Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dose of tritiated thymidine used here , which is somewhat higher than that used by many other investigators , produces clear cut labelling of S-phase muclei with numerous black grains against a negligible background . |
| 2 | Where work can be planned in co-operation , in any modification or adaptation of team teaching , not only are there obvious gains for the students but the teacher himself receives much needed support . |
| 3 | If , on the other hand , the golem is already working , then Haberup ( who may not this time be in a position to claim the patent rights ) has presumably done something to annoy it , and in this case ( 10 ) may be used in the sense of an answer to the question : ( 11 ) what did Haberup do to his golem ? |
| 4 | Heard Island , comparatively tiny , has little open ground and a smaller range of habitats ; comparative remoteness has presumably given it fewer opportunities to acquire a flora . |
| 5 | Selection on generations of bacteria has presumably built into them an unconscious rule of thumb which works by purely biochemical means . |
| 6 | The tidal braking would therefore be greatest around perihelion , and it is this that has presumably led to the partial synchronization observed . |
| 7 | Having liquidated one in four employees during the past few years and having promised to treat its workforce to more of the same during 1993 , IBM should have surprised no one by investing some of the money it has presumably saved in an organisation formed by the people who produced the most recent Terminator film . |
| 8 | There is a roughly similar development in 2010 , so the pattern may derive in part from Clarke , who has presumably imbibed some elements of oriental mysticism from his long sojourn in Ceylon . |
| 9 | The ambiguity present in O'Connell has arguably aided catholic nationalists over the years in the justification of their policies . |
| 10 | The decision in the GCHQ case which was discussed earlier , by focussing attention away from the sources of government power to its nature and effect , has arguably assisted the extension of judicial review to cover rules which ‘ lack any visible means of legal support ’ . |
| 11 | The process of de-differentiation that they celebrated has arguably increased exponentially in the past two decades . |
| 12 | This has crucial implications for Anglo-American and Continental Culture Studies , whose Lacanian impulse has arguably prevented the establishment of important distinctions between cultural forms . |
| 13 | Publishers grow thick skins against negative reviewing , but I remain puzzled at the volume of abuse directed at this particular book , by an author who has spent many years working on his subject , opening up new areas of research , and who has arguably contributed more in recent years ( viz Orwell : The War Broadcasts , Orwell : The War Commentaries and The Larger Evils ) to the study of Orwell 's work than any other scholar . |
| 14 | The enormous expansion of higher education since 1960 has arguably provided a further extension of opportunity , but it has not succeeded in developing parity of esteem with universities for institutions supposed to be concentrating on vocational and technical education — an aspect which , once again , has invited numerous international comparisons [ Postan , 1967 ; Robbins , 1963 ] . |
| 15 | Yet state censorship has arguably come much nearer and become more sinister with the Spycatcher affair and the more recent Section 28 . |
| 16 | One tutor reports that the Principal , who has wholeheartedly supported the scheme from the beginning , would very much welcome this development . |
| 17 | It stands in a charming enclave of similar houses in the heart of increasingly fashionable Deptford which has mercifully escaped the ravages of Sixties property developers and Seventies road schemes . |
| 18 | The organisation housed on the corner of Old Broad Street and Throgmorton Street has mercifully reverted to a name which accurately describes where it is and what it does . |
| 19 | Although the tyranny of ‘ promotion examinations ’ has mercifully decreased in the past decade , in many countries yearly and termly examinations and preparation for them account for a quite disproportionate amount of school time and teachers are virtually ignorant of how and why and when to test . |
| 20 | If the rise in unemployment has mercifully decreased , the pressure on wage restraints will have lessened . |
| 21 | Canada similarly depends greatly on railways , has widely separated confines and high latitudes , but possesses a very different socio-economic and political system . |
| 22 | This also means that it has been introduced by humans to a lot of places it 's not native to — Indonesian islands , mainly — and it has widely hybridised with the introduced wild boar . |
| 23 | Since the initial report of the Munich group of treatment of gall bladder stones by extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy ( ESWL ) , this treatment has widely captured the attention of the medical literature . |
| 24 | There is a difference , although an uncertain one , between some statements of the form If P then Q and others of the form If P , Q. ( W. A. Davis , 1983a ) Suppose that someone has unkindly disconnected the wiring between the switch and the wipers . |
| 25 | Harper , who is the cousin of the former West Indian Test player , Roger Harper , has verbally accepted the offer of a contract with the Prestwick club for the 1993 season . |
| 26 | Stratus Computer Inc has duly expanded its XA/R line of Intel Corp 80860 RISC-based Continuous Processing Systems with nine new models , claiming about 2.5 times the performance of comparably-priced members of the 68000 family-based XA2000 Series ( UX No 391 ) . |
| 27 | Whilst ICL has duly announced that it is to support Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix MPX for multi-processing , Open Desktop environment and the SCO communications suite on its Intel Corp 80486-based personal computers , the OfficePower-on-SCO validation work — see above — was actually carried out on an Apricot Computers Ltd box . |
| 28 | McLean , Virginia-based Excalibur Technologies Corp , has duly launched versions of its flagship PixTex/EFS document imaging and retrieval software for Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp RS/6000 Unix workstations . |
| 29 | Sweeping censorship and intimidation are common , and the violent destruction of printing plants has forcibly removed some of Zaire 's most respected newspapers and magazines . |
| 30 | The IAEA has vigorously denied all the accusations , describing some of them as " absolutely outrageous " . |