Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Excitement fades to disillusionment , and so another piece of technology goes to gather dust on a storeroom shelf . |
| 2 | The commitment to maintain or increase expenditure on arms , agriculture and energy has drained investment from the manufacturing base on which all of these priorities depend . |
| 3 | Placed in the top four universities in terms of financial support from the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) , Bristol has received funding from the UFC this year to support the second largest increases in student numbers in the country — some 17% . |
| 4 | change the status of the problem report to ‘ ACCEPT ’ to indicate that he has received notification of the problem |
| 5 | This form of diligence can be used as soon as the warrant has been obtained from the court and before the debtor has received notification of the action against him by service of the court papers . |
| 6 | The Gloucester and England rugby player Mike Teague has received compensation from the Rugby Football Union for the injuries he sustained during the World Cup . |
| 7 | Difficulties over timing are normally resolved by the respective lawyers giving appropriate undertakings , particularly if the chargee will not release the charge until it has received part of the sale proceeds . |
| 8 | SINEAD O'CONNOR has received support from a group which tore up photos of the Pope outside New York 's St Patrick 's Cathedral . |
| 9 | In addition to national research council funding for individual country participation , the EUROCOMP comparative project has received support from the Council of Europe , the European Science Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation . |
| 10 | It has received evidence from the teachers ' associations , the employers and the Department of Education and Science , and has listened to the representations of all those bodies . |
| 11 | It is only when the husband , by meeting the liabilities which his wife has incurred ( whether for necessaries or not ) to a particular tradesman , has ‘ held her out ’ as his agent , that the tradesman is entitled to hold the husband liable until he has received notice to the contrary . |
| 12 | Thomas died in December , but it is only in the last few days that Scotland Yard has received information from the FBI about why he was killed . |
| 13 | The British Technology Group has developed Laserfix to the prototype stage , but will not say how much it cost . |
| 14 | There is a strong familial component to this type of diabetes and perhaps ideally the primary medical care service should provide an annual postprandial blood glucose test for those over 40 years with a first-degree relative who has developed diabetes before the age of 65 years . |
| 15 | This might happen because the writer is tired , because he or she wants to get the writing over and done with ; but the fundamental reason seems to be that the writer has broken contact with the feeling that originally made him or her want to write the story or poem . |
| 16 | The complexity of the concept of outcome has discourages research into the impact of the care experience on the child . |
| 17 | Kubota has stopped production of the Mips Technologies Inc R3000-based Titan 1.0 machines which it inherited from its now defunct Stardent Inc sibling . |
| 18 | The World Health Organization has recognized alcoholism as a disease since 1951 , and the American Medical Association for nearly as long , but in a recent court case the US Government argued that alcoholism results from excessive drinking ‘ chosen freely ’ . |
| 19 | To avoid disease activation , we add tamoxifen on the basis that it has proven efficacy in the treatment of breast cancer in premenopausal women . |
| 20 | All work undertaken by solicitors and suitably qualified Fellows of the Institute of Legal Executives arising out of any act of negligence , breach of contract and/or breach of statutory duty as a result of which the victim has sustained injury in the course of medical care . |
| 21 | According to the influential El Pais newspaper , Real 's president Ramon Mendoza has rebuked Toshack on a number of counts and is already seeking a replacement for the Welshman hired only last summer on a £1 million contract . |
| 22 | The jury at the James murder trial has heard evidence from a Home Office pathologist about the injuries that led to James 's death . |
| 23 | The House of Lords EC subcommittee on the environment has heard evidence from the CBI , the Chemical Industries Association ( CIA ) , HM Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) and the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) , as well as Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) . |
| 24 | Finally our research has examined experience across the Atlantic . |
| 25 | In Britain , for example , since the late 1960s policing , rather like the National Health Service , has fallen prey to the belief in the ‘ technological fix ’ . |
| 26 | In addition almost every page has painted decoration in the text , with brightly coloured birds , animals , faces and figures often entwined into the capital letters at the beginning of the lines . |
| 27 | The trend has provoked outrage in the US where this week Mark Chapman , the man who gunned down John Lennon , is touting his autobiography . |
| 28 | Because of Joan 's willingness and experience , she has undertaken work in a ward for those who are suffering acute mental conditions . |
| 29 | Alison Petch has undertaken research in a range of social policy areas , in both local authority and university settings . |
| 30 | Today infertility is seen as a problem for the couple and andrology has joined gynaecology as a discipline in scientific medicine . |