Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Les , 61 , whose wife Tracy , 40 , is expecting their first child , has stopped smoking since the health scare that led him to quit a show last year . |
| 2 | I thing recently the bus service has got dreadful since they brought in er private buses to their local areas , it was good for the first few months , but when they find out that its not paying at all , they take them off , they do n't tell you , the bus just disappears so your left with the usual one that used to be on . |
| 3 | Does the Minister recognise that the question of loan sharks has been on the agenda for the past 12 years , but that nothing positive has occurred other than the report to which he referred ? |
| 4 | As a consequence land has become unproductive as unpalatable weeds have replaced nutritious fodder . |
| 5 | POWELL : That — that nursery of traitors and nest of vipers. ( clears throat ) A phrase which has become classic if not an actual thing . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 7 | Quarrelling among siblings is so common that it has become accepted as ‘ normal ’ . |
| 8 | In 1775 Percival Pott recognized that scrotal cancers rarely occurred except in chimney-sweeps , an observation which has become famous as one of the earliest records of an industrial cancer . |
| 9 | The result has been that ‘ investment at the highest levels ever ’ has come from fares , not from any public purse , and that an ‘ economic ’ system has become unsafe as BR and LRT weigh up commercial investment needs against the cost of safety measures and the cost of paying wages sufficient to maintain a safe level of staffing . |
| 10 | ( It is difficult for him … the incoming mail has become inaccessible until he frees up some of his allocated disk capacity ) . |
| 11 | It has become evident since the second oil shock that the major incentive to energy efficiency is a pricing policy where price is directly related to real cost and value , in other words passing on the rising cost of oil and its products to the end consumer . |
| 12 | But getting the institutions to support some sort of restructuring has become difficult if not impossible . |
| 13 | Florida was one of the first areas to attract the golfer , but in recent years South Carolina has become popular as European golfers discover the delights of Hilton Head ( 27 courses ) and Myrtle Beach ( 66 courses ) . |
| 14 | The provision of reasons for decisions has become unpopular because reasons give more ammunition for challenge and negligence claims : see 14.7.7 . |
| 15 | ‘ Knock-for-knock ’ , where an insurer pays for damage to the car covered under its policy — regardless of blame , has become unpopular as it passes on the costs of settling claims to comprehensive policy holders . |
| 16 | More recently the Whitbread Hop Farm has become renowned as one of Kent 's major tourist attractions . |
| 17 | Instinct has become unfashionable because of its association with an erroneous theory of development . |
| 18 | Until recently , however , detection of DNA adducts in human tissue has proved difficult as adduct levels are extremely low ( commonly less than 1 adduct/10 nucleotide bases ) . |
| 19 | This has proved difficult because of the intangible nature of the activities of many departments . |
| 20 | Since then the market in Eurotunnel shares has proved volatile although their price has always remained above the opening level . |
| 21 | New Barnes School is the subject of a separate investigation by the police and social services into child abuse and has remained closed since it shut down early for the Summer break . |
| 22 | ‘ Can the Secretary of State answer the question which has remained unanswered since this dispute began and remains unanswered . |
| 23 | The thirty-two-bar form was pervasive between the wars , but it has remained important since — even in rock . |
| 24 | Elsewhere in Darlington the number of crimes has remained high although here has been a slight decline in some common crimes . |
| 25 | POLICE are appealing for information about a man who has remained silent since he was arrested for theft . |
| 26 | Workplace Industrial Relations Survey ( WIRS ) data suggest , however , that workplace union recognition has remained constant except in private manufacturing , where the proportion has declined . |
| 27 | Puzzle Wood is an area which has remained unaltered since it was transformed into tranquil woodland walks in the 1800's . |
| 28 | Deutsche Bank 's agreed bid for Morgan Grenfell has gone unconditional after acceptances were received from holders of 59.5 per cent of its shares . |
| 29 | ‘ So much , ’ they said , ‘ has gone wrong since Doyle became our executive director . |
| 30 | Mrs Thatcher yesterday had the honesty to admit that inflation is ‘ far too high ’ , but she no more deigned to explain what has gone wrong than the Chancellor had the day before . |