Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest figures show that the number of cases of serious backpain reported has risen by 40% over the past 5 years . |
| 2 | Perhaps also in certain textbooks the systems approach has become adopted in outline as a prelude to conventional content without requiring any fundamental adjustment in the content of the physical geography textbooks . |
| 3 | Sales Express , a firm of computerized auctioneers , has experienced unparalleled growth of late as the marketplace has become flooded with goods from companies that have gone into receivership . |
| 4 | This has become known as Rachmanism after the exploits of an infamous landlord in the 1950s , following the 1957 Rent Act , which attempted to de-control private rented accommodation . |
| 5 | The terminology of this debate has become dominated by concepts from the world of business and commerce : senior management teams , line management , clients and customers , service delivery , product marketing and so on . |
| 6 | Therefore the presence of antibodies to HIV means that the person has become infected with HIV at some time in the past . |
| 7 | The new consciousness takes note that our society has become over-balanced in favour of the so-called masculine qualities of character . |
| 8 | The flounder has become adapted to bottom-living to a quite extraordinary degree . |
| 9 | ‘ The survey demonstrates that the debate over membership of the ERM has become clouded by issues of personalities and politics . |
| 10 | Farmers traditionally tried to get rid of creatures in which they had no direct commercial interest , and town dwellers tried to banish moles , squirrels , and foxes from their gardens , and bats from their lofts . |
| 11 | Teixeira , the old I P leader , tried to get put in command of them , having up till now succeeded in putting as much distance between himself and those dangerous embarrassments as he could . |
| 12 | ‘ You appear to have kept in touch with many of them . ’ |
| 13 | The family appear to have come to England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth when several glassmakers from Lorraine were invited to practise their skills in this country . |
| 14 | These two key members appear to have acted on behalf of , and in the name of , the committee by negotiating contributions to specific sections of the proposal with the representatives of the sectional interests . |
| 15 | These giant dustbins , some the size of a small garage , appear to have multiplied beyond count in recent years . |
| 16 | In fact , the collectorship of Aberdeenshire , formerly worth about £70 per annum to the holder , was considered to have increased in value to between £800 and £1,000 by 1800 . |
| 17 | Elizabeth Maxwell was reported to have moved to France after her husband 's death , leaving behind the family mansion , Oxford 's Headington Hill Hall . |
| 18 | Food prices were reported to have risen on average by 6 per cent during one week . |
| 19 | After the meeting , donors were reported to have responded with pledges of $120,000,000 . |
| 20 | Charles is reported to have spoken with Camilla on December 15 , 1989 , while staying in Cheshire with Lord Cholmondeley , at Cholmondeley Castle . |
| 21 | Baker was reported to have spoken with Bufi about human and political rights and to have promised US$6,000,000 in immediate humanitarian aid . |
| 22 | Thousands are reported to have died in custody over the past decade as a result . |
| 23 | Sporadic trouble , marked by strikes and demonstrations , continued in the coal industry throughout August , although a number of mines were reported to have returned to work by the end of the month following case-by-case wage settlements . |
| 24 | Sporadic trouble , marked by strikes and demonstrations , continued in the coal industry throughout August , although a number of mines were reported to have returned to work by the end of the month following case-by-case wage settlements . |
| 25 | Faced with revolt in the north by anti-government guerrillas of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) , the Djibouti government was reported to have appealed to France for military support , on the basis of the 1977 defence treaty between the two countries , and for the intervention of French forces stationed in Djibouti . |
| 26 | Spain was reported to have come under pressure from the EC 's Schengen group to tighten up immigration control ; the ultimate aim of the current Schengen Agreement signatories ( the Benelux countries , France , Germany and Italy ) was the abolition of border controls throughout the EC with an accompanying strengthening of external frontiers . |
| 27 | According to Mr. Mahmoud , he admitted them because they pretended to have come on behalf of the insurers . |
| 28 | And this in spite of the fact that two-thirds of the ‘ excellent ’ companies analysed had fallen from grace by 1987 , when Peters himself brazenly opened his third book , Thriving on Chaos , with the statement : ‘ There are no excellent companies ’ . |
| 29 | All the families involved had moved from England to Orkney for a variety of reasons . |
| 30 | Do they for a moment consider that most visitors to the like District want to feel surrounded by natives of the fells and not middle-class accents and protocol ? |