Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dispute arises because poaching and habitat destruction has vastly reduced elephant herds in central and eastern Africa , but wildlife management further south has meant rising populations , which are regularly culled to raise foreign exchange . |
| 2 | Formed in 1981 to produce educational radio drama programmes with participation from local communities , the centre has since developed training schemes for the Quechua-speaking population ( see Action April/May 1992 , page 3 ) . |
| 3 | Yesterday Cameron Mackintosh , who as producer has successfully taken Les Mis around the globe , described the moment the musical 's Manchester premier came to a grinding and inglorious halt . |
| 4 | ‘ What has predominantly improved race relations in this country over the last 25 years has been the firm , fair immigration controls we have sustained throughout that period . |
| 5 | In practical terms , the gates and fence probably have little advantage over the waist-high barrier and high-profile police presence which has effectively sealed Downing Street from the public for eight years . |
| 6 | ‘ Pain in the housing market should finally kill off the British obsession with housing which has so distorted resource allocation in the last 25 years . |
| 7 | The problem is that the company has only limited ISDN capacity at the moment because of the way that it is implemented at telephone exchanges . |
| 8 | On the other hand Mrs Thatcher has jealously maintained tax reliefs for homeownership and private pensions ( indeed , extended them for private health care for the over-60s ) and privatization of gas and telephones have done little to increase competition . |
| 9 | It has just invited audience sponsorship for this season 's revival of the Shostakovich opera Lady Macbeth of Mtensk . |
| 10 | Hi-Tec has just received BABT approval for its EC-2400 modem quad modem , which also offers V22bis and MNP up to Class 5 . |
| 11 | Property : The man who defies the market Tom Rowland meets the bullish City financier who has just bought Crosby Hall in Chelsea |
| 12 | The National Trust has just purchased Slieve Donard in the Mourne Mountains which , at 2,746 feet , is the highest mountain in Northern Ireland and one of the most famous landmarks in the province . |
| 13 | This is particularly the case when a child has already developed guilt feelings around its own sexuality or sexual matters in general , or where the sexual atmosphere in family or community is repressive or easily shocked . |
| 14 | The long-running row has already cost BA £610,000 in damages and £1 million costs . |
| 15 | The row has already cost BA £610,000 in damages and £1 million in costs . |
| 16 | The West German ship-design consultant , Schiffko , has already completed design studies for a number of different options . |
| 17 | He will see that a number of general practitioner practices have become fundholders , that a local NHS trust has already reduced waiting lists by 1,200 in the last year , and that a district authority is about to merge with a neighbour to give itself more clout . |
| 18 | John Gummer , the fisheries minister , has already angered fishermen south of the Border by stating that the British delegation will not back the demands of English catchers for an all-out ban on imports . |
| 19 | More cost effective than any of its existing competitors , the A321 , with up to 36 more seats , is the perfect complement to the A320 which has already set sales records in the 150 seat category . |
| 20 | The Bombay-based Larsen and Toubro ( L&T ) , which has already exported software services to a number of countries , is negotiating with European countries for the supply of software engineering . |
| 21 | Stung by growing criticism of the Royal Family , she has already started palace talks with her solicitors over ending her tax-free status , according to reports . |
| 22 | This is the net dividend yield because the firm has already paid corporation tax on its earnings . |
| 23 | Gonzalez-Palacios has totally transformed furniture studies in Italy since he came to live in that country . |
| 24 | AIR in Delhi has always attracted radio people from all over the world . |
| 25 | From ribbon roses and tapestries to a triptych , Rosemary has always had craft projects of one sort or another on the go but her interest in the world in miniature was re-kindled when her brother , mindful of the dolls-house she had lost years earlier , bought her a one-twelfth reproduction Georgian eight-roomed ‘ des . |
| 26 | Then , they 'd never read their chart books , otherwise they 'd have known that the blues has always provided record companies with a regular and often low-cost source of income . |
| 27 | By being clearly against an unpopular figure , Mrs Thatcher has usually rallied public opinion to her side . |
| 28 | ‘ Recommodification ’ or privatisation in many fields of collective consumption ( such as , for example , public sector housing provision ) has clearly proved state intervention to be not ‘ necessary ’ for successful capital accumulation . |
| 29 | ( Xu has willingly dropped monosodium glutamate after learning of its decreasing popularity here , admitting that it occasionally ‘ covered a multitude of sins ’ . ) |
| 30 | Once poison has temporarily reduced rat populations to almost zero , predation by barn owls can slow the recovery . |