Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within 40 years , that figure has shot up to almost 80 million tonnes . |
| 2 | Much relevant research has gone on since then , but it seems to have made very little impact upon the public debate about the ageing of British society . |
| 3 | In the US , where the government is the only major backer , research has limped along at about half a million dollars a year . |
| 4 | Work has come in from all over the UK , and even the charity Farm Africa uses the Hoy facility . |
| 5 | This separation has gone on for far too long . |
| 6 | From a longer-term perspective , it can be said that the number of transactions per day has shown no tendency to increase since the mid-1970s ; there was a surge in total number of transactions during 1987 and 1988 due to a large number of deals between the newly established market makers but both transactions on behalf of customers and intra-market business has fallen back since then . |
| 7 | Since Chapter 10 was written , the American political scientist Robert Axelrod ( working partly in collaboration with W. D. Hamilton , whose name has cropped up on so many pages of this book ) , has taken the idea of reciprocal altruism on in exciting new directions . |
| 8 | Since then , however , their predicted share has slipped back to around 13-15 per cent . |
| 9 | During the past six months , hardly a week has gone by without yet another whisper about a sale from Saatchi 's collection . |
| 10 | How can we safely cross into West Germany — assuming the alert has gone out by then ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ No doubt word has gone round by now that I could n't get through to him or to Mona on the telephone . |
| 12 | Tranmere 's form has picked up of late … they could pose a real threat tomorrow … |
| 13 | Once a project has settled down into reasonably routine operation , it is useful to examine the pattern of achieved costs and benefits in the light of what was initial predictions . |
| 14 | The receiver has gone in at only the parent company , and Sharp yesterday made it clear that seven of its 15 operating subsidiaries were going concerns . |
| 15 | The book has come out in remarkably quick time , a great tribute to Ian Robertson , the editor , who must have beavered away ferociously . |
| 16 | The number of students who have entered chartered accountancy training contracts since the start of the 1992/93 academic year has fallen back to around 1982 levels , according to the Institute . |
| 17 | This saga has gone on for quite some time . |
| 18 | Item twelve , which is paper K , er , the order has tumbled down in too many free meetings , which right , business links , otherwise known as the one stop shop . |
| 19 | Now an appeal has gone out for more than 100 of the former workers to lodge applications for payment , no matter the circumstances of their claim . |
| 20 | Criticism of the empress has developed along at least three different lines . |
| 21 | The sniping in the orchard has cased off since yesterday , the constant whine of a bullet passing through the trees is not so noticeable . |