Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes as follows : " So man is approaching a more complete fulfilment of that great and sacred mission which he has to perform in this world . |
| 2 | Despite its importance and grade II* listing , the treatment it has received in recent years has been disgraceful , and it is to be hoped a great many lessons will have been learnt about how to deal with irresponsible owners of such important listed buildings . |
| 3 | It would seem that the restoration profession has not been able to keep its nerve in the face of the rapidly growing attention it has received in recent years , and is reacting in an undisciplined way . |
| 4 | The story enshrined the belief that has developed in recent years that people who place bolts are villains who have no place on British soil . |
| 5 | Its reputation as the most beautiful bay on the west coast of Scotland has developed in recent years , not fostered by press and media publicity but by the enthusiastic recommendations of those who have been there . |
| 6 | Before we have had the opportunity to vote on that policy , the autumn statement has informed us that the Government will not promote training or fill the training gap that has developed in recent years . |
| 7 | In this programme we are going to look at the way in which British music has developed in recent years and its relationship to that produced by Continental Europe . |
| 8 | In many far off lands the Commission 's gardeners have no knowledge of the English language , while their supervisors are not fluent in the native tongue ; the result has been , so the Commission reports , that a form of hybrid speech has developed in certain countries that would be incomprehensible to other natives of the country and to ordinary English-speakers , but which is ‘ very eloquent ’ on matters relating to cemetery maintenance ! |
| 9 | The poor physical conditions under which many teachers have to work may be difficult enough , but their problems are compounded by the gulf which has developed in many schools between teachers and pupils , and the low regard in which teachers are held . |
| 10 | HAVING considered the tort of nuisance , we now turn to a further tort which had its origins in nuisance but which has developed in such a way that it is now quite distinct from it . |
| 11 | So far as the scope of the duty in the offences of assault , resistance and obstruction is concerned , the law has developed in such a way that the obligation is not confined to duties stricto sensu , i.e. something that the officer is compelled by law to do . |
| 12 | It has developed in two ways . |
| 13 | Since the heyday of the Chicago School , though , there has developed in urban sociology ( and , arguably , in sociology more generally ) a major gulf between these two kinds of understanding . |
| 14 | Most serious of all , the centre 's backbone — the directors of various state-owned enterprises — has broken in two . |
| 15 | Why invent a mystery force that magically knows how hard to pull on everything to make them go round the same path when you could say that everything has to go in that curved path because that is how the space itself is curved ? |
| 16 | Right let's super , now then what else needs to go in this floating one ? |
| 17 | good boy that 's lovely , wood , cork , plasticine , plastic spoon , sponge , I think the cork actually needs to go in this one , so what happens when we put the cork in , can you remember ? |
| 18 | Methods of contraception and details of the menstrual cycle — whether it has altered in any way , how regular it is — will be asked , and also details of the symptoms , if any , that prompted attendance . |
| 19 | The Editor has commented in previous editions of ‘ NG ’ that graduates of the former University College , Nottingham ( the University before it received its charter in 1948 ) and people who hold external Nottingham degrees are regarded as members of Convocation just as are those who have obtained their degrees after study on the Nottingham campus . |
| 20 | Budhoo asserts that the IMF and World Bank are key elements in an economic order that is deepening Third World poverty , the debt crisis , and a flight of capital from developing to developed countries which has soared in recent decades : in 1986 it amounted to well over $30 billion from the Caribbean and Latin America alone . |
| 21 | The principles and practice of plan making , and the various ways in which government , both local and central , has intervened in environmental affairs , have always been dependent on the context of the time : political , institutional , social , economic and technological . |
| 22 | I can summarise his submissions as follows : ( 1 ) Walker v. Great Northern Railway Co. of Ireland , 28 L.R.Ir. 69 correctly stated the position at English law up to 1976. ( 2 ) As the legislature has intervened in this field it is neither necessary nor appropriate for the judiciary to alter the position at common law . |
| 23 | Just as the old order has fallen in eastern Europe , so it is falling in educational establishment circles in Britain . |
| 24 | But industrial output has fallen in four of the past five months . |
| 25 | However , child benefit has fallen in real value , so there was no justification for reducing the dependency additions . |
| 26 | These comprise several features : employment has fallen in most branches of manufacturing and in some parts of the service sector ; land has been diverted from residential use by office expansion , road construction and slum clearance ; more mobile people have been leaving to escape the poor physical environment and the social problems ; new private house-building has been discouraged by high costs , land hoarding by local authorities and uncertainties about sales potential ; and falling household size has reduced the capacity of the overall housing stock ( Cameron , 1980 ; Evans and Eversley , 1980 ; Kennett and Hall , 1981 ; Lawless , 1981 ) . |
| 27 | The prevalence of dental caries has fallen in both fluoridated and non-fluoridated districts , and the costs of fluoridation plant designed to meet modern operating standards are considerable . |
| 28 | Although conservation measures are understood to have been rigorously applied and economic growth has been sluggish or negative over the past few years , neither energy consumption nor oil consumption has fallen in any significant way in Eastern Europe . |
| 29 | About £1 million has been raised for charity by the display and reproduction of the watercolours which the Prince of Wales has painted in recent years but the exhibition which opens to the public today is his first one-man show in Scotland . |
| 30 | Dust has gathered in inaccessible places , walls have faded and paintwork has subtly changed colour . |