Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took it from the cupboard and as usual became engrossed in the other pages of the newspaper . |
| 2 | This is largely due to support provided by the British Library Research and Development Division which during 1978–1980 funded projects in seven UK library schools based on the use of the HP2645A . |
| 3 | In this respect , at least , little has altered since the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | If the lunar curves in Figure 6.9 can roughly be applied to Mercury then crater erasure took place before about 4000 Ma ago , and most of the present craters , which may also have given rise to the smooth plains , were in place by about 3000 Ma ago , and little has happened on the Mercurian surface since except for the effects of tidal slow-down and interior shrinkage . |
| 5 | Each has contributed to the massive genetic erosion of the food chain . |
| 6 | The aim of the project is to document and interpret the complex relationship between gender roles , family structures and marriage ceremonial and the ways each has changed in the twentieth century . |
| 7 | It is precisely that type of distortion — misleading and alarming people — that has led to the public reaction . |
| 8 | It was only recently a town that offered waged work for women , though much of that has disappeared in the past few years , and it was never a town that invited black workers . |
| 9 | All that has changed in the past year . |
| 10 | We have about a ninety , ninety five percent , I think , qualified staff , and that has improved over the last eight years from |
| 11 | This became known as the retail price index ( RPI ) plus K factor , where K varied for different water authorities between 3 per cent and 7 per cent . |
| 12 | The increasing switch to populist methods , and the threats to public order and the political anti-semitism with which this became associated in the public mind , meant that Mosley 's movement went increasingly beyond the pale . |
| 13 | This has contributed to the widening gap between ‘ haves ’ and ‘ have-nots ’ recorded in recent times , which some would argue undermines social cohesion and ultimately impoverishes the quality of life for everyone in society . |
| 14 | This has contributed to the widespread adoption and acceptance of Swahili . |
| 15 | An unusual opportunity to do this has arisen from the Social Change and Economic Life Initiative , which has gathered information in precisely this form . |
| 16 | This has led to the current move towards networked organisations . |
| 17 | In some cases this has led to the complete break up of production lines into autonomous circuits , each operated by teams of employees using their skills on a shared or flexible basis . |
| 18 | This has led to the legitimate graphic device of breaking the further line as it passes behind the near line . |
| 19 | The gradual perception of this has gone with the still more necessary shift by which people have at last gradually begun to realise that human welfare too converges very considerably with both these things . |
| 20 | This has moved into the DIRECT — a doctor who is using one of the machines is involved . |
| 21 | In the 1950s there were certainly many state bodies which could trace their history and internal structure back over generations but much of this has disappeared into the subsequent maelstrom of administrative change . |
| 22 | We have just noted how local politics in Britain has recently become more diversified , but , as Chapter 4 pointed out , this has happened at the same time as political power has become increasingly centralized . |
| 23 | This has happened to the many theorists who thought they had a simple explanation for the confusion of thought which led to the surrender of judgment metaphor . |
| 24 | Over recent years the literature on this has focused on the late Victorian period as the source of the problem [ Coleman , 1973 ; Weiner , 1981 ] . |
| 25 | So far , this has concentrated on the visible areas of Council service delivery — refuse collection , parks , buses and similar front-line services . |
| 26 | This has resulted in the gradual piling up of the Himalayas . |
| 27 | This has paid for the first phase of development and is entirely owned by a group of Japanese businesspeople plus Francis Charig , formerly head of trading systems business at the London Stock Exchange , who acts as managing director and the link between TK and Tao Systems . |
| 28 | This has paid for the first phase of development and is entirely owned by a group of Japanese businesspeople plus Francis Charig , formerly head of trading systems business at the London Stock Exchange , who acts as managing director and the link between TK and Tao Systems . |
| 29 | He joined the Scholars ' Movement in 1907 , was arrested , and some say imprisoned on the notorious island of Pulo Condor , where political prisoners were exiled . |
| 30 | It appears to be quite selective as to which fish it invades , some becoming covered in the mutated cells into which the virus has incorporated its own genetic material , others escaping . |