Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boesky 's cooperation with the regulatory authorities has resulted in a number of other SEC investigations . |
| 2 | The Sunday Times has called in an Oxford historian to help with its serialisation of the Goebbels diaries . |
| 3 | The agent has to fill in the financial returns has to send in a report of financial expenditure . |
| 4 | ‘ Is nice , ’ said Adam , lapsing into broken English like foreigners tend to do in a strange land . |
| 5 | So , if the clients want to invest in a fund , they can do . |
| 6 | The resulting clash of styles has resulted in a forthright , moody range of sensations certainly capable of setting your teeth on edge , if not grinding away in your sleep . |
| 7 | The role of small scale production units has increased in a number of industries . |
| 8 | A ban on the use of lead fishing weights has resulted in a record increase in the number of mute swans in Britain . |
| 9 | The combination of repossessions and building companies ' inability to sell their newly built homes has resulted in an estimated 200,000 properties standing unoccupied . |
| 10 | The excessive and unrestricted use of pesticides has resulted in a worrying number of cases of acute and chronic pesticide poisoning among Central American peasants . |
| 11 | However , the gain in yields has resulted in a loss of conformation and there is now a hunt for suitable beef sires to boost the dairy herd 's waning meat production . |
| 12 | These ratings seemed to vary in a way which was related to variables such as the amount of traffic present in the situation and estimated risk . |
| 13 | It is the basis for a range of ocean-going ferries and cargo vessels that Japanese shipbuilders hope to sell in a decade 's time . |
| 14 | Much more promising avenues are opened up by those schools of thought that combine a description of the structure of texts with an account of the knowledge and attitudes that readers bring with them and of the process to which they subject them : some versions of structuralism ; and phenomenological and related theories , which study the process by which readers create meaning in a text with much more attention to the text itself than Richards ever allowed . |
| 15 | She felt her pulses begin to beat in a different rhythm . |
| 16 | She smiled up at him valiantly , the smile fading as his eyes began to darken in a way she recognised . |
| 17 | Of particular interest were the methods employed to land in a crosswind approaching crabbed with the nose as far into-wind as possible while maintaining the centreline of the runway . |
| 18 | There are also major problems with compaction and the abandoned ranches become covered in a stunted tangle of indigenous pioneers and exotics . |
| 19 | Instead of a single central processor autocratically controlling a whole computation , large numbers of autonomous computing units cooperate to arrive in a communal state which reflects the outcome of the computation . |
| 20 | Lori 's cat-like eyes had narrowed in a way Paige remembered only too well . |
| 21 | She laughed shrilly , seeing the way his eyes had darkened in a way that made the breath lodge hard and heavy in her throat . |
| 22 | National statistics released this week showed the cost of vandalism and arson attacks on schools had doubled in a year from £60m. to £120m . |
| 23 | For a long moment their eyes remained locked in a fierce battle , until Ace 's image began to shimmer in a sort of haze in front of her , then , quite without warning , Kate passed out ; a great wave of blackness overwhelmed her , pushing all hurt and troubled feelings aside . |
| 24 | The applications of computers to other subjects have resulted in a significant commitment to computing in those subjects , but the subject of Computer Science itself remains at the centre : ‘ systematic approaches to the development of computer based systems ( hardware and software ) ’ . |
| 25 | Between the extremes stand the work of Ewan and Fiona McLachlan whose designs have featured in a recent RIBA Forty under 40 exhibition . |
| 26 | During the past few years , relationships between the CNAA and the polytechnics have developed in a number of ways , including the changes in validation arrangements described earlier in this chapter . |
| 27 | Two brothers have appeared in an Irish court in connection with the Swindon body in the loft murder . |
| 28 | A combination of ideal weather conditions and careful management of protected sites has resulted in a record breeding season for several of Britain 's rarest bird species , according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) . |
| 29 | Among primates , especially close collaboration between parents has developed in a few forest-dwelling animals as diverse as gibbons on the one hand and the tiny marmosets on the other . |
| 30 | A doctor certified him dead at the scene after his body was cut free from the wreckage , which rescuers found embedded in a tree . |