Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His whole life seemed to hang on each letter in Annie 's hand , his eyes following it until she handed it into the crowd or placed it on a pile to one side and then he would fix on the next letter and the next . |
| 32 | Finally , record the exercise that you take on each day that you record the details of your food and drink . |
| 33 | But the trouble he took on each occasion was the same . |
| 34 | Later on each of the souls pouring out of Narnia on Doomsday looks at Aslan as it comes through the Door-way of Death — to be saved if it loves , destroyed if it hates . |
| 35 | record the decision taken on each change , ie. approved or rejected , on the Changes Log |
| 36 | ( 3 ) If you are wise , you will have written the minutes of the previous meeting in such a way that the action to be taken on each item is recorded against it . |
| 37 | ( 2 ) The proceedings to be taken on each of those sittings shall be as shown in the second column , and shall be brought to a conclusion at the time specified in the third column , of the following Table — |
| 38 | ( 2 ) The proceedings to be taken on each of those days shall be as shown in the second column , and shall be brought to a conclusion at the time specified in the third column , of the following Table — |
| 39 | Boeing predicts that revenue passenger miles ( RPMs — the number of passengers carried on each flight multiplied by the distance of the flight ) will continue to grow by 5.4% a year over the next 15 years . |
| 40 | The reason for an indemnity is that such a covenant does not automatically pass on each transaction ; the burden of it needs to be handed down expressly to each subsequent buyer . |
| 41 | We might , in the process , find that there is no need for in depth designing and costing on each scheme . |
| 42 | When the German army followed them , they kept on the move , taking on odd jobs along the way , until they ended up in Warsaw . |
| 43 | As for the branches , it is perhaps invidious to focus upon a chosen few since in some places merely to carry on unheralded was a considerable triumph . |
| 44 | Those who have genuinely fled from persecution and who carry on normal , non-violent political activity and demonstration here have nothing to fear . |
| 45 | But as we know that MI5 taps telephones and keeps files on people simply to pass on political information to the government , one can assume that Kinnock 's call to Turnbull is not the only piece of politicised telephone tapping that goes on . |
| 46 | The final decision on where to apply for planning permission to build is certain to be taken on political grounds . |
| 47 | There might have been an economic argument for Britain to stay out , but the decision was quite clearly taken on political grounds . |
| 48 | Even when no political or social statement was intended , the most abstruse philosophical inquiry , the most obscure historical research , the narrowest psychological study took on political meaning . |
| 49 | And yet men do have reason to be concerned if , on these occasions , women find their lonely anger or isolated oppression is understood and shared by other women , so that personal struggles take on political dimensions . |
| 50 | Get set : Marathon runners will take on four-legged competition in a long distance run at Llanwyrtyd Wells , Powys . |
| 51 | The rough emergency airfield was crowded with several hundred people , mainly women and children , and in the whole day only two planes came in , dropped some cases of food , took on wounded and as many women and children as they could pack in , and were quickly off again . |
| 52 | A note on her office door explains that shifting heavy loads without the help of porters brought on muscular back spasms . |
| 53 | This is easily the most important leg of the course , where a great deal of place changing can go on due to the huge differences in speed among sailors . |
| 54 | ( The latter 's carriage had had to be abandoned early on due to defective harness . ) |
| 55 | At the meeting-place of roads on the Plateau d'Iraty there are four things you can do : go unadventurously back the way you came , to Esterençuby ; carry on due east over the Col Bagargui along a tolerable but not always reassuring road into Larrau and the valley of Mauléon ; turn sharp left along a somewhat hazardous stretch of track rather than road towards the village of Men dive ( I funk Ed this route myself , after a short trial run , but bad roads do get mended or improved in the Pyrenees , so one year 's experience may be different from the next ) ; or turn to the right along the very scenic road into the Forêt d'Iraty itself . |
| 56 | On the contrary , the molecules involved are so small — remember all those New Testaments fitting on a pin 's head — that they are under constant assault from the ordinary jostling of molecules that goes on due to heat . |
| 57 | Thank you for advising me that you intend to cease work on due to pregnancy . |
| 58 | For example , a proprietor of a garage may be restricted as to the amount of work that can be taken on due to a lack of skilled motor mechanics ; however , the proprietor can overcome this constraint in the long term by training non-skilled labour to perform the task . |
| 59 | The white man 's burden had to be carried on strong backs . |
| 60 | Come on Rich . |