Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were monarchs indeed from the mid eleventh century on , ruling over a monarchy as wide as western Christendom with some very material weapons ; but it was a spiritual monarchy in which military power had no hand ; and in Rome itself the spiritual monarchy became for ever entangled with the pope 's role as the ruler of the city . |
| 2 | Initially , two application packages were examined , both of which had been developed for privately run EPHs and emphasised the medical aspects of residential care . |
| 3 | Virtually every task in the ordinary school involves the use of sight , since the ordinary curriculum is designed for fully sighted pupils . |
| 4 | Actually , I 've got a bit of cash , some policy I 'd forgotten about just realized , I was wondering what to do with it . |
| 5 | Dick Fletcher who runs New Media , one of Europe 's leading CD-I development companies , has for long suggested a simple rule of thumb for deciding whether a device is a computer or an appliance . |
| 6 | The ice mantle has for long overlapped the edges of the continent , unable to grow bigger without breaking off . |
| 7 | Well camouflaged stick insects , whose concealment has for once failed to work and who are about to be snapped at by a hungry predator , will suddenly flick open their brightly coloured wings in a dramatically unexpected display that may shock the enemy into retreat . |
| 8 | They press for much needed democratic reforms to enable the citizens to participate . |
| 9 | Although a tendency towards greater tactile sensitivity of the left compared with the right hand has been reported for right handed adults ( Semmes , Weinstein , Ghent and Teuber , 1960 , but see also Rhodes and Schwartz , 1981 ) a sensitivity difference between the hands is probably not important in tasks employing suprathreshold stimulation . |
| 10 | A number of firms may also have had problems in achieving the synergies expected of newly formed structures . |
| 11 | This is a very simple example ; it is easy to conceive of extremely varied and complex patterns of linkage appearing in various contexts . |
| 12 | Fashions in dress and diet , ceremonies and customs , art and architecture , engineering and technology , all evolve in historical time in a way that looks like highly speeded up genetic evolution , but has really nothing to do with genetic evolution . |
| 13 | In this study , the hepatic bile was possibly mixed with newly secreted bile , as time was required to collect the necessary volume . |
| 14 | The founder was a man who had become interested in aviation during the thirties , spent the war in the South African Air Force and , on returning to civilian life , foresaw the opportunities that could be won with cheaply acquired and converted military aircraft . |
| 15 | The latest album , ‘ Empire ’ , dominates early on , ‘ Resistance ’ opening with savagely directed power . |
| 16 | The latest album , ‘ Empire ’ , dominates early on , ‘ Resistance ’ opening with savagely directed power . |
| 17 | A key feature of this situation is the extent to which public policy itself acts to create an ‘ underclass ’ of excluded poor , who are compressed into densely populated , poorly served physical spaces , crowded estates , and ‘ inner cities ’ . |
| 18 | The lines in his face had deepened into clearly defined wrinkles . |
| 19 | Time and again , she would turn to simple , homely precepts drawn from the grocer 's shop in Grantham , embellished with strongly held views about human nature . |
| 20 | Official moves to placate the students with promises that their complaints would be looked into eventually succeeded . |
| 21 | Some of the traps and carts were decorated with delicately painted designs . |
| 22 | At last I had a serious discussion with Benjamin in our great oak-panelled hall , the walls above the panelling painted a light green and decorated with cunningly devised shields bearing the arms of Wolsey , Daunbey and , finally , Shallot . |
| 23 | The next category is the electromagnetic force , which interacts with electrically charged particles like electrons and quarks , but not with uncharged particles such as gravitons . |
| 24 | All the peripherals plug into obviously labelled sockets , there 's no danger of connecting the video cable to the serial port or of confusing the printer interface with the synchronous communications adaptor . |
| 25 | In these overseas centres , market players had become grouped into well capitalised corporate entities , quite distinct from their UK counterparts . |
| 26 | Swire Sugden spoke first , natty in his Mafia-type suit and blue chins vibrating with barely suppressed anger . |
| 27 | Even bilateral treaties impinge upon non-parties : the distribution of values between two parties can rarely be contained within neatly drawn lines . |
| 28 | A 59-YEAR-OLD woman WHO tried to burn down a council flat she had been evicted from narrowly escaped prison yesterday . |
| 29 | Although tin sources are rarer than those of arsenic ( or arsenic-rich copper ) , the metal is much easier to smelt and can be added in precisely controlled amounts to the copper . |
| 30 | Accordingly , we need to show capital charges returning from directly managed units , back through DHAs to RHAS . |