Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The details of this illness remain obscure , but in 1693 Newton became sufficiently disturbed in mind for rumours of his insanity to gain widespread acceptance . |
| 2 | As the army 's innately conservative values became increasingly influenced by ultranationalist thought , the villages from which many soldiers came continued to be seen as fertile areas of support . |
| 3 | Osaka merchants became increasingly specialized in function and their number expanded rapidly . |
| 4 | Holiday entitlement differs slightly according to job level , age and length of service . |
| 5 | But this also means that as the morphology of species matured over great periods of historic time , other forms became more adapted to life on land , while yet others returned to the water to escape the increasing competition . |
| 6 | The city of Padua has also taken in hand its rich holdings of ceramics . |
| 7 | The incidence of wage queries has certainly reduced since summer , but the first test of the improvements made will be during the next up-man which is due in early 1993 . |
| 8 | Danielle has since filed for divorce . |
| 9 | Smoking has also declined in parallel with a phased ban on advertising and use of taxes from tobacco sales to replace tobacco sponsorship of sports and arts and fund health promotion . |
| 10 | THE CURRENT recession has certainly laid to rest forever the myth that public relations is a lightweight ‘ luxury ’ service used to indulge the chief executive . |
| 11 | Extra income has also come from bank interest earned on appeal funds already deposited . |
| 12 | The Belted Galloway has rapidly increased in popularity and is no longer a rare breed . |
| 13 | Moreover , as I have remarked earlier , thinking around the question of what it means to understand cultures has hardly begun in multiculturalism , although there is a wealth of material and debate in cultural studies , social anthropology and philosophy upon which to draw ( cf. |
| 14 | SCIENTIFIC investigation of other societies and other ages has increasingly come under attack from relativists claiming that other cultures , and even other scientific paradigms , can be understood only from within , and only in their own terms . |
| 15 | WORDPERFECT PLAYS HARD TO GET ON ISSUE OF ITS INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING |
| 16 | ‘ Tho' one eye may be very agreeable , yet … the prejudice has always run in favour of two . ’ |
| 17 | Like all United Kingdom unit trust providers — with the exception of Lazards Merchant Bank which offers investors free entry into all eight of its unit trusts ( minimum investment £5,000 ) — Murray Johnstone has traditionally relied on commission hungry financial advisers to introduce its business . |
| 18 | The line that the Inland Revenue has hitherto drawn between investment and trading has been exasperatingly unclear . |
| 19 | His description of the Roman military camp ( 6.27–42 ) is almost certainly derived from a book , and even the description of a Roman levy on the Capitol ( 6.19–21 ) seems to be taken from a written account , since , as Professor Brunt has lately shown in detail , it can hardly have corresponded to contemporary practice ( Italian Manpower 225 B.C.–A.D. 14 ( 1971 ) , 625–34 ) . |
| 20 | In higher education , for example , the idea of the autonomy of the University Grants Committee ( replaced in 1988 by the University Funding Council ) as a buffer between the universities and the Department of Education and Science has been shattered and the Department has regularly intervened with advice to universities and polytechnics about subject areas which should have greater or less resources . |
| 21 | Recorded crime has almost doubled in County Durham in ten years , with a 20pc rise during 1991 . |
| 22 | Recent statistics show recorded crime has almost doubled in County Durham in ten years , with a 20pc rise during 1991 alone . |
| 23 | But the newspaper industry has also suffered from mismanagement . |
| 24 | This fault has also occurred in German and Swiss PWRs and might be present in PWRs in Sweden , Spain and the Netherlands . |
| 25 | The amount of the pension is not related actuarial to the sums which each recipient has actually paid in contribution ; but the right to receive it is treated as flowing from the possession of a contribution record , and indeed the pension rates are represented as related to the contribution rates , assuming contribution over a full working life . |
| 26 | This chapter has necessarily concentrated on activity at the centre and , in doing so , demonstrated how much any local initiative depends eventually on Course-wide endorsement . |
| 27 | Lucy has also worked on production of a promotional video illustrating aspects of Medau which can be enjoyed by all age groups . |
| 28 | Teenager Mark Limbert has also resigned for City along with Blackburn teenagers Ian Berry and Lee Moss whose signings Barrow clinched last week . |
| 29 | The experiment has already run into trouble |
| 30 | The traditional role of the local government officer as the neutral bureaucrat has also come under stress from the growing militancy of local authority trade unions . |