Example sentences of "of [art] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prospect of the widely reviled Khmers Rouges regaining a position of predominance in the country led to a re-orientation in traditional diplomatic policy prosecuted towards Cambodia by some Western states towards accommodation . |
| 2 | The double stapling technique was never applicable in these cases because of the widely dilated and thick walled anus ; hence a hand sewn ileoanal anastomosis was required . |
| 3 | use this data to challenge some of the widely cited research findings from the Equal Opportunities Commission ( 1984 ) , that men carers receive a disproportionate share of the statutory services . |
| 4 | As a result , it is common to find many of the widely supported objectives not explicitly recognized in assessment procedures . |
| 5 | The fells above Coniston have long been a source of the widely used Westmorland slate ( see Borrowdale ) , but the mountain known as Coniston Old Man and its associated fells are equally interesting as an area of copper-mining activity , and one nearby location is known as Coppermines Valley . |
| 6 | And she believed the whales would remain at Laspi Bay at least for the summer , and had not heard of the widely criticised plans to take them on a travelling display . |
| 7 | Alongside the introduction of the widely previewed XPG4 , X/Open , based in Reading , Berkshire , also introduced three new tiers of membership to its organisation , which in theory will allow software and hardware suppliers — but more importantly , users — a greater say in its future technology specifications . |
| 8 | In Chapter 3 , we examined in some detail Pearson 's review of the history of street crime in Britain , and his criticism of the widely held belief that such crime is a unique feature of present-day society . |
| 9 | When Baulig , between the wars , was strongly advocating worldwide eustatic changes of sea level the only possible reasonable explanation , namely deformation of ocean basins , seemed very unlikely in view of the widely held view of the permanency of ocean basins current at that time . |
| 10 | If that series were up and running today , one of the widely held myths it would have to counter would be the one which holds that our ‘ generous ’ overseas aid means money is flowing from the rich world to the poor . |
| 11 | The fact that he chose not to do so was seen as a tacit admission of the widely held view that the foreign policy successes of President George Bush had made his re-election an inevitability . |
| 12 | It became even more individualistic and displayed few signs of the closely knit and hierarchically organized structure of the previous era . |
| 13 | John Gordon , representative for Lancashire and Cheshire , was also presented with a cheque as runner up of the closely fought contest narrowly beating Robin Saunders , Alan Calver and James Thomas . |
| 14 | It was a far-reaching and radical attack on the powers of the legitimately established authority , not only of those who ruled kingdoms but also of those who ruled localities . |
| 15 | Finally , there is the tension in the design process between the sense of design as a transformative activity , a positing activity , transcendent of the givens of a problem ( in the sense of both breaking with context and with the form of the immediately perceived requirements — design as defining needs as well as solutions ) and design as a posited activity , that which works from the given which deals with what is real not with what is merely planned or speculated or imagined . |
| 16 | The site has no obvious Iron-Age antecedents ; more probably it originated as a civilian vicus outside the fort , which aerial photographs show as a multiple-ditched installation enclosing c. 2 ha ( 5 acres ) on a gravel terrace north-west of the later defended nucleus and the Billing Brook . |
| 17 | Although never completed , Beaumaris is the most perfect example of the concentrically planned castle in Britain . |
| 18 | Mary Miller meets Gian Carlo Menotti , the new director of the financially troubled Rome Opera |
| 19 | Clearly , therefore , some of the clinically detected locally confined tumours do not form an immediate threat to life . |
| 20 | Allowing for the categories omitted ( not to mention possible undercounting in some of the slackly administered sub-gaols ) , the true total could be several thousand higher . |
| 21 | There is no evidence that the nutritional value of organically grown produce is any higher or any lower than that of the conventionally grown equivalent food . |
| 22 | This was the idea , popularised in Shonfield 's Modern Capitalism but covered in a very large number of other works also , that a shift was occurring away from territorially based representation towards representation based on functional cleavages , with a consequent decline in the power of the territorially based representative assemblies known as parliaments and an ever-increasing role for corporatist organisations able to negotiate for organised functional interests at the national level . |
| 23 | The man who called himself Hope went down the sleepy cow-crossed and vagrant-strewn main street of Keswick with the speed and determination of the utterly resolved . |
| 24 | The ragged edges and surfaces of the freshly inflicted wound become smoothed out within an hour to give a more regular cellular organization that persists until the wound is closed . |
| 25 | The agonised faces of the freshly bereaved or betrayed grew less insistent . |
| 26 | She reached for one of the freshly laundered robes which were supplied each day for users of the pool . |
| 27 | Moving forward , the woman poured some of the freshly brewed ch'a into their bowls , then the rest into the chung , setting the lid back on . |
| 28 | Lincoln , which on several occasions was totally exempted from paying , seems to have been one of the worst affected ( 71 ; 77 , pp.272–3 ) . |
| 29 | A village in the region is one of the worst served in the country with no shop , school , pub or post office according to a new survey by the Rural Development Commission . |
| 30 | In truth , he also wanted to get married and could not afford to do so on the salary he was receiving at the Yorkshire Institution — one of the worst paid in the country . |