Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly , the two interrelated movements — the democratic movement and the labour movement which developed so vigorously in the nineteenth century continue to have a major influence in politics , but the relation between them has changed during the present century , in a way which is also relevant to the character of more recent movements . |
| 2 | Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly . |
| 3 | That underrated favourite of Martin Scorsese , Harvey Keitel , appears in Reservoir Dogs , a tense thriller about a diamond heist that goes badly wrong because someone has grassed on the top thieves . |
| 4 | ‘ She called just now to say someone has collapsed outside the medical centre . ’ |
| 5 | In the last five years , however , many of these centres , though still offering a two-year part-time programme leading to a Certificate in Education ( FE ) , have become part of the provision which has stemmed from the 1975 Haycocks Report , whose recommendations we examine in detail below . |
| 6 | Attention has also focused on British merger policy which has operated in a self-regulatory framework , rather than a statutory one . |
| 7 | The TCCB , bless them , have tried with all their splintered might to redress a short-changing of the public by players in knockout competitions which has bordered on the fraudulent , and only came to a head following the Benson & hedges Cup final at Lord 's last year , and the Oval semi-final of the Nat West Trophy a month later . |
| 8 | That is bound to affect employment , as shown by the number of business failures , which has risen in the past 12 months by 14,000 , and the number of mortgage repossessions , which has topped the 100,000 mark . |
| 9 | Will the Prime Minister come out of his ivory tower across the road , put his photo calls on hold and face up to his responsibility for the past 13 years of Government mismanagement , which has culminated in the worst economic crisis since the 1930s ? |
| 10 | Although it 's a problem which has existed for a long , long time , do you do any work in connection with refugees ? |
| 11 | But surely in an economically and culturally disparate country such as Italy , which has existed as a single entity for little more than a century , a north-south break-up would be the best thing to promote accountability , reduce bureaucracy and eliminate waste . |
| 12 | Even while the various rugby groups in South Africa are heading for unification , the New Zealand Rugby Football Union still can not quite make up its mind how quickly it should bridge the gap which has existed since the tumultuous Springbok tour of New Zealand in 1981 . |
| 13 | There are no plans to end the maximum part-time option , which has existed since the early days of the NHS . |
| 14 | The forthcoming work will aim to remove the layer of dirt which has accumulated over the last thirty years not surprisingly , since the church is located in one of the most polluted parts of Florence . |
| 15 | Also new is the requirement that a private company which has elected under the substituted section 252 to dispense with the laying of accounts before a general meeting or , under section 366A , to dispense with the holding of annual general meetings , must so state in the return . |
| 16 | This is a movement which has grown in the only way that alliances can , from the bottom up ; it is not merely a discussion group , but a real movement engaged in real debate . |
| 17 | ‘ A company which has grown in the past two or three years may have been unable to move to larger premises , partly because it has been unable to pass on its present lease . |
| 18 | He belongs to the General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) , which has quarrelled with the Socialist Party . |
| 19 | Q : Are we going to be able to regain the business which has declined in the Japanese market ? |
| 20 | The first regards the essential task of co-ordination between subjects and between levels and it was the Institute at Dar es Salaam which first developed a structure which has served as a useful model elsewhere . |
| 21 | Also the junction between the uncorroded metal and the applied patina is very sharp , whereas a patina which has developed over a long period of time will have eaten into the metal in a very irregular and quite characteristic manner that is very difficult to imitate . |
| 22 | The Barcelona festival is the most enjoyable , experimental stop on what Gibson jokingly calls the ‘ virtual rubber chicken circuit ’ , a global network of theoretical conferences , trade fairs and arty think tanks which has developed over the last two years to tap the millennial fascination with virtual reality . |
| 23 | All this has , of course , been made possible both by technological revolutions in transport and communication and by the lengthy period of free movements of the factors of production over a vast area of the globe which has developed since the second world war . |
| 24 | This happens when tension , which has developed in the rectal wall , impedes further radial expansion . |
| 25 | It 's a story which has danced across the back pages of our newspapers for weeks . |
| 26 | A similar lane design is apparent in the short section of curving roadway which has survived at the Minoan village of Tylissos , just to the west of House C ( Figure 13 and Plate 13 ) . |
| 27 | Even conceding that the drugs trade generates large flows of cash , the idea that the Mafia is a single , stable organisation which has survived for the past 50 years largely intact is plainly wrong . |
| 28 | If there had been no political factor in the equation , it is unlikely that Profumo would have been ruined in the way he was and tortured for years by a newspaper interest which has survived until the present day . |
| 29 | The third view of the company is one which has prevailed in the academic literature rather more forcefully than in company law doctrine itself . |
| 30 | Reference to training inevitably raises questions about the role of the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) which has emerged as the major institutional vehicle for government schemes to cope with unemployment . |