Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rising unemployment in the countryside has cancelled out the economic gains of the early-1980s reforms . |
| 2 | During his search for parts he has built up a colossal spares stock , but as the type has been used by so many air forces around the world and is still in service in places , components are not difficult to obtain — although they can be pricey . |
| 3 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |
| 4 | The agent has to fill in the financial returns has to send in a report of financial expenditure . |
| 5 | At a rather general level , the analysis has borne out the earlier lessons . |
| 6 | Since the Bingham Report it has set up a special investigations unit and improved staff training . |
| 7 | In Wales the WRFU has set up an international players ' trust fund . |
| 8 | Bennett has set out the supposed pros and cons in the annual report . |
| 9 | Day Two of the International Trials at Blenheim has brought in the big names … but has n't brought a change in the lead … |
| 10 | IBM STARTS HANDING OUT THE PINK SLIPS IN KINGSTON |
| 11 | The Department of Trade and Industry has ruled out an official Companies Act investigation of the flotation , in which the ashes of up to half a million share certificates were discovered in a skip in South London and tens of thousands of other documents were botched . |
| 12 | In recent years , Cavagna in Milan has worked out the detailed mechanics of the process , using force plates and high-speed film to capture the instantaneous braking and acceleration of the lower limbs during a stride . |
| 13 | In his day he has taken on the big guns of industry , commercialised culture and of whole countries ( who can easily forget his devastating portrait of Mrs Thatcher and the fawning Saatchi brothers ? ) . |
| 14 | Once again , the counter-revolution has taken over the key concepts of this approach and turned them on their head . |
| 15 | ‘ He has taken up the priestly tasks of his father , ’ she says . |
| 16 | There are clinics attached to all the university and large municipal hospitals , but the government has shut down the local clinics because they deny that there is any problem . |
| 17 | While it was the Today newspaper that focused national attention on the fact that the Princess did not have to travel half way round the world to find clean water , it is the aptly-named CoastGuard that has kept up the high standards of cleanliness for royalty and commoners alike . |
| 18 | No.9 Johansson scrags his opposite number while his opposite number while Ahlgren , Sweden 's wild and woolly warrior , looks to cut down the Taiwanese options in his side 's 20–12 Sicily Trophy quarter-final defeat . |
| 19 | Working in conjunction with the British Mountaineering Council and the Ramblers ' Association , COLA plans to set up the British Uplands Footpath Trust . |
| 20 | In the immediate vicinity of the vent , ashes and lapilli pile up to form a mantle many metres thick , which blankets the countryside like a dirty snow fall ; like a snow fall too , the ash tends to smooth out the earlier irregularities of the ground surface , ultimately producing a landscape of soft , gently moulded hillocks and hollows . |
| 21 | The water hyacinth grows in profusion and tends to choke up the local rivers . |
| 22 | They 'll be the first things to go as he struggles to pay off a mounting damages and legal costs bill of £2.5m . |
| 23 | The next stage entailed methodically working through the species lists to check out the unfamiliar plants and look up if ( on distribution maps ) , where ( specific localities and when ( flowering seasons ) , they might be found . |
| 24 | This helps to tone down the bodily reactions to mental stress , and can therefore moderate a symptom such as diarrhoea , even though the primary cause of that diarrhoea is a reaction to food . |
| 25 | The second consideration is that batching implies holding up the first enquiries to be received . |
| 26 | When she when she does get up a few octaves , I cringe . |
| 27 | He takes over from Jenny Goddard who has held the post since 1989 , and who leaves to set up a new careers service at the College of Law . |
| 28 | The search for such solutions fails to draw out the full implications of the criticisms of the traditional method of legitimating corporate managerial power . |
| 29 | Okay , so she 's gone down a few orifices in her time , but if anyone calls her a hookworm I 'll burst their intestines . |
| 30 | And while th they 're down there , can they put a co re-bend that cornerstone , we used to have a cornerstone , it 's got pushed into the dike , and it 's gone down a few yards |