Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEC is to develop a special version of its UP 4800 server series for Control Data , with shipments expected to begin in the second half of 1993 . |
| 2 | These groups tend to locate in the older urban cores as a result of factors examined earlier . |
| 3 | Via Rostovtsev , Pozen 's conservative opinions became enshrined in the Main Committee 's unimaginative April programme . |
| 4 | Autobiographies , ghosted or not , and ‘ humorous ’ essays tend to lurk in the literary equivalent of shark-infested waters . |
| 5 | The N terminal pentapeptide of pancreatic procolipase is highly conserved in nature with only three forms found to occur in the higher vertebrates , VPDPR , VPGPR , and the APGPR form found in humans and chickens . |
| 6 | The number unemployed for more than six months has doubled in the past year . |
| 7 | British missionaries started arriving in the early 1800s and convinced Fijians that they should wear clothes . |
| 8 | ‘ You would not believe the way French cultural tsars try to meddle in the musical life of the country . |
| 9 | She felt utterly trapped in her small , cramped frog 's body , her knees felt bent in the wrong place and her arms were too short , and it was quite terrifying trying to speak and only being capable of a hoarse croaking sound . |
| 10 | Once a note is drawn higher than that middle line the tails start to go in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | The first round of the presidential elections was notable for the fact that both main candidates attracted substantially more votes than their parties had received in the parliamentary elections , even though in the case of Constantinescu , the rector of Bucharest University , he had only been named as a compromise choice at the July 27 DCR Congress ( the NLP having left the alliance after its unsuccessful bid to persuade ex-King Mihai ( Michael ) to stand as a presidential candidate ) . |
| 12 | Further analysis of their data and of additional data for the period from 1970 to 1975 showed that , though the vote for the two main parties had declined in the 1960s , major party identification had not : in other words , electors — whatever they may have done in the polling booths — continued to express a sense of affiliation with one of the two main parties . |
| 13 | Mr Dick Davison , of the Independent Schools Information Service , said a dozen private schools had closed in the last year . |
| 14 | BAD debts incurred by exporters have soared in the past five years , a survey has revealed . |
| 15 | I am very proud , very proud indeed , of what BBC journalists have done in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 16 | And although the dominant enterprises in this sense have undoubtedly grown considerably in size , by any measure , over the post-war years it is not obvious that the operating units have grown in the same way . |
| 17 | Despite the large increase in the private sector , which has no single administrative body to which all private homes belong , only 12 homes refused to participate in the 1990 census , rendering it most unlikely that the changes in both demography and dependency in any sector are a result of response bias . |
| 18 | In the latter case , it will meanwhile have the effect of turning literary study into something much closer to the sociology that Marxists have colonized in the modern academy . |
| 19 | He worries at the extent to which known Felix pictures have disappeared in the last 30 years , and can detail those that have gone missing from Brighton , The Oval and a Piccadilly pub . |
| 20 | Economic activities have steadily moved from the villages and the rural communities into the towns and the urban areas ; and as employment opportunities have diminished in the rural areas , the village population have moved into the towns |
| 21 | Shells have exploded in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo near the building where the Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd was meeting the Bosnian president . |
| 22 | Maggie put her hands up to push him away but as soon as they touched his skin her palms seemed to take on a life of their own , moving over the strong muscles , her fingers wanting to curl in the crisp black hair that lightly covered his chest . |
| 23 | In the mid-1960s wage bargaining in the public sector became more politicized and produced frequent confrontations with the central government , regardless of whether it had an incomes policy or not . |
| 24 | Recently , a leading member of the West Midlands Area Young Conservatives has written in the national press : ‘ ln the course of the last twelve months 1 have travelled extensively throughout the area in question and , with the exception of extremely isolated individuals , have found no evidence of sympathy for the ‘ libertarian ’ position ’ ( The Observer , May 1985 ) . |
| 25 | Although all this was entertainingly unpleasant , in Bira the most genuine threat to our lives came disguised in the quietest way , when we broke the cardinal rule of touching an unidentified creature . |
| 26 | As a result of the feeling of greater ease , decorative touches and small colouristic accents begin to appear in the smaller canvases of both men . |
| 27 | By removing the incentive to become or to stay competitive , countries risk losing in the longer term the benefits they sought in the first place . |
| 28 | This most abrasive of Manchester derbies had exploded in the 55th minute with the sending-off of Pointon , the former Everton defender , for a crude and cruel tackle on Giggs . |
| 29 | Fry noted that night visits had trebled in the seven years from 1967 to 1974 . |
| 30 | If UK companies had recognised in the 1960s or early 1970s the need to enter the high-volume chip business , Juleff thinks that the whole of the British electronics industry would be in a better state . |