Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps also in certain textbooks the systems approach has become adopted in outline as a prelude to conventional content without requiring any fundamental adjustment in the content of the physical geography textbooks . |
| 2 | Sales Express , a firm of computerized auctioneers , has experienced unparalleled growth of late as the marketplace has become flooded with goods from companies that have gone into receivership . |
| 3 | This has become known as Rachmanism after the exploits of an infamous landlord in the 1950s , following the 1957 Rent Act , which attempted to de-control private rented accommodation . |
| 4 | The terminology of this debate has become dominated by concepts from the world of business and commerce : senior management teams , line management , clients and customers , service delivery , product marketing and so on . |
| 5 | Therefore the presence of antibodies to HIV means that the person has become infected with HIV at some time in the past . |
| 6 | The new consciousness takes note that our society has become over-balanced in favour of the so-called masculine qualities of character . |
| 7 | The flounder has become adapted to bottom-living to a quite extraordinary degree . |
| 8 | ‘ The survey demonstrates that the debate over membership of the ERM has become clouded by issues of personalities and politics . |
| 9 | ‘ Nigel 's style includes getting caught with punches in order to land punches . |
| 10 | Jones appears to have lived in Oxford throughout her life . |
| 11 | The very idea of the ‘ comprador bourgeoisie , ’ central to the dependency approach , appears to have fallen into disuse in recent years and there have been various attempts to reconceptualize what it refers to . |
| 12 | The City 's ability to keep a secret appears to have improved beyond measure over the past two years . |
| 13 | Organized stealing also appears to have continued in parts of Siyane Korale in Colombo district , along the borders between Kurunagala and the North-Central Province , and between Kurunagala and Kagalla . |
| 14 | Now , the idea for the curtained cab appears to have come to Flaubert as a result of his own eccentric conduct in Paris when anxious to avoid running into Louise Colet . |
| 15 | Since his 1990 debut , The Unbelievable Truth , he appears to have slipped from obscurity to security without ever becoming popular . |
| 16 | Generally speaking the sin-offering seems to have referred to offences against God , and the guilt-offering to social offences . |
| 17 | The row over fibre glass figures adourning buildings seems to have moved from Oxford to Birmingham . |
| 18 | In the climate of violence generated by the Federation neither his union , nor any other established with a similar purpose , seems to have remained in operation for more than two or three years . |
| 19 | Ho seems to have remained in Kunming until 1945 where he cultivated the OSS , portraying himself as a Communist who was above all a nationalist . |
| 20 | The similarities to modern Ulster vernacular are very striking to anyone who knows Ulster vernacular : lowering of /Ε/; seems to have applied in polysyllables in EModE ( as in BV ) , and there seems to have been a flip-flop , as the lowering of /Ε/; applies in environments where raising of /a/ also applies — again as in Belfast . |
| 21 | From Karaman Molla Fenari seems to have gone to Egypt for further study , especially under Shaykh Akmal al-Din ( d. 786/1384–5 ) . |
| 22 | Cable & Wireless Plc 's Mercury Communications Ltd seems to have run into trouble with its trial of personal numbering announced last August : at that stage it was saying that trials of the technology — which would enable subscribers to use any phone to inform the network of their whereabouts — would begin in the autumn of last year . |
| 23 | This mechanism seems to have arisen in parallel in these plants . |
| 24 | The term ‘ New Criticism ’ seems to have come into circulation with the publication in 1941 of a book of that title by the American poet and critic John Crowe Ransom . |
| 25 | Before the end of August he was turning north again leaving affairs in Aquitaine to be looked after by Duke Warin and by Egfrid , whom Charles seems to have installed as count of Toulouse shortly before . |
| 26 | The conservatism of Pask , the chief engineer , seems to have derived from pressure from his ex-CEB colleagues in operations , who stressed the need for absolute reliability in new machines . |
| 27 | ( ii ) the solicitor , as the employee of a non-solicitor , does work permitted by virtue of Rule 4 of these rules . |