Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but there will be a new set of tutorials provided for you because I think there 's a general recognition that you 've been very badly treated indeed er as regards this erm and they 're likely to be run by me in term three , okay ? |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , she seems , I do n't know , a little withdrawn just now . |
| 3 | The working classes rarely travelled far , and if they did it was on foot or , in the later years of the century , by tram , ‘ the gondola of the working classes ’ . |
| 4 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 5 | I mean the real country , somewhere hidden away — Wales maybe or Yorkshire . |
| 6 | The upsurgence of the motor car was forcibly rammed home when the cross-country holiday route , the Midland & Great Northern Joint line from Peterborough across Norfolk to Great Yarmouth Beach station was shut on 28 February 1959 . |
| 7 | Use of naturalistic information is wholly disallowed only if there can be some settlable choice of cognitive methods where all of our naturalistic information is available only if we resolve the choice in one of the possible ways . |
| 8 | The position of the tubes was fluoroscopically checked frequently during infusion . |
| 9 | This extraordinary story was ruthlessly edited down to its allotted span and eventually tucked away in the last of four hour-long programmes . |
| 10 | Brent Walker said it expected the buyout negotiations ‘ would be successfully completed shortly ’ . |
| 11 | Further quantitative analysis may be carried out for consonant structure , liquid confusion , lengthening , palatalisation and order of acquisition of consonants , although this requires the test to be tape recorded and can be successfully completed only by someone with a sound knowledge of phonemic analysis . |
| 12 | Such colour as there was in Tutilo 's weary face slowly drained away to leave him grey and mute . |
| 13 | But some creatures , notably the American Allosaurus , had several bones in its skull loosely joined together so that the entire skull could yield to pressures of various sorts . |
| 14 | Despite this , public expenditure programmes were rarely revised downwards ( see Pliatisky 1982 ) , creating inevitable economic problems . |
| 15 | He arrived in Britain with a broken arm which has since healed well . |
| 16 | But they were not the greatest : the mechanical acoustic early warning device of Alexander Graham Bell ( his first essay in telecommunications ) is rarely heard nowadays . |
| 17 | As for himself , he was sorry she was upset — and also , if he was honest , a little irritated too , because the crisis had wrecked his plans for the morning . |
| 18 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |
| 19 | House prices there boomed in 1987 and the first-half of 1988 and have since fallen more sharply than in most other areas . |
| 20 | House prices there boomed in 1987 and the first-half of 1988 and have since fallen more sharply than in most other areas . |
| 21 | One exception is if you previously contracted out but your earnings have since fallen substantially . |
| 22 | Gracey 's British Indian forces eventually totalled over twenty thousand men ; and by December 1945 the French had about the same number in Vietnam . |
| 23 | ( Sanford , 1988 ) It is complete with competing predilections , schools , logics , methods , and terminologies — and indeed competing conceptions of the subject , by which I mean conceptions of just what " if " statements are properly treated together . |
| 24 | The Infinite Wheel present four UK harmonised house cuts loosely gathered together under the same title , the ‘ Dream Of Dreams ’ mix holding the dancefloor tactics whilst the epic and trippy ‘ Big Blue Mix ’ and ‘ Bay Of Rainbows ’ melt into each other to create a floaty yet still club-viable waxing . |
| 25 | Pilger , furious , was eventually provoked enough to shout : ‘ You 've had it , cock ! |
| 26 | The observers that took part in the raid do not in any way represent the residents of this estate and are widely regarded here as being little better than police stooges . |
| 27 | He glanced round the small untidy sitting room and saw Maidstone 's jacket on the back of a chair , presumably placed there by Franco . |
| 28 | The stone slabs are known as Nagacoils and are mostly placed there by childless wives who vow to install a ‘ snake-stone ’ if they are blessed with offspring ; probably the greatest desire of the average female Indian mentality . |
| 29 | I was going to have to manage him , and whether I was able to do that successfully depended very much on how I managed this moment . |
| 30 | However , Jenny explained that there were few feminists and a small number of women teachers who were involved in equal opportunities work , with the result that they were rarely treated seriously ( cf Joyce , 1987 ) . |