Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the past few months have seen quite a number of problems for European unity , one area that remains firmly fixed is the demolition of trade barriers in 1993 . |
| 2 | The past 30 years have witnessed both an escalation of the arms race between NATO and the Warsaw Pact and a proliferating membership of the nuclear weapons club . |
| 3 | The last few years have seen quite a shake up in the leasing market . |
| 4 | First , a return to viewing the landscape in totality , rather than the sum of its component parts , and second , a much greater emphasis on the preferences of the general public , rather than professional people , even though some studies have shown quite a good correlation between the two ( Preece , 1980 ) . |
| 5 | not , not very easily because there 's different things apply to different courses like some things have got quite a lot of sort of documentation and handout materials some things |
| 6 | However , the vexed CFTC issue is resolved — and the AFBD last week was the lucky recipient of yet another draft solution from the commission — the traumas of the past six months have posed again the question of the association 's independence . |
| 7 | By mastering production technology of mainframes and their microelectronic building blocks , the Japanese vendors have changed both the structure and style of the global computing business . |
| 8 | Such actions have played absolutely no part in the proceedings to date . |
| 9 | It is true that Hannah 's work on occupational pension schemes suggests that large companies may have managed the retirement process in order to control their internal labour markets , but for most of the century such schemes have covered only a minority of workers . |
| 10 | Seven of the previous eight labour-contract renegotiations have involved either a players ' strike or a lockout . |
| 11 | These views have influenced both the type of data sociologists have collected and the methods they have employed to collect the data . |
| 12 | In the shadow of that history there is all the more to appreciate about the way progressive movements in our time have turned things around , and begun positively to identify the difference of the other : ‘ the emphasis on discontinuity , the celebration of difference and heterogeneity , and the assertion of plurality as opposed to reductive unities — these ideas have animated almost an entire generation of literary and cultural critics ’ ( Mohanty , ‘ Us and Them ’ , 56 — 7 ) . |
| 13 | If the previous stages have gone well the actual task of writing may now be relatively painless . |
| 14 | These champions need to enjoy both a senior position and the respect of colleagues outside their own profession . |
| 15 | Undergraduate on these courses expect to spend about a year pursuing their chosen discipline in a university elsewhere in Europe . |
| 16 | These factors have affected profoundly the composition of families — quite literally , what relatives people actually have — and hence they form the essential building blocks from which family support is constructed . |
| 17 | From the direct comparison of housework with factory work we move to an aspect of work which many studies agree has possibly the strongest influence on a worker 's satisfaction . |
| 18 | If those patients start to go elsewhere the hospital will loose funding . |
| 19 | In attempting to weight the relative importance of these individual variables some observers , despite the countervailing evidence , would maintain that on a world-wide basis economic forces have had only a limited influence in shaping bargaining structures ( Beaumont et al . , |
| 20 | Of course , the historical analogy is not a completely valid one , for history only concerns the interactions within a single species during a few thousand years , in connection with which geological and climatological changes have played only a minor role ( as in the extinction of Carthage and of the Viking settlements in Greenland ) . |
| 21 | Conservative Members have had only a fraction of the time in this debate . |
| 22 | When the two groups do work together the outcome is better . |
| 23 | Asked whether the new rules have influenced either the amount or type of advertising undertaken , 56 per cent of those responding said that it had not and 11 per cent said that it had exercised only a very marginal effect . |
| 24 | Recent studies have examined separately the influence of H pylori and age on both gastric function and histology but the complex inter-relationship between H pylori infection , gastric morphology , gastric secretory function , and ageing have not been well defined . |
| 25 | In an effort to salvage the protocol , other delegates have put together a counterproposal requiring any country that decided to mine under the terms the US proposed to withdraw from the entire environmental protocol and not just the mining clause . |
| 26 | As for where to stay , the English Tourist Board 's new schemes make choosing just the right place for you far more simple and reliable . |
| 27 | At the start you need very fine control over the board to enable you to manoeuvre into position whilst all the other competitors try to do exactly the same . |
| 28 | In reality , most attorneys have made almost no preparation for this phase and do not really understand it . |