Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Citizens ' Committees outraged by the scale of corruption that has emerged during the last week , have continued their crusade against state , party and security institutions . |
| 2 | Citizens ' Committees outraged by the scale of corruption that has emerged during the last week , have continued their crusade against state , party and security institutions . |
| 3 | Citizens ' Committees outraged by the scale of corruption that has emerged during the last week , have continued their crusade against state , party and security institutions . |
| 4 | If the files are on computer then the printout should indicate the time that has elapsed since the last time entry on the file . |
| 5 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 6 | ‘ With everything that has happened over the last couple of years , I just want to stand back a bit and have a couple of weeks to think about it ’ , he said , before later confirming his desire to lead a new-look Scotland in 1992 . |
| 7 | And it is true that , I mean , well , you know , I 've spent a lot of time reviving typefaces that are not around , I mean , you know , propping them up , creating a waxed edition , sort of Madam Tussauds version of Lucien or something , but it 's very interesting — there is not , in type development terms , there is n't a whole lot that has happened after the Second World War that really turns me on . |
| 8 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 9 | Hence was born the catalogue of NME -only releases that has stretched over the last 20 years . |
| 10 | He lacked the confidence that has come in the last three or four years to make decisions and stick to them . |
| 11 | It was swollen with the heavy rain that had fallen during the last few days , and it looked fierce and dark . |
| 12 | Mr Prescott , who was given a rousing reception after his election to Labour 's national executive earlier this week , condemned Paul Channon , the former Secretary of State for Transport , for refusing to accept that government policies had played a part in the series of transport disasters that had occured over the last two years . |
| 13 | The second and stronger tendency is a conservative nationalism that views the communist era as a Soviet-imposed interruption of a national democratic tradition that had flourished before the second world war . |
| 14 | In these circumstances , many of the different philosophical perspectives that had flourished in the nineteenth century were able to update themselves and remain viable in the new age of professional specialization . |
| 15 | In the silence of his shelter he was finally letting the true sorrow he felt for all that had happened in the last months come into him , and he was beginning to grieve . |
| 16 | She was wearing a halter dress the colour of flame that had wilted in the first hour . |
| 17 | My husband was going out to Qatar , that pear drop of moonscape pitted with rich oases and edged with ancient trading posts , the Emirate that had refused at the last moment to join Sheikh Zayed 's dream of unity . |
| 18 | Standards have gone up consistently over the six years of the league and , although still dominated by a new wave of running clubs that have burgeoned over the last decade , more and more of the traditional athletics clubs have been paying more attention to the competition . |
| 19 | This chapter is relatively succinct and goes little further than identifying the major ideas concerning classification theory that have emerged during the twentieth century and before , and indicating their applications . |
| 20 | Bryan Wilson ( 1970 ) has contributed some very useful sub-divisions of the sect category and various sociologists have tried to classify the new religions that have emerged during the second half of the present century in an attempt to find some order in the enormous variety of beliefs , practices and organisations that are manifested in these movements ( eg Beckford , 1985 ; Wallis , 1983 ) . |
| 21 | It lets you back up ( and restore ) whole disks or selected files and/or directories — including the option to back up only files that have modified since the last run . |
| 22 | Unlike the somewhat parochial hip hop magazines that have proliferated during the last few years , Vibe 's vibe ( assessed through a preview issue , which may be misleading ) aims for a mixed appeal . |
| 23 | Its peculiar feature is that the main raw material , pig bristle , is bought from a monopoly supplier , China , and it is imports of Chinese paint brushes that have quadrupled within the last three years . |
| 24 | More practical is a back-up scheme that saves individual files , backing up only those that have changed since the last run . |
| 25 | These conclusions are reinforced by Curve B , which represents the frequency and length of conflicts that have occurred since the Second World War . |
| 26 | After all , this hundred young women have all benefited from the open , healthy , society that 's developed over the last few decades , or have they ? |
| 27 | This is the kind of thing that we really ought to be addressing because this actually addresses the safety of people in this county , not only the safety of people , this addresses the safety of property as well and there 's no disagreement about the fact that this enormous development that 's happened over the last few years in an area where you 've got a regular traffic snarl-ups mean that you have got a potential disaster there on your hands and we 're jolly lucky we have n't any more serious incidents than we 've had already and so I can see no reason why these two mo these two amendments should n't both happily be accepted though I 'm very cynical about the number of times we 've spent the airport money already and sooner or later we 've obviously got to actually seriously address that but the important thing is that we do all take it seriously and it seems that we all do now take it seriously . |
| 28 | And if I may Mr chairman , something that 's happened in the last few days , that 's er evident that er the been the first satellite survey in this country ever which is now beginning to show to the nation , just in fact the damage that roads have been doing and that there 's in fact now some suggestion from government that they may be rethinking some elements of these roads , because the environmental impact has not really been taken into account as effectively before . |
| 29 | They are , they 're guesses , they 're using the current mean of three hundred and fifty one , erm , and then tilting that according to the seasonality er that 's shown over the last five years . |
| 30 | because it 's come out a lot in this discussion that is there 's a big gap between the biological , biological and medical knowledge that 's accrued in the last ten or fifteen years , and the actual social consequences of these developments and there has n't been enough discussion and consideration of what will happen . |