Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the South is redefined to include only the four regions of the South East , South West , East Anglia and the East Midlands , then the net movement of people from North to South can be seen to have risen from a low point of only around 10,000–20,000 a year in the early 1970s to a peak of nearly 70,000 by 1985–86 ( Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 2 | Causality is Granger causality , which is based on the idea that , if past values of the variable × improve predictions of the current value of variable Y , relative to predictions made using just the past values of Y , while past values of Y can not improve on the predictions of the current value of X made using past values of X , X ‘ causes ’ Y , in the special sense that X leads Y . |
| 3 | In October 1990 a network of Baptist Church planters was officially formed gathering around a hundred ministers and aiming to hold a first residential conference in 1991 . |
| 4 | Plus , plus you got to see how the other breeds are doing , and |
| 5 | The Germans had no illusions about the military effectiveness of their principal ally , and at first they agreed to accept only a few divisions of the Alpini , the specialist mountain troops who could hold their own with any in Europe . |
| 6 | We advise our composers , helping to sift out the bad songs and to search out opportunities for our writers to compose ‘ covers ’ for particular artists . |
| 7 | You may need to carry out the above exercises a few times before you get any results . |
| 8 | You will then need to gather together the necessary things to make an application . |
| 9 | Given that the group is expected to have made profits for the current year , the net assets will be higher than at the last account date and as the company is being purchased on a multiple of earnings we should consider stripping out the excess assets . |
| 10 | In this case , a more precise purpose might be , " I want to find out the relative sizes of the most common dinosaurs so I can draw scale pictures of them on a wall chart . " |
| 11 | There are already plenty of pointers and anomalies , and I 'd like to go through them with you to try to sift out the red herrings and give due precedence to the important facts . |
| 12 | To achieve this aim involved driving out the small importers . |
| 13 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 14 | Rising unemployment in the countryside has cancelled out the economic gains of the early-1980s reforms . |
| 15 | After a brief warm-up , participants dispersed to try out the various sports , and then the time came for the games , which involved the competitors in ( among other things ) rushing to get balls round traffic cones , and into baskets . |
| 16 | ‘ Anyone who is concerned that environmental issues are not getting sufficient hearing in the campaign and wants to know where the main candidates stand is welcome to attend . ’ |
| 17 | She looked round the hall , then bent to pick up the broken remains of a photo frame . |
| 18 | During his search for parts he has built up a colossal spares stock , but as the type has been used by so many air forces around the world and is still in service in places , components are not difficult to obtain — although they can be pricey . |
| 19 | Finally , the staff of the clinic is completed by a social worker , whose role it is to try to sort out the non-medical problems that often go hand-in-hand with any infections . |
| 20 | Organisers expect to sell out the 52 matches , culminating with the championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena , California . |
| 21 | Thus we may write , where t is a random , serially independent variable designed to pick up the random movements in the risk premium . |
| 22 | HOPES that there will be more interest rate cuts to come sparked off a fresh shares boom yesterday . |
| 23 | He has had over a dozen matches and scored only two goals , so perhaps as Joo said its time for the subs bench ( remember Le Tissier on sunday ) . |
| 24 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 25 | The book by Bram Stoker and published at the end of the last century has sold over a million copies . |
| 26 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |
| 27 | The Communists , with a projected 8.5 per cent , were expected to win around a dozen seats . |
| 28 | A fashion show has raised almost a thousand pounds for a special school for handicapped children . |
| 29 | Individuals on current salaries of £75,000 or more who are thinking of changing jobs and either joining a new scheme or transferring their existing pension to one will need to weigh up the financial consequences . |
| 30 | The agent has to fill in the financial returns has to send in a report of financial expenditure . |