Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hardest hit Americans included Ed Ruscha , Donald Sultan and Frank Stella though Anthony Grant at Sotheby 's stresses that demand has already bounced back for top works by Julian Schnabel and others badly mauled in 1991 . |
| 2 | When it does , it tends to be a reaction to perceived injustice , such as internment without trial , or the conviction of a son by a sole judge in a trial held in total secrecy and on the evidence of unseen witnesses , or a simple case of one 's house being badly mauled by careless soldiers searching for arms . |
| 3 | Because the national curriculum can not be properly taught without new textbooks , we will earmark funds for class and library books . |
| 4 | Also in February he was discussing ideas for a Botticelli ballet and for a Debussy ballet ; these eventually coalesced into one idea , Primavera . |
| 5 | But by the same logic they can not accept the combination of a press controlled by a handful of publishers , overwhelmingly biased in one direction , and impartial , balanced broadcasting . |
| 6 | However , sensitivity to water movements is most developed in underwater vertebrates . |
| 7 | Killifish can be loosely placed into two categories : top spawners and bottom spawners . |
| 8 | The ornaments recovered from Neolithic cemeteries in the Rhine and Danube basins show that the shells most favoured for personal adornment were those of the mussel Spondylus gaederopus from which were fashioned necklaces , pendants and bracelets . |
| 9 | The last has for a long time been the argument most favoured by political theorists . |
| 10 | First , the coverage of the war was blatantly manipulated by political and military authorities . |
| 11 | A bathroom was perhaps the item most prized by working class housewives after World War I , and there is ample evidence of wives planning moves up the housing hierarchy until one was acquired . |
| 12 | Drawing is rarely taught in primary schools . |
| 13 | But James 's great houses are rarely inhabited by ancestral families : Lord Mark is an exception , and Lord Warburton offers to move from Lockleigh if Isabel ( however mistakenly ) argues damp from its moat ; in any event , his family 's hold on the house is so frail that his sisters seem no more than faded chintz figures among the faded chintz of their drawing-room . |
| 14 | This scheme , open to all forms of misuse and fraudulent practices , was eventually stopped in 1984 , but not before several huge stores spread around the country were filled to bursting point with works of art for which there was no destination , no demand and no adequate storage facilities . |
| 15 | In which case , the absence of random assignment , to use Lieberson 's rendering of the problem , presents special difficulties if " there is reason to believe that the subjects thereby placed in each condition differ in other ways that themselves have a bearing on the outcome of interest to the researcher " . |
| 16 | One of the things that makes war so fascinating to its students and so frustrating to its participants is that in a moment of supreme crisis it is rarely given for one side , obsessed by its own difficulties , to see just how bad things are in the enemy camp . |
| 17 | Sadly the answer " No " is rarely given to this question and because of this a great many releases go out which are of marginal interest to the recipients . |
| 18 | Seventeen trains a day , mostly filled with such meat , left Birkenhead Station . |
| 19 | And Waxman 's Carmen Fantasy takes on a dimension of passion rarely heard in such an undisguised pot-pourri entertainment . |
| 20 | Even psychoanalysis , the field most criticized by other areas of psychology for its methodological irregularities , claims scientific credibility from its set rules of data collection and interpretation , and its large body of clinical material . |
| 21 | I may be a little biased about this one , but I now consider it to be of a very high standard . |
| 22 | All were prescribed as painkillers , with both Zomax and Opren widely prescribed for arthritic patients . |
| 23 | The use of inappropriate forms of assessment to grade and rank-order pupils ' work for the purpose of making comparisons or to achieve so-called ‘ unified standards ’ is illustrated by the worst abuses of norm-referencing , which has been roundly and justifiably criticized by many writers , even in those areas of the curriculum where one might expect this system to be welcomed . |
| 24 | The technology was invented in the early 1920s by Anton Flettner , a German naval engineer , and has since fallen into undeserved oblivion . |
| 25 | The restricted B-share has since fallen to 161 , reducing the total market capitalisation to 10.7 billion crowns . |
| 26 | The industrial relations literature has long noted that high levels of membership are ‘ predominantly sustained by informal group pressures from workmates ’ ( Brown and Wadhwani , 1990 , p. 14 ) . |
| 27 | However , government austerity policies and plans to reform the previously restricted economy by privatizing state monopolies and encouraging the private sector and international investment were bitterly criticized by organized labour , disaffected FLN traditionalists and opposition parties [ ibid . ] . |
| 28 | This attitude was bitterly criticized by republican politicians who felt that he had given an enormous fillip to a rebellion that would otherwise have run out of steam . |
| 29 | Performance measurement in the private sector is almost wholly limited to financial measures , under the tacit assumption that competitive markets are the best judge of the relative value of the goods and services provided . |
| 30 | First , the settlement house policy of ‘ neighbourliness ’ was trenchantly criticized by young radicals such as George Lansbury and C. F. G. Masterman who saw such movements either as laboratories for ambitious young men or as having lost their initial enthusiasm . |