Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Community care has disappointed not just because social work — or other professional time — has been at a premium , but because services have been lacking . |
| 2 | In most countries , the governmental and political concern with the environment has come somewhat later than that of scientists or concerned lay people : the early development of the Green Party in the Federal Republic of Germany is something of an exception . |
| 3 | Police have released a series of security photos of a man they believe has carried out more than twenty armed raids . |
| 4 | Despite a pile of unread reprints now measuring 16 inches tall , I read this book because of the nagging suspicion that in a field that has grown as rapidly as vascular biology and medicine I might be missing more than my 16 inch stack suggested . |
| 5 | In the increasingly competitive environment since 1983 , this has crept slowly upwards and 100 per cent mortgages are now quite common . |
| 6 | My right hon. and learned Friend has said as clearly as possible that he regards the second London terminal at King 's Cross as an intrinsic part of the scheme . |
| 7 | But Mr Major has said quite clearly that that process that dialogue between you and Gerry Adams has run it 's course . |
| 8 | Twice fought over , she has suffered as badly as any country in the world . |
| 9 | The evolution of the philosophy behind family planning during the last twenty years has moved rather quicker than that of soil conservation so that the present thinking and problems may indicate that in general terms , this critique of conservation policy is not new , but the transfer of ideas merely overdue . |
| 10 | The attention-grabbing deal comes as the US market , which in the past has made up more than 40 per cent of sales of the Coventry-produced supercars , shows the first signs of upturn in three years . |
| 11 | Now , 10 years into the programme , it has advanced much further and many of the problems that Elkington mentioned have been solved . |
| 12 | The build-up of ozone-destroying chemicals has slowed more rapidly than expected , even before international agreements to phase them out took full effect . |
| 13 | Unfortunately my voice has seized up so that all I can do is throw my four stones at the iron handles . |
| 14 | But Birse Group chairman Peter Birse says : ‘ Civil engineering has tightened up recently and big projects such as the Jubilee Line extension and the Heathrow express link have not got going . |
| 15 | The first year has progressed reasonably well and good working relationships between Council and governing bodies have contributed to the success of the programme . |
| 16 | In that 13 years manufacturing output under his Government in Britain has gone up less than 6 per cent . |
| 17 | The Group has taken on more than 30 schools in the mining communities in an effort to improve the standard of education among the disadvantaged groups of the community . |
| 18 | Joyce Tapsall who 's sixty-eight has lived alone longer than most widows — her husband died when she was twenty-nine . |
| 19 | The joiner work was from nicely matched teak , the surface of which showed few of the marks that one would expect in a yacht whose log has ticked off more than 16,000 miles ( 25,000km ) of long distance cruising . |
| 20 | A mysterious disease which has killed off more than 4,000 piglets in Europe is spreading . |
| 21 | The new restoration , masterminded by Heinrich Magirius , of the Commission for Historic Monuments for Dresden , and Harald Marx , director of the Gemäldegalerie , has returned as closely as possible to the original decorative scheme devised by Semper . |
| 22 | But Labour 's Coun. Scott , who has clocked up more than 25 years on the borough council , has also shown an increasing commitment to the improvement of the region . |
| 23 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 24 | The coils themselves should consist of 500 turns of 0.2mm enamelled wire scramble wound as neatly as possible over the core , the second winding crossing over the top of the first at right angles . |
| 25 | Since the conditions applied are almost certainly too restrictive ( the project may well have sustained somewhat more than four to five clients per week who would otherwise have been in an institution ) the total annual sum saved is almost certainly nearer £24,000 — £26,000 . |
| 26 | ‘ They would n't have come as far as this on their own , he must be driving them . ’ |
| 27 | It might have done considerably better than that . |
| 28 | It seems odd , at first sight , that the potteries of Stoke-on-Trent ( q.v. ) should have grown up more than two hundred miles away from the source of their vital ingredient , but in fact the manufacture of stoneware and earthenware had been established in Staffordshire long before the secret of porcelain was found , and that area had the necessary clay , coal and water supplies for the growth of the industry . |
| 29 | Asked why it had taken him 26 years to return , he said : ‘ I was n't invited till last year — though if I had been before perestroika , I would have thought not twice but 10 times about it , and I 'm not sure I would have come . ’ |
| 30 | That his resignation and pilgrimage can not have occurred much later than 844 is indicated by information given by Taskopruzade concerning Molla Fenari 's son , Yusuf Bali , namely that he became kadi of Bursa — no date is given for his appointment — and died as kadi in 846/1442–3 . |