Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [verb] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , most recent work into the psychological attitude of people as to whether areas are urban or rural has used multivariate techniques . |
| 2 | Headlines about local councils demolishing blocks of flats 10 years old or younger have become commonplace in the past four years . |
| 3 | Built in Test ( BITE ) where available has helped diagnostic procedures a great deal , but problems still remain . |
| 4 | The ferocious-looking spines , which seem almost too large for the central animal , are mostly attached , but one or two have come adrift . |
| 5 | The furniture , the pictures , the loved knick-knacks , all told their story of a lifetime spent together in this small community where both had played useful parts . |
| 6 | that that 's gone wrong because he 's a do-it |
| 7 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 8 | In the case-studies of 15 boards it was clear that half had made significant progress . |
| 9 | It therefore follows , in our judgment , that although this has gone unnoticed for 119 years , the jurisdiction of the judges as visitors , in so far as it relates to questions as to the fitness of persons to become or remain barristers , is a jurisdiction which in 1873 was vested in the judges of the three common law courts , sitting elsewhere than in court or chambers , when acting as judges , in pursuance of custom . |
| 10 | We have overcome numerous technical problems and it is thanks to the commitment and expertise of all our people and those who have supplied their services to the PFR that this has proved possible ’ . |
| 11 | As far as their training and qualifications were concerned , one-third had no qualifications at all and less than half had obtained basic school qualifications . |
| 12 | Most reviews concern departmental activities , although some have examined cross-departmental work ( such as government forms and property management ) . |
| 13 | He lets out a piercing giggle that many have called infectious , but honestly , I would n't want to catch it . |
| 14 | Although Trusts only came into operation in April ninety one , the evidence suggests that many , that many have improved patient services in many w many areas waiting lists have been cut through greater efficiency and increased use of day surgery . |
| 15 | From a random group of 45 ( out of 90 ) county court judges and 24 ( out of 48 ) stipendiaries , he found that 52 had attended public schools ( 75 per cent ) and 56 Oxford or Cambridge ( 81 per cent ) . |
| 16 | Fewer than one-fifth of respondents had experienced upward mobility and slightly fewer than one-tenth had experienced downward mobility . |
| 17 | An international review of evaluated programmes published in 1978 concluded that most of these early programmes failed to influence smoking behaviour ( although several had achieved educational objectives such as improving knowledge and understanding of the relation between smoking and disease ) . |
| 18 | Newcastle and Glasgow would Appear to be in a somewhat better position , for although both have lost substantial numbers of jobs in manufacturing , a more optimistic picture has emerged in the late 1980s , based on public — private-sector investment and cultural developments . |
| 19 | Would have thought that Forrester 's value would have gone up after Saturdays double strike — and Whelan 's worth more than that , although both have had limited exposure unless you happen to be a Leeds fan . |
| 20 | Previously performed colonoscopy and/or barium enema had shown that seven had had total colitis , one patient had disease affecting the transverse colon , and three patients distal colitis — that is , the most proximal extension was below the splenic flexure . |
| 21 | Oh , very often my wife goes out and digs one up on Christmas Eve and that has happened regular . |
| 22 | And er on the M forty between junctions four and five between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , there are two narrow lanes in both direction with a contraflow system at Boulter End which might add to the confusion , and that 's got single line traffic running both ways . |
| 23 | Whilst the smallest kind of town can only have served as a market point , those with populations exceeding 500 usually provided more extensive services to their localities , and some had developed specialised manufactures even if on a modest scale . |
| 24 | These had been regular church-goers in the Caribbean but had not felt at home in the more restrained worship of the British churches , and some had felt cold-shouldered by the white members . |
| 25 | POLLUTION inspectors measuring emissions from cars and trucks in the Philippine city of Davao have found their hairlines receding and some have gone bald , the Manila Times newspaper said yesterday . |
| 26 | Of sympatric species , those flowering together deposit pollen on different parts of the bat body , thus avoiding interspecific pollination , and some have staggered flowering times . |
| 27 | Some have developed lusty connections with industries of one sort or another , and some have developed special international relationships . |
| 28 | ‘ After a longer period , donors and patients sometimes meet and some have become great friends . ’ |
| 29 | Instead of lengthening their bodies , like the caecilians , they have shortened it , their vertebrae having become fused together , and far from losing their legs , they have developed them enormously , and some have become prodigious leapers . |
| 30 | Considerable enthusiasm has been shown by the Association 's Areas , and some have initiated fund-raising to develop further Eagle Lodges . |