Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The uncertainty of such stop-go policies arguably reduced business confidence and discouraged investment . |
| 2 | Her teeth badly needed treatment . |
| 3 | As this model would predict , individuals in Belfast whose personal networks were closeknit tended to approximate closely to the stigmatized vernacular norms characteristic of the locality , which like other ‘ in-group ’ norms powerfully symbolized values of solidarity , reciprocity and to some extent opposition to standardized norms along with their associated values . |
| 4 | The way in which authorities apparently withheld information about the explosion and fire at the Zaporizha plant in central Ukraine will also generate fresh opposition to the industry seven years after the Chernobyl disaster . |
| 5 | These telecoms authorities apparently regarded IBM as members of their purchasing club for computers . |
| 6 | For example , if mutations reduce adult survival 16 times more than they reduce juvenile survival ( that is , v= 16 ) , a net mutation rate reduces juvenile and adult survival from their optimal values ( 0.945 , 0.505 ) to ( 0.866 , 0.155 ) ; if the mutations only affected adult survival , a mutation rate U 0.067 would reduce adult survival to zero . |
| 7 | When Powell and the five survivors eventually reached safety , ragged , half-starved and exhausted , their expedition was hailed as one of the most courageous feats of exploration of the time . |
| 8 | The administration of vague rules and guidelines effectively removed control of pollution policy from the politicians who had framed the laws , and put a stop to any parliamentary scrutiny . |
| 9 | Words only represented reality . |
| 10 | The tents and rucksacks all passed muster |
| 11 | Earlier Frankish successions from the sixth century onwards had divided the heartlands , the patrimony , between royal brothers as well as assigning whatever acquired regna were available : the 806 and 817 projects , by contrast , gave the first-born son the patrimony entire , leaving the younger brothers only acquired regna . |
| 12 | The economic problems , the exhaustion brought by war , and divisions between the political parties all caused difficulties for de Gaulle . |
| 13 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 14 | A tall man with an exoskeleton frightened her by demanding a retina-scan but the contacts in her eyes apparently passed muster because he let her through . |
| 15 | In Kepler 's defense of Copernicus , mathematical , physical , and theological considerations all carried weight . |
| 16 | His close-set eyes daily reviewed documents which would otherwise only be seen by perhaps half a dozen people — up to and including the President himself . |
| 17 | Until around nineteen eighty the methods generally involved impalement of cells with glass micro electrodes . |
| 18 | Synthetics soon replaced cotton , an ostensibly practical move that saved players from being bogged down in a waterlogged kit that ripped easily . |
| 19 | DP supporters nevertheless made accusations of ballot-rigging in the March 31 polling . |
| 20 | Adding this to the second suggestion , it follows that the change of context produced by introducing reinforcers in the conditioning stage will have little effect on subjects given pre-exposure to the context but will limit the degree to which latent inhibition is shown by subjects not given pre-exposure . |
| 21 | As the figure shows , both pre-exposed groups showed latent inhibition ( were more ready to consume the AB compound on test than subjects not given pre-exposure ) but the size of the effect was much diminished in the group that experienced A and B separately . |
| 22 | They show that animals pre-exposed once to vinegar before a conditioning trial with this flavour consumed more vinegar on the test trials than did control subjects not given pre-exposure . |
| 23 | Other manufacturers soon followed suit , notably Ferrari and Alfa Romeo . |
| 24 | The successful candidates largely represented business interests and called for closer ties with China . |
| 25 | At this date schools still meant places where masters of repute might be found , but the masters might well move on to other cities taking their pupils with them . |
| 26 | Pianos always caused difficulties , because the sounds came from a sounding-board with a large area ( 9 ) . |
| 27 | It was chaotic , true , but Corman 's pictures always made money and that was the way everyone was judged . |
| 28 | Restoration England 's improved agriculture made famine a thing of the past , though temporary shortages still caused suffering . |
| 29 | Support for the BSP , led by former BCP ideology chief Alexander Lilov , was strongest in the countryside , where communists in local party or mayoral offices still dominated politics . |
| 30 | The tramway remained in operation for forty years , during which time the Haytor quarries also supplied granite for the British Museum and many other famous buildings . |