Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunities for bureaucrats in the UK to subvert or negate the wishes of elected officials are far fewer and more limited in scope than is the case in the diffused , more open and non-hierarchical structures of the federal administration in the United States . |
| 2 | The result , it now appears , was that local administrators , with important defensive budgets to collect and administer , took advantage of the experience thus gained to develop their own powers in particular when , over a period of some decades , taxes originally levied for short periods came to be collected for longer and longer periods , until they became all but permanently established as part of the regular income of a town or city . |
| 3 | They monopolise access to public positions , they hold competition in check , they allow their expenses to be more than comfortably met from tax revenue and whenever things Set tough they form an excessively large coalition , not against any parliamentary minority but instead against the majority of non-organised voters … |
| 4 | And I am not overlooking the fact that the Provincials are more than well represented with Ronnie Oliver and Ian McClure of Portrush , who meet Edwin Downey and Gary Rutledge of St Brendan 's . |
| 5 | Other people 's nationalism is never easy to fathom , but Panama 's is more than usually overlaid with issues of race ( white and black ) and class ( rich and poor ) . |
| 6 | It will become even less distinct as environmental issues become more and more merged with problems caused by rapidly expanding populations , poverty and the visibly harsh strictures of climate change . |
| 7 | For some time now I have gradually become more and more disillusioned with teaching . |
| 8 | The chopper went to refuel , came back and buzzed around some more and then returned to Glasgow . |