Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb base] [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vitally for small manufacturers , the more parts they use from large manufacturers that have already gained Type Approval in another application , the cheaper the tests will be ; MIRA 's inspectors will be able to cross-check data they already hold for , say , a wheel , a light or a mirror , using their discretion as to whether they think its new role is fit and proper . |
| 2 | Landowners have bought old farms for use as holiday homes and have then claimed planning permission to house local workers , provide employment and manage the land . |
| 3 | The strength of any particular syllable can be measured by counting up the number of times an s symbol occurs above it ; the levels in the sentence shown above can be diagrammed like this ( leaving out syllables that have never received stress at any level ) : |
| 4 | Just as we should not expect too much from those West German areas that have simply erected speed restriction signs without reinforcing the message with physical infrastructure , so design changes alone , though better than legal changes alone , are still inadequate . |
| 5 | Secondly , the companies that have already spent money on cleaning up are reluctant to see others let off the hook . |
| 6 | It is clear that the Banks are preoccupied with keeping staffing to a minimum ; have no regard for retaining Key Posts and have totally disregarded Relief Staff . |
| 7 | In many cases green ferns , and particularly bracken , can darken during pressing , or you can deliberately look for ferns that have already changed colour . |
| 8 | This is an area where we can make much more progress and I 'm delighted to see the advances that have already taken place . |
| 9 | Mr Cojuangco comes from one of the families that have long controlled business and political affairs in the Philippines , and to some extent still do . |
| 10 | But most of us still feel hard-pressed to keep up with those changes that have already taken place . |
| 11 | To put the point graphically , while Marx and his nineteenth-century comrades would have no great difficulty in recognizing the economic and the political spheres today , despite the major changes that have undoubtedly taken place in the last hundred years , in the cultural-ideological sphere the opportunities for hegemonic control on a global scale have changed out of all recognition . |
| 12 | Clearly worried by growing opposition to reforms that have drastically eroded living standards , Mr Yeltsin reshuffled his government last week in an attempt to shield some of the younger , more radical ministers he appointed last autumn from the wrath of the Congress . |
| 13 | In the last year I have been helping residents with a variety of local problems and have successfully applied pressure on Oxfordshire County Council to act on the problems caused by the gypsies at the end of the Abingdon Road , near the Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre . |
| 14 | But that did not put a stop to the myths that have always surrounded Earth 's nearest neighbour |
| 15 | A PRIVATE member 's bill to introduce payments for Crown servants who were exposed to radiation during nuclear weapons tests and have since contracted leukaemia and other cancers , and to the dependants of those who have died , was presented to the Commons by Mr Bob Clay ( Lab . |
| 16 | It is naive to imagine that engineering schemes that interrupt long established travel patterns will be accepted with equanimity in exchange for accident benefits that are difficult to substantiate due to their scattered and infrequent nature . |
| 17 | I felt slightly ashamed that my priority was breakfast , but excused it on the grounds that shock probably induced hunger . |
| 18 | The discursive mode of Amalgamemnon is also plausible realistically in as much as the future and other unreal verb forms are commonly used in news broadcasts to describe scheduled events , to make meteorological and economic forecasts , and to speculate as to the possible consequences of events that have already taken place . |