Example sentences of "a [adv] [vb pp] [adj] " 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 Bhikhu Parekh , a liberal , argues for ‘ a properly elected national deliberative body for Muslims ’ on a par with other communities : ‘ The Church of England has its Synod , the Jews have their Board of Deputies and some Hindu sects have their national councils of temples . ’
6 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 …
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 In a properly managed co-operative , the workers will know that their business can not prosper and support excessive wage claims .
10 In a case such as this , involving humans , it is not possible to perform a properly designed cause-to-effect experiment .
11 The system ( 2.10 ) unc was derived by Ueda and Akamatsu in 1981 [ 39 ] from the differential equation representing a sinusoidally forced nonlinear electronic oscillator .
12 A few of our members have prepared very good speeches which they present locally and it would be my hope that we may be in a position in the not too distant future to have a professionally prepared audio/visual promotional aide .
13 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 .
14 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 . ’
15 [ 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 .
16 [ 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 .
17 That has been done by turning a division into a wholly owned subsidiary limited company with its own board of directors and separate accounts .
18 If I might repeat again what I suggested in the debate on the White Paper er there is a comparison perhaps pushed a little far w which what the national socialist did in Germany by saying a locally elected major-like does not represent the wishes er an er interests of the people of Cologne , as well as perhaps an appointed business man with the name of Krupp .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 This replaced the system of public assistance , a locally administered means-tested benefit .
23 Not all benefits of a locally provided public good are experienced by the locality that provides it .
24 A locally admired civil servant , known to be gay , is murdered in his home , and the killers flee without their trousers .
25 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 ) .
26 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 .
27 In one big country , Tanzania , there is a widely accepted national language , Swahili .
28 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 .
29 A widely observed general strike was called on Feb. 18-20 .
30 A widely subscribed single premium life insurance policy ( known as the prima unica ) was suspended because most of the money invested had never been taxed ; insurers were to be legally obliged to disclose the names of policy holders , and primas unicas would in future be subject to withholding taxes .
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