Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [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 I also removed a Building Society book in the name of Francis Maclean , which I reckoned had about £450 in the account , and an Access card in the same name which I rarely used and certainly had nearly a grand 's worth of credit on it .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Charman complained if he felt gigs were not properly organised and quickly became frustrated .
14 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 .
15 This policy was eventually modified and finally reversed some eight years later .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Air vents in stone-built barns were normally slits or single holes , often widely spaced and sometimes arranged in rows .
19 it had been badly repaired and clumsily painted , but these things I could remedy .
20 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 .
21 Furthermore , the Second World War had resulted in the most terrifying weapon of destruction being not only developed but also deployed against the enemy .
22 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 .
23 The basic business of looking after them felt so demanding and emotionally wearing that there seemed little rime left to introduce them to ‘ real living ’ .
24 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 .
25 It was something he wanted not only to preserve but somehow to revive .
26 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 .
27 This means that science can have two histories , which constantly intertwine but never resolve , with one evaluated as positive , the other as negative and therefore silently suppressed even though it may remain determining .
28 In any case , she would only laugh and not believe a word of it .
29 Her smuggled photographs were highly prized and highly priced in Moscow .
30 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 .
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