Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same acute musical intelligence is brought to bear on the rest of the performance : the second movement is a ‘ Dumka ’ which has often received rather heavy-handed treatment in the past . |
| 2 | I 've never heard so much rubbish in my life and what I 'm gon na try and do is speak to the policy of Percent for Art . |
| 3 | ‘ An informer is an informer , ’ Tim Skerritt said , repeating what he had heard so many times in the village that day . |
| 4 | And Seal Sands Lock , the place where she had come to be healed so many times in the past , offered her no comfort now . |
| 5 | At that time adoption with contact had received only scant attention in the social work literature and the so called ‘ clean break ’ approach was still in its supremacy . |
| 6 | Perhaps the reason that tail shapes have wrongly received so much attention in the past is that they are the most obviously visible difference between boards . |
| 7 | So far in our case studies we have examined only those media in one-party systems ; the contrast between these and a multi-party political situation is immediate and obvious . |
| 8 | ‘ The authorities responsible have developed so much uncertainty in themselves that they can not even show tolerance and rationality in dealing with our children , ’ the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions ( ZCTU ) said . |
| 9 | It was given only six months in the cinema and then screened in the third week of Channel Four transmission in 1982 . |
| 10 | Similar arguments might be advanced with respect to the measures of economic deprivation , which are presented as items five and six in table 9.7 and are given extremely low weight in the assessment of GRE , compared with the multiple use of housing indicators and of measures of ethnic origin . |
| 11 | Not only does the trusting Christian need to worry about the placebo effect , he also needs to be aware that he will want to please his therapist , having placed so much faith in him . |
| 12 | Victor Mature , who has given so much pleasure in his day that nothing must be said against him , is , however , not wholly convincing sitting in a cell wearing a leather mini-skirt , reading Pythagoras . |
| 13 | The attitudinal function has been given so much importance in past work on intonation that it will be discussed separately in this chapter , though it should eventually become clear that it overlaps considerably with the discourse function . |
| 14 | Switzerland have dropped only one point in four games while Italy have drawn two of their three matches and Portugal have three points from two games . |
| 15 | Durie , who has already lamented the standard of British women 's tennis on show at Telford this week , has now dropped only 16 games in four matches . |
| 16 | We had come only forty-two miles in three days — fourteen miles a day . |
| 17 | I have considered only those Tests in which both have appeared together , when one has been captain . |
| 18 | Other investigators , using a microdissection technique on biopsy specimens , have reported less proliferative activity in the rectum of patients without colon cancer . |
| 19 | There was the ubiquitous Triptych , now a four-year-old : she had won only one race in the 1986 season but had been placed in the Coronation Cup ( beaten a short head by Saint Estephe ) , the Coral-Eclipse Stakes , the King George , the Matchmaker International at York ( beaten threequarters of a length by Shardari ) and the Phoenix Champion Stakes ( third to Park Express ) . |
| 20 | The Democratic Party won nine of 35 seats in Bangkok ( where it had won only one seat in March ) capturing eight from Palang Dharma , which still managed to win 23 seats in the city . |
| 21 | Although he has won only one Oscar in four nominations ( for Elmer Gantry , 1960 ) , Burt Lancaster holds the record for performing in Oscar-winning films . |
| 22 | The party , which had been formed in 1981 , had won only three seats in the 1987 general election but a rump led by David Owen had refused to merge with the Liberals in January 1988 [ see p. 36501 ] , and had performed poorly in the local elections in May 1991 . |
| 23 | Chart 10 further shows that these industries also enjoyed much stronger growth in pre-tax profits in 1982–89 than did cyclical ones . |
| 24 | However , planning should not always be indicted as a cause of problems , since the planning process has fostered generally higher standards in all housing , particularly in technical matters and , perhaps , site layout . |
| 25 | In 1991 Najma was voted best female singer in the pop awards . |
| 26 | The Park Room restaurant of the Hyde Park Hotel has been voted Best Italian Restaurant in Britain by the Instituto Italiano Spumante Classico — a group of Italy 's leading wine companies . |
| 27 | Baker had previously come under heavy attack in parliament over the escape from Brixton Prison in July of two suspected members of the Irish Republican Army [ see p. 38356 ] , over the introduction of legislation related to dangerous dogs , and over the outbreak of inner-city rioting in August-September [ see p. 38445 ] . |
| 28 | Only Fulham and West Brom have won more away matches in the Third Division . |
| 29 | It would be more accurate to say I have caught more big fish in daylight than in darkness , but that a lot of my daylight fish came as a result of fishing all night . |
| 30 | The legislative field is divided between the Union and the states , the former possessing exclusive powers to make laws with respect to matters grouped under 97 headings in the Constitution including foreign affairs , defence , citizenship and trade with other countries . |