Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Transport Act 1980 has attempted to encourage private operators to enter passenger transport under the philosophy that more competition will lead to better services . |
| 2 | Samwell was a gentleman architect of considerable accomplishment , whose achievement has been undervalued , although John Aubrey [ q.v. ] considered him ‘ an excellent architect , that has built severall delicate howses ’ . |
| 3 | The Children 's Act emphasises we have to do what is best for the child , and that has tended to mean more children are taken into care or placed in foster care , ’ he added . |
| 4 | Variable analysis is an inferential structure , a form of methodological reasoning , that has come to dominate social research . |
| 5 | This has helped to unite deaf people and provides a common experience as well as common linguistic structure on which to draw . |
| 6 | This has tended to reinforce dominant assumptions that employment is of lesser importance to young women because they will only get married and have children later and consequently that young women were of lesser importance to the sociologist . |
| 7 | This has tended to replace previous strategies such as " Imagine you were " Documents can offer stimulus and provide the sort of concrete detail and differentiation which are necessary for a successful exercise on empathy . |
| 8 | Membership of the European Community since 1973 has helped attract foreign companies in droves , while better management of a virtually strike-free economy has transformed its performance in the past few years . |
| 9 | The valiant work of the late Robin Best has failed to dispel popular images , yet his figures showed that the annual average transfer of agricultural land to urban land use in England and Wales was only 9,300 hectares between 1975 and 1980 ( compared with 17,500 between 1945 and 1950 , and 25,100 between 1931 and 1939 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Steady on mate , ’ he shouted , ‘ that 's got to last all day , and there 's only a gallon in that jar . ’ |
| 11 | Fremont , California-based Independence Technologies Inc has announced iView Fast Track , its Unix-based software for tracking hardware-software and administration problems : the software supports Open Look and the Open Software Foundation 's Motif graphical user interfaces and runs Oracle , Informix or Sybase relational databases ; available on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparcstations it sells for $5,500 . |
| 12 | Fremont , California-based Independence Technologies Inc has announced iView Fast Track , its Unix-based software for tracking hardware/software and administration problems . |