Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his plans became known in cricketing circles and Gooch told senior England tour party officials about the break-up at a Sussex hotel before his team flew to India on Monday from Gatwick Airport . |
| 2 | There were significant age effects in both tasks on these items , and many of the children in the two younger age groups failed to distinguish between deductive and empirical items and treated them all as if they were empirical items . |
| 3 | Groups tend to move through four different stages on their way to becoming effective in the sense described . |
| 4 | Dolphin groups tend to travel in specific formations , exhibiting refined and developed skills in working and cc-operating as a group . |
| 5 | Some anorexics combine fasting with occasional binges , followed by self-induced purging or vomiting . |
| 6 | For the eleventh and twelfth centuries new estates developed centred on new caputs the castles and monasteries of Norman England , with their lands spread across the landscape in manors and vills . |
| 7 | The gradings recommended for coarse aggregates arranged according to specified nominal diameters in BS 882:1973 are indicated in Fig. 3.14 and those for the four zones of fine aggregates of BS 812 : 1975 in Fig. 3.15 . |
| 8 | A substantial number of miscible blends have now been discovered using this principle and it is possible to identify certain groups or repeat units , which when incorporated in polymer chains tend to enter into these intermolecular interactions and enhance the miscibility . |
| 9 | Guerilla campaigns and non-established religions tend to operate in this way . |
| 10 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 11 | Because these three associated religions appear to have in common the belief in one transcendent personal creator , it is often assumed that they all believe in the same God . |
| 12 | Pressure of numbers impinges on every facet of the prison system , and in some institutions has resulted in overcrowded conditions that would not have been tolerated a century earlier . |
| 13 | He was a typical projector of the period , and he also had gifts as a writer , though some of his projects appear wrapped in airy rhetoric : only his colonizing plans are of enduring interest . |
| 14 | Visits from archivists and librarians to study the holdings of local maps has led to useful contacts as well as to the provision of further photocopies to the local archive and library services . |
| 15 | Since the introduction of a differential fee , however , the number of visits in Berkshire undertaken by deputies has dropped by more than half , yet overall numbers have risen steeply . |
| 16 | It will question NAB 's assertion that the value of the brewery operations has fallen to such a level that asset-backed loans are in jeopardy . |
| 17 | This experience is reflected across the county where the number of criminal cases has fallen by ten percent in the last three years . |
| 18 | Over time the proportion preferring ‘ caring ’ to ‘ tough ’ policies has increased by one-third and the ‘ carers ’ are now in a substantial majority . |
| 19 | In a recent study of all Higher Education Institutions it has become quite clear that the main impetus towards Equal Opportunity Policies has come from female members of staff or particular unions representing female members ( CRE , unpublished ) . |
| 20 | Indeed , this has already been observed in Scandinavia and North America : for example , Cogbill and Likens ( 1974 ) suggest that the proportion contributed by nitrates has increased from 22 per cent in the mid 1950s to its present value of over 30 per cent . |
| 21 | Although income from investments has increased by 22.3 per cent , pre-tax revenues fell 9 per cent to £180,000 — mainly because of higher interest charges on borrowings . |
| 22 | From September 1981 the music course for professional performers has qualified for mandatory awards , the Welsh College of Music and Drama being one of a small number of specialist music centres in the UK to be so designated . |
| 23 | A coherent strategy for retrospective conversion has not been attempted for the UK ( although it is known that there are stirrings of such an initiative in a European context , involving the British Library ) and lack of institutional funding for such unglamorous activities has ensured at best a piecemeal approach . |
| 24 | Much of the interest in the recent past in job enrichment programmes has sprung from this and other work by Herzberg . |
| 25 | Higher taxes : the overall proportion of national income taken in taxes has risen from 34.75 per cent in 1978 to 37 per cent , despite Norman Lamont 's protestations to the contrary . |
| 26 | Although the number of cases of infectious syphilis seen in genitourinary medicine clinics has fallen since 1981 , the rate of fall slowed in 1988 ( fig 1 ( bottom ) ) . |
| 27 | Similarly Detwyler ( 1971 ) collected previously published papers to produce Man 's Impact on Environment and the Association of American Geographers Commission on College Geography conceived a collection of essays devoted to research on environmental problems ( Manners and Mikesell , 1974 ) . |
| 28 | The establishment of sickle cell centres in many cities has led to increased awareness of the condition and greatly improved care for sufferers , and much of the credit for this must go to the dedicated nurses , health visitors and counsellors involved . |
| 29 | Conservative policy on the inner cities has diverged in some ways from the earlier policies of the 1970s , especially in shifting away from social and environmental programmes towards an emphasis on economic and enterprise-generating ones . |
| 30 | A Devon family has previously been reported in which a female in three successive generations has presented with multiple polyps requiring repeated surgery over a number of years . |