Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This powerful gift was gladly received and subsequently wielded effectively in many battles , earning Sigmar his nickname of Heldenhammer . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend is right to raise those issues and to seek to be satisfied that the proposals are properly examined and fully justified . |
| 4 | Another project Towards Environmental Competence in Scotland funded by Scottish Enterprise and the World Wild Life Fund , was successfully completed and significantly informed the Secretary of State 's Working Party on Environmental Education . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was a celebration of their talents because , by being confined — so to speak — to those steps which they most enjoyed and thus performed best , they positively sparkled . |
| 12 | Charman complained if he felt gigs were not properly organised and quickly became frustrated . |
| 13 | The Commission 's record on attacking cartels and concerted practices is impressive , for it has vigorously pursued and successfully secured the termination of a substantial number and variety of concerted practices . |
| 14 | This policy was eventually modified and finally reversed some eight years later . |
| 15 | The Shandwick Stone , a pictish symbol stone found in a field near Tain , had been badly cracked and crudely rejoined with heavy metal bands by a local blacksmith about a century ago . |
| 16 | It also helps to vary the shapes of the flowers as well as their colours : for example , hydrangeas are much more pointed in shape than roses , and the petals of potentillas are widely spaced and so give a more pronounced petal shape . |
| 17 | Air vents in stone-built barns were normally slits or single holes , often widely spaced and sometimes arranged in rows . |
| 18 | it had been badly repaired and clumsily painted , but these things I could remedy . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Furthermore , the Second World War had resulted in the most terrifying weapon of destruction being not only developed but also deployed against the enemy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In Prussia as a whole there was a discernible and understandable population shift , an Ostflucht ( literally : East flight ) from the poorly developed Spartan provinces of the east to the more ‘ civilised ’ , better developed and rapidly industrialising cities of the west . |
| 23 | Indeed , if Mr. Newman was right , retraction in this country of evidence previously given in the requesting state would ipso facto discredit the evidence so given and so deprive the magistrate of any power to commit on that basis . |
| 24 | Her smuggled photographs were highly prized and highly priced in Moscow . |
| 25 | At the strategic level of integrating the territories into the Israeli economy , the competitive edge of Israel 's highly developed and heavily subsidized productive capacity in industry and agriculture destroyed the Palestinian sector almost in its entirety — although there was not an enormous amount to destroy because of the Jordanian legacy of economic neglect . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Better designed and better tested materials than ours have met with a similar fate . |
| 29 | Ever felt the clothes on sale in British high streets could be better designed and better made ? |
| 30 | 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 . |