Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The uncertainty of such stop-go policies arguably reduced business confidence and discouraged investment . |
| 2 | Group sales director Roger Little presented production directors ( Alexandra ) and ( Imperial ) with specially-inscribed Black Basalt items at the presentation ceremony . |
| 3 | The higher profile can only result in more visitors to the existing steam railway operation , and therefore to the Bodmin area as a whole , as well as present much needed employment opportunities . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By scheduling rationalization to avoid compulsory redundancies and by offering employment security in return for skill flexibility , Pilkingtons purposefully mobilized workforce commitment to the change process . |
| 6 | In the past , this practice effectively promoted endowment contracts as borrowers were encouraged to combine protection with investment . |
| 7 | Anyone who has given online demonstrations and experienced systems breakdown , will appreciate the advantage of having alternative ready prepared demonstration material ! |
| 8 | The successful candidates largely represented business interests and called for closer ties with China . |
| 9 | The Economist and Les Echo both recorded record circulations once again , and Recolleters that 's our partnership in Spain , as you will recall er , their profits continued to buck the trends in a very tough market . |
| 10 | Our study also examined press reporting of discussion about sex crimes , for instance around official reports and attempts to change the law . |
| 11 | Inspectors also found listeria contamination in pre-packed ham bought from Sainsbury 's in Cowley . |
| 12 | Don Adamson received a letter out of the blue from an Australian trying to trace an old army buddy also called Don Adamson . |
| 13 | Manufacturers mainly performed product engineering work to improve manufacturability . |
| 14 | Towards the end of the colonial period , missionary schools increasingly received government grants , and some government schools for blacks were established in urban areas . |
| 15 | In specimens of inflamed mucosa , vascular endothelium strongly reduced nitroblue tetrazolium ( Fig ( C ) ) , but in the control mucosa , reduction was weak or absent ( Fig ( B ) ) . |
| 16 | The request for missionaries initially meant church planters . |
| 17 | On Pecham 's death in December 1292 the Canterbury chapter unanimously elected Robert Winchelsey in February 1293 , probably with the king 's good will , but because the papacy was then vacant the archbishop-elect was not consecrated until September 1294 and only arrived in England in January 1295 . |
| 18 | The Master of the Merchant Venturers graciously made Merchants Hall available for these dinners , the first of which was organised for the Faculty of Medicine . |
| 19 | Mark Stein then replaced Martin Foyle and United had two good chances ; in seventieth minute , a great move involving Magilton and Simpson , set up Durning . |
| 20 | In the silver mines of Laurium , where about 10,000 Greek slaves were employed , slave labour completely replaced wage labour . |
| 21 | This nicotinic receptor blocker significantly influenced fluid transport in the inflamed intestines ( Table II , Fig 2 ) — fluid absorption was increased or fluid secretion was significantly decreased in six of nine experiments ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 22 | Tumber generally praised media personnel for adopting a responsible attitude in their reporting . |
| 23 | The Oxford Diocese overwhelmingly endorsed women priests in a poll last year . |
| 24 | Telephone search nets long lost twin sister |
| 25 | Despite the fact that Aubrey 's topographical manuscript Monumenta Britannica was not published in his own lifetime ( although parts have been published subsequently ) , the manuscript greatly influenced William Stukeley ( 1687–1765 ) who carried out extensive fieldwork , particularly in southern England . |
| 26 | Gardens normally surrounded village dwellings . |
| 27 | Sir Leon Brittan tells a famous story of how the Chancellor once raised interest rates half an hour after the Bundesbank , and uses this to illustrate that ‘ British sovereignty lasted for 30 minutes ’ . |
| 28 | In April Cuba also jammed Radio Martí , which had begun transmission in 1985 [ see p. 33917 ] . |
| 29 | Various state bodies such as the North Western Health Board and the County Fisheries Committee also discussed uranium mining . |
| 30 | The Kuchma reform plan also embraced exchange control over all foreign currencies , an overhaul of the tax system , a salary freeze , the cutting of subsidies to loss-making industries , high interest rates and new incentives for agricultural development . |