Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one who contemplates the brutal war that has racked Croatia over the last few months can do so without a deep feeling of sorrow and shame : sorrow that such devastation and misery should disfigure our continent in 1991 , and shame that we have been unable to do anything to halt the carnage and destruction . |
| 2 | It is clear from this brief appraisal that prevention through genetic counselling has limited value for the first born , but is an important consideration for parents who have had a mentally affected child or at least conceived one . |
| 3 | The period of authoritarian rule has given way during the last decade or so to a democratic system that is still consolidating itself . |
| 4 | But in an attempt to dilute a revolt , Taylor has cancelled plans for a fourth match against Canada . |
| 5 | it is this ‘ discreditation ’ of the object which has dominated art for the last half century — it all goes back to Monet ! |
| 6 | It then bores on in this vein until our hero — Bjorn Borg , unmistakably — has won Weembledon for the fifth time consecutively . |
| 7 | ( Note that " recreolisation " can also mean the development of a new Creole language from an existing one which has undergone pidginisation for a second time . |
| 8 | Bill Filip , president of the Advanced Workstation Division says RS/6000 business has grown 50% in the first half of this year over the corresponding period last year , putting it right on course to achieve its target , he believes . |
| 9 | Hart ( 1983 , p. 51 ) has drawn attention to a second important difference : Beccaria , he says , has ‘ a respect for the individual person ’ that is lacking in Bentham : |
| 10 | With OEM deals already struck at Hewlett-Packard Co and Silicon Graphics Inc , Natick , Massachusetts-based Atria Software Inc , developer of ClearCase , a Unix software configuration management system which began shipping last month , has raised $4.1m in a second round of venture funding : two of the firms , Marix Partners and Sigma Partners were original investors in Atria back in 1990 , they 're joined by Highland Capital Partners and Morgenthaler Ventures . |
| 11 | I do not think that there is much for us to be proud about in the fact that the Prime Minister has relegated Britain to a second division of countries that can survive only by having low pay because they have low skills . |
| 12 | The springtime air over the Arctic region has become cleaner in the last decade as a result of anti-pollution measures introduced in Europe , North America and the former Soviet Union , researchers have discovered . |
| 13 | But in fact what takes place this April could well mark the beginning of a whole new era or cycle for you , as once the Sun has entered Taurus on the 20th you will come to realise that what others are determined to acquire has no place in your long-term scheme . |
| 14 | All this has caused alarm in the third world , particularly among its autocrats . |
| 15 | His family has ruled Morocco since the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | The upsurge of interest in tachistoscopic laterality research which has taken place during the last two decades or so can be traced in part to the split-brain investigations and in part to an experiment conducted by Mishkin and Forgays ( 1952 ) . |
| 17 | A powerful surge in handheld games consoles has taken place during the last year . |
| 18 | According to Tory thinking , a successful economic miracle has taken place over the last six years . |
| 19 | The really significant change in divorce , in terms of both law and behaviour , has taken place in the twentieth century ; and as Stone devotes only forty of his 422 pages to a consideration of the period after 1857 , he essentially precludes an answer to the question he poses , namely , why divorce has become as common as taxes and death . |
| 20 | THE final day 's filming of the new David Hare movie , The Secret Rapture , starring Juliet Stevenson , Geraldine Wilton and Joanne Whalley-Kilmer , has taken place in the 18th century drawing room of one of Britain 's oldest publishing houses , John Murray . |
| 21 | ( 3 ) The merger has taken place within the last six months ( unless it has taken place in secret ) . |
| 22 | The European Council has taken note of the first report from the relevant committee on the implementation of the European plan to combat drugs . |
| 23 | The new display group has started rehearsals for the 30th Anniversary but already we need to start planning for 1983 ! |
| 24 | Lotus Development Corp says it has started development on the next generation Unix version of Lotus 1–2-3 for DEC 's Alpha workstations . |
| 25 | Maxton saw the Agreement as " the answer of the three most politically conscious and informed workers Parties in the country to a very widespread demand for unity that has been felt by every working class spokesman who has faced audiences during the last two years " . |
| 26 | Good as its word , Advanced Micro Devices Inc yesterday announced that it has begun shipments of the first members of its Am486 microprocessor family with 33MHz , 40MHz and clock-doubled 50MHz versions , all of them full clones of the Intel Corp 80486 with maths co-processor on board . |
| 27 | Anyone who has read SMALLHOLDER over the last few years will know I love the Autumn . |
| 28 | That is why we feel justified in saying that Realism has held sway for the last forty years . |
| 29 | Nynex Corp 's Nynex CableComms unit has bought three of the eight UK cable television companies that Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's PacTel Cable UK Ltd put on the market last June ( CI No 1,943 ) : Nynex has taken the Greater Manchester , Bolton and Derby franchises and while it did not disclose terms , says it plans to invest £1,000m over the next five to six years to provide local telecommunications networks in its British franchise areas ; the companies it acquired are in franchise areas where it already operates . |
| 30 | In Europe it plans to invest $350m over the next five years and create 650 jobs to launch the speech and data services , which will offer common features and performance standards globally , and will be offered to European multinationals in 1994 . |