Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also requires money to pay for transferring important components or sections of the aircraft structure to a place where they can be properly examined and possibly tested and for the different kinds of structural tests which have to be carried out on undamaged components . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend is right to raise those issues and to seek to be satisfied that the proposals are properly examined and fully justified . |
| 3 | As club manager , however , he was widely travelled and widely respected on the Continent , spreading the name and prestige of Arsenal in his imperialist fashion . |
| 4 | Properly calculated and regularly reported , intangible-asset values are an additional signal showing investors how well , or badly , bosses are husbanding a bank 's resources . |
| 5 | If the wording of a trust has been omitted and the other provisions accord with what ought to have been written , by analogy with institution as heir and with legacies a trust will be understood to be duly given and insufficiently expressed in writing . |
| 6 | The aim therefore , according to the government document ‘ Firecode : Policy & Principles ’ ( DHSS , 1987 ) is to ensure that outbreaks do not occur ; and if they do , that they are rapidly detected , effectively contained and quickly extinguished . |
| 7 | The fact that flat-dwelling in the public sector has become a relatively stigmatised form of housing in this country means that women dependent on public sector housing are caught in a design ‘ Catch 22 ’ : deviance is punished with badly designed and poorly maintained housing ; conformity is rewarded with better standard living conditions that nevertheless tend to reproduce patriarchal power relations . |
| 8 | In the first place , the British homosexual movement was badly organised and severely divided when Clause 28 appeared : there was no national organisation for lesbians and gays in England at the time . |
| 9 | This policy was eventually modified and finally reversed some eight years later . |
| 10 | Air vents in stone-built barns were normally slits or single holes , often widely spaced and sometimes arranged in rows . |
| 11 | it had been badly repaired and clumsily painted , but these things I could remedy . |
| 12 | Portsmouth must take some of the blame for the stalemate for they came defensively formed and defensively minded , and content to rely on breakaways to snatch an equaliser and , faintly possibly , a winner . |
| 13 | Furthermore , the Second World War had resulted in the most terrifying weapon of destruction being not only developed but also deployed against the enemy . |
| 14 | Hence the long , much altered and much discussed passage beginning already mentioned on p. 85 ; and the ‘ spots of time ’ meditation to be discussed on pp. 134–9 — which is at the heart of Wordsworth 's concern with the use of the past , this too is already present in the first Part of the 1798–9 version , before being moved to its present position in the longer texts . |
| 15 | Her smuggled photographs were highly prized and highly priced in Moscow . |
| 16 | This is not simply a matter of becoming uncomfortably aware that the rapid increase of world population and accelerated industrialization pose a serious threat to the environment both by the massive consumption of finite material resources and by the emission of man-made heat and chemicals into the atmosphere ; a situation dramatically portrayed in a report by the Club of Rome ( Meadows et al. , 1972 ) , subsequently much criticized but now taken more seriously again , which concluded that : ‘ If the present growth trends in world population , industrialization , pollution , food production , and resource depletion continue unchanged , the limits to growth on this planet will be reached some time within the next one hundred years . ’ |
| 17 | The Perpetual movement intensely tested and proved under every possible condition throughout the world is indeed worthy of the title Swiss Chronometer , a title much coveted and jealously guarded , awarded by The Controle Official Suisse de Chronometres , only after exhaustive and rigorous tests have been completed . |
| 18 | Better designed and better tested materials than ours have met with a similar fate . |
| 19 | Ever felt the clothes on sale in British high streets could be better designed and better made ? |
| 20 | The Spanish catalogue ( Museo del Prado , Pta 2500 ) is greatly superior to the Italian one ( Electa Napoli ) ; it is better edited and better printed and it does not illustrate Sgarbi 's croute . |
| 21 | A Christian writer , like Rose Macaulay , had a standard for her people ; Miss Compton-Burnett , an intensely moral writer , has the standards of late nineteenth century , upright , liberal and enlightened agnosticism , personally modified but firmly held . |
| 22 | Boghurst was critical of the established practice of quarantining infected households — a policy ‘ oft enough tried and always found ineffectual ’ — and in general doubtful about the conclusions drawn from theories of contagion . |
| 23 | they 're not angels , they 're a hard regiment , but they 're also highly disciplined and highly trained , I 've got , I , I , the other thing I could n't see what good , I mean is it , is it the , I mean its not , its not the anniversaries or any thing so I do n't know why they brought the out , cos I ca n't see what interviewing people twenty years after the thing happen can do . |
| 24 | In practice , spoken language interpreters are highly educated and highly trained . |
| 25 | They are better educated and more informed — though illiteracy is still widespread among the poor . |
| 26 | His judgement is more balanced and he 's better educated and better informed . |
| 27 | They were better educated and better paid . |
| 28 | Then one long hum that slowly faded , became part of the silence . |
| 29 | It was a greatly respected and slightly feared publication , dealing in hard fact , abrasive as Maggie herself was abrasive . |
| 30 | He was a favourite in the hospital ; much respected and universally liked , and he had saved the lives of many children . |