Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1990 , by which time he had moved to become manager of West Ham , Macari became embroiled in financial scandals dating back to his years at Swindon and eventually ended in the newly promoted club being relegated from the First Division to the Third , a draconian punishment which was partially decreased on appeal . |
| 2 | ( The Japanese , who once provoked riots , tend to invest in higher-tech operations and are seen as relatively generous . ) |
| 3 | Clovers , being of prostrate habit , tend to thrive in close-cropped swards . |
| 4 | Her hair was drawn back , skilfully arranged to fall in loose waves from a gold clasp . |
| 5 | Many plants are common to both disciplines , but the manner in which they are prescribed differs in many instances . |
| 6 | And those voltage gated channels predominate predominate in excitable tissues . |
| 7 | All members of the company ( though not its secretary ) must be qualified solicitors , and there are special provisions to apply when a member dies or is struck off the roll or otherwise loses his qualification to practise , which in essence provide that such member 's shares become non-voting so long as they remain registered in unqualified hands , and only qualified solicitors will be able to vote as proxies . |
| 8 | And it also served to draw stings : it ensured the main issue got cloaked in unimportant wranglings . |
| 9 | Not much , says Mr Day , and he predicts that smaller firms that do n't want to work in regulated areas will break away from the Institute and set up in practice as plain accountants . |
| 10 | you 're first taught to write in small letters , these crosswords or as they print most crosswords in erm capital letters , and of course you do n't recognize them do you ? |
| 11 | D-i-y kits tend to come in separate sections , forming two sides of each arch , one on each side of the wall , sometimes with a separate soffit section which can be used for wider walls . |
| 12 | Cones tend to come in two shapes — some , either cardboard or plastic , with a pointed top and others with a gap of about one to one and a half inches at the top . |
| 13 | They tend to come in large groups , but there are singletons and couples as well . |
| 14 | Hundreds of riot police on Nov. 2 clashed with students in Dhaka protesting against recent legislation to curb cheating in final exams . |
| 15 | Erm , the storage binder , we , we , er , anticipate that you of course , will wind up with shelves full of storage binders housing various diaries , and you 'll want to know in ten years ' time , which storage binder has your nineteen ninety-four diary , erm , that 's what that label is for . |
| 16 | Slugs tend to concentrate in such refuges , presumably because they give protection from desiccation . |
| 17 | Those of my constituents who are members of the police force — both uniformed and civilian — and those in the constituencies of my hon. Friends are absolute saints to continue to work in such circumstances with bravery , courage , commitment and cheerfulness . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It has developed in two ways . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And that was the sort of level of detail to which we thought we might need to go in those districts where it is demonstrated to us , of the district do need to be considered differently . |