Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the western consensus based on the traditional liberal interpretation has now broken down , many of the most distinguished scholars in the field remain firmly committed to it and it continues to inform conventional wisdom among non-specialists in the West . |
| 2 | The enduring appeal of the Conservatives is undoubtedly one of the most important political phenomena of the twentieth century : and yet both the party as an institution and the nature of British Conservatism remain relatively under-studied . |
| 3 | Whilst many voluntary and private child care organisations have diversified , the majority remain heavily committed in terms of both human and capital resources to the provision of residential care . |
| 4 | At the same time , most people 's daily lives and face-to-face contacts remain relatively limited to small-scale localities . |
| 5 | Second , this cladogram is an exercise in inference because many of the extinct groups remain poorly documented ; the text offers justification for many of the placements . |
| 6 | This is achieved when local authorities replace directly employed labour with a private sector firm ( eg street cleaning , hospital laundry and catering services ) and is known as contracting out . |
| 7 | For many , the roads debate therefore rested on measures of speed restriction and road safety , but with 2 million motor cars on British roads in 1939 , and urban congestion a growing problem , this was scarcely a satisfactory situation . |
| 8 | At a preliminary meeting of the British commanders Slim bluntly observed that ‘ the root of the trouble lay in the fact that the Burmese distrusted us ’ . |
| 9 | The notion that domestic roles remain highly segregated while the wife is not in employment is widely confirmed . |
| 10 | In a study of professional and managerial workers , Edgell ( 1980 ) concludes ‘ that marital relationships remain highly segregated , unequal and husband-dominated ’ . |
| 11 | THE SOVIET UNION and Pakistan remain bitterly divided as to how the conflict in Afghanistan should be resolved , despite having agreed on the wording for a United Nations resolution in the hope of avoiding a public row at the General Assembly , diplomats said yesterday . |
| 12 | With attention focused on p values and CIs , could the role of chance in scientific reasoning appear falsely magnified ? |
| 13 | With broken images showing hands and feet and faces , the whole is heavily varnished so the images appear almost sealed into the wood . |
| 14 | I did n't to his eyes appear sufficiently impressed . |
| 15 | This initially resulted in the charge of murder being changed to attempted murder , with Professor Usher reluctantly forced to admit that his initial examination was inconclusive . |
| 16 | There may be several reasons , concede Laws and Dennison ( 1990:276 ) , why primary heads appear so attracted to doing many things themselves . |
| 17 | He replied that since the words put forward related to the past the later debts ought not to be considered to be in the legacy . |
| 18 | Against this background , the British-born speakers show especially differentiated behaviour , sticking mostly to London English but occasionally manifesting strategic switches into Creole . |
| 19 | The co-ordinator of Greenpeace 's Great Lakes project also claimed that , in focusing on 17 named chemicals , the programme was ignoring thousands of others which pour into the Lakes . |
| 20 | These major breaks are all , of course , like the Permian/Triassic break just discussed , the limits between Periods and Eras . |
| 21 | This year it promises to be as big as ever , with 90% of stands space already booked . |
| 22 | The combined Staines/Nine Elms team somehow managed to finish with a negative score , which earned them the title of ‘ most sporting team ’ , and saved head office teams from occupying the last two positions ! |
| 23 | This is evidenced by the fact that most candidates seem well drilled to answer objective-test ( multiple-choice ) questions , but are weaker in the written test . |
| 24 | The ‘ intangible ’ advantages of large-scale information capability seem best exploited within ‘ internal markets ’ if they are to assume their full efficiency . |
| 25 | It is excellent for skiing since lateral jumping movements can be used , the calves get well stretched and you also develop posture , balance and co-ordination . |
| 26 | The first and last pictures contrast highly ordered motion at one end of the sequence with turbulent motion at the other end , and it is seen that there is a series of intermediate stages by which transition from one to the other takes place . |
| 27 | A large majority agreed a central role for the computer and this underpinned the applications and methods approach ultimately adopted in the core curriculum . |
| 28 | As consumer demands become less varied around the world , the truly successful company is one which adopts global marketing strategies that can be tailored and implemented with a local focus . |
| 29 | ( iv ) If workers in a particular industry become more polarized in their commitment to the labour movement , membership will fall unambiguously but the wage change may go in either direction . |
| 30 | When roles become more segregated , as they do after the birth of a baby , even when both parents continue to go out to work , people are less able to avoid their envy of the opposite sex and of the baby who receives so much care and attention . |