized so that communion is now so given at all Masses in many churches and dioceses throughout the world . |
| 20 | A change of identity was also mooted in view of the fact that in BR livery the numbers and names were merely painted on these locomotives . |
| 21 | The report , undertaken by independent scientists at the request of the International Atomic Energy Agency and other UN bodies , has been fiercely criticized by some environmentalists and also by officials in the Ukraine and Belorussia — the regions worst affected by the accident . |
| 22 | The right hon. Gentleman gave his usual vintage performance , with many justified facts and views , and it was warmly received in all parts of the House , not only for its humour but for some of his more sombre comments about the present ominous geophysical appearance of Europe . |
| 23 | In Northern Ireland our work has been warmly received by both communities and their churches . |
| 24 | ( A further alternative would be the abolition of personal private transport but since the flexibility offered by private transport is obviously much prized in all societies this alternative is not considered further . |
| 25 | The Type II model may lead to inequity between health care groups since large amounts of a health authority 's budget would be compulsorily diverted to those areas where patients are more mobile and where providers find it most profitable to supply services , i.e. mainly elective surgery . |
| 26 | On the other hand , Type II systems would appear to allow little scope for equity between groups since large amounts of a health authority 's budget would be compulsorily diverted to those areas where patients are more mobile and where providers find it most profitable to supply services , that is mainly elective surgery . |
| 27 | The package would also recognize footnotes ( perhaps nested to several levels ) and support variant readings of those texts which were originally found in heavily edited manuscript form . |
| 28 | The reticence which had surrounded the subject for so long had suddenly collapsed on all sides . |
| 29 | Since its inception , this procedure has been fiercely attacked on many occasions , including The Black Report ( Townsend and Davidson , 1982 ) and The Health Divide ( Whitehead , 1987 ) for failing to take account of morbidity and of social deprivation ( see Mays and Bevan , 1987 , for a review of the vast literature generated by the debate on the use of the RAWP formula ) . |
| 30 | Thus I was only too aware that the realities of psychic phenomena were somewhat exaggerated by these treatments . |