Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [vb pp] in [art] [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 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 .
3 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 .
4 All that has changed in the past year .
5 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 .
6 This has resulted in a temporary drop in the average weight of fish , as the trout population increases , and St John 's trout now average approximately 10oz .
7 This has resulted in a general failure on the part of local education authorities to plan for the promotion of community languages across all phases of the education system .
8 This has resulted in a coherent and satisfying structure , with groups of works treating the same subjects from different decades juxtaposed to great effect — the sequence of fifteen landscapes , for example , is particularly impressive .
9 This has resulted in a great deal of mutual education , and most would not want to worship together any more regularly than that !
10 This has resulted in a growing need for a more detailed and more formalised information system .
11 This has resulted in a less than euphoric response from staff across the spectrum .
12 This has resulted in a clear message from our customers that travelling with P&O is simply the best . ’
13 This has resulted in the gradual piling up of the Himalayas .
14 This has resulted in an increased need to have accurate localised information , both quantitative and qualitative .
15 This has resulted in an interesting array of old and new , of ancient craftsmanship and modern technology — some of it now available to you .
16 This has resulted in an immense backlog .
17 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 .
18 This had begun in the late thirteenth century , and the edicts were falling thick and fast under Philip the Fair in the early fourteenth century .
19 This had led in a good deal of theology and piety to a concentration of attention on a vaguely unitarian ‘ God ’ , loosely identified with the Father , and to increasing difficulties in connecting that up in any coherent way with either the Trinity or the incarnation .
20 By the end of October this had resulted in a 20 per cent devaluation of the lempira against the US dollar , to which it had been tied at a fixed exchange rate since October 1989 .
21 There has been a substantial cutback in the direct labour scheme operated by the Housing Executive ( NIHE ) ; this had resulted in an increased usage of contract firms .
22 This had originated in a Cossack military formation which withdrew from Russia to Yugoslavia at the end of the Russian Civil War in 1920 .
23 The pressure of higher salaries , labour shortages and office rents was by 1989 causing more government departments to think of moving sections of work to the North , as some had done in the 1960s and 1970s .
24 The transportation of useful plants from one part of the world to another had begun in the eighteenth century , and we saw in the previous chapter how Kew Gardens became the hub of the British empire 's efforts to replace indigenous species with imported ones of greater commercial value .
25 By way of postscript to these observations , some have discerned in the latest Soviet systems a greater introduction of new technology than is normally the pattern : a reflection , perhaps , of greater design confidence , but just as possibly the expression of worry about the pace of technological change in the present decade .
26 Not too much has appeared in the public prints on the conference , but Reuter reporters Russell Blinch and Judith Crosson have been on the spot taking it all down ; this page is compiled from their reports .
27 Much has changed in the European energy picture over the past decade and much will change over the next two , yet one central preoccupation persists and will persist , and that is Europe 's dependence on imported oil .
28 ‘ Too much has happened in the last year , ’ he said , ‘ and too much change around a candidate is not wise . ’
29 Any model struck by a cannon ball takes a strength 10 hit resolved in the normal manner .
30 Any model struck by a cannon ball takes a strength 10 hit resolved in the normal manner .
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