Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is common for a Member who has asked a question on an important matter but who is dissatisfied with the answer that he has received to give notice that he wishes to raise the matter again on the adjournment and to do so . |
| 2 | Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others , faithfully administering God 's grace in its various forms . |
| 3 | Although many builders continue to use directly employed labour , a pronounced tendency has developed to employ labour on a sub-contract basis , particularly in southern England . |
| 4 | Furthermore , to the extent that a tendency has developed to disbelieve policemen , who are after all officers of the law , it marks a serious deterioration in the quality of the administration of justice . |
| 5 | Now he has stopped taking drugs and started sitting around watching a lot of television . |
| 6 | Wrong horse … and speaking of odds , word reaches us that super-confident Hartlepool Conservative candidate Graham Robb is so much the punters ' favourite that the town 's biggest bookie has stopped taking bets . |
| 7 | Welwyn Garden City local council in Hertfordshire has stopped cutting grass verges on one site to preserve a specimen of the bee orchid , a rare plant normally only found in Mediterranean climates . |
| 8 | He has stopped having tantrums . |
| 9 | Another firm which has stopped offering cover recently is Consolidated Marine & General , who provided the policy sold by the Co-op Bank . |
| 10 | One company which has stopped covering mortgage payments is Cornhill , which supplied mortgage policies to lenders Lloyds Bank . |
| 11 | Timex 's plant in Dundee has stopped making watches ( it now produces printed circuit boards ) , and its workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred . |
| 12 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 13 | Little has altered to make finance in America and Britain suddenly different from the way it was 10 , 20 or even 30 years ago . |
| 14 | With this in mind , it may be prudent if the wife has remarried to recite details of that marriage ( as in Precedent 34 ) . |
| 15 | DEC watcher Terry Shannon has heard reports DEC is working on a microkernel-based OpenVMS implementation . |
| 16 | The Audit Commission has examined achieving value for money in areas such as the management of the council housing stock , and has produced reports on absenteeism through sickness , on the police , on refuse collection and on schools . |
| 17 | Veritas has arranged to support Destiny with a cut-down version of its file system dubbed the Journaling File System and aimed at the desktop : the full product will come along later as a server upgrade . |
| 18 | Elizabeth Newman , course tutor , ( who also lectures in the Department of Linguistics ) has arranged teaching practice in schools with qualified , experienced ESL teachers on the staff , which has meant that not all the schools in Sheffield with a high proportion of ethnic minority pupils are suitable . |
| 19 | BP fired the first salvo yesterday and chairman Robert Horton has arranged to see Chancellor Norman Lamont to try to assess the prospects for change . |
| 20 | The settlor in relation to a settlement includes any person who has provided or has undertaken to provide funds directly or indirectly for the purposes of the settlement . |
| 21 | NICOSIA ( Reuter ) — The Japanese firm , Mitsui , has undertaken to pay Iran almost $1bn ( £625m ) in compensation for ending its role in a joint petrochemical complex , Iran 's Irna news agency said . |
| 22 | In commenting to its members on the distinction between fixed and current financial assets , the Building Societies Association has undertaken to consider guidance on the criteria they should apply . |
| 23 | Only a win will guarantee Second Division football at St James 's Park next season and relegation would wreck the £13m rescue package chairman Sir John Hall has formulated to clear debts of £6m and build for the future . |
| 24 | Only a win will guarantee Second Division football at St James 's Park next season and relegation would wreck the £13m rescue package chairman Sir John Hall has formulated to clear debts of £6m and build for the future . |
| 25 | Barclays Bank Plc has given Ask Computer Systems Inc an $8m contract for Ingres relational database licences : the agreement covers licences for further deployment of existing Ingres applications worldwide , and their deployment in its UK branches ; the applications , developed using Ingres/Windows4GL , will be accessed from X-terminals connected to Ingres databases on Unix servers — the bank is using RS/6000s — linked back to the central corporate data held in DB2 databases on IBM Corp mainframes . |
| 26 | Er Mr has referred to site number five which was the A six one north of Killinghall and because we 've already had this discussion , I would presume the inner relief road would have dramatically changed those figures there . |
| 27 | CPRW has responded to draft Minerals Planning Guidance Note 6 ( MPG6 ) which is a key statement of Government policy on future provision of aggregates ( sand , gravel and crushed rock ) . |
| 28 | At the same time the company has committed to implement OSF on its other machines . |
| 29 | I think that announcement was actually made I told it was going to be and has committed to support D R D A two and that effectively provides an alternative A P I perhaps as O D B C with Microsoft 's backing will become the norm in the P C environment , D R D A will be in the I B M environment . |
| 30 | Books on hunting may be banned from public libraries by a county council which has voted to outlaw fox hunting on its land . |