Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , women felt a responsibility to remain locked into that system of kin support in a way not replicated for men , who were more at liberty to ‘ get better jobs , migrate , emigrate and abrogate all responsibility for parents and siblings ’ ( ibid . |
| 2 | But his plans became known in cricketing circles and Gooch told senior England tour party officials about the break-up at a Sussex hotel before his team flew to India on Monday from Gatwick Airport . |
| 3 | The air above and beyond the ridge became filled with wind-swirled smoke and the echoes of distant blasts . |
| 4 | When William left school at about the age of twelve , he hoped to become a gardener but his skin became inflamed with constant outdoor work . |
| 5 | A few days later , the storm became so violent that sheep became buried in six-foot drifts of snow , and the camera recorded farmers scrabbling down with their hands to release buried sheep , pin-pointed by amazingly perceptive border collies . |
| 6 | Nobody really minded — Mum exchanged 2 recipes and my silly wee sister got invited to 3 parties . |
| 7 | If there is to be a completion audit and the consideration is to be assessedor adjusted based upon this audit — which is often the case with an asset sale — what is the point of this warranty ? |
| 8 | As Windmüller ( 1984 ) has shown , employers ' associations were then further consolidated and entrenched during the interwar period ( although there were some marked exceptions ) since collective bargaining became institutionalised in this period in many countries . |
| 9 | For the eleventh and twelfth centuries new estates developed centred on new caputs the castles and monasteries of Norman England , with their lands spread across the landscape in manors and vills . |
| 10 | For example , at Risley the National Centre for Tribology became established in 1968 . |
| 11 | All amphibians shed their skin from time to time , but because the burrowing frog remains immobile once it is inside its burrow and cocoon formation has begun , the successive layers of shed skin remain attached to each other . |
| 12 | In fact , this technique has led to some of my most successful parties where the parents join in and participate in the proceedings . |
| 13 | Pressure of numbers impinges on every facet of the prison system , and in some institutions has resulted in overcrowded conditions that would not have been tolerated a century earlier . |
| 14 | Rosemary Radford Ruether has worked in this way within Catholicism and the American ‘ Woman-church ’ movement . |
| 15 | Historically , Johnson Matthey has operated in continental Europe through a network of selling companies in each of the major markets . |
| 16 | As a result of the general squeeze over the past year ITN has turned to additional revenue raisers . |
| 17 | Puma has introduced for 1992 a new concept in shoe comfort , the Puma Disc system . |
| 18 | More intensive agriculture has led to increased concentrations of nitrate in groundwater in many areas . |
| 19 | * The British Agrochemicals Association claims that the use of chemicals in agriculture has declined from 33,000 tons per weight of active ingredient in 1983 to 24,000 tons in 1990 . |
| 20 | This is despite the fact that organic agriculture has expanded by 150 per cent over the last three years , to its present total of 125,000 acres — equivalent to 0.2 per cent of total agricultural land . |
| 21 | Shifting agriculture is not in itself environmentally harmful , as is evidenced by the long and generally successful history that this type of agriculture has enjoyed in tropical regions . |
| 22 | I am sure that West Yorkshire will welcome any assistance that the schemes can give , and will also appreciate that its rate support grant has increased by 16 per cent. , but that does not mean that it can bring its force up to the required standard . |
| 23 | He was a typical projector of the period , and he also had gifts as a writer , though some of his projects appear wrapped in airy rhetoric : only his colonizing plans are of enduring interest . |
| 24 | Spinnaker Software Corp has turned in second quarter net profits down 8.1% at $614,603 , on turnover that fell 9.5% to $8.2m ; mid-term net fell 96% to $314,422 , on turnover that fell 3.6% at $14.7m . |
| 25 | Read-Rite Corp has turned in second quarter net profits up 67.5% at $18.8m , on turnover that rose 59.5% to $150.2m ; mid-term net rose 79.5% to $36m , on turnover up 78.7% to $289.7m . |
| 26 | V Band Corp has turned in first quarter net losses of $442,000 up from losses of $281,000 last time , on turnover that dropped by 13.5% to $5.3m . |
| 27 | AllTel Corp has turned in first quarter net profit up 27.3% at $63.2m , on turnover up 8.1% to $546.7m . |
| 28 | Exabyte Corp has turned in first quarter net profit down 48.9% at $6m , on turnover up 0.1% to $76.2m . |
| 29 | Mentor Graphics Corp has turned in first quarter net losses of $4.3m against profits of $1.2m last time , on turnover that fell by 17.5% to $82.6m . |
| 30 | Easel Corp has turned in first quarter net losses of $489,606 against profits of $769,975 last time , on turnover that fell by 26.4% to $6.7m . |