Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It hit sectors and people who largely escaped before , the skilled , the clerical workers , the managers and the professionals who 've been badly mauled this time , and where last time around er the service sector was expanding to mop up some of those who 'd lost their jobs in manufacturing , this time the service sector too has been in deep trouble .
2 Afterwards , when he [ Chlothar ] had gladly received these titles from his older brother [ Childebert ] , he considered in his own kingdom what ought to be added there , and what further should be included , and he ordered clauses 84 to 63 [ for 93 ? ] to be fixed .
3 Article 118A also allows majority voting in the Council , so offering obvious political attractions to the Commission and to the European Parliament who are thereby given greater powers over the legislation .
4 They have thereby developed few class allegiances and few commitments to large-scale theories about how society is , or should be , organised .
5 We have the gallery still running reasonably well but it is one man ten hours a week his experience is badly limited this marvellous free resource is no longer being called for . .
6 To the north , however , at the south-western end of the Faeroe-Shetland Channel , the stronger bottom currents have locally exposed debris-flow sediments at the sea bed .
7 Smaller fields , however , could be commercially developed onshore and fields as small as 50 Bcf might be an attractive proposition offshore , if they were to be developed as satellites to larger fields .
8 Neil Jenkins of Pontypridd was badly exposed last season and the summer tour to Australia was truly a baptism by fire , but he has the physique to return to the top level if his confidence can be restored .
9 At the 1981 Census 16.3 per cent of its employed men had successfully completed higher education , with the next highest region — the South West managing only 13.3 per cent and the Northern Region lowest at 11.5 per cent .
10 Verification — if an applicant has successfully completed all the previous stages , now is the time to verify all the information .
11 They were mostly crews who had successfully completed one tour of operations ( 30 missions ) , so they were not only skilful but also lucky .
12 I remembered how once , when a tunnel had been successfully completed contrary to expectation , he had jockeyed himself into a position on the team which finally escaped although he had never done any of the work .
13 While teachers in further education are not required to have ‘ qualified status ’ , that is to have successfully completed such a course , it is none the less highly desirable that they should have done so .
14 SEVERAL P&O Marathon Men successfully completed this years ' London Marathon — each in their own style .
15 Last month Mr Alton met Tibet 's exiled leader , the Dalai Lama , in London and has since lobbied overseas development minister Lynda Chalker over the issue .
16 Hagfishes have a weakly developed symmetrical tail and the web is supported by poorly developed cartilage rods without associated muscles .
17 Having run his first marathon at 40 , he has since completed eight .
18 She was eventually given two life sentences for murdering her seven-year-old daughter and her four-year-old playmate .
19 The Declaration of Rights was eventually given statutory force with the passage of the Bill of Rights in December , which included a further proviso that no Catholic could inherit the Crown .
20 My final point relates to the penalties that will be employed when North sea workers are eventually given some sort of legislative protection against victimisation .
21 In a randomised double blind study , 29 patients who received octreotide in a dose of 0.1 mg subcutaneously given 45 minutes before ERCP had a significantly smaller increase in pancreatic enzyme activities compared with 34 control subjects .
22 Elsewhere , despite disturbance , some young are successfully reared each year , and Ringed Plovers seem to be developing an increasing tolerance of casual disturbance by man of their breeding sites .
23 Questionnaires and achievement scores may be used but they are rarely given high priority .
24 I have rarely heard such stability and depth of image from a moving-coil loudspeaker and these are factors which applied , moreover , across a remarkably wide listening area .
25 Varied repertoire of calls includes characteristic loud ‘ quee , quee , quee ’ and ‘ cooorwee , cooorwee ’ notes , and a rarely heard whimbrel-like titter .
26 When she went to look round she was both daunted and enchanted by its dark , gloomy interior which was mostly painted green and seemed to be trapped in a 19th-century time warp .
27 Alix arrived at the gates , at the high wall , with its discreetly disguised barbed wire , at the porter 's lodge .
28 The polytechnic staff were now on a work to rule , though only at local level — a vote or so at national level having gone against them in spite of a good deal of cooking of the agenda — and she was , as she said , too busy getting a strike fund to so much as think of earning , let alone working ; let alone getting to bed before Bernard had long since fallen asleep .
29 A Japanese visitor to suburbia would be more upset by a straight path than he would by a strategically and discreetly placed converted shed — that nevertheless housed garden tools .
30 tripping over electric cables or badly placed electric fires ;
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