Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [coord] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers were supposed to give a list of their homeworkers ' addresses to local authorities , but in 1907 two investigators found that in West Ham only 520 homeworkers on a list of 1,786 could be successfully traced and concluded that the Acts ( and therefore the inspection of homework premises ) were a dead letter . |
| 2 | ( 7 ) The property information questionnaire duly completed and signed and dated . |
| 3 | The plant was described by the ancient Greeks to improve eyesight ad this belief continued and travelled to Britain where Gerard recommended : " that the herb a little boiled or skalded and kept in pickle as Sampier ( samphire ) and eaten , quickens the sight " , or : " applied with honey and the juice of Fennell , is a remedie against dim eies " . |
| 4 | If a laying cuckoo is seen by the hosts it is vigorously mobbed and chased and , more importantly from the cuckoo 's point of view , its egg is more likely to be ejected . |
| 5 | The school or public library can cater for confident children by providing a wide range of books and related materials — pictures , videos , music and spoken-word cassettes , computer software , etc. — so arranged and displayed that the young users are not overwhelmed . |
| 6 | Confrontation with the enemy and violence done to him when necessary were not only justified but appeared as ends in their own right . |
| 7 | At the hospital with its crowd of out-patients and wards full of in-patients he was so busy , so plagued and hassled and rushed off his feet , and the women so submissive and ignorant or merely sullen , that he forgot about principles . |
| 8 | It has become clear that the anti-vivisection movement is now far better organised and directed than in the past . |
| 9 | as if dealing with a stubborn splinter fixed firmly and painfully down behind a fingernail , Zambia patiently nudged and pushed and , eventually , the agonising sliver was expelled . |
| 10 | Aggressive behaviour is to be not only discouraged but monitored and disciplined : the public regarded as consumers , customers and paymasters of policing , not potential villains or troublemakers . |
| 11 | Above Dorothea 's head , six new , blue mugs hung on six newly-erected hooks , for Florence Ames thought of all things and was constantly suggesting improvements — not that she insisted upon them or took anything in hand , only looked and suggested and then left the idea to be considered , accepted or rejected . |
| 12 | Laura 's normally warm , full lips tightened in pain , and she gave a heavy sigh as she recalled Liz 's pale , wan face , so terribly bruised and cut when she 'd visited her cousin in the hospital this morning . |
| 13 | to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that the article is so designed and constructed as to be safe and without risks to health when properly used ; |
| 14 | They are required to ensure so far as is reasonably practicable that any plant ( machinery , equipment or appliance ) is so designed and constructed as to be safe and without risk to health . |
| 15 | Did you know that your EC-approved pads must be ‘ as light as possible without prejudicing design strength and efficiency ’ ( sub-section 1.3.2 ) , or that your box ‘ must be so designed and manufactured as to facilitate correct positioning on the user and to remain in place for the foreseeable period of use , bearing in mind ambient factors , movements to be made and postures to be adopted . |
| 16 | Pipelines must be fitted so as to maintain continuous flow at turbulence producing levels with valves , glands , seals , junctions and outlets so designed and positioned as to avoid causing ‘ traps ’ where food deposits can accumulate or cleaning solutions can stagnate . |
| 17 | I will illustrate this by looking , firstly , at the claim that some form of market can legitimate the power of corporate managers , and , secondly , at the argument that the internal structure of the company can be so designed and used as to legitimate corporate managerial power . |
| 18 | We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 19 | We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 20 | Now that she knew Betty was here because she pitied her and not because she liked her , she felt less threatened and decided that she would just let her take over the cooking and do as she wished in the kitchen . |
| 21 | More generally , the emphasis was on securing a ‘ speeding up of the system ’ and ‘ to ensure that development is only prevented or restricted when this serves a clear planning purpose and the economic effects have been taken into account ’ . |
| 22 | The tines of the chip remover is carefully slotted into the space between the processor and its ' socket and gently pushed and pulled until the chip lifts slightly . |
| 23 | I think they 're fantastically advanced and mature because they do n't have radios . |
| 24 | When questioned about her fiancé 's older brother , her cousin had merely giggled and replied that Laura would have to make up her own mind . |
| 25 | The findings contradict the view that sewage dumped into the ocean would be so diluted and dispersed that it would be harmless to plants and animals on the seabed . |
| 26 | The King lost the Civil War of 1642–6 because the Scottish army came to the aid of Parliament on the understanding that a Presbyterian form of Church government would be imposed in England ; and because Cromwell 's troops were better led and trained than the Royalists . |
| 27 | Of the various neutrophil functions — namely adherence , aggregation , orientation , locomotion , and chemotaxis — few are better defined and understood than the sequence of events when the neurtophil comes into contact with a chemoattractant . |
| 28 | Yes , the heads using the long reach spark plugs are better ported and valved than the earlier heads . |
| 29 | Better cut and run before the coppers arrive . ’ |
| 30 | It wo n't , for example , recognize joined-up writing and even with individual letters it 's so hit and miss that you ca n't write at any speed because you have to go back to correct all the mistakes it makes . |