Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb -s] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Junior Books has raised more questions than it has answered and has wide-ranging implications for the nature of obligations arising in both contract and tort . |
| 2 | What you 're working towards here , is obviously to say that they were stopped and that this was the end of the flood , so it 's got to be something , something very major , and something like swirling currents Current , currents or raging waves does do that , I suppose . |
| 3 | The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has warned this will lead to redundancies among architects and quantity surveyors . |
| 4 | The success of the Green Movement over the last few years has left that rather uncomfortable question hanging in the air . |
| 5 | Estimates of the Higgs 's mass can be made from the standard model , and the huge amount of data produced at LEP in the past few years has sharpened such estimates up . |
| 6 | The effects of raw sewage on British beaches has earned much of the country 's coastline condemnation from European inspectors whose tests have shown unacceptably high levels of bacteria . |
| 7 | The special needs of some trainees has led this year to the introduction of the Vocational Access Certificate , Wordpower and Numberpower Certificates . |
| 8 | Britain 's sustained decline in both domestic and foreign markets has triggered much research into the nature of commercial competitiveness . |
| 9 | Whether the commitment from present enrolled nurses exists to make such approaches feasible , and whether there is sufficient financial help available to put them into practice , remains to be seen . |
| 10 | The recent fashion for dubiously coherent theoretical approaches has made little impact , beyond occasional outbursts of rant and cant which no one takes seriously . |
| 11 | At Hastings and Shoreham great erosion of projecting headlands has removed most of the castle of the former and half of the town of New Shoreham at the latter . |
| 12 | CPRE pointed out that 40 UK rivers have been diagnosed as suffering from over-extraction , and removal of water from porous rocks has caused many of them to become sluggish or dry up completely . |
| 13 | Well that 's enough of mechanical problems lets have some questions . |
| 14 | At a more modest level , we can say that legislation on restrictive practices has eliminated many cases of blatant anti-competitive behaviour and that the Director-General of Fair Trading now has powers to promote the provision of better consumer information ( e.g. the Trade Descriptions Act ) and to monitor general company behaviour . |
| 15 | President Rafsanjani 's faction has ensured that a committee set up to vet candidates ' Islamic credentials has eliminated many hardliners , such as Ayatollah Khalkhali , who sentenced thousands to death early in the revolution . |
| 16 | He admits , though , that moving the baton in three dimensions does take some getting used to . |
| 17 | It is partially because of the need to overcome the problems of ocular compatibility that the concept of disposable lenses has found such ready acceptance . |
| 18 | The European Court of Human Rights has left this general question to be dealt with by local law , and the matter is , therefore , one for the discretion of British trial judges . |
| 19 | Helen Cam once suggested that parliamentary petitions may have sprung from the already practised art of the clergy in drafting lists of gravamina , or grievances , which at intervals since 1237 they had submitted to the king for redress ; but G. O. Sayles traces the origin more directly to the legal procedure of bills of complaint submitted to the king 's itinerant justices , and certainly the character of the early parliamentary petitions seems to bear this out : clerical gravamina were corporate complaints directed against general practices rather than particular people and they lacked the specific quality which individual parliamentary petitions naturally displayed . |
| 20 | But although voting behaviour in national elections has received most attention , many other forms of political activity have also become more locally differentiated . |
| 21 | With the movement towards churchyard burial in the early eighth century , one of the last great sources of information about early Saxons , the pagan cemetery , was lost to archaeologists ; the overlay of later burials has destroyed much of the evidence of early Christian Sussex . |
| 22 | Any account of these milestones has to bear both applications in mind . |
| 23 | The weight of advertising put behind major brands has given these manufacturers influence over their distributive outlets . |
| 24 | The advent of user-centred computing , automatic transaction generation and distributed networks in many organisations has removed much of the natural segregation of duties which occurred in traditional accounting systems environments . |
| 25 | The second , however , is that the physical arrangement of grouping in primary classrooms has acquired such a powerful doctrinal status that no other arrangement is even entertained . |
| 26 | The ability to maintain physical and mental powers has allowed some individuals to pursue their chosen careers regardless of their age . |
| 27 | Even more unfortunately many professionals seems to encourage this by taking on ‘ ownership ’ of the children 's problems in the cases they deal with . |
| 28 | A preoccupation with the unification of England , however , in which the desire to unify was perceived as a guiding factor in a succession of early but powerful kings has channelled much of the study of pre-Viking history into too narrow an appreciation of political activity in the several kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy . |
| 29 | Generally speaking , the evidence from the major towns has attracted most attention in the literature , but recent syntheses of the material from the small towns have begun to redress the balance . |
| 30 | The discovery of many new facts and new types of agnathans with hitherto unknown anatomical features has questioned some of our traditional ideas . |