Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People know there is no tourism policy , and the number of personnel has doubled over the last years , but are we getting better services ? |
| 2 | Between 1985 and 1990 , however , the number of people aged over 85 supported in residential care by local authorities has declined at a slower rate than that for all people aged 65+ . |
| 3 | Contracting out by local authorities has increased under the Conservative government — partly voluntarily and partly as a response to changes in the law requiring them to do so for certain activities . |
| 4 | ‘ Preoccupation with Cd values has led to the boring shapes we have become all too familiar with . ’ |
| 5 | In recent years a growing sophistication in tachistoscopic half-field investigations has derived from a conceptual and methodological framework known as information processing theory . |
| 6 | By contrast , the steep decline in apprenticeships has led to a reduced demand for part-time craft and technician courses . |
| 7 | Spanish workers voted heavily Socialist in the European parliamentary elections even though Mr Gonzalez 's tight economic policies has led to a 17.3 per cent jobless rate and running battles with the trade unions . |
| 8 | Over this period the stock of such investments has expanded at an average annual compound rate of just under 19% . |
| 9 | Conspicuous support for sporting and other activities has contributed to the rising public approval of the Quit campaign and of antismoking measures generally . |
| 10 | However , as interest in training , and co-ordinated training programmes has developed throughout the 70s and 80s , so has interest in co-operative training schemes . |
| 11 | The interpretation of these patterns has led to the following significant observations : |
| 12 | Bus usage in leading English cities has fallen by a sixth since 1985/86 because of the Government 's deregulation of bus operations , says a study for the Association of Metropolitan Authorities . |
| 13 | A military operation involving four thousand servicemen has ended with a dramatic finale over Salisbury Plain . |
| 14 | A military operation involving four thousand servicemen has ended with a dramatic finale over Salisbury Plain . |
| 15 | Certainly there have been cases after Alladice , including the one in which these remarks were made , where infraction of the rules has led to the resultant evidence being declared inadmissible . |
| 16 | Spending on new roads has increased by a third since 1979 , and is planned to double again ; Okehampton bypass built through Dartmoor National Park ; 110 SSSIs are threatened with road schemes . |
| 17 | The resulting clash of styles has resulted in a forthright , moody range of sensations certainly capable of setting your teeth on edge , if not grinding away in your sleep . |
| 18 | The trip begins at a Eucharistic Congress in Seoul intended to put the seal on the Catholic Church 's extraordinary progress in Korea , where the number of believers has grown from a post-war 200,000 to more than 2.5 million , and is increasing by 10 per cent each year . |
| 19 | The number of parents sending their children to private schools has risen for the eighth year running , despite a downturn in the economy and an upturn in school fees , the Independent Schools Information Service revealed . |
| 20 | The increased use of computers has led to a dramatic rise in the production of paper records . |
| 21 | While the reforms of 1988/89 do go some way towards creating a more effective regional policy in that the dispersion of funds has shifted towards the poorer regions , given the gulf between the rhetoric of the commitment to balanced development and the extent of subsequent policy action , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the issue of space and the impact of EC policies over space are but a minimal consideration in the design of a greater vision . |
| 22 | The alarming increase in media oligopolies has led to a subsequent decline in any need for public accountability on the part of media corporations . |
| 23 | So called hotting and joyriding around some of the Oxford Estates with stolen cars has contributed to a massive increase in carcrime . |
| 24 | The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators says that demand for good qualified chartered secretaries has rocketed over the last three to four years . |
| 25 | Social workers were reluctant to become involved in negotiations with private facilities , but the state funding for so many elderly people in private Homes has led to an inextricable mix up between the private , voluntary and statutory sectors . |
| 26 | The combination of repossessions and building companies ' inability to sell their newly built homes has resulted in an estimated 200,000 properties standing unoccupied . |
| 27 | The County Council 's own homes has improved during the past year . |
| 28 | Elsewhere in south-east Asia , over-use of pesticides has led to a devastating resurgence of pests by destroying the pests ' natural predators . |
| 29 | The excessive and unrestricted use of pesticides has resulted in a worrying number of cases of acute and chronic pesticide poisoning among Central American peasants . |
| 30 | Amino-acid data for a variety of proteins has accumulated throughout the 1980s . |