Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 These then are the main characteristics which distinguish the early retired from other older workers who remained actually or potentially in the labour market : the former were more likely to have been close to pension age , to report ill health , to be better off financially and to have non-manual occupations .
2 One problem that can arise is that of a particular school being full and so unable to accommodate the newly arrived expatriate 's children .
3 Still using the flashlight , he perched the case on his desk , took out his key ring , used the two keys which unlocked the specially reinforced bottom right-hand drawer .
4 Grants came in from the Welsh Office , Welsh Tourist Board and the local authorities allowing the newly formed Brecon Mountain Railway Company to take on permanent staff for line construction and a stone-faced workshop ( in keeping with other buildings in the National Park ) built at Pontsticill .
5 For the same reason the Housing Act of 1890 , a permissive Act allowing the newly formed local councils to build housing for rent , provided little relief .
6 Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Viewlogic Systems Inc has completed the previously announced acquisition of Quad Design Technology Inc for 872,700 new shares and options : Quad Design , which develops and markets timing and signal analysis software for digital circuits used in semiconductors and printed circuit boards , is now a subsidiary .
7 Work with oriented single crystals can give detailed information ; specialized texts ( see Ref. [ 7 ] , p. 63 ) should be consulted to enable the best use to be made of such experiments .
8 Sometimes we may apply relatively simple yardsticks , such as whether the school has or has not received the newly recommended material and whether it is using it .
9 Hopefully , in the future English rugby followers and respectable sports writers will rediscover the much talked about ‘ English sense of fair play ’ .
10 The purpose of such an exercise is not so much to remove dirt ( mulm in a healthy filter is quite inert ) , so much as to restore the even filtering capacity of the media .
11 Recent experiments using chicks as ‘ predators ’ , and coloured , distasteful crumbs as prey , indicate that although the chicks at first eat the brightly coloured , aposematic , crumbs more quickly than cryptic ( inconspicuous ) crumbs , they also learn to avoid distasteful crumbs more quickly when they are brightly coloured than when they are cryptic ( Figure 1 ) .
12 They applied the well established ploy of neutralising the troublemaker by proposing him for the position of chairman , where he is obliged above all to be impartial .
13 In fact almost all the variables quantified display the sharply differentiated pattern most clearly in Ballymacarrett .
14 The Mikulić government , which took office in May 1986 , was clearly influenced by such attitudes when it set out to curb the rapidly rising inflation of that year by it policy of ‘ programmed inflation ’ .
15 Williams also managed to induce the highly revered former cricketer , Learie Constantine , into becoming the chairman of the movement .
16 The bureau still enacts the legally specified reversion level , which is still greater than the median voter 's most preferred choice .
17 Using a solvent called AB57 — which was originally developed for cleaning marble and is a mixture of sodium and ammonium bicarbonates suspended in a cellulose gel — the conservation team has drastically altered the previously perceived tonal representations and , as one expert put it , the fresco ‘ has been reduced to a smudged painting with Disney colour ’ .
18 Somehow he made the softly growled question sound incredibly intimate .
19 If you have to make a close-run decision then ask yourself which factor is the most important one and which candidate made the best showing on that particular subject .
20 On the Hebridena crag of Strone Ulladale , the North Wales based team of Noel Craine and Bob Drury made the long awaited second ascent of The Scoop .
21 Concern exists that once a threshold of a certain concentration of chlorine in the Arctic stratosphere has been passed , a large Arctic ozone hole will become a regular spring feature which will grow and deepen annually to affect the highly populated regions of northern Europe .
22 ‘ But we dogged our way back using the new found commitment and will of the region , ’ he added .
23 I can imagine some other world in which a conference of learned , and totally blind , bat-like creatures is flabbergasted to be told of animals called humans that are actually capable of using the newly discovered inaudible rays called " light " , still the subject of top-secret military development , for finding their way about .
24 The mutant and wild type endonucleases were both purified using the previously described method [ 23 ] .
25 CFTR was detected by western blotting after transfer to a Hybond C-super membrane ( Amersham ) using the well characterized anti-CFTR antisera 181 .
26 The English translation of the name means ‘ Dappled Cloth ’ , a perfect description of the garments produced using the richly coloured , wool , cotton , silk , and mohair yarns hand dyed in the workshop
27 We were even using the papally approved contraceptive method , only in reverse .
28 Next , the selected frames of movement for PARTB are drawn into a temporary drawing file using the now established displacement functions .
29 The company is also involved in a project which is intended to ‘ bring school science to life ’ in the local community by using the so called Ciba-Geigy ‘ bicycle pack ’ , which provides primary school teachers with ideas for classroom science activities linked to the theme of the bicycle .
30 The old man swayed gently on his haunches , then , as the boy threw himself to the left , moved effortlessly across , fending off the child with his palms , using the least force possible to achieve his end .
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