Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [verb] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FAMILY records in Scotland dating back to the early 1800s have played an important role in an international effort to learn more about an inherited form of breast and ovarian cancer . |
| 2 | Mr McKiernan believes that the economic climate of the early 1990s has placed a new emphasis upon the value of credit information . |
| 3 | Most people who use an analogue mobile phone have at some time been unhappy with the call quality , and an unfortunate few have experienced the unpleasant side effects of deliberate or accidental ‘ eavesdropping ’ . |
| 4 | Taiwan 's policy since late 1987 had involved the gradual easing of restrictions on contacts with the mainland . |
| 5 | The late 1980s have witnessed a virtual revolution in the range and quality of learning materials produced for nurses of every clinical specialism and professional interest . |
| 6 | The grip of the brewing giants is still powerful ; the late 1980s has seen a worrying return to takeovers and mergers and the intensification of lager promotion . |
| 7 | Capital spending is rigorously controlled , and in general this has permitted a cautious approach to the adoption and dissemination of new expensive technologies ( Stocking 1988 ) . |
| 8 | But the rise of a centre party since the mid 1970s has created an intolerable situation . |
| 9 | By November 1934 the conciliatory attitude of the Communist International had caused the Labour and Socialist International to modify its earlier warning against entering into United Front agreements with national Communist Parties . |
| 10 | Lucid Inc has begun a major push into the European market with its Energize C++ programming environment for object-oriented development ( UX No 366 ) . |
| 11 | In a show of unity rarer than a dodo sighting , the US Big Six have issued a joint statement of position in an attempt to focus attention on the ‘ epidemic of litigation ’ that is beginning to threaten the very existence of many American firms . |
| 12 | But , despite the fact that headhunting originated in the USA , and that the Big four have gained a strong presence in the British search market , the headhunting business in Britain has evolved not by aping the American fashion but in its own way , with its own style , priorities , emphasis and approach . |
| 13 | " Now , Lorne , " I began , after a female flunky had put the great man on . |
| 14 | Leading partitioning manufacturer and supplier Keysan Ltd has announced a new fully relocatable steel partitioning system which is totally compatible with the company 's newly launched T80 storage wall . |
| 15 | Although they were still only in their teens , the two young Annamese had undergone a drastic change in appearance in the four years since the Sherman family had watched them gambolling around the cooking tent of their father , Ngo Van Loc , the hunting camp " boy " of Jacques Devraux . |