Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alteration in circumstances concerning 4–7 of the above reasons has brought about the situation found since the mid 1980's , when there has been a lack of growth . |
| 2 | The real reason is that competition between the various issuers has forced down the charges levied on the retailers — once as high as 3 to 5 per cent , down to an average of 2.2 per cent in 1988 and now 1.7 per cent and falling . |
| 3 | A recent laboratory report produced by the Research and Development Division on the bacterial contamination of washrooms and toilets has underlined how the use of Calmic sanitizers can reduce the risk of cross infection . |
| 4 | A heavy backlog of cases has snarled up the court process for dealing with non-payers . |
| 5 | In particular , the moves in education to allow schools to become self-governing has shifted finance normally allocated and controlled by local authorities back to central government , whilst the selling of council houses has reduced both the size of the public housing sector controlled by local authorities and the level of financial control that accompanied this . |
| 6 | This has been undesirable , but not of critical importance because our income from invisible exports has made good the difference . |
| 7 | An alliance between farming and environmental groups has put forward an action plan to help farmers combine food production with conservation of the countryside . |
| 8 | A major chain of small grocery shops has taken on the might of the big wholesalers in a battle over the right to sell newspapers . |
| 9 | She 's still got the voice but the politeness has slipped away a bit . ’ |
| 10 | The organization of women in the controlled zones varies considerably depending on the region : either one of the women 's organizations has taken on the task or there may be a women 's committee of the Popular Power Council . |
| 11 | Secondly , the use of computers has sparked off an interest in the development of new , more clearly-defined methods in cartography while , at the same time , relieving the cartographer from the labour of manual drafting . |
| 12 | HOUSEWIFE Sarah Fox 's dream of making a fortune from soap that FLOATS has disappeared down the plughole . |
| 13 | And the importance these parties assumed reflected less the intervention of thousands of intelligenty than the support provided by millions of workers and peasants . |
| 14 | All 12 winners having met up the evening before for an Italian meal at The Campana in London 's West End , followed by a night at The Regent Crest Hotel , the second half of the group arrived bright and early at the studio , ready for their transformations the next day . |
| 15 | The evidence for the continuance of the policy into the fifth century comes from Thessaly , where Leotychidas had put down the tagos in the 470s ( p. 81 ) . |
| 16 | His spectacles had shaken down the arch of his nose . |
| 17 | The new congress did lack consequential leaders and congressional reform and the further weakening of political parties had brought about a variety of undesirable developments . |
| 18 | Vonadk reported on Jan. 8 that resistance fighters had carried out a grenade attack in Phnom Penh on Jan. 6 , killing a number of " traitorous Vietnamese puppets and lackeys " . |
| 19 | The words had hung on the air , heavy with innuendo , and an act of simple kindness had been spoiled . |
| 20 | Four times , he said , Scots had woken up the morning after an election to find a Tory government : ‘ We can not guarantee when they wake up the morning after the election in 1997 that we will have got rid of them . ’ |
| 21 | The wily captain 's luck was holding in more ways than one for the customs search team found that one of the French shells had ricochetted down an alleyway , through the door of the Captain 's cabin and had embedded itself in the leg of a table where the occupant would have been sitting . |
| 22 | Piers had set up the garden table and two benches , and they had what turned out to be a very edible meal under the fading sun , with a magnificent view overlooking the still blue sea , with all the night noises playing a symphony around them . |
| 23 | under Labour waiting lists have gone up every time we 've had a Labour administration . |
| 24 | The crabs have climbed down the cliffs , for their eggs must be deposited directly into the sea if they are to hatch . |
| 25 | Premiums have gone up an average 17 per cent this year . |
| 26 | Ever since then , as the story goes , journalists have kept up the tradition of ending the final page of each story with the sign -30- . |
| 27 | This happens to be a good strategy for a side with material superiors , and computers have won quite a lot of games with this strategy . |
| 28 | No I bought my dining room suite , this Ercol dining room suite in there , I 've still got it , yeah that was a long Oh yeah the shops have changed quite a lot in the The Stow have n't they ? |
| 29 | But within the first interpretation of the term , many authors have emphasized how the increase in the number of legal statutes makes the law impractical to apply in every case , so that Sheehe has calculated that only one offence in every 7,600 is detected ( see Dix and Layzell 1983 : 7 ) . |
| 30 | These manufacturers have pushed up the resolution a little by breaking the display into submatrices , addressed separately , but connected to give a unified picture . |