Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This approach emphasises that abuse is rare simply because the idea of a fiduciary relationship ( a relationship where there is a special duty of trust and care ) , and the consequent fiduciary law that has developed to protect this sort of relationship , would neither have evolved nor survived until today . |
| 2 | As a result the company has stopped accepting fresh landings of scallops |
| 3 | A meeting of the Chinese State Council has voted to impose severe measures on those who destroy wildlife . |
| 4 | And the team Allan Border is leading there are missionaries again of a sort : cricket on the island lives hand-to-mouth , and political upheaval has repelled touring international sides for five years . |
| 5 | Strangely , in writing off pop programmes as a lost cause , British TV seems to have ignored the example of MTV , which has come to define that genre across much of the world . |
| 6 | The problem is that just like the ‘ moral treatments ’ of the nineteenth century , normalization has come to mean different things to different people , and professionals who have espoused the concept of ‘ normalization ’ often proselytize their views with a religious fervour which , though often motivating to fellow staff , can be alienating to those who are unfamiliar with the concept . |
| 7 | And I affirm that the time has come to express this truth in the life of the Church , and that is not going to go away . |
| 8 | I affirm that the time has come to express this truth in the life of the Church . |
| 9 | A woman will say something like , ‘ Oh look , he 's got a cute butt ’ and some geek standing next to her , sensing that his chance has come to make serious waves in the world of sexual politics , will whine , ‘ You would n't like that if I said that about a girl . ’ |
| 10 | Since that time HIV has come to dominate gay life in this country . |
| 11 | ‘ While in times past a royal wife would be expected simply to put up with a situation no matter how desperate , the Princess of Wales belongs to a generation that has come to expect greater things from life and certainly from relationships , ’ she wrote . |
| 12 | ‘ Boots has considered withdrawing these products for some time , ’ the spokesman added . |
| 13 | ‘ In ten years TAFOS has grown to comprise eight workshops in small communities across Peru , ’ said Mr Müller . |
| 14 | SunSoft vice president of sales and marketing Bill Larson has moved to become vice president of SunSolutions , the Sun Tech unit responsible for groupware like Show Me . |
| 15 | THE Taoiseach , Albert Reynolds , has threatened to take disciplinary action against Fianna Fail backbenchers who criticise his Northern Ireland policy . |
| 16 | THE Wine and Spirit Association has threatened to take formal complaints of environmental health officers ( EHOs ) ‘ deemed to have abused their authority ’ to Government level . |
| 17 | China has fiercely opposed the introduction of democracy to Hong Kong , and has threatened to reverse any moves in that direction made by Britain before 1997 . |
| 18 | The EC has threatened to impose economic sanctions on any Yugoslav republic that rejects its proposal , which calls for the break-up of Yugoslavia in its current form . |
| 19 | Ursprung told a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Foundation for Science and Technology in London that the Swiss federal government has decided to reverse 17 years of neglect and give basic science a hefty financial boost . |
| 20 | FOLLOWING the completion of his assignment to co-ordinate the integration of Johnson Brothers into the Wedgwood Group management structure , managing director Robert Johnson , has decided to take early retirement from the Company . |
| 21 | For your future reference , the committee has decided to hold this meeting on the last Monday of April of each year . |
| 22 | The company has decided to remove editorial responsibilities from the deputy editor , Mr Richard Lambert , so that he can tackle the RSI outbreak . |
| 23 | During the Jubilee Year the University has decided to inject some resources into the association to develop it into a larger and more effective body , to enable graduates to keep in touch with the University and each other . |
| 24 | I put him on notice that we shall ask him what he has done to provide extra resources to the prison service . |
| 25 | This ‘ social constructionism ’ can in turn be linked to that whole shift in critical thinking which has sought to undermine any credibility in the unified subject as a source of meaning , and most crucial here has been the contribution of psychoanalysis . |
| 26 | The research has sought to gather comprehensive information on financial support to firms in the study area over the period 1974-84 . |
| 27 | In the last decade there have been strike calls from county conferences in the more militant areas like Norfolk , Essex and Yorkshire , but the union 's Executive Committee , which has the sole right to order strike action , has sought to maintain centralized control over any militant activity . |
| 28 | But they argue that since the leadership of President Carter the United States has sought to circumvent these constraints on formal alliances through the looser concept of ‘ strategic understandings ’ with key Third World states ( see below ) . |
| 29 | The Lake District Planning Board has sought to limit new houses to local people , but this attempt was overturned by the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 30 | The MTFS has remained a controversial strategy throughout the 1980s as it has sought to establish simple rules for the links between monetary aggregates ( such as M3 and M0 ) , interest rates and inflation . |