Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concern of these groups has grown in response to a perceived widening of the gap between cherished moral values and actual day-to-day behaviour . |
| 2 | Only a few years after the war the arts became separated from ideology in a way that enabled both artistic practice and theory to gain so-called independence . |
| 3 | Many clients became disillusioned with search in the 1970s , receiving some indifferent service and assuming that all headhunters were the same ; this view is rapidly disappearing in the 1980s , although many search practices current during the Big Bang gave search a bad name , such as wholesale movement of trading and broking teams , for instance . |
| 4 | Leasing cars has fallen in popularity from two in 10 last year to less than one in 10 now . |
| 5 | Ms Radice will implement her policy by vetoing aberrant grants among the 1,122 ( totalling $66.1 million ) that the National Council on the Arts has approved for funding on the recommendations of peer panels . |
| 6 | FILMING of the new Hollywood blockbuster Super Mario Brothers has descended into chaos after a series of bitter on-set rows . |
| 7 | Eight patients were ‘ reformed ’ drinkers having abstained from alcohol for a duration ranging from two months to several years and five of this group had biopsy proven cirrhosis . |
| 8 | But they do n't , I mean they just do n't some kids have got ta sort of work at it and you 're one child , like Lee . |
| 9 | When we were out for lunch a few weeks ago , Alan asked where I was brought up and I said popped out on stalks two brothers had gone to school at . |
| 10 | His sisters had curtsied to the vicar ; his brothers had gone to war in 1914 , and one of them had died at Vimy Ridge ; his father had been a farm bailiff and died in 1911 after being bitten by a horse ( misnamed Lucky ) . |
| 11 | His eyes had gone from sapphire to a blue so dark it was almost black . |
| 12 | Since 1950 the pro-European parties had declined in strength in the legislature , and even without the EDC dilemma , governmental survival at the best of times was problematic . |
| 13 | By the end of May around 15,000 former BCCI depositors had applied for compensation to the UK 's Deposit Protection Board . |
| 14 | Many royalists had gone into exile in the colonies , especially Virginia , and the new government could not expect its orders to be obeyed on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 15 | The polytechnics were having to carry into the 1970s a defence and assertion of their particular — though not necessarily homogeneous — values and procedures , and in doing so made necessary a constant reaffirmation of the vocational or service roles that had aroused fierce passions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as new institutions and new sectors had come into existence in many countries . |
| 16 | To their surprise , they found that some schools had grown in number from one week to the next . |
| 17 | Croatians had voted in favour of secession in May [ see p. 38024 ] but at that time had appeared not to favour an immediate declaration . |
| 18 | More than 20 schools have complained of interference in school life and criticism of long established customs . |
| 19 | They are popular with parents and it 's no surprise that well over a thousand schools have voted in favour of such status . |
| 20 | BRITAIN 'S smaller business exporters have grown in confidence over the last three months , with Scotland 's exporting companies , in particular , showing a marked improvement in profitability , according to the results of a survey released yesterday . |
| 21 | Old Colwyn Sunday League clubs West Shore and Hotpoint Reserves have applied for membership of the Subaru Vale of Conwy League . |
| 22 | Since then major currencies have floated in relation to each other . |
| 23 | Although this was some time ago , similar dismissals have continued to surface in the work of those who adopt Chomsky 's theoretical position . |
| 24 | Changes in the size of boreal forests and carbon dioxide concentrations have moved in step for most of this century . |
| 25 | This development is undoubtedly due to the greater accessibility that personal computers have brought to computing in terms of cost , ease of use and reduced dependence on others . |
| 26 | Drug smuggling by swallowing packages of drugs or by concealing them in the rectum or vagina has recently received much publicity after several couriers have died following rupture of these parcels . |
| 27 | This section provides that the terms which the parties have agreed in respect of a disposition of an interest in land must be incorporated in one document either by being set out in the document or by reference to another document . |
| 28 | Many manufacturers have come to grief on the belief that technical solutions can be bought pre-packaged . |
| 29 | Those dreadful , ghastly images have stayed in front of my eyes every moment of the past five months . |
| 30 | A big box of shells sat opened on top of the post in front of him ; a foot switch at the end of a long , snaking flex operated the catapult in the pit . |