Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs , they were successful and varied for a long time , but all three groups failed to survive the Cretaceous . |
| 2 | But these extensive discussions failed to provide a common area of agreement , mainly because of divergent national interests and unfavourable economic developments such as inflation , recession , and the oil crisis . |
| 3 | Choose styling products formulated to give a natural-looking hold for casual styling . |
| 4 | Many of the most powerful of the British pressure groups tend to have an established relationship with one or other political party . |
| 5 | Americans and Russians sought to outflank the great European shipping routes . |
| 6 | There are a number of reasons why meetings tend to have a poor reputation . |
| 7 | The heterogeneity of labour and the job-specificity of skills tend to create a strong linkage between workers and their employers and , in some cases , cause firms to fill as many of their vacancies as possible by means of internal promotions . |
| 8 | Problems would also be experienced if the authorities sought to control the narrow monetary base : namely , banks ' balances with the Bank of England ( but not cash in tills ) . |
| 9 | In the end , only the action is viable , so that all these essays tend to match the inside ethnography and are nullified by neglect or have any contentious matter treated as ‘ privileged information ’ , for as Templeton ( 1980 : 904 ) argues ‘ the police fear that if you have a better understanding of society , you are in a better position to change it — the very exercise [ they ] are reluctant to engage in ’ . |
| 10 | Enthusiastic attempts to drain wetlands throughout the 1970s and early 1980s have in many cases failed to produce the high-quality farmland which was the object of these expensive exercises . |
| 11 | Visitors saw that same orientation in the recent retrospective of the work of Biennial-alumnus Jean-Michel Basquiat , for which seven catalogue essays sought to transform the profligate drug addict from a middle-class home into a spokesman for the oppressed . |
| 12 | Rugby Union : New rules make scouting a positive option for clubs |
| 13 | The ambivalences generated for many white youth by the attractions of Afro-Caribbean , Afro-American and African musical forms , and their admirations for some aggressive forms of Afro-Caribbean masculinity , have resulted in alliances in particular schools and neighbourhoods between white and Afro Caribbean youth against Asian youth , while in some schools where black white conflicts remain submerged the dominant form of racist insult occurs between different ethnic minority groups , for instance Asian and Afro-Caribbean or Cypriot and Vietnamese ( Cohen , 1987 ) . |
| 14 | In Rome , central areas such as the Piazza di Spagna , Via Condotti and Via Veneto are particularly well decorated , while in Piazza San Pietro [ St. Peter 's Square ] crowds flock to see a big Christmas tree — a gift from Austria — together with a Nativity scene . |
| 15 | Only in the latter days of the town 's life as a centre of county magnificence were any real attempts made to establish an overall urban form and both resulted in failure , at least as financial ventures . |
| 16 | Proposals intended to benefit the rural economy will normally be supported provided that they would not unacceptably detract from the character and appearance and general amenity of the surrounding area . |
| 17 | Surgeons battled in vain for ten hours to try to save the 32-year-old National Clubman 's 250cc champion from Syston , Leics . |
| 18 | The first category includes those small towns where the defences appear to rationalize an extensive urban scatter and to enclose a suitable urban core . |
| 19 | Police have mounted a series of operations to try to catch the rustling gangs , some of whom are thought to travel from various parts of the country . |
| 20 | It is no coincidence that since Sir Peter became Commissioner in 1987 , the relationship between Scotland Yard and London 's 13 Labour authorities has seen a new detente . |
| 21 | They point out that a survey of local authorities has shown a poor level of awareness of food hygiene among many food businesses . |
| 22 | As diverse evidence also indicates that the stars found in star-forming regions lose mass either from their surfaces or from surrounding accretion disks , a causal connection between stellar mass loss and the H-H objects has become a widespread article of faith . |
| 23 | This turnaround of the external accounts has made the domestic performance of the ecomomy look decidedly better than it has been . |
| 24 | Listening to all these personal accounts has had a profound effect on us . |
| 25 | The United states has done a great deal to blur the barrier between the bomb and the watt . |
| 26 | In the educational sphere , the minimum competencies legislation passed by at least 38 states has provided a possible vehicle ( litigation ) for ordinary laymen to demand that certain tasks are fulfilled by the professionals . |
| 27 | THE bloodshed in the Baltic states has polarised the Soviet Union . |
| 28 | The novel Romance can almost be read as a series of definitions designed to emphasise the elusive , personal nature of the word . |
| 29 | If these so-called rugby experts want to relive the monotonous and tedious forward battles that culminated in England 's Grand Slam then they can keep their memories . |
| 30 | projects has done a bloody good selling exercise because he 's convinced these people |