Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , David Underdown has argued that rural sports and recreations became more common after 1660 than ever before . |
| 2 | Three times in twenty-four hours MacDonald tried to resign and three times the King dissuaded him . |
| 3 | In his excellent review of studies of ‘ what managers do ’ , Hales has argued that three areas of difficulty may be encountered in the published research evidence on managerial work , viz : |
| 4 | Sheppard Frere has suggested that some villas may in consequence have been deserted , but evidence of this nature is difficult to assess . |
| 5 | THE United States has denied that American troops or their allies had killed anyone during rioting in the Somali capital , Mogadishu , after reports said up to nine Somalis died . |
| 6 | People are not born with a repressed set of experiences , but they acquire them , although at times Freud seems to suggest that some parts of the repressed material of earlier generations is inherited . |
| 7 | On June 1 Justice Minister Aleksander Bentkowski had announced that further interviews would be held with security agents Adam Pietruszka and Grzegorz Piotrowksi convicted for the murder in 1984 of Father Jerzy Popieluszko [ see pp. 33292-93 ; 33874-75 ; 34688 ] . |
| 8 | We were treated as an accepted channel of communication with the mass of independent objectors and were often the only other organization apart from the local councils ' consortium whom Michael Barnes asked to comment when dramatic announcements were made . |
| 9 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland has suggested that those issues could be debated in the Scottish Grand Committee . |
| 10 | Reynolds seemed to realise that such objections could go on for ever , so he said , ‘ Yes . |
| 11 | Cornelius had noted that famous men and women generally claimed to have fallen into their famous careers through sheer chance . |
| 12 | This compromise — the ANC had demanded that all hostels be subject to restrictions — appeared to be the result of intervention by Judge Goldstone . |
| 13 | Nature conservation authorities in Kazakhstan have claimed that large areas of once productive land are now littered with detritus such as burnt out rocket stages , and that the soil has become contaminated soil with toxic substances . |
| 14 | We know very little of what went on in these places , from either archaeological or historical evidence , but R. H. Britnell has suggested that most markets were ‘ closely related to the growth of local trade between food producers , craftsmen and tradesmen ’ . |
| 15 | McKendrick has suggested that such earnings were able to add a significant number of extra families to the " middling ranks " earning above the £50 a year bottom line suggested by Dr Eversley . |
| 16 | Sometimes Althusser seems to imply that different histories may range through different modes of production , at other times it appears that they are specific to each , an effect of the overdetermination of the social formation . |
| 17 | They said that although Strathclyde had advanced and innovative policies in many areas of race equality , their research findings gave ‘ a clear signal ’ that far greater resources needed to be allocated to this area . |
| 18 | They said that although Strathclyde had advanced and innovative policies in many areas of race equality , their research findings gave ‘ a clear signal ’ that far greater resources needed to be allocated . |
| 19 | In his theory of general relativity Einstein had showed that gravitational fields made clocks run slow , an effect called the gravitational red-shift . |
| 20 | John Irvine , Ben Martin and Geoff Oldham at SPRU have found that most decisions about research grants are still based on the time-honoured ‘ peer review ’ system : a researcher 's proposals are sent to a handful of experts engaged in similar research . |
| 21 | Lévi-Strauss sought to demonstrate that similar oppositions operate in kinship and mythic systems enabling him to compare apparently unlike kinship systems and myths from different cultures and show the structural continuity of mythemes , and kin relationships , across what are , at first sight , very different cultures . |
| 22 | Without doubt one of the loveliest towns on the romantic eastern shore of Lake Garda , Malcesine has enchanted and inspired writers and artists ever since the days of the Romans . |
| 23 | From the Gospels , it is quite clear Jesus has determined that these prophecies , too , must be made to occur — not spontaneously , but by contrived design . |
| 24 | The UK has decided that UK-registered EEIGs should be treated as bodies corporate with separate legal personalities like companies and should be registered with the Registrar of Companies . |
| 25 | Rühe had argued that new leaders were needed who would mark a clear break with the past and would show full commitment to reform . |
| 26 | THE BUILDERS of a revolutionary busway in Adelaide have denied that escalating costs are hitting the project . |
| 27 | Sports doctors at a conference in Austria have concluded that female competitors produce better results in sport after what is daintily referred to as a ‘ turbulent amorous event ’ . |
| 28 | The reply given by Mrs. Bottomley centred around trade barriers not being acceptable and the answer appeared to me to contradict the action taken by America where President Bush has stated that Japanese imports are to be restricted . |
| 29 | A senior British peacekeeper in Bosnia has warned that British troops will be attacked if NATO launches strategic air strikes . |
| 30 | Persinger has suggested that these reports might be hallucinations instilled into the witnesses by the effect of ionising radiation in close proximity . |