Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not be surprising if the surplus were now between £200m and £300m , giving a total for the newly enlarged BTR group of about £750m . |
| 2 | To illustrate this , it is relevant to remember that driving a car is possible for the fully sighted in foggy conditions , but it is a more tiring procedure than driving when visibility is good . |
| 3 | The caddies ' prizes for the 18 entrants were £1 , for the winner down to 2s. 0d. , and a club supplied by the Professional for the best behaved caddie . |
| 4 | Now that 's , that 's a very interesting for a homeward bound commuter , you know , getting into the tube and you grab one of these papers and you read it and in fifteen minutes you get to Oakland fifty minutes , why turn on the news ? |
| 5 | The ambiguities and divisions were clear during the euphemistically termed ‘ spiritual pollution ’ campaign ( jingshen wuran yundong ) of 1983 , when the party elders attempted to keep out the ‘ flies ’ they had set free in Chinese society . |
| 6 | Their turtle head strained clear of the almost decapitated Warlord . |
| 7 | Pile the souffle high into a straight sided souffle dish , or into individual souffle dishes if preferred . |
| 8 | The master expected his servant to increase his own personal wealth , a situation that is exactly analogous with the generally accepted microeconomic concept that management should seek to maximize the wealth of their ordinary ( equity ) shareholders . |
| 9 | We 'll have to look again , it 's interesting with the nationally recognized qualifications and records for life bit , that we already do some of this . |
| 10 | Checking the type of materials used revealed that some lower strength aluminium ‘ cherry lock ’ fasteners different from the originally fitted ‘ hi-shear ’ fasteners had been fitted during service . |
| 11 | This is made crystal clear in a somewhat laboured exposition in a book by Preece and Maier published in 1889 : Let us suppose the two microphonic transmitters are placed on the stage at T and T 1 , and these transmitters separately connected by two distinct wires to two telephone receivers , R and R 1 , which are applied to both ears to hear the actor , whom we will suppose to be placed at A. It is easy to understand that , the distance of this actor from transmitter T being less than that from transmitter T 1 , his song will be more distinctly reproduced by transmitter T than by T 1 , and the stronger impression will be produced on the left ear . |
| 12 | The unemployment of the mid-1880s contributed to the difficulty of sustaining the policy — workhouses were not large enough to hold all of the unemployed in the hardest hit district and out-door relief had to be given by many Guardians , though normally only in return for a daily ‘ test ’ such as stone-breaking in the workhouse yard — the task most favoured by Guardians for the male unemployed . |
| 13 | Golf Monthly readers might be interested in a recently published book , Real Golf . |
| 14 | The historical importance of the measure was that it gave , for the first time , a publicly financed cash benefit to a group of the needy , free from the deliberately induced stigma associated with the Poor Law . |
| 15 | All credit to Bann , though for not shutting-up-shop on an already lost cause as Mark Carson pegged it back . |
| 16 | Moreover , the Council itself was widely regarded as dangerously left-wing , dominated not just by teachers , but by teachers acceptable to the furthest left of the teachers ' unions , the NUT ( itself then containing large proportion of primary school teachers , without university connections ) . |
| 17 | In particular , the realistic novel had played an important part in shaping Progressive America and the themes of those novels were taken up in Hollywood as the studios struggled to find a formula for fiction films that would be acceptable to the highly politicized cities of the East and Midwest . |
| 18 | Thus both the content and the form of the new eighteenth-century realist novel can be shown as dependent on the already known facts of the increasing social importance of the commercial bourgeoisie . |
| 19 | In spring 1990 , there were 870,000 people in the United Kingdom unemployed on the internationally recognised International Labour Organisation definition , but not included in the monthly claimant count statistics . |
| 20 | The public is not therefore antagonistic towards the mentally handicapped or especially afraid of them ; the emotional responses are generally to feel sorry for them and uncomfortable in their presence . |
| 21 | For example , the types of decision making that are appropriate for a functionally controlled organization are inappropriate for a matrix organization or an organization driven by business areas . |
| 22 | This exposé and the Salvation Army spectacle were symptomatic of a carefully organized campaign by purity workers and feminists to press the Liberal government to pass the Criminal Law Amendment Bill , which had been before Parliament since 1883 . |
| 23 | Although much of their business was conducted in Anglo-Norman ( which developed a literature of its own ) there is little to suggest that ‘ English ’ magnates were ignorant of the best written French . |
| 24 | But like all armoured animals they have sacrificed flexibility for security and must now be content with a stiffly jointed existence . |
| 25 | The usefulness of having voice-parts in score , so that they could be played on a keyboard instrument ( as distinct from the highly embellished transcriptions ) or used ‘ for the study of counterpoint ’ , had been recognized at least as early as 1577 , when Gardano published two such volumes , one of Rore 's four-part madrigals , the other of miscellaneous pieces . |
| 26 | In the process , population and economic pressures could be relieved from the heavily developed central region . |
| 27 | This is similar to the commonly observed phosphate-binding sites at helix termini in other proteins and , in particular , other repressor-operator complexes . |
| 28 | The fact that goods have not been paid for does not prevent ownership in them passing to the purchaser unless , of course , they are subject to a properly communicated and valid retention clause . |
| 29 | The typical tutor-librarian premise , that the library matters and that an understanding use of it is crucial to a fully rounded and successful education , received its most dramatic promotion in the United States in the 19605 with the growth of the Library-College movement . |
| 30 | They were also more favourable among the better educated , who were in turn more likely to know Russian and to have a marriage partner and friends from a nationality other than their own . |