Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the 1980s , it battled to achieve two crucial , strategic shifts : to reduce its dependence on bulk , low-margin , commodity chemicals which tend to swing wildly with the economic cycle — in favour of high value-added , high-margin ‘ effect ’ chemicals ; and to cut the share of sales accounted for by the UK . |
| 2 | As the puppy gets older , he will want to go outside to the soiled piece of paper that you have positioned in a place that you may want him to use . |
| 3 | Such a world view is the product of a perception conceptualized to contend dramatically with the instant experience of dealing with highly emotive , personal conflicts at street level , or the tensions of ritual ‘ battles with criminals ’ . |
| 4 | In addition , the food expert would want to know more about the local conditions and the alternative sources of nourishment available . |
| 5 | I also made a promise to myself that when I got picked again for a major championship I would progress beyond the first round . |
| 6 | Insurance defence lawyers , however , tend to concentrate more on the legal process and procedure . |
| 7 | Skills develop and change to compensate partially for the changing capacities . |
| 8 | The Terminator game , which costs £40 , has jumped straight into the Top Ten best-selling list . |
| 9 | In Latin America a second wave of nationalism , which may be regarded as a continuation of the national independence struggles against the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the early nineteenth century , has developed vigorously in the present century in opposition to American economic dominance , and has been connected more or less closely with socialist and reforming movements directed against the internal domination of these societies by an upper class composed of landowners , and more recently , of elements of a national bourgeoisie . |
| 10 | Alan Hingston , Executive Director of IDB 's Marketing Development Division , said : ‘ Scandinavia has long been one of IDB 's target regions and business for Northern Ireland companies has developed steadily over the past decade . |
| 11 | The role of users within the mental health system has developed rapidly over the past 10 years . |
| 12 | Clearly , this process has developed considerably during the late twentieth century . |
| 13 | There is no doubt that the industry has developed sufficiently in the past decade for an MBO or similar venture capital-financed transaction always to be on the vendor 's agenda if a disposal is being contemplated . |
| 14 | Corgi is trying a new approach and has broken away from the single figure on the cover , giving this one an old master oil painting reproduction which makes it more sophisticated . |
| 15 | Is she aware that when my hon. Friend the Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) and I visited Moscow last week and questioned Russian officials about food aid , we found stacked away in a third-floor warehouse what we were told was the whole British contribution of beef to Moscow , which had been there for a month ? |
| 16 | WABI is now also expected to go forward into the Common Open Software Environment initiative . |
| 17 | Britain has one of the largest black populations in the Western world , yet magazines seem to try to appeal only to the white mainstream . |
| 18 | The Blackpool cars were the largest , seating 84 , and two conductors were carried to cope respectively with the upper deck and the large platform doors . |
| 19 | Japan has taught much to the Western business world . |
| 20 | However , perhaps even more significantly , certainly for the junior players , is the opportunity they have earned to go forward for a personal screening at Bradnam 's unique Herts-based Dewhurst Tennis Academy , the operation which has firmly set about the task of uncovering a future British Wimbledon champion . |
| 21 | The detection rate is well down and has fallen steadily in the past four years — the detection rate for burglary in dwellings is now less than 20 per cent . |
| 22 | In effect , the purchasing power of members in Britain has fallen dramatically in the past number of years . |
| 23 | Air pollution is still a major cause , he said : " Exposure to sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxides has fallen dramatically in the past decade , but forest ecosystems react only gradually . " |
| 24 | Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s . |
| 25 | Local government spending has fallen significantly since the middle 1970s both as a proportion of state spending and of national income . |
| 26 | BNFL will seek to identify new projects for the site but the numbers of BNFL employees at Capenhurst are expected to fall significantly by the mid to late 1990s . |
| 27 | The industrial north of Italy , in turn , has depended heavily on a reserve army of the unemployed from the south — the more backward Mezzogiorno — and now increasingly from North Africa . |
| 28 | Water pumped out of building excavations or road works , for example , may be permitted to flow directly into a neighbouring watercourse without a requirement that any solids settle out in the lagoons which are the typical method of purifying similar discharges more permanent in character . |
| 29 | just wants to go there as an equal |
| 30 | The teaching approach in these subject areas is designed to go far beyond the basic development of psycho-motor skills . |