Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the upshot , relatively little has happened in the field in response to Haycocks III .
2 ‘ I am well aware that criticism is levelled at the MEP by classroom teachers who argue that too little has penetrated to the level of the teacher from the programme , ’ said Roger Conibear , director of the programme 's unit in the West Midlands .
3 Little has changed over the centuries , the main difference being the changing shape of the woodlands surrounding the Park and the village .
4 Little has changed at the components level , Grove said .
5 And today , little has changed at the farm that featured in the original film ; Mead Farm in Barford St John in north Oxfordshire .
6 Since that time , little has changed on the battlefield ; with a plentiful supply of Chinese arms and money , and bases in Thailand from which to operate , the Khmer Rouge was strong enough to resist the Vietnamese , But when Vietnam pulled out last year , the stalemate was broken ; Britain and the United States who 'd been backing other less murderous guerrilla factions , began to tire of the war and withdrew their support .
7 Little has changed since the days of the Egyptians .
8 Lydia asks me to pass her thanks to everyone who has contributed so generously to the campaign and says that while little has changed in the way of living conditions for the prisoners and their families , the campaigners are confident of their victory .
9 Our growing appetite for the sweet and sticky has contributed to the R and K Wise success story .
10 It is important for the parties to realize that the conciliation officer will tell the other side what each has said about the claim .
11 Indeed , the value of those interests may depend to a large degree upon the obligations that each has assumed in the lease .
12 It is critical that the two teams know what each has designed around the interface zone , for the project to be a success .
13 However , if Courier wins , it 'll be decided on how many sets each has dropped during the competition .
14 And now here I am in the morning admitting that every one of the 34 days Madeleine has been alive has seemed like a birthday .
15 That has led to a suggestion with far-reaching consequences .
16 Speculation is surrounding the future of Brazil 's Angra-1 nuclear plant , following an unexplained accident in March that has led to the reactor 's indefinite closure .
17 Just think of what that has done to the system there and to all the other applicants who have been seeking help from a Department that tries to ensure that people are given the awards to which they are entitled .
18 I assume that the Minister is aware that 750,000 tonnes of CFCs are used in the world every year and that that has resulted in an ozone layer hole as large as Alaska .
19 And that has resulted in the restriction of the annulus width of the greenbelt .
20 It is exactly the equality before the law , which Ms Pith-Helmet invests with so much trust , that has betrayed blacks and Asians in the courts , in their treatment at the hands of vicious and prejudiced police ( that has resulted in the death of 10 blacks at the hands of police during the course of arrest and interrogation in the last 15 years ) , that allows black and Asian homes to be terrorised by racist thugs who can sprinkle liberally their British hospitality in the form of firebombs , beatings , excrement dumped on doors , and children bullied to the point of suicide and madness .
21 in large measure the character of the lanes erm or or the importance of the lanes is in their their pattern , their alignment , and the impact that that has had on the distribution of buildings and spaces along them .
22 That has come from the family . ’
23 The question is whether that has changed since the statement in the House of Commons of Mr. Leon Brittan Q.C .
24 However , with semen import restrictions off and markets opened up , that has changed with a vengeance .
25 All that has changed over the centuries is that the monarch used to be the substantial head of the government and it is , indeed , still the case that , legally , much central government executive authority continues to reside in the monarch .
26 Firstly to our Current Master Fellow , , who gave me my initial tuition in embalming , but more than that has acted as a mentor throughout my career , for that I am forever grateful .
27 In Sweden the native ( albeit primitive ) Swedish Polled has dropped from a quarter of a million milking cows in the 1950s to perhaps 2,500 today , pushed out by imported Friesians and by the amalgamated Swedish Red-and-White , while the national dairy herd as a whole has dropped from 1.6 million cows in 1950 to about 576,000 in the 1980s , though the average milk yield per cow has doubled .
28 Section 123(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 provides that a company is deemed unable to pay its debts if a creditor ( by assignment or otherwise ) to whom the company is indebted in a sum exceeding £750 then due has served on the company , by leaving it at the company 's registered office , a written demand ( in the prescribed form ) requiring the company to pay the sum so due and the company has for three weeks thereafter neglected to pay the sum or to secure or compound for it to the reasonable satisfaction of the creditor .
29 We have worked our way directly to a fair , simple and durable solution while Labour has wandered around the highways and byways throwing up and discarding enough nutty ideas to revive the Monty Python show .
30 It is possible that this has contributed to the risk of the glider zooming too high just after take off .
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