Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] [vb -s] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 But it must be remembered that the process of evolving acceptable accounting standards has taken many years .
2 The existence of these foreign exchange deposits has created some unusual problems for the Yugoslav banking system , which will be considered further below .
3 The areas involved are small , but there used to be many unsightly corners in the mining villages near St Austell and , by making improvements here and there , English China Clays has done much to make life more pleasant for local residents .
4 The threat of Iraqi terrorist attacks has prompted some elaborate security precautions .
5 Merchants believe there is a psychological barrier at £3 , and although the wild swing in European exchange rates has pushed many French and German wines out of this bracket , most New World economies are suffering as much as if not more than ours , leading to a continued supply of cheap , good quality wine .
6 The workload is considered such that not even the appointment of a number of additional limited case judges has made much of a dent in it .
7 The experience of storing and distributing the 1991 Census datasets has taught some valuable lessons , which will be useful if data from future Censuses is released on a similar basis .
8 A SPATE of new fixed-rate mortgage schemes has appeared this weekend .
9 An unsigned act which is being chased by half a dozen record companies does have some leverage in negotiations , but only as much as the levels of supply and demand will allow .
10 The analysis for Developmental Sentence Types involves classifying each utterance in respect of number of words and grammatical category .
11 The number of mental stress claims has increased more than tenfold over the past decade .
12 The concept of excluded investment activities serves to remove some of the uncertainty in respect of industrial and commercial companies which may be involved in investment activities but whose mainstream business is not in the financial services sector .
13 The relationship between the Hague Convention and the other methods of obtaining evidence abroad provided for in the United States Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and comparable State rules has occupied much judicial time .
14 Having three genuine lineout specialists has made all the difference , not to mention Derek Turnbull and , in the Irish match , Alan Watt .
15 This kind of research about the treatment and academic performance of girls in mixed sex schools has led some feminists to argue in favour of single-sex schooling .
16 Similarly Ian Lewis argues that research on female science pupils has found that
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