Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know one gay bar in London which used occasionally to screen porn videos , including safer-sex videos , but that has stopped after discreet pressure from the local nick . |
| 2 | This became enshrined in popular memory as the ‘ winter of discontent ’ in which all the components of the British malaise emerged in heightened colours . |
| 3 | Some branches go in for quite lavish posters , some make do with local draughtsmanship . |
| 4 | In short , what this has to do with modern poetry is very clear ; what it has to do with modern criticism is not clear at all , since that criticism has , as we have seen , no vocabulary for dealing with it , and moves further and further from finding such a vocabulary , the more it takes its lead from linguisticians like Saussure and Jakobson . |
| 5 | This has met with considerable resistance from the staff who have pointed out that the smoking restrictions at Chesser House are merely a voluntary agreement and are not Council policy in the same way as restrictions at Regional Headquarters and Regional Chambers . |
| 6 | This has led to increased complexity of the maintenance workload . |
| 7 | Equally important the Chairman 's office is colocated with the Secretariat and this has led to increased efficiency in the conduct of the profession 's affairs . |
| 8 | This has led to parliamentary deadlock . |
| 9 | This has led to considerable confusion as to what religion is anyway , because any necessary reference to the divine , to God , to the transcendent has been removed from it . |
| 10 | In some cases at some times this has led to ruthless persecution with many deaths ( USSR in the 1930s and China in the 1950s ) . |
| 11 | I re do regret that this has come to full council yet again because I thought we 'd already had the debate . |
| 12 | This has concentrated on continuous process control and automation as the models of advanced technology . |
| 13 | This has continued as Prime Minister . |
| 14 | This has resulted in regional specialization and , effectively , the creation of a global division of labour . |
| 15 | Now , however , science has provided the means to manipulate the basic genetic material that all plants and animals are made of , namely DNA ( deoxyribonucleic acid ) and already this has resulted in exciting progress in forensic science , pharmacology and disease control . |
| 16 | This has resulted in improved borehole conditions enabling the recording of greatly superior quality of log information ; a dolomite mud has been particularly successful in keeping the borehole in perfect shape . |
| 17 | This has persisted despite limited land reform programmes in El Salvador and Honduras . |
| 18 | How long does this process take from initial request through to hand over of the system ? |
| 19 | Some participants on EA have requested that they carry on after their 12 months course finishes , only to be told they ca n't as that might be using this to avoid looking for full time employment . |
| 20 | While this helps to distinguish between red-stained calcite and unstained dolomite and quartz , it gives very little other information about diagenesis and mineralogy . |
| 21 | The adventurers can run ( and this means running at maximum rate , not standard movement ! ) . |
| 22 | But by the ninth century this had degenerated into gross confusion , under cover of which the worship of Baal-Melqart , the official god of Tyre , had crept in and was widely corrupting faith in God . |
| 23 | The introduction of detailed measurement and the systematic logging of failures has raised everyone 's awareness of our OTIF performance and this had led to increased cooperation and feedback between all departments . |
| 24 | In several instances this had led to joint certification agreements by which SCOTVEC and the body concerned award certificates jointly . |
| 25 | Obviously this had led to considerable controversy between Marxists and non-Marxists as to whether Marx had fully understood capitalism and whether or not subsequent developments have invalidated his account of its structure of power . |
| 26 | In the UK this had led to high unemployment and the overall decline in manufacturing that marked ‘ deindustrialization ’ in the early 1980s . |
| 27 | I I consider that that this does assist in general location . |
| 28 | Some had called for public acceptance that homosexuals and drug users were the only people facing a real risk of getting AIDS . |
| 29 | Some have suffered from high inflation rates and political coups which have undermined the population 's confidence in domestic currencies and thereby encouraged investment in non-productive gold coins or jewellery . |
| 30 | Some have opted for firm sale agreements to cut out the costly returns process , most notably with the Waterstones group and Reed with Dillons . |