Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [noun] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 There are those who put the blame for this on the writings of W.M. Davis , arguing that his all-embracing model of landscape evolution left little for geomorphologists to do besides applying the model successively to new areas .
2 And the shires are still there fairly strong , still er some of course has now gone onto the rare breeds .
3 Moreover , the Tibetan Plateau transmits further pressure to the stable Tarim Basin to the north and this in turn pushes northwards to produce thrusting and uplift in the Tien Shan range ( Fig. 3.24 ) .
4 This in turn becomes easily transposed onto their owner , and can become a major problem in later life .
5 This has made it difficult for Britain to compete on the world market , and this in turn has eventually led to a worse slump and level of unemployment than would otherwise have been the case had there been no political intervention in the working of the naturally self-regulating free economy of the market .
6 Moreover , as these demands have grown , so have the commercial pressures on companies to present their results and state of affairs in the best light , and this in turn has sometimes led to difficulties for auditors in standing up to directors who fix their remuneration and who , in practice , have the power to dismiss them .
7 However this by definition means only accepting candidates exactly the same length , which we have already established is most likely not going to be possible , so allowing candidates with the same reduced zonal coding is more realistic ( eg. for code ‘ muuu ’ all candidates will , rill , roll , wool , awl , oval and oral would be kept ) .
8 The Malaysians , in the process of razing their own country 's rainforests , have become world experts in the quick-timber business ; local problems in places such as Sarawak have suddenly expanded into international threats — and any country in the world with any tropical rainforests left is in danger of getting the full , ruthless Sarawak treatment .
9 In the same way , second language learning approaches and applications such as interpreting have all drawn on spoken languages from communities which have separate cultural and geographical identities .
10 Sir Arthur Nicholson , a contemporary observer noted : ‘ should the peasants excited by socialist and anarchist agitators be led on … and should the working classes simultaneously rise in the towns there will be a catastrophe such as history has rarely witnessed ’ .
11 Like there such as housewives have always got no coal .
12 Lakes and rivers in heavily farmed counties such as Cavan have long suffered from irresponsible dumping by farmers .
13 His legal responsibilities for issues such as extradition have also brought him into contact with senior legal and political figures in Ireland .
14 Although buildings such as Hurstmonceux had already marked a shift from the primarily military dwellings of the middle ages , the later sixteenth century saw in Sussex a flowering in great house-building which has never been equalled since .
15 Follow-up studies of people experiencing particularly traumatic events such as bereavement have also shown a high rate of associated depression and anxiety .
16 Unlike America , much of Europe has already accepted the notion that any facility or service capable of generating cash-flow and profit is capable of being privatised .
17 These in turn become massively overdetermined , regenerative and self-justifying , creating an institutional mind which , although allegedly acting on behalf of society and the majority population , comes to regard that same group as outsiders and potential antagonists who are never to be accorded easy access to the processes of the organization .
18 ‘ Lovers all through history have consistently screwed up their lives . ’
19 Over 36% of all at Hunterston have now participated in a TOP Time-Out , and 44 Improvement Teams with 178 members have had their recommendations accepted .
20 The cave-dwellers of the Dordogne obtained shells from the Mediterranean and those of Mentone had apparently secured some of theirs from as far afield as the Indian Ocean .
21 Rising living standards for those in work have also enabled them to buy more consumer goods .
22 The section concerning treatment requiring both consent and a second opinion refers primarily to psycho-surgery and hormone implantations ; that concerning treatment requiring either consent or a second opinion refers primarily to electro-convulsive therapy and to the use of medication after three months regular administration .
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