Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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31 In this book , which will also serve as the catalogue for the exhibitions , has it been you who has written about the unpublished drawings ?
32 The department has written to the dental schools at Liverpool , Newcastle , Birmingham and Manchester and the London Hospital to canvass their support for becoming centres for the evaluation of new dental materials .
33 Anyway , there was promotion in it : when we next come across him , less than a year later , he has risen to the giddy heights of master , taking over from William Cox .
34 Meanwhile , the largest indoor oceanarium in the world , the John G Shedd in Chicago , which is keen to begin captive breeding of belugas , has applied to the American authorities for an import licence for Brightness .
35 MacMillan has said from the first announcements that it would be a big company ballet , involving a large cast , and he has provided just that .
36 If the mechanisms which Kandel has uncovered for the short-term processes of habituation and sensitization can serve as a model for short-term memory , what have they to say about long-term memory ?
37 The Grosvenor Gallery , Eric Estorick 's famous gallery which , in recent years , has been operating from offices in South Moulton Street , has moved to the spacious premises vacated by the Albemarle Gallery in Albemarle Street .
38 Simon Greenwood has been appointed chief editor at Quiller Press , succeeding Giles Mandelbrote , who has moved to the Historical Manuscripts Royal Commission
39 More than 200 others were reported injured among the 327 passengers and 13 crew .
40 ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’
41 Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her .
42 Besides , such a prolific writer could hardly be ignored and his popularity moved through many decades by its own momentum , rather as Enid Blyton 's has done in the middle years of the present century .
43 ‘ I can see what CAMRA has done from the local pubs .
44 Yet Mr Kinnock , repeating the offer he has made to the Liberal Democrats of a committee of inquiry into electoral reform , has upped the stakes by speaking of a commitment to reform Britain 's constitution by consensus .
45 It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers .
46 ‘ The matter has not been discussed formally by our general committee but our fixtures committee has talked about the possible advantages of the Five Nations championship being moved back a bit . ’
47 Well , we will try again , and maybe if we do win the Rumbelows League Cup and finish third in Division Two , we might just get the same coverage overall as one man has had over the past weeks .
48 So Mr Chairman sorry to bring it up again but er I think it 's in line what this gentleman said er bearing in mind I think it is a fact that this is a reasonable theatre enjoyed by people from a very large catchment area could you please tell us what support the the er playhouse has had from the local authorities adjacent to Harlow .
49 Now that he has advanced to the front ranks of the most expensive and super-hyped entertainment on earth , Brundle has acquired some of the essential accoutrements of a global celebrity who earns over a million dollars a year .
50 As the science of meteorology has advanced towards the computerised forecasts we receive today , this folklore has been treated with increasing suspicion , or forgotten .
51 It ought to be remembered that he was still forced to wear a truss because of his congenital hernia — no one has speculated on the physiological origins of his need for order and control — and that he was a victim of tachycardia .
52 So far , change has occurred without the chaotic excesses , random U-turns and destructive instability that have characterised communism 's demise in some other former Eastern Bloc states .
53 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 ) .
54 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 .
55 While the reforms of 1988/89 do go some way towards creating a more effective regional policy in that the dispersion of funds has shifted towards the poorer regions , given the gulf between the rhetoric of the commitment to balanced development and the extent of subsequent policy action , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the issue of space and the impact of EC policies over space are but a minimal consideration in the design of a greater vision .
56 But then not even the Occupations Pensions Board , whose report has lead to the current proposals , suggested that .
57 Murtach shot his father a warning glance , but the big man merely shrugged , his deep eyes becoming shrouded by the overhanging brows .
58 A group of publishers and journalists from 38 African countries has called on the United Nations to declare censorship a grave violation of human rights and has asked African governments to free journalists who have been jailed for their professional activities .
59 The persistent pattern of inequality in economic , social and educational services has contributed to the widening gaps between regions .
60 The farming community 's increasing concentration on monocultures , particularly wheat , over the past two decades has contributed to the dramatic falls in the populations of a number of native British birds , according to a report by the Agriculture and Food Research Council .
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