Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Terminator game , which costs £40 , has jumped straight into the Top Ten best-selling list .
2 In Latin America a second wave of nationalism , which may be regarded as a continuation of the national independence struggles against the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the early nineteenth century , has developed vigorously in the present century in opposition to American economic dominance , and has been connected more or less closely with socialist and reforming movements directed against the internal domination of these societies by an upper class composed of landowners , and more recently , of elements of a national bourgeoisie .
3 Alan Hingston , Executive Director of IDB 's Marketing Development Division , said : ‘ Scandinavia has long been one of IDB 's target regions and business for Northern Ireland companies has developed steadily over the past decade .
4 The role of users within the mental health system has developed rapidly over the past 10 years .
5 Clearly , this process has developed considerably during the late twentieth century .
6 There is no doubt that the industry has developed sufficiently in the past decade for an MBO or similar venture capital-financed transaction always to be on the vendor 's agenda if a disposal is being contemplated .
7 This belief in ‘ independence ’ is well entrenched in the West and it has developed out of a general mistrust of centralized political power and of power that had historically not tolerated the free expression of dissenting views .
8 Corgi is trying a new approach and has broken away from the single figure on the cover , giving this one an old master oil painting reproduction which makes it more sophisticated .
9 Can the party really survive much more of the rancour that has broken out in the past few days over Labour 's tax policy ?
10 In Brossa 's opinion , the transaction processing monitor market has matured considerably over the last eight years .
11 However , the coastline has altered drastically in the last 10,000 years .
12 The island of Puerto Rico has altered substantially in the last 40 years .
13 Japan has taught much to the Western business world .
14 In fact , as Stephen Gallup has pointed out in a recent history of the festival , Karajan was the last surviving link with the traditions of the festival 's founding fathers .
15 As Jonathan Zeitlin has pointed out in a similar context , there are ways in which the product of an industry can affect the margin of manoeuvre of both employer and trade union .
16 Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next .
17 The detection rate is well down and has fallen steadily in the past four years — the detection rate for burglary in dwellings is now less than 20 per cent .
18 I am pleased to say that unemployment in all these areas has fallen dramatically in the last 12 months-by 21 per cent .
19 In effect , the purchasing power of members in Britain has fallen dramatically in the past number of years .
20 Air pollution is still a major cause , he said : " Exposure to sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxides has fallen dramatically in the past decade , but forest ecosystems react only gradually . "
21 Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s .
22 Local government spending has fallen significantly since the middle 1970s both as a proportion of state spending and of national income .
23 The industrial north of Italy , in turn , has depended heavily on a reserve army of the unemployed from the south — the more backward Mezzogiorno — and now increasingly from North Africa .
24 You and your horsemen will be facing four times your numbers by the time the foot-army from Leven has joined up with the eleven hundred from the ships .
25 However , while these dollar values are better than dinar values for the years up to 1983 , they are still not satisfactory , both for the reason given above and because the real value of the dollar has fluctuated considerably during the past ten years .
26 WordPerfect has given up on the Wild West theme in favour of giving away peagreen baseball hats .
27 Sadly , since 1979 , and in spite of national and international protest , much of the land we loved has vanished forever beneath an ever-increasing canopy of foreign conifers .
28 The School has responded positively to the technological demands of the new Standard Grade courses and has installed in the Department ten ‘ Applemac ’ computers adding to the not inconsiderable quantity of equipment already there .
29 Each step command is issued only when the motor has responded satisfactorily to the previous command and so there is no possibility of the motor losing synchronism .
30 Even so , the number of people moving through particular age groups has varied substantially over the past two or three decades .
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