Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I can see , it is the only policy that will appear in Labour 's manifesto , in that Labour want fully elected police authorities . |
| 2 | The famous dances which make up the Divertissement of Act 2 bring nicely turned , even vivid orchestral playing of great finesse , but again that extra touch of individuality is missing . |
| 3 | The expectations of chartered accountants working in a location such as this have certainly changed since then if Ms Harris ' ideas are to be given any credence — I am sure Charles Bullworthy will remember the fifties well . |
| 4 | Such an achievement depends upon two things for which the English have always had a special genius : a sense of place and a sense of compromise . |
| 5 | It is appropriate that the first great English opera of modern times should be so deeply English in tone , and should derive from the art which the English have always excelled at — poetry . |
| 6 | Perhaps the best known exponent of this model of general education in the UK is Hirst ( 1969 ; 1974 ) , but it is familiar in most countries , and results in the relatively academic type of secondary school curriculum that one finds in the English grammar school , the French Lycée or the German Gymnasium , with appropriate national differences of emphasis ( the English have always stressed ‘ process ’ rather than ‘ breadth ’ ) . |
| 7 | In another country they would have been called intellectuals , but the English have never admitted to having any intellectuals . |
| 8 | We have abandoned restorative proctocolectomy after failed ileorectal anastomosis in patients with slow transit constipation as half have now requested pouch excision because of poor results . |
| 9 | The under 13's have already achieved success with the team having reached the final of the 1990 Under 13 's Scottish Cup , involving about 120 teams in total . |
| 10 | The French have also favoured a continued production clause so that they would be able to develop new binaries during the 10-year period . |
| 11 | The French have dramatically changed their approach to dairy farming since the introduction on quotas in 1984 and we were keen to find out more about their farming , feeding and management techniques , and see their research facilities . |
| 12 | The French have just joined Russia in declaring that they will temporarily halt testing ; Boris Yeltsin could be under pressure to rescind Russia 's test ban in September if there has been no sign of flexibility from Britain and the US . |
| 13 | ‘ The French have just put a painting up outside our room . ’ |
| 14 | For many years the French have firmly believed that regular pummelling is vital to the body beautiful . |
| 15 | The French have long chafed at the bit . |
| 16 | Since the French have long tended to regard the British as a doggedly upright people rather than an artistically discerning one , a critic in Diapason describes this accuracy in terms of probity ( ‘ voix droites comme la justice ’ ) ; another , writing in Compact , speaks of performances that are millimetrées , as if they were mathematical exercises . |
| 17 | From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such . |
| 18 | The French have never indulged in all the razzmatazz of an American campaign . |
| 19 | Indeed , even in the as yet relatively non-totalitarian welfare states of the West some have already discerned the same paternalistic and enslaving trend : ‘ government 's role is to serve as a parent charged with the duty of coercing some to aid others , ’ while government-funded welfare programmes ‘ put some people in a position to decide what is good for other people . |
| 20 | Once one-person-one-vote is accepted , some have already signalled a willingness to surrender much of their power . |
| 21 | I know that some have already taken the plunge and purchased shares in privatised utilities , and I trust that they will encourage their colleagues to do likewise . |
| 22 | CCG are recruiting about 70 staff to run the site , and some have already started working on site security and other services during the mobilisation phase . |
| 23 | He said yesterday : ‘ Everywhere I 've gone , fans have asked me to do well against Roma , and some have just tried to touch me . |
| 24 | Some have also developed special muscles so that they can vibrate the swim-bladder and produce a loud drumming noise . |
| 25 | Many of these features were examined by Artis , though some have also benefited from recent fieldwork and excavation . |
| 26 | Some have also suggested that the observed increases in labour productivity suggest that UK investment is now being more efficiently utilized . |
| 27 | Some have even kept their tattoos hidden from their children and have been reluctant to explain why they will not peel off in the sun . ’ |
| 28 | It is recognised that the multi-million dollar high technology companies have dabbled in throughput , life cycle and activity-based costing techniques , some have even tested Japanese target costing . |
| 29 | In such cases melatonin might be some sort of ‘ darkness indicator ’ and some have even called it an ‘ internal time-cue ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Some have even gone through a ghastly divorce lasting up to 18 months only to find they have to stay together . |