Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be natural to assume that this attempt to create a rift between Offa and the papacy occurred before the visit of the legates in 786 and that the visit was part of a process of reconciliation , but this is not wholly justified for Hadrian 's letter could date to the late rather than the mid-780s , and reflect hostility to one or more of a number of Offa 's actions . |
| 2 | The wheel came full circle last year when he suddenly became ill with a bewildering illness eventually diagnosed as amyloid of the kidneys . |
| 3 | I later learnt that the corpse had been badly mauled in battle , the face disfigured by a crashing axe blow . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , the body was badly mauled in battle . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ They said it looks OK but they 've towed it off somewhere to search for clues . |
| 6 | Since preview audiences rated it both best and worst thing in the film — presumably depending on level of squeamishness — it obviously made an impression . |
| 7 | Thus , owners who were forced to sell their land to public authorities considered themselves to be very badly treated in comparison with those who were able to sell at the enhanced prices resulting in part from planning restrictions on other sites . |
| 8 | They say that monkeys are often badly treated by people who bring them into the country without really understanding how to care for them . |
| 9 | Meat must be uniformly heated to 66°C ( 150°F ) to kill intracystic toxoplasma . |
| 10 | It has a steady , auto-nomous source of money ( the social therapy business ) , and its followers are far better integrated into the mainstream of American life , with no Moonie-like flower sales , no Charlie Manson eyes , no anti-Semitism loosely cloaked in ravings about the Queen of England in the style of LaRouche . |
| 11 | ‘ Taking into account all the circumstances , the committee felt that he had been properly placed on List One and on the evidence available were not minded to move him to List Two as he had requested . ’ |
| 12 | jobs which represent an extension of the wife-mother role , such as nursing and teaching , and those which require an attractive image , such as secretaries , are predominantly filled by women . |
| 13 | Neil says he does n't like the swimming and the lakes have been cold while Derek says they 've been through the pain barrier and have had to spend up to ten hours a day in the saddle but they 've had a good back up team … he also jokes that there has n't been a day when he would n't have rather stopped in bed |
| 14 | Hermite had presumably gambled on Smith 's being the only entry for the competition , but there were in fact two others . |
| 15 | Parents seek right to sue over injury to foetus |
| 16 | tenant of area of sea has right to sue for nuisance where pollution killed larvae even though at the time they were killed , tenant had not acquired a proprietary right of action . |
| 17 | The venture that did most damage to Jinky 's bank balance was the ‘ Double J Bar ’ in Hamilton , a pub designed to cash in on his name , but destined like so many footballer 's pubs to become a financial nightmare . |
| 18 | His association with these Hammersmith artists was a little resented by Elinor Moynihan who felt that , in comparison with the Soho painters , the Hammersmith set were artists with their claws pulled out . |
| 19 | It also ran a series of weekend schools for the women 's groups , mostly taught by College staff , offering the women the opportunity to situate their own struggles in a wider historical , political and economic context , and develop a more strategic purpose for their actions as well as identify continuing needs for further educational work . |
| 20 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 21 | Interviews reveal the need for ‘ emotion work ’ in relationships , a skilled task mostly undertaken by women . |
| 22 | Deliveries to London were mostly undertaken by Meirion or Dai Jones , and occasionally , Bernard . |
| 23 | The type of batteries most favoured at present are either 1.5 volt AA pen-lights or the 9 volt PP3s . |
| 24 | Weary of quotations from the Bible being used to lend God 's authority to the subjection of women , the leading US feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton published The Woman 's Bible in 1895 , a caustic and entertaining commentary on the scriptural passages most favoured by misogynists . |
| 25 | The unemployment of the mid-1880s contributed to the difficulty of sustaining the policy — workhouses were not large enough to hold all of the unemployed in the hardest hit district and out-door relief had to be given by many Guardians , though normally only in return for a daily ‘ test ’ such as stone-breaking in the workhouse yard — the task most favoured by Guardians for the male unemployed . |
| 26 | Sewel 's study ( 13 ) into the economic and social effects of centralised education in the rural areas of the Highlands and Islands found that ( a ) the structure of secondary school provision was not a crucial factor in migration , although the types of organisation most favoured by parents were the local two-year comprehensive school and the all-through comprehensive , located in the West , and ( h ) expectations and aspirations of both parents and pupils tended to be influenced by general social and economic conditions rather than specifically educational considerations . |
| 27 | The kind most widely favoured for jewellery , at least in the west , was a delicate pale pink , but in and around Hawaii a black variety might be used for this purpose , and the Chinese were particularly keen on deep red coral for their carvings . |
| 28 | The fifth , sixth and seventh words are the most widely favoured for deletion . |
| 29 | Despite little definite evidence supporting the use of high dose ascorbic acid , it is widely favoured by doctors and patients as healthy , natural , and without appreciable side effects . |
| 30 | It is this which ought to have been properly recalled in Freud 's later work , and he could then have introduced the term ‘ death instincts ’ to describe this basic , and in terms of the later theory , innate predisposition to kill other human beings . |