Example sentences of "an [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But an intensively worked arable farm growing continuous corn with the use of synthetic fertilizers , herbicides , and pesticides may have none at all . |
| 2 | That 'll leave it wide open for the supermarket boys to market a ‘ free-range acorn-fed pork ’ — an intensively bred pig , fattened up in woods in half the time and costing well under an eighth of the price . ’ |
| 3 | He wore an immaculately tailored three-piece suit , cut from a cloth of apricot cream . |
| 4 | But at the slightest hint of danger they join up instantly and dash away like an immaculately trained line of dancers making their exit . |
| 5 | As though by an immaculately timed piece of theatre , the driver pulled up opposite the front entrance to New Scotland Yard . |
| 6 | ‘ Dobrý večer , Slečno Kingsdale , ’ the housekeeper replied with a smile of her own — but a movement to the right of them caused Fabia , a smile still on her mouth , to turn and see an immaculately suited Ven Gajdusek . |
| 7 | The greenkeepers were already sweeping the dew off the greens with elongated poles — the final polish to an immaculately groomed course . |
| 8 | Then , in 1963 , I was asked if I would write a piece on my own work for Living Arts , an immaculately produced but short-lived ICA magazine . |
| 9 | First there was the broad statement of intent in the policy review document and then there was the controversial TUC composite resolution — an incompetently constructed mosaic of competing interests . |
| 10 | This is a comprehensively researched document which records the effects of an industrially devastated environment upon the most vulnerable group of human beings — children . |
| 11 | An effectively assessed tax on incomes rises automatically with prices and incomes : the Elizabethan subsidy could only rise by being multiplied or imposed more frequently . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , on the first night of the war he was able to round up a ring of twenty-one German spies in an effectively timed and executed coup which probably deprived the Germans of any information on Britain 's initial military dispositions . |
| 13 | If Unit Trust Managers maintained the level of risk ( p ) then investors might reasonably use Unit Trusts as a mechanism for buying into an effectively diversified portfolio . |
| 14 | Of the 68 patients entered , two were retrospectively excluded from analysis : one patient had an incompletely healed ulcer at the time of entry , and the other had a substantial prepyloric ulcer associated with small duodenal erosions . |
| 15 | An incompletely resolved puzzle is the mechanism by which vitamin A reduces mortality . |
| 16 | Prices start at about £681 for a single Lit Bâteau with curved head and foot in cherrywood , up to £3,554 for an ornately carved Louis XV style in rosewood . |
| 17 | One of the most interesting findings to come out of recent research is that the visual system consists of a set of circuits arranged in parallel , rather than an hierarchically organized cascade . |
| 18 | This would also bind an eventually merged Germany , which the Soviet Union recognises might be born when Nato and the Warsaw Pact give way to a new European security system . |
| 19 | This would also bind an eventually merged Germany , which the Soviet Union recognises might be born when Nato and the Warsaw Pact give way to a new European security system . |
| 20 | American experience provides grounds for anxiety over the welfare of old people in an inadequately monitored private sector . |
| 21 | Most often the problem is short lived and of little consequence , but chronic constipation most often follows an inadequately managed acute problem . |
| 22 | Primarily , however , an empirically based study of public order policing is impossible to undertake in the midst of the province 's continuing violent conflict , and certainly could not be done with the degree of depth , empirical focus , familiarity , and , frankly , personal safety which an ethnographic study of routine policing allows . |
| 23 | This paper argues that the search for an empirically based resource allocation formula of high precision in the name of promotion of equity is largely fruitless given the impossibility of measuring the true need for , and costs of , providing health care , especially with the limited data available . |
| 24 | The need , by speech therapists , psychologists and researchers , for an empirically based scale of language development was met by the production by D J Satterly of the pilot version of the Bristol Scale of Language Development ( BLADES ) based on Dr Gordon Wells ' Bristol Language Project . |
| 25 | While there is a good deal of intuitive sense in the observation that social workers and teachers respond to financial and other economic incentives like most workers , it is a hypothesis rather than an empirically supported contention . |
| 26 | It should be emphasised at the outset that this is an assumption , not an empirically established or necessary truth : what theory dictates should happen in a state of perfect competition may not occur in real , imperfect markets . |
| 27 | She moves ( for example ) between speaking of the crucifixion of Christ ( fact ) to the cosmic nature of Christ — which can hardly be said to be ‘ true ’ in the sense of an empirically known fact . |
| 28 | However Piaget 's theory of child development is an empirically grounded description of the structure of cognitive learning . |
| 29 | One of its central aims is to develop an empirically grounded understanding of the structure , form and operation of different rules of evidence and procedure , and to explore the relevance of such research for current policy debates about the relative merits of alternative methods of dispute settlement — particularly where these involve innovations aimed at making courts more ‘ informal ’ or accessible . |
| 30 | His son , Godfrey the fifth , was a gambler , friend to the Prince Regent ; given to grandiose building schemes and political adventurism , he ruined the estates and died abroad in 1836 , having encumbered his property with an incredibly involved series of mortgages before fleeing from his creditors . |