Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years members of Darlington Lecture Association have heard some remarkable stories but it is probable that few have been so remarkable or so moving as that which John Hawkridge will tell on Monday . |
| 2 | The Dallas daily says that General Motors and General Electric have met several times in recent months to examine ways to increase their influence over the likes of IBM Corp , Compaq Computer Corp , Dell Computer Corp and Apple Computer Inc , quoting executives involved in the talks and industry analysts and the pact could create a consortium with a requirement as many as 100,000 desktop personal computers annually . |
| 3 | One reason why farm workers ' wages remain so comparatively low is that the demand for labour within agriculture has been declining as a result of mechanization-Indeed , the prospect of more expensive labour has often been sufficient to stimulate farmers to engage in a further round of mechanization so that both the supply and the demand for labour have chased each other down in an ever-decreasing spiral . |
| 4 | Meanwhile labour have promised more books , better schools and more qualified teachers . |
| 5 | The relative prominence of the telecommunications , television and European primus inter pares aspects of the French space programme have had another important consequence . |
| 6 | Amazingly , The Orb have proved this exactly right . |
| 7 | There is considerable ground for speculation about why the Opposition have adopted such a churlish attitude to proposals which are clearly well designed and will make a significant contribution to further improvement in attitudes to training . |
| 8 | Id have thought this is a massive boost for the lad , and thoroughly deserved too . |
| 9 | But neither government or industry have shown much interest . |
| 10 | It 's not that the bars on his cell have loosened any . |
| 11 | Cell have got all that — and more — going for them , without having to resort to drooling over Kurt Cobain 's toe caps . |
| 12 | Each country celebrates with its own unique style and enthusiasm : Sovereign have researched some of the best of these , so that if any take your fancy you can coincide your trip with them . |
| 13 | The importance of these cultural bearers of Marxism , whose glamour , charisma and intellectual weight have done much to enhance the acceptance of Marxist ideas in Latin America , is hard to over-estimate . |
| 14 | Declining barriers to trade and investment have made this possible . |
| 15 | The Cruithin have , ’ — a pause — ‘ the Cruithin have harnessed some of its darkness , ’ said Raynor . |
| 16 | For this reason , mistakes in the LBO boom have caused more fuss than mistakes in the merger boom of the 1960s , even though — so far at least — there have been fewer of them . |
| 17 | ‘ Let's just say that the CRO have done that sort of thing before and it was all over very quickly ! |
| 18 | Planning policies of concentration have fostered this , sometimes to facilitate the provision of amenities and services to housing . |
| 19 | However , logistic problems and slotting practice have made this ideal difficult to achieve . |
| 20 | The Jingles International salon have named this intriguing style The Peruke |
| 21 | Here , the inflated rhetoric and culturalist orthodoxies of antiracism have borne some peculiar fruit . |
| 22 | One sceptical commentator has reacted against the idea of there being something called ‘ Thatcherism ’ , by claiming that ‘ both opponents and supporters of the administration have created more of a pattern from disconnected events and policies than is warranted ’ . |
| 23 | The reasons for this should not be obscured by the fact that the short term objectives of aid have undergone several changes over the last thirty years . |
| 24 | I 've been offered the opportunity by er Bob in training er in force have taken this on er the tactical unit have taken it on , the chance of er one day erm assessment or appraisal training , at erm probably at Exeter for those of us that do it and erm I think that perhaps with the the way that the diverse way that our staff 's spread out the proper ways of assessing people which I 've I 've never been shown how to do and I do n't think many of us have . |
| 25 | The club have kept this one very quiet as it was not expected that Hanley , who returned from a summer in Australia with a bad pelvic strain , would come back before the New Year . |
| 26 | THE Irish Coursing Club have scuppered any idea of interfering with Dunmore |
| 27 | Hayling Island Sailing Club have encouraged many of their Contender sailors to change to International Canoes with the remainder likely to follow . |
| 28 | Inconsistencies in the initial report on the crash have led some investigators to suspect that the US and Canadian governments took part in a cover-up . |
| 29 | Critics of Gilligan 's work have recapitulated many of their arguments , indicating that an understanding of the limitations of egalitarian methodological reform is growing among feminist psychologists . |
| 30 | Presumably several people would benefit very substantially from Riddle 's will , but how would his projected marriage have changed that ? |