Example sentences of "the [adj] [vb -s] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To come together to help the unemployed has led many churches to take part in Unemployment Sunday . |
| 2 | The crisis of the social sector of Mexican agriculture in the 1980's has attracted increasing attention in recent years . |
| 3 | ‘ My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my saviour because he has looked upon his lowly handmaid Yes , from this day forward all generations will call me blessed for the Almighty has done great things for me . |
| 4 | The second has caused much confusion , some of it deliberate , which has plainly rubbed off on Mr Dalyell . |
| 5 | Consideration of the effects of stress in the workplace has meant that for many employers the workaholic has become bad news . |
| 6 | Working at home is different to working from home — the latter involves selling professional skills to clients , as do plumbers , translators or fortune-tellers . |
| 7 | Even when the latter does raise religious matters , he seems to deal with them from a different perspective than that of the ascetic theology of Faustus or the spiritual philosophy of another great writer and friend , Claudianus Mamertus . |
| 8 | The decision is expected to be endorsed by the full CITES meeting next week . |
| 9 | The extensive use of ‘ supergrasses ’ in the eighties has made many people sceptical of informers and verbal statements , but such scepticism was far less widespread in the 1960s , and the impression that Paisley was heavily involved in illegal acts became common . |
| 10 | And the MMC has identified some practices , such as wasteful advertising , that most people would regard as undesirable . |
| 11 | The first involves designing special procedures for eliciting language from a child and the second involves sampling the language produced by the child under ordinary , everyday settings . |
| 12 | But the Banking , Insurance and Finance Union claimed yesterday that polling day had been selected to announce details of the first cuts to minimise public attention . |
| 13 | The first aims to summarise historical developments in trade performance and employment in the UK . |
| 14 | The former has provided useful information in cases requiring laparotomy . |
| 15 | Galba 's coinage proclaimed the ‘ Concord of the provinces ’ , the ‘ Rebirth of Rome ’ , the ‘ Restoration of Liberty ’ and even the ‘ Preservation of the Human Race ’ under his rule ; Otho 's proclaimed ‘ Peace in the World ’ or the ‘ Safety of the Roman people ’ , while Vitellius 's emphasised the ‘ Loyalty of the Army ’ , the ‘ Concord of the Roman People ’ and of course the ‘ Restoration of Liberty ’ ; and the same dies blazoning these claims were coupled with obverse dies for three different emperors . |
| 16 | THE CONTRADICTORY and yet predictable responses of the great and the good to the problem of crime among the young has made depressing reading in the days since the murder of James Bulger . |
| 17 | The narwhal has developed other techniques to capture its food , such as sucking or blowing . |
| 18 | Such commentators have argued that the breakdown of morality in the 1960s has had lasting effects on the social landscape . |
| 19 | This instrument has been used as a demo model for some time , so it 's well played-in ; one potential buyer ( a music-shop owner , would you believe ) strung it up with enormously heavy strings and loosened the truss-rod , but the NY-5 has survived this ill-treatment with just the faintest distortion of the belly . |
| 20 | Ezekiel called upon the four winds to put living breath into the dry bones . |
| 21 | The rapid increase in such migration since the 1950s has prompted one commentator to speak of the ‘ New Helots ’ ( Cohen , 1987 ) . |
| 22 | Instead the 1980s has seen neoliberal market philosophies being adopted even by parties of the Left . |
| 23 | The Conservative government of the 1980s has aroused profound anxiety by its policies of centralization and executive control . |
| 24 | The 1980s has produced another shift in marketing ideas — the role of marketing as a strategic concept . |