Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many salespeople believe that the most efficient routing plan involves driving out to the furthest customer and , then zig-zagging back to home base . |
| 2 | The Terminator game , which costs £40 , has jumped straight into the Top Ten best-selling list . |
| 3 | In Latin America a second wave of nationalism , which may be regarded as a continuation of the national independence struggles against the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the early nineteenth century , has developed vigorously in the present century in opposition to American economic dominance , and has been connected more or less closely with socialist and reforming movements directed against the internal domination of these societies by an upper class composed of landowners , and more recently , of elements of a national bourgeoisie . |
| 4 | Alan Hingston , Executive Director of IDB 's Marketing Development Division , said : ‘ Scandinavia has long been one of IDB 's target regions and business for Northern Ireland companies has developed steadily over the past decade . |
| 5 | The role of users within the mental health system has developed rapidly over the past 10 years . |
| 6 | Clearly , this process has developed considerably during the late twentieth century . |
| 7 | There is no doubt that the industry has developed sufficiently in the past decade for an MBO or similar venture capital-financed transaction always to be on the vendor 's agenda if a disposal is being contemplated . |
| 8 | Corgi is trying a new approach and has broken away from the single figure on the cover , giving this one an old master oil painting reproduction which makes it more sophisticated . |
| 9 | Can the party really survive much more of the rancour that has broken out in the past few days over Labour 's tax policy ? |
| 10 | In Brossa 's opinion , the transaction processing monitor market has matured considerably over the last eight years . |
| 11 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 12 | If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time . |
| 13 | the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to . |
| 14 | This determines the level of the water in the cistern so it needs to go back to the same notch |
| 15 | However , the coastline has altered drastically in the last 10,000 years . |
| 16 | The island of Puerto Rico has altered substantially in the last 40 years . |
| 17 | Japan has taught much to the Western business world . |
| 18 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
| 19 | As Britain 's largest electricity maker , NatPower has to shop around for the cheapest fuel available . |
| 20 | The detection rate is well down and has fallen steadily in the past four years — the detection rate for burglary in dwellings is now less than 20 per cent . |
| 21 | I am pleased to say that unemployment in all these areas has fallen dramatically in the last 12 months-by 21 per cent . |
| 22 | In effect , the purchasing power of members in Britain has fallen dramatically in the past number of years . |
| 23 | Air pollution is still a major cause , he said : " Exposure to sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxides has fallen dramatically in the past decade , but forest ecosystems react only gradually . " |
| 24 | Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s . |
| 25 | Local government spending has fallen significantly since the middle 1970s both as a proportion of state spending and of national income . |
| 26 | You and your horsemen will be facing four times your numbers by the time the foot-army from Leven has joined up with the eleven hundred from the ships . |
| 27 | But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’ |
| 28 | However , while these dollar values are better than dinar values for the years up to 1983 , they are still not satisfactory , both for the reason given above and because the real value of the dollar has fluctuated considerably during the past ten years . |
| 29 | WordPerfect has given up on the Wild West theme in favour of giving away peagreen baseball hats . |
| 30 | If the patient can not use the lexical procedure to read , say , pint , and so has to fall back upon the non-lexical procedure , a reading error will result : pint will be read with a short i ( as in mint ) . |