Example sentences of "[verb] occurred in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When my right hon. Friend meets the CBI in the north-east , will he try to explain away the inconsistency that has occurred in the Labour party ? |
| 2 | Simultaneously with the preparation of the new housing benefit scheme , the Government began operating a policy of significantly increasing the level of council house rents , and a threefold increase has occurred in the nine years since 1979 ( House of Commons Library Note , 19 July 1988 ) . |
| 3 | Indeed it may be a symbolic irony that the implementation of the NHS and Community Care Act has occurred in the European Year of Older People . |
| 4 | One of the lessons of the conflict for our own policy makers is that , as a result of these advances , a major step forward has occurred in the apparent effectiveness of defensive weapons systems . |
| 5 | Again as has occurred in the developing countries , the reduction of their former isolation by modern transport and communications has brought new problems , most notably the outflow of young and active people , and the disruption of traditional cultures . |
| 6 | Rural depopulation has occurred in the past century and a half , and will continue in the future , because of declining employment opportunities in the countryside . |
| 7 | That comparison is exagerrated by the enormous increase in world trade which has occurred in the post-war period , and which has largely by-passed the Eastern European countries . |
| 8 | As an established discipline , however , sociology is a relatively new arrival on the academic scene , and the real expansion in its popularity has occurred in the post-war period . |
| 9 | The explosion of knowledge , skills and ideas , which has occurred in the last half century makes any mapping to some extent arbitrary . |
| 10 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 11 | We certainly can not bank on the 49 per cent increase in the size of the Bar which has occurred in the last 10 years . |
| 12 | ‘ A vacancy having occurred in the medical department of the Infirmary at Bedford in consequence of the resignation of Dr. Yates ( sic ) I have been induced to turn my professional views towards that place . |
| 13 | Darlington argues persuasively that Marx believed the process of evolution to be by direct Lamarkian and not by indirect Darwinian , or selective means : that is to say , that the environment in which individuals found themselves operated directly upon them to adjust them to it and that the adjustments were transmitted by them to the next generation ; and not that , fortuitous mutations having occurred in the genetic package , they would when favourable equip the mutant for greater success in the given environment than the unmutated form could achieve . |
| 14 | Currently there is concern that accelerated rates of scrappings of industrial assets , which may have occurred in the economic and financial conditions of recent years , could have distorted the valuation of Britain 's capital stock . |
| 15 | This may have occurred in the western Pacific Ocean where the age of the lithosphere presently being subducted indicates that cooling over a period of about 180 200 Ma is required for this process of spontaneous subduction to occur . |
| 16 | Astronomical evidence suggests that this may have occurred in the first half of the year 5 BC . |
| 17 | It could have occurred in the last couple of days , within the Metropolitan police area . |
| 18 | After the violent conditions that erm we think occurred in the early life of the earth and injected energy and churned up the atmosphere and formed the prebiotic molecules , we find that just those same molecules are actually in the clouds in space , and these clouds are the basic raw material from which stars and plants form in the first place , so we might ask the question could they have got into the earth 's atmosphere without this intermediate process , and I think there are mechanisms whereby these molecules can accrete into the earth 's atmosphere , and it certainly suggests that we should look at thse and certainly not be taken as a foregone conclusion that the Uray/Miller experiments are the only mechanism whereby the prebiotic soup was formed . |
| 19 | Something like this appears to have occurred in the great Near Eastern empires in the post-Neolithic period ; and it certainly occurred in Inca Peru . |
| 20 | But that is nothing compared to the inflation that seems to have occurred in the early universe : an increase in size by a factor of at least a million million million million million times in a tiny fraction of a second . |
| 21 | Interestingly , something similar seems to have occurred in the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin . |
| 22 | However , the acceleration in the rate of decline which appears to have occurred in the second half of the 1960s has been lessened by the payment of investment grants . ’ |
| 23 | After the reorganization this part of the process seems to have worked relatively smoothly , but injustices appear to have occurred in the comparative chaos of the earlier period . |
| 24 | Little is known about the history of these crops ; their domestication is thought to have occurred in the African savannah , but the date and precise location are unknown . |
| 25 | Even in this chapter the discussion of The Winter 's Tale had occurred in the first edition much earlier in the book , from where it has been removed and rewritten to be included in the last chapter . |
| 26 | The Brett-Jones Report , eleven years later , reiterated and reinforced the principal points of the Wells and Eve Reports , and recognised the enormous changes that had occurred in the intervening years . |
| 27 | He thought again about how the changes which had occurred in the Southern Capital , to which Surere had now been exposed after so long away , might have affected such an inflexible heart . |
| 28 | They reported on 19th October , 1854 that subsidence had occurred in the eastern part of the Foreign Office necessitating a new foundation and rebuilt front wall . |
| 29 | The largest relative increases had occurred in the developing world , with Africa 's population set to grow from 650,000,000 in 1991 to 900,000,000 by the end of the century . |
| 30 | What seemed to be happening was the spread of population growth out from the major urban centres where it had occurred in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries progressively to the more rural periphery , leaving a population loss in its wake . |