Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took the brain from her head with long hooks , delicately drawing the tissue out through her nostrils , and discarding it in a small brazier of red-hot charcoal . |
| 2 | Record-breaking and the alleged mania for quantification can not properly explain the appeal of sport . |
| 3 | The ‘ spiritual sense ’ view of faith has given rise to a form of spiritual elitism in which the believer welcomes a position in which he or she has no common ground with the unbeliever , and thereby turns the sort of dismissive ‘ religious language is nonsense ’ approach of Ayer into a welcome acceptance of the divide between men and women of reason on the one hand , and those with faith on the other . |
| 4 | Sceptics argued that there was no real difference between a right and a duty ; once it was laid down when auditors would be expected to use their right to report , it effectively became a duty . |
| 5 | And so it was , in 1950 , that Edouard effectively became the baron de Chavigny . |
| 6 | Although his attitude towards the French seemed to change somewhat before he died , Roosevelt had effectively delayed the French in their attempt to return to Indochina . |
| 7 | The materials which I designed myself as illustrative of a particular approach to teaching ( for example , Widdowson 1978 ; Allen and Widdowson 1973 ) , have been criticized on the grounds that they have not been subjected to evaluation and thereby given the seal of practical effectiveness ( Murphy 1985 ) . |
| 8 | The shareholders are thereby given the power to judge for themselves whether the directors are using their managerial powers for their own benefit at the expense of the company and if this is so to veto the transaction or at least hold the director liable for any profits thereby made . |
| 9 | Z is thereby given the option . |
| 10 | The were-wolf pornographer is thereby given the coup-de-grace , and with great subtlety at that in times of regurgitated Nazism and anti-Semitism . |
| 11 | The Morley/Penman project had a negative thrust — ‘ rockist ’ duly became a term of abuse as casually applied by pop fans as ‘ selling out ’ had been by 1960s rock fans — but its tone was relentlessly optimistic and Morley was duly rewarded for his faith in market forces ( and in Dollar in particular ) by being invited into Trevor Horn 's record label plans . |
| 12 | For the new system to be introduced properly involves a change of constitution and a further vote . |
| 13 | This , combined with external concept/keyword access — through either maps or the Housing Unit datafile — will help pupils identify the true relationships between topics , which may not be so clear using a program such as EDFAX . |
| 14 | That effectively made the game safe for the tourists , but there was little to commend in a cold and often bitter contest . |
| 15 | Much more seriously , the House of Lords in Grunwick Processing Laboratories Ltd v. ACAS ( 1978 ) effectively made the resolution of recognition disputes dependent on the co-operation of employers . |
| 16 | Much of the problem can be overcome by designing networks that meet people 's walking needs , thereby encouraging a level of activity that ‘ deters antisocial behaviour and offers the reassurance of help at hand if hassled ’ . |
| 17 | As the board leaves the wave , use the front foot to lift the windward rail , thereby encouraging the wind to catch under the board and giving more lift . |
| 18 | We want rather to see the state intervene only to prevent such use of land as is clearly anti-social or wasteful , while otherwise development is guided and determined by choice and by economic forces . |
| 19 | I rather got the impression that they would take him er , er , continue interest in what would happen , I 've got the impression they have a representative here to give their view of how it was er |
| 20 | erm The social man , Proust says , rarely offers a key to the creative personality , and he 's anxious to keep a distinction between these two things , and I shall try to do something the same . |
| 21 | Onward goes the pilgrim band … ’ |
| 22 | The sound of the door being opened made her instinctively push the child aside from her . |
| 23 | The black population , thus , effectively constitutes an underclass , placed in a structurally different location from the white working class . |
| 24 | From approximately 10 months the baby progressively overcomes this error and will successfully locate the target . |
| 25 | He was slow to release her , holding her even when his mouth had disclaimed hers , turning his golden head slowly to greet the newcomer , one arm still possessively around her waist . |
| 26 | Now that he was left alone with the two women , both of whom ( he imagined ) rather admired him , Rupert felt a sense of power , though there being two of them rather limited the scope of what he could do — cramped his style , he might almost have said . |
| 27 | The reason for this pledge was to make good the cut in benefits that resulted from the breaking of the link between these benefits and earnings or prices — whichever most favoured the claimant . |
| 28 | Almost at once , those who had most favoured the change start squealing . |
| 29 | He needs to know what a ghastly little prick the boy was . |
| 30 | Patients presenting with metastasis of unknown origin have a mean life expectancy of only four months so most diagnostic methods occupy a large proportion of the patient 's remaining life and identification of the primary site only rarely influences the choice of treatment . |