Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resultant design has leaned towards a course more heavily weighted towards interviewing skills . |
| 2 | ‘ The injury has come at a time when I would love to be looking forward to making my home debut against Forest . |
| 3 | The joint Royal College of Nursing and Nursing Standard survey has come at a time when Essex Rivers Healthcare is trying to save £2.2 million to cope with an overspend of £1.3 million last year , waiting lists are at a record high and the closure date of a Colchester hospital has been set . |
| 4 | By the stage we define broadly as intermediate , learners are some way towards developing control of the language they are learning : their store of language has grown to a point where they can adapt , adjust and add to it with some facility ; they can transfer language use from one context to another ; they are building up more complex networks of language and the work we do in the classroom at this level is similarly more complex and less controlled . |
| 5 | Sustained growth sounds unconvincing in the mouth of the Government because , in the past few years , Britain has grown at a rate well below trend growth and below the OECD average , managing a paltry 0.75 per cent . |
| 6 | When Radio Compass has moved to a position where it is twice the original bearing , stop timing and note the interval . |
| 7 | So , if you are intercepting your track at an angle of 30° , you will wait until your RC has moved to a point where it is displaced 30° from the RC 0° to 030° or 330° . |
| 8 | 6 Track is intercepted when RC has moved to a point where it is displaced from 0° ( station ahead ) or 180° ( station astern ) the same number of degrees as the interception angle . |
| 9 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |
| 10 | Something no-one has done in a balloon before . |
| 11 | ‘ It has got to a stage where I am not looking ahead to what might happen in a few weeks or a few months . |
| 12 | It is clear that a swing has occurred to a position where the greatest proportion of maintenance effort is now spent at the problem/solution identification stage . |
| 13 | The revival of takeover speculation — there is little doubt that European and Japanese buyers lurk — has occurred at a time when the merchant bankers , after a long period in the doldrums , are enjoying a rerating on trading considerations . |
| 14 | It has occurred at a time when expenditure on the CAP is again almost out of control and increasing all the time . |
| 15 | The European Community [ EC ] has embarked on a path inexorably leading to the eventual replacement of member countries ' currencies with a single European currency . |
| 16 | Indeed the pace of expansion has slowed to a crawl everywhere , even though much of that expansion in the past has been financed by franchising . |
| 17 | Composed variously of opus sectile ( marbles in a variety of geometric shapes ) , opus alexendrinum ( large slabs of precious oriental marbles ) and opus tessellatum ( pictorial designs made from tesserae , like mosaic ) , over the centuries the pavement has buckled into a surface far from level and has suffered from atmospheric pollution as well as wear and tear of daily use . |
| 18 | Indeed this emphasis has persisted into a period where , in the new media , large-scale organizations are in fact available for analysis . |
| 19 | Another delightful , old form in which the calyx has mutated into a flower so that one flower sits inside another . |
| 20 | This has led to a position where politically opposed groups are united by their view of race exclusively in terms of culture and identity rather than politics and history . |
| 21 | Although there is no single cause for this , there is little doubt that our centralised system of mass food production , in particular of animal protein , has led to a situation where quantity has overridden quality , not just in terms of flavour and nutritional value , but also hygiene and human safety . |
| 22 | A mild winter has led to a drop off in sales of salt to local authorities and there has also been a reduction in the market for potash in Britain as a result of the uncertain future in farming . |
| 23 | I 've told Pepe to put a notice up that Miguelito has gone for a holiday abroad . ’ |
| 24 | For Christian silence on the subject , combined with our nineteenth-century medical heritage , has resulted in a culture where menstruation is to be treated as a problem or ignored altogether . |
| 25 | The fact of union , coupled with its repeated reaffirmation , has resulted in a position where only a blind man could assume that the power of the Westminster Parliament to sever it was so well established in general acquiescence that none would deny the propriety of its exercise . |
| 26 | The Italian influence on British cooking has resulted in a shift away from traditional classical sauces and stocks towards an emphasis on ‘ something exquisitely fresh , with the least amount of modification in the process of preparation ’ , to quote from an old Tuscan cookery book . |
| 27 | Mr Milburn says this has happened at a time when unemployment in the constituency is going up . |
| 28 | A country once dependent on agriculture , as not only a means of income but a way of life , has evolved into a society almost totally structured around urban industry . |
| 29 | Nothing in the metal 's fundamentals has changed since a month ago , when the price languished at a seven-year low of $126 an ounce . |
| 30 | I did say that their attitude has changed from a generation ago and I think they are doing more at home than men did a generation ago . |