Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has fallen most heavily and for the longest periods on the most vulnerable members of society , with a particular concentration on the young , and on unskilled or semi-skilled workers . |
| 2 | Minor public order incidents can be treated less sympathetically than for white people and can lead in turn to confrontation and serious disorder warranting emergency admission . |
| 3 | Either he wanted to suffer , or he liked the idea of being treated less fussily than in the more expensive wards . |
| 4 | Plainly , there was no such feature in the building prior to its conversion , but its insertion has been undertaken so carefully and with such sensitivity towards the simple , almost primitive shapes and textures of the original interior that it looks like a perfectly natural element . |
| 5 | Whilst to begin with inevitable , Hodge and his colleagues need not have relied so heavily or for so long on Japanese personnel . |
| 6 | This is a crude form of distraction display , but it can not be developed much further because of the context in which it occurs . |
| 7 | The firm is well known for its painstaking research , which may mean that assignments are completed less quickly than by rival headhunters , but they are certainly carried out more thoroughly . |
| 8 | … if environmental problems are pursued rigorously enough and with sufficient attention to likely contributions from other disciplines they may foster constructive alterations in public policy but at the same time may stimulate new research and refinement of research methodology to the benefit of geographic discipline . |
| 9 | They are considered together here because of their close association with each other — girls experiencing institutional care also show a particularly high rate of premarital pregnancy ( Quinton et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | Furthermore , in the case of the Netherlands , von Beyme ( 1980 ) sees the tendency towards decentralisation in the early 1970s as a reaction to the failure of attempts to promote a central incomes policy — which had been pursued more strongly than in other countries . |
| 11 | The structural explanation of social problems is pursued more thoroughly than in a developmental model . |
| 12 | The models were also approached more closely and for a longer duration when presented with large crests ( female responses : for closest approach , log-likelihood ratio G =63.8 , d.f . |
| 13 | Mr Roache , of Wilmslow , Cheshire , had told the court he was ‘ devastated and humiliated ’ by a November 1990 article which said he was smug and self-satisfied like his screen character and had been universally nicknamed ‘ BKB — Boring Ken Barlow , ’ a reputation he had earned both on and off the screen . |
| 14 | Thus , if there is a two-dimensional paradigm in the language , it must be drilled both down and across the paradigm . |
| 15 | The man chosen was Russell Butler , a research student in social history at the University of London , who as a part-time tutor had taken the first course for apprentices at Marconi and had greatly impressed both here and in other courses for the branches in Hemel Hempstead and St. Albans . |
| 16 | Hence women 's domestic role continued to be stressed both ideologically and in state policies , so that where women did engage in waged labour , they did so primarily in low-paid , unskilled jobs . |
| 17 | Surgical inexperience can not be considered as an explanationfor the high failure as rebleeding was noted in all three centres and in each centre the operations were carried either directly or under the close supervision of a highly experienced hepatobiliary surgeon . |
| 18 | What this comes to will be clearer by the end of the book , but we need to mention both a normative element and a personal one , if Y is to be located neither above nor below the dividing line . |
| 19 | Since atmospheric perspective is disregarded also , the furthest buildings appear to be placed above rather than behind the ones in the foreground . |
| 20 | The skull was broken just above and behind the left temple , with what looked like a single blow , though of that he could not be sure . |
| 21 | Instrumental neutron activation is still selected most frequently because of its sensitivity , accuracy and the wide range of elements which can be measured in a single sample . |
| 22 | It seems more than likely that with parishes concentrating on basic food needs , the other kinds of discretionary payments , which had been a feature of the eighteenth-century poor , were made less often and with declining generosity . |
| 23 | The General Council of British Shipping quotes a survey as reporting that those ships which had been found to use the Minches route had done so only because of poor weather conditions . |
| 24 | The cloth was linen , for Mrs Maugham held that plastic table cloths were the last resort of the working classes , and had said so often and at length ; but it was adorned with place mats of plastic . |
| 25 | Corby and Wellingborough fall into this category , while others , for example , Milford Haven ( Dyfed ) and Tayside , have done less well because of factors such as distance from markets , location within depressed regions , and so on . |
| 26 | We have erm , managers of these funds who have a lot of expertise , a lot of experience , we 've been going over thirty years now , and we 've grown extremely quickly because of the expertise of our managers . |
| 27 | Romania was not unique in cramming its citizens into overcrowded tenements which would have attracted the indignation of Dickens , but the process of urban deprivation was pushed much further because by the 1980s , the shortages of food , fuel and almost every kind of consumer good were worse even than in provincial Russia or small-town Poland . |
| 28 | What had happened was that the wall had been built much later and from a higher ground level . |
| 29 | That is , you write as if you were positioned just behind and above your detective . |
| 30 | Weber 's argument was presented more systematically and in a somewhat different form , though with the same object in view , by Schumpeter ( 1942 , chap . |