Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 25 the US Federal Reserve imposed a fine of $20,000,000 on Kemal Shoaib , former chair of the Independence Bank of the USA , for secretly assisting BCCI to acquire the Independence Bank . |
| 2 | Without revealing that both ships had been secretly assisting South Vietnamese commando raids on the North , Johnson called upon Congress to pass a resolution granting him sweeping powers to act against North Vietnam . |
| 3 | Nearly every child if properly taught loves to draw and paint . |
| 4 | G thereby got hold of the barley , disposed of it and absconded . |
| 5 | This vast reorganization of the Imperial defences from the late third century onward produced defence road networks as well as a massive re-fortification of the frontiers themselves . |
| 6 | We have publicised the plight of arctic terns , seals , badgers and intensively reared animals . |
| 7 | Or 10lbs of grain to yield a mere 1lb of intensively reared beef . |
| 8 | Barley is grown for malting in the manufacture of beer and whisky and for animal feed , particularly the fattening of pigs and intensively reared beef . |
| 9 | Intensively reared piglets are weaned at two to four weeks old , so the sow comes on heat again as soon as possible . |
| 10 | On Nov. 14 the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet voted overwhelmingly to confirm Vitold Fokin as Chairman of the Ukrainian Council of Ministers . |
| 11 | MI5 's initial task was to counter alleged German plans to secretly invade Britain by infiltrating thousands of spies . |
| 12 | Martin Nicholson said : ‘ The Caribbean and particularly the Virgin Islands — and most importantly Caneel Bay — still offer that unique island experience . |
| 13 | The SEATO Pact effectively became moribund in the wake of the American military withdrawal from Indo-China in the mid 1970s , and was not reinvigorated . |
| 14 | Although he deliberately affected a republican stance , in 27 BC Octavian effectively became emperor of Rome , taking the name Augustus . |
| 15 | It is said to function through the mechanism of the take-over bid so as to allocate the assets of companies to those managers who can put them to their best use , thereby disciplining managers to maximize profits or face the threat of a take-over bid ousting them from their jobs . |
| 16 | Their routine was not the high-kicking style that eventually made John 's name . |
| 17 | A sacrifice of analytical rigour may not be that important if the concept which has been thereby given life is never used , and it is clear from Lord Greene M.R 's judgment in the Wednesbury case that he conceived of it being utilised only in the extreme ( and hypothetical ) instance of ‘ dismissal for red hair type of case . ’ |
| 18 | When the pope nevertheless steadfastly refused to give way , Henry intensified his attack on the church ; in the summer of 1530 he issued a charge of praemunire against fifteen clerics , including the four bishops who had supported Catherine , on the grounds that they had aided Wolsey in the exercise of his legatine authority and thereby given support to papal jurisdiction within his realm . |
| 19 | Lister was the inventor of several mechanical processes which made his fortune , and he duly became Lord Masham . |
| 20 | The bar was patented and Nelson duly became president of the Eskimo Pie Corporation . |
| 21 | The Soviet Union may eventually accept a loosely formulated neutralisation of this country if Vietnam proves tractable . |
| 22 | A loosely formulated neutralisation of Afghanistan , involving superpower guarantees of that country 's non-aligned status , mutual DRA and Pakistani pledges of non-interference and non-intervention , the withdrawal of Soviet troops ( though perhaps not military advisers ) combined with the cessation of external assistance to the mujahidin , and the retention of the PDPA as an important Afghan political force in a future coalition government , appears in principle acceptable to Soviet leaders . |
| 23 | We have seen that the continual tendency and law of the development of the capitalist mode of production is more and more to divorce the means of production from labour , and more and more to concentrate the scattered means of production into large groups , thereby transforming labour into wage-labour and the means of production into capital ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 24 | Since Franco himself was head of government , this effectively made Carrero his Private Secretary . |
| 25 | The ports , such as Harfleur , at the mouth of the Seine , could develop ship-building facilities , and the control of the lower Seine effectively made Rouen into a sea port and a shipyard . |
| 26 | A vast amount of work remains to be done before the UK can really claim to be properly policing trade in wildlife . |
| 27 | Crested drake has strikingly variegated plumage , with conspicuous orange-chestnut wing-fans and side-whiskers . |
| 28 | And the presence of Holly-jack — evergreen woman among the slowly transforming Scarag — was familiar to him ; there was a story-cycle about her , but he did n't know the details . |
| 29 | Kings themselves rarely travelled south of the Loire . |
| 30 | However , the purpose of the article was not to provide a step by step guide to the workings of PCA ( see reference 1 ) , but rather to stimulate interest in the application of the technique . |