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

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1 The Committee on Safety of Medicines ( personal communication ) has received only a single report of visual disorder associated with chlorambucil — namely , corneal opacity — and the manufacturers ( Wellcome ) have only a single report of optic neuritis , occurring on day 1 of chlorambucil treatment and not resolving on withdrawal .
2 She has received quite an unpleasant shock . ’
3 Chris Robinson 's vocal has developed just the right pitch to keep you straining to hear his every word , the kind of kick-ass , hell-for-leather growl that sounds great and is heightened by the honey sweet gospelly chorus of backing singers Barbara Richardson and Taj .
4 The 1988 Education Reform Act and earlier legislation has altered entirely the political context in which history teaching operates .
5 And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way .
6 Over the years Beverley has taught nearly a hundred people how to make monoclonal antibodies in their laboratories .
7 Underlying all the problems is the urge to exploit , which has poisoned both the cultural ethos and the natural environment .
8 Neal Zaslaw has pointed out a semantic correspondence to this : in German usage , the difference between ‘ old-fashioned church practices ’ and opera/concert practice ( dual-system ) was manifest in the two words tactieren ( literally , ‘ giving the tactus ’ ) and dirigieren .
9 Using traditional measures of religiosity , he has pointed out the apparent failure of English catholic schools to produce better catholics and fewer ex-catholics than state or other schools , and has inferred the likelihood of the same for Irish schools .
10 In particular , it has lobbied both the British Parliament and the European institutions with demands to break up the brewing monopolies and to restore greater choice to pub users .
11 A coroner 's court has heard how a fifteen year old anti-hunt demonstrator was crushed to death by a horsebox .
12 An inquest has heard how a fifteen year old girl died in a fall from her horse — even though she was wearing a recommended safety helmet .
13 If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing .
14 Associated American Artists has gathered together a representative group of this work in a show called ‘ Rufino Tamayo — seventeen years at the Mixografia workshop ’ .
15 ICL has filled out the top end of its DRS 6000 range with new multiprocessing models 780 and 782 in the 700 series .
16 Rita has given up the daily struggle to clear the family 's only dining table of the piles of skirts to be hemmed , the cottons , machine , and bags .
17 Christopher Taylor has given perhaps the best example of this in a study of settlements in the Nene Valley .
18 Mirroring Sun Microsystems Inc 's efforts in this area ( UX No 386 ) Hewlett-Packard Co has rolled out a new range of ISDN connectivity enabling standalone workstations to communicate over public or private ISDN networks .
19 A woman who found £40 on a bank floor has won a three-year battle to have it donated to a baby unit — and the bank has stumped up an extra £10 .
20 Historically , what has come to be known as the Third World has attracted only a tiny proportion of all the foreign investment that has taken place , while the economies of many poor countries , and even some rich ones , are commonly said to be dominated by foreign capital and/or foreign firms .
21 Rising unemployment in the countryside has cancelled out the economic gains of the early-1980s reforms .
22 Garin Jenkins has sorted out the front row and the Webster-Reynolds-Stuart Davies back row can live with any in the leagues .
23 Meanwhile , Tadpole has picked up a second firm , Isometrics , to peddle the Sparcbook to the US government , and says a second strategy to make it easier for US government bodies to buy its technology will be revealed in a couple of weeks ( UX No 381 ) .
24 Tadpole US has picked up a new president , Kenneth Cannizzaro , previously the firm 's director of business development : he 's responsible for operations and market expansion in the Americas and the Pacific Rim .
25 The BBC has picked up a similar trend .
26 Michael Roberts has picked up a two-week ban in South Africa for the second time this winter .
27 Keith Campbell , from north Belfast , has picked up a top award from computer firm Digital after coming first in the BTEC National Diploma in a computer studies course at Belfast Institute School of Informatics .
28 He has come back a wiser player and he will add drive to the team . ’
29 He has carried on the good work this term and is well on the way to establishing himself in the top 10 with 16 wins in the current campaign .
30 It has carried out a five-year study which it says shows no significant increase in radiation is reaching the earth 's surface .
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