Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grafting on to American rootstock led to a much needed rationalisation , whereby only the best sites in the classic regions were replanted and only noble vines were cultivated . |
| 2 | ( c ) It is far better to invest in reliable commercially designed and thoroughly field-tested equipment than rely upon inadequate Heath-Robinson-like d-i-y alternatives . |
| 3 | What the stores sell is extremely good value , functionally designed and occasionally inspired furniture : attractive pieces for a very modest outlay . |
| 4 | They are very well designed and totally waterproof and bugproof . |
| 5 | It would be easy to point to the lack of a six-cylinder engine and mark it down , but the Saab rises above that with a blend of abilities that few can rival : space , pace , fine handling and ride , a well designed and supremely comfortable interior and heaps of equipment . |
| 6 | The report also mentions poorly designed and inefficiently used dust yards as a major source of secondary emissions into the atmosphere . |
| 7 | There is so much to be won and so much at stake . |
| 8 | In those five seasons of triumph , 86 of their 140 championship matches were won and only 20 lost . |
| 9 | In addition the research aims to help frame practical recommendations about how the potential benefits of community credit unions might be maximised and how outside agencies can best help . |
| 10 | ‘ They are obviously highly committed and highly motivated people . |
| 11 | The life of a battery animal is highly stressed and completely unnatural . |
| 12 | They will be maximally stressed and probably able to take little orally due to vomiting and/or impaired gastrointestinal absorption . |
| 13 | He enclosed a paper of questions to be put to them if any such were located and clearly this request was responsible for a report Sir Daniel had compiled on his own account about the Coniston mines that same year . |
| 14 | Reliance is currently placed on a network of monitoring stations , often sparsely located and frequently outside fog-prone areas ; GIS could implement a predictive model based on digitized map features and indeed the model could also be used in site allocation studies for airports and the like . |
| 15 | The software determines how many crossroads there are , where they are located and how many options are offered by each of them . |
| 16 | No temples have been located and only two possible ritual pits have been identified , both in Little Spittle . |
| 17 | An extremely varied and immensely pleasing exhibition , it is undoubtedly rendered substantial by still-life oils by David Donaldson . |
| 18 | Japanese reactions to Western contact as a whole were widely varied and highly ambiguous . |
| 19 | Definitions of different levels of appointment are varied and sometimes imprecise , but two broad levels can be distinguished : |
| 20 | Extremely varied and sometimes eclectic in taste , with emphasis on German and Austrian repertoire , there are many solo discs by the likes of . |
| 21 | The redistribution of revenue involved would have varied and often unwelcome effects both on the revenue of some local authorities and on the tax burden of employers in some areas . |
| 22 | The skills required to do this work are varied and often complicated and , more importantly , there is uncertainty on the part of teachers as to how they should be taught . |
| 23 | * The work is varied and therefore free of monotonous routine . |
| 24 | This should be contrasted with a database containing simply the names and addresses of current customers because there is no selectivity or judgment ( or very little ) in the decision as to what should be included and relatively little skill in designing the structure of the database . |
| 25 | The psychologist Jung believed that there is a common unconscious in which we are all included and so able to influence the psychic dimension in some degree . |
| 26 | So much did he dread that his own was a case of ‘ redemption by parricide ’ that he emphasized the unwillingness with which he accepted the divine call with language which is exaggerated and almost coarse . |
| 27 | The anger has arisen because most farmers believe that the allegations that they are ‘ ruining ’ the countryside are exaggerated and too indiscriminate . |
| 28 | I 'm not allowed in there , it 's trapped and very dangerous . |
| 29 | As he points out , the difference between the asset value and the depressed share price of the conglomerates concerned gave bidders an opportunity to make a profit by disposing of ill-fitting activities or otherwise increasing efficiency by reducing the scale of operations ( though in fact the record of take-overs in increasing efficiency is mixed and not all take-overs are explicable as moves to reduce inefficiency in the target ) . |
| 30 | I was quite surprised to see he was wide eyed and quite awake when when he came to my flat . |