Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assumption that the rate of technical advance is exogenous has meant that tax policy affected only the steady-state levels of the capital-labour ratio , wages , etc . |
| 2 | The particularly complicated editorial and keying work on volume 8 of the Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired since 1925 has made substantial progress this year ; the catalogue description is finished and the disc has been sent to HMSO , while work on the index is at an advanced stage . |
| 3 | Oh , she 's got all the answers up her sleeve I expect , but that has caused tremendous debt charges , which , at the moment , have to be paid , and whether we could find a private operator to take them on or not I do n't know , but private operators operate throughout the country and in many other of the districts within the county of Oxfordshire , and they operate efficiently and do just as good a job as the City Council are doing in the present situation . |
| 4 | That has provoked more paperwork , or at least strongly supportive letters to him from complete strangers in higher education , schools and the health service . |
| 5 | Mrs. Brooks continued : ‘ Perhaps it is the re-routeing of the old A31 that has left some confusion as to the designation of this stretch of London Road . |
| 6 | Instead they took on the passivity of the adored object in an equation — homosexual desire translated into female adoration — that has haunted English pop ever since from the Beatles through the Bay City Rollers to Wham ! ; as one of Wham 's managers , Simon Napier-Bell , makes explicit in his memoir of the sixties : |
| 7 | Okay , but I just wanted to go on to say that I think in reviewing how the budget may be brought more closely under control in the coming year , officers will need to look at the erm size of the committees because we are working with committees at the moment that are larger than those committees which used to exist when this year 's budget was set and that has had some impact and we need to have the implications of any change of committee size whether that might affect the budget , how that would affect the budget , also whether there is any potential for reducing the number of committees further and also whether the rates might be changed , I particularly would like officers to report on what , whether there would be any significant saving from er setting the rates at the round figures they were at a couple of years ago erm |
| 8 | Will he agree that inward investment is due to the activities of the Welsh Development Agency , some of the lowest wages in Britain and high levels of skills , and that it is the quality of the Welsh work force as much as anything else that has brought inward investment into Wales ? |
| 9 | Process technician : ‘ I have learned three new skills and that has meant more money . |
| 10 | But all that has changed this year . |
| 11 | If they 're performing below standard , we 've got a gap performance gap , that needs training good identification of training , but identifying exactly where they are performing and how . |
| 12 | On the subject of batsmen and short-pitched bowling ; none apparently has been game enough to demand a fuller length , especially as this involves addressing such request to the likes of Denzil , Balfour or Elconn . |
| 13 | This involves recording one line of music ( the ‘ backing ’ or ‘ rhythm ’ track ) , which is then played back to the musician while a second line is added . |
| 14 | This involves selling more government securities and thereby reducing banks ' reserves when their customers pay for them from their bank accounts . |
| 15 | This involves keeping one concession in reserve to use as the final push towards agreement : ‘ If you are willing to place an order now , I 'm willing to offer an extra 2½ per cent discount . ’ |
| 16 | This involves giving legal advice to ministers and implementing government decisions , as well as prosecuting those who contravene regulations . |
| 17 | This has created more food for everybody and , therefore , created more food that is available to feed animals . |
| 18 | This has kept mass tourism at bay . |
| 19 | This has given large capital gains to many people , but also a misleading picture about the ‘ ease of making money ’ . |
| 20 | This has given fresh impetus to European Community moves to base a levy on carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 21 | This has aroused considerable interest in recent years . |
| 22 | This has generated forceful opposition . |
| 23 | This has generated considerable concern about the ethnographic experience itself , and specifically about the subjective nature of the process . |
| 24 | This has gone all wonkey , someone 's moved it ! |
| 25 | This has caused much debate and emotion . |
| 26 | This has caused great alarm among the young men in the western half of the city , many of whom moved to Berlin to avoid going insane with boredom in a Bundeswehr barracks . |
| 27 | One of the problems is that we have not found a way of doing it cheaply , and this has caused great anxiety . ’ |
| 28 | However , an event which followed this has caused genuine horror among museum staff and the public at large . |
| 29 | This has caused some concern as peaceful demonstrators may be prevented from marching because of the threat posed by a potentially disruptive counter-demonstration . |
| 30 | In the late l9th century it was apparently a normal party-piece to imitate a well-known literary figure , signing-off with the name of the victim ; this has caused some confusion today , where recordings ‘ signed off ’ by Sir Henry Irving and Oscar Wilde now have their authenticity questioned . |