Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its aims and operations are still too loosely formulated to allow it to be the cohesive force it could be . |
| 2 | The wood was loosely stacked to provide the rabbits with temporary cover until such time as they enlarged the burrows themselves . |
| 3 | The army sets out on its way to France , and Roland is duly posted to lead the rear , together with the flower of Charlemagne 's feudatories , the twelve peers of France . |
| 4 | Moreover , the section of the work-force most given to strike action showed every sign of increasing its weight both in relative and absolute terms . |
| 5 | On every deserted street gutted houses sagged open , their contents indecently exposed to view . |
| 6 | The powerful Banking Association reportedly welcomed the treaty as an important step in improving Panama 's international image despite the fact it had successfully lobbied to preserve regulations guaranteeing banking secrecy which the USA had wanted removed . |
| 7 | Although development work on this discovery continued , it was a process called Lime Soda softening which was commercially developed to overcome the problems of hard water . |
| 8 | The soldier eventually stopped talking . |
| 9 | The infant death rate was still high enough , especially among the poor , for parents not yet to have become complacent ; meanwhile , the promise was held out , and for the first time could be kept , that babies could be successfully reared provided that medical advice was faithfully followed . |
| 10 | It was clearly a short-term appointment , arguably calculated to reassure members of the renamed Overseas Civil Service that , at a time when morale might falter as career opportunities shrank with the imminence of independence , at least one of them and not ‘ a Whitehall warrior ’ was at the helm . |
| 11 | The issue of standards of evidence arises now because of a case just argued before the US Supreme Court over whether data do or do not support the allegation that a drug called Bendectin , once widely prescribed to prevent morning sickness in pregnant women , causes limb deformities in newborn babies . |
| 12 | They are , for the most part , light entertainments enlivened by mysterious foreigners , odd situations and an abundance of documentary detail deftly manipulated to appear at once familiar and slightly absurd or ominous . |
| 13 | The Chancellor yesterday very kindly did not put V A T on books and periodicals but had he done so that would have the effect of taking more than one hundred thousand pounds out of our accounts in the current year without us being able to do anything about it and it does seem to me that we should be considering asking the members in general meeting to pass to the Council of the Association the right to set and increase subscriptions and having properly advised the members thereof to fix the effective date of such increases , otherwise we are very badly placed to respond to short-term problems . |
| 14 | She banged against the crate heavily and the one on top of it which had been badly placed fell onto the ground so that some of the bananas spilled out around her feet . |
| 15 | It is easy enough to identify features that are likely to provoke laughter and were presumably intended to do so amongst the common attributes of the fabliaux . |
| 16 | So we had chosen an exit at random , and I stepped over one of those high door-frames which are presumably intended to stop the sea water from sloshing into the saloon . |
| 17 | IF ENGLAND fail to win the Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary Cricket Trophy — the grand title ( which is accompanied by the unofficial suffix of ‘ Mini World Cup ’ ) presumably intended to persuade the public that they are about to witness something cosmic rather than just another one-day tournament — it will not be because of being under-prepared . |
| 18 | The real-time board computer is presumably intended to supersede the company 's HP1000 technical and industrial minis , though it does n't say so . |
| 19 | The cover-design is presumably intended to encapsulate the Labour Party 's interpretation of citizenship . |
| 20 | Of the six patients with poor or absent gall bladder emptying ( non-function ) two had patient cystic ducts after treatment of perforated empyemas but have since developed contracted , thick walled gall bladders . |
| 21 | probably includes a disproportionate number of transients , of lower working class people hostile to officials with clipboards attempting to ask them about their lives , and those most frightened to answer . |
| 22 | We have seen that recognised SROs are not expressly given rulemaking power by the FSA . |
| 23 | It is for this reason that all the superpowers have effectively conspired to exclude nuclear weapons from the ambit of the laws of war . |
| 24 | Perhaps he 'd always secretly resented giving his name to another man 's child , she thought sadly . |
| 25 | The local community-based organizations that have since formed have been more basic in their opposition to any mining and have taken political organization — through lobbying , petitions , demonstrations and public meetings — as their mode of operation . |
| 26 | Furthermore , legislation expressly intended to give effect to the first stage of Economic and Monetary Union has already been enacted , following the decision of the European Council in Madrid in June 1989 that that stage should begin on 1 July 1990 . |
| 27 | This information should be widely publicised to raise awareness among nurse managers and others of the current position and as preparation fur the inevitable adjustments which will follow in subsequent operational plans . |
| 28 | Her hair was drawn back , skilfully arranged to fall in loose waves from a gold clasp . |
| 29 | New tees lurked in the trees on several holes , and were skilfully placed to bring into play the same hazards which threatened the club players from their tees . |
| 30 | Then , in a lilting yet hesitant voice that betrayed his unfamiliarity with English , he added , ‘ I am most honoured to meet you , Lady Fei . |