Example sentences of "a [adv] [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of local authorities , universities and polytechnics are offering courses for governors , but the Labour Party maintains that there should be a properly funded national scheme . |
| 2 | We must look at the behaviour from a properly defined structural viewpoint . |
| 3 | These should be carried out and applied by a properly trained multidisciplinary team . |
| 4 | In a properly organized political community the state exists for society and not society for the state ; yet , however socially advanced a people may be , the society which it constitutes made up of families , clubs , churches , trade unions , etc. — is not to be trusted to maintain itself without the ultimate arbitrament of force . |
| 5 | The Privy Council in Chan Man-sin advised that the owner of a credit at the bank or of a right to draw on an account " has , clearly , the right as owner to draw by means of a properly completed negotiable instrument or order to pay and it is … beyond argument that one who draws , presents and negotiates a cheque on a particular bank account is assuming the rights of the owner … |
| 6 | In these circumstances I thought it would better serve the interests of air safety generally if a properly appointed accredited representative had the right to do the same thing . |
| 7 | Investment Business Gazette Number 10 ( October 1990 ) sets out the minimum compliance requirements for such firms , included in which is the obligation to conduct a properly documented annual review of compliance procedures . |
| 8 | In a case such as this , involving humans , it is not possible to perform a properly designed cause-to-effect experiment . |
| 9 | In April 1984 the National Union of Mineworkers called a national strike against pit closures , including that of the lately closed pit at Cortonwood in south Yorkshire , and in favour of a vastly increased basic wage . |
| 10 | It would only take a marginally improved thrust to give the aircraft a vastly improved ground-to-air time , a higher ceiling and a greatly boosted top airspeed . ’ |
| 11 | [ Two ] persons entitled to vote upon the business to be transacted , each being a member or a proxy for a member or a duly appointed corporate representative , shall be a quorum . |
| 12 | [ Two ] persons entitled to vote upon the business to be transacted , each being a member or a proxy for a member or a duly appointed corporate representative , shall be a quorum . |
| 13 | A locally constructed gas-cleaning precipitator was evaluated to reduce the need for frequent filter changing and the gasifier also incorporated a tar condensate trap . |
| 14 | A correspon-dent of the Small Ads Magazine complains : ‘ My eye was caught by an advert offering a locally made manufactured item , payment part cash , part Acorns . |
| 15 | Although there was an ‘ official ’ village community within which landowners , farmers and clergy were included and which was occasionally celebrated in traditional ( and public ) rituals and ceremonies , there was another community , a locally based working-class sub-culture , which excluded ‘ them ’ in authority . |
| 16 | This replaced the system of public assistance , a locally administered means-tested benefit . |
| 17 | A locally admired civil servant , known to be gay , is murdered in his home , and the killers flee without their trousers . |
| 18 | Firms who have substantially reduced their work force include Formica ( with 550 employees in 1987 , compared with more than 1200 in the early 1970s ) , Welch 's ( a locally owned sweet manufacturer with 130 employees , compared with 200 in the early 1970s ) , Universal Bedding ( with 350 employees in 1982 , compared with 500 in 1973 ) , and Great Northern Knit wear ( with 75 employees in 1987 , compared with 115 in 1973 ) . |
| 19 | The followers of a charismatically inspired prophet may , for a while , feel and act as if they were all equally members of God 's elect , but if the community is to survive , the " routinization of charisma " , to use Weber 's term , always recreates a hierarchically ordered social structure . |
| 20 | In one big country , Tanzania , there is a widely accepted national language , Swahili . |
| 21 | Although the American Anthropological Association 's statement on ethics is of some relevance to sociolinguists and is easily accessible as an appendix to a book which deals specifically with ethical problems in fieldwork ( Rynkiewich and Spradley 1971 ) , linguists do not in general have recourse to a widely accepted ethical code . |
| 22 | A widely observed general strike was called on Feb. 18-20 . |
| 23 | We can conveniently begin with a widely drawn cosmological contrast , that between the secure realm of human habitation and activity , and the wild wasteland which surrounds and threatens it . |
| 24 | The underlying pathology is a widely distributed inflammatory lesion in peripheral nerves , with adjacent demyelination . |
| 25 | Hagfishes have a weakly developed symmetrical tail and the web is supported by poorly developed cartilage rods without associated muscles . |
| 26 | His predominant mode , in the Clarendon Building and All Souls designs and at Queen 's , as well as in other works , such as the Christ Church buttery ( 1722 ) and his Durham quadrangle range at Trinity College ( 1728 ) , was a simplified version of the baroque of Hawksmoor and Sir John Vanbrugh [ q.v. ] ; but the fellows ' building at Corpus Christi College , of which he may have been the designer as well as the builder , was close to the proto-Palladian manner of the Peckwater quadrangle , while his Radcliffe quadrangle at University College ( 1717–19 ) — again devised under Clarke 's direction — and his additions at Oriel College ( 1719–20 ) were faithful copies of the traditional Jacobean style of the adjoining buildings , the former including a skilfully executed Gothic vault . |
| 27 | In room J , there is a skilfully drawn hexagonal mosaic , divided into seven internal hexagons each of which holds interlaced guilloche triangles ; in room W , is another hexagonal mosaic-this time divided into six triangles , each of which carries a square . |
| 28 | The dietician is consulted and provides a commercially made liquid diet which will give Mr Reynolds the nutrients he needs and is high in calories and protein . |
| 29 | Some might think a little delayed public spending on roads would not have been a bad idea at that time . |
| 30 | Gordon 's homage to it appears in a little known nineteenth century Cleveland guidebook . |