Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Daley of Waste Management International has pointed out in a lecture to Britain 's Royal Academy of Engineering that landfills , at the present rate of waste generation in Europe , use about two square metres of land per person per century . |
| 2 | The third point which has come out in a number erm of comments , certainly from the C P R E is the issue of overshoots in the approved structure plan in respect to Greater York , and as we made clear in paragraph eight of our er erm position statement , we accept that there has been in numeric terms in the period eighty one to ninety two something like fifteen percent overshoot in terms of completions er in that period . |
| 3 | The new generation has grown up in a continuation of that climate , one of falsity and evasion . |
| 4 | I 've got one friend who has written down in a diary every person he 's ever re arrested , I do n't do that , I just , I , I ca n't be bothered to write it all down . |
| 5 | One major theme , already mentioned in the previous chapter , is the search for co-ordination , a search that has figured prominently in a number of urban programmes . |
| 6 | Often this has resulted either in a loss of heart by both choirs and organists , leading to the demise of choral singing and organ-playing , or in these services being no longer required . |
| 7 | ‘ Pool 's increasing size has resulted only in a proliferation of these strange sub-routines . |
| 8 | What has happened previously in a lot of educational research is that large samples have been taken . |
| 9 | What has happened previously in a lot of educational research is that large samples have been taken . |
| 10 | The world has changed completely in a matter of just six months for the engaging Rhodes . |
| 11 | but left open the question whether there is any difference under section 87 if the successor has resided for 12 months with the deceased tenant in two or more council houses or has resided partly in a council house and partly in private sector accommodation : [ 1987 ] 1 W.L.R. 1433 , 1441H . |
| 12 | Well , when sedimentary material at a continental margin gets pulled down in a subduction zone at a plate , fusion could take place as the pressure increased . |
| 13 | Instead of walking to school as we always used to do in the olden days , even if it was a three mile journey , nearly every child of today gets taken there in a car . |
| 14 | We 've still got the Children Act coming through , I know that may appear a bit odd , but that Act was in fact in nineteen eighty nine , but it 's come through in a sense on an incremental basis , and it 's accepted by the Department of Health and er , the S S I , that indeed , and the Audit Commission , that there are elements in the present settlement for the Children Act . |
| 15 | Jenny 's come back in a couple of minutes . |
| 16 | She says oh she says I 've left it in sports hall , it 's locked up in a locker |