Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb -s] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the disappearance of Mallory and Irvine over 50 years before , what happened in the next few hours or days has remained one of the mountain 's unfathomable secrets . |
| 2 | I assure the hon. Gentleman that Customs continues to monitor international flights into the airport . |
| 3 | The terminology of fractions and strata has proved popular amongst Marxists because it provides a framework with which divisions within the working class and capitalists can be analysed . |
| 4 | Ecuador 's Ministry of Energy and Mines has granted provisional approval for the project in spite of local and international objection . |
| 5 | Whereas the long-term significance of human activity upon plants and animals and soil characteristics and distributions has provided one research focus , in climatology the emphasis has perhaps been more evident on a spatial scale with the impact of human activity first appreciated at the local scale but then subsequently extended to the meso and thence to the world scale . |
| 6 | A strong cycle of alternating booms and slumps has affected all types of residential , industrial and commercial development in Britain in the post-war period . |
| 7 | Such indications that young people may not view the CAB as being in touch with their attitudes and problems has prompted many bureaux to devise special outreach projects . |
| 8 | Some notable examples of success to date include improvements to the terephthalic acid plants ; the development of new surfactants ; major extensions to the resins and acrylics ranges using innovatory polymer systems ; fibres with better finishes ; and work on the hot topic of the replacement of chlorofluorocarbons , claimed by some scientists to damage the earth 's ozone layer . |
| 9 | Football in the '90s has inevitably been determined by events off the pitch and the rivalry between Hibs and Hearts has echoed those tunes . |
| 10 | Commenting on the total value of contract work received , Fergus Neil , director of the university 's Industrial and Commercial Development Service ( ICD ) , said : ‘ Our work in supporting members of staff in the pricing and negotiation of research contracts and consultancies continues to show considerable growth in difficult times . |
| 11 | Fortunately , City and Guilds has had considerable experience in this area which will be invaluable in ensuring that the NVQs which it awards represent a national standard of competence , wherever they are gained . |
| 12 | Again as has occurred in the developing countries , the reduction of their former isolation by modern transport and communications has brought new problems , most notably the outflow of young and active people , and the disruption of traditional cultures . |
| 13 | In fact , as film-makers have moved out of the studio and on to location , to achieve more realistic impressions of dramatic situations , the attraction of on-location filming into cities and regions has become big business . |
| 14 | Brazilian monthly inflation has topped 36 per cent and the flight into gold and dollars has produced dramatic leaps in black-market rates . |
| 15 | The ‘ nurturant ’ child-caring relationship that exists between housewives and housewives-to-be serves to make this assimilation more likely than not . |
| 16 | SIR — The association between certain retroviruses and superantigens has provided new insights into the interaction of viruses with the immune system and prompted the idea that HIV might cause , in conjunction with class II genes , cell anergy and depletion of non-infected T cells by encoding a superantigen expressed on activated infected cells . |
| 17 | I have chosen this somewhat tangential approach to teacher training in England and Wales because criteria has become one of the central issues of the current educational debate . |
| 18 | While Engels attempts to meet this point by stating that ‘ the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things ’ the meaning still remains unclear . |