Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The imager was selected from six finalists of the 1991 competition and has gone through a two-year production stage to prove its commercial viability . |
| 32 | It leaves less to the discretion of the court and has decided on a maximum sentence of just five years . |
| 33 | The poll tax has wasted £14 billion of taxpayers ' money , led to cuts in services and jobs , caused great hardship for thousands of people , and has led to a general breakdown in law and order . |
| 34 | A high-performance clothing system , Vent-A-Layer , was successfully introduced to the market , and has led to a whole series of further product introductions during 1993 . |
| 35 | Our expertise is recognised by boat builders and owners and has led to a constant flow of prestigious projects for yachts from the yards of Camper & Nicholson , Valdettaro , Oyster , Palmer Johnson and Jankel Schooners . |
| 36 | idea , which earned him £5,800 was for the more efficient use of pumps which supply cooling water in the E22 centrifuge plant and has led to a significant saving in energy costs . |
| 37 | But 50-year-old Thaw has gone to extreme lengths to keep his location secret and has turned into a virtual recluse . |
| 38 | Mr. Wharton is a founding partner of the multi-national High Point plc consultancy organisation , and has moved into a non-executive role as Deputy Chairman of the group in order to devote more time to his Presidential activities . |
| 39 | It seems clear that what has happened here is that Johnson has forgotten about the problem of finding ways of making meaning plain and has shifted to a different lexicographical problem , namely how to provide an exhaustive definition of words so that their entire meaning is made explicit . |
| 40 | It now does increasing volumes of trade with its ASEAN ( Association of South East Asian Nations ) neighbours ( Indonesia , Malaysia , Thailand and Brunei ) and has diversified into a wider range of industries . |
| 41 | BDO Binder Hamlyn ( phone 071–489 9000 ) has recently expanded its investment management service and has embarked on a joint venture with Matheson Investment managers to give a broader base and access to greater research and expertise . |
| 42 | He has worked in shops , factories and stores , and has trained in engraving and drycleaning , and has worked as a medical assistant . |
| 43 | Reception of the investigators was particularly friendly and has resulted in a great deal of data which is currently being processed . |
| 44 | As hoped , the monograph sample produced a very high hit-rate ( 91% ) , and has resulted in a low unit price for electronic records . |
| 45 | Clarins totally unique approach to tanning reconciles sun with youthful-looking skin and has resulted in a complete range of Multi-Protection Tanning Treatments with plant extracts . |
| 46 | We have had a good year with minor upsets , such as a cataract operation for me which was no trouble at all , and has resulted in a dramatic improvement in my eyesight . |
| 47 | He had his father 's black hair , a strong sun-tan , and seemed filled with a manic energy ; ready and eager to enjoy both Wavebreaker and our company . |
| 48 | Hobhouse was educated at Eton ( 1875–9 ) and Christ Church , Oxford , and seemed destined for a military career , attending the Royal Military College , Sandhurst . |
| 49 | In a similar manner , if cells of the sponge ( the bath sponge is the skeleton laid down by the sponge ) are separated into a random mixture of individual cells they will actively move around and become reorganized into a normal sponge , with the cells in the correct relationship with one another . |
| 50 | The transverse flute was an instrument Jacques knew and heard performed from a young age by players such as Pierre Pièche , the first to hold the position of solo flute at the Academie Royale de Musique . |
| 51 | Here we will recover over one million tonnes of coal , partially by washing , and get rid of a major eyesore left by deep mining . |
| 52 | Away you go and get turned into a human being . |
| 53 | Of course , nationalism is not all simple illusion , for real material differences do exist and have existed for a long time between different countries . |
| 54 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
| 55 | Always toast and dripping followed by a good hot dish . |
| 56 | The gravest problems , however , were in Greece where British troops had restored a Royalist government in 1944 and become embroiled in a civil war with a Communist guerrilla movement . |
| 57 | It had obviously taken the wrong channel and become wedged on a rising shelf of rock strata which traversed the trough about fifty yards before it reached the lake surrounding the breakwater . |
| 58 | She has recently started a new job and feels attracted to a senior female colleague who is rumoured to be gay . |
| 59 | Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross . |
| 60 | You know , I had to go and and get trained in a separate |