Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time the festival of Christmas had arrived , and both papal and royal courts joined together to celebrate in St Peter 's basilica . |
| 2 | These tendencies became especially marked in the canal mania of the 1790s when , according to an enthusiast in 1796 , " perseverance having vanquished prejudice , the fire of speculation was lighted and canals became the subjects of general conversation " . |
| 3 | SGB 's approach to computerised personnel records therefore incorporated from the start a facility to interrogate the Group computer ( initially an ICL 1300 , later an ICL 1904E and currently a Burroughs 6700 system ) by means of a visual display unit on the desk of the Personnel Manager . |
| 4 | Many partnerships , of course , are characterised by much more superficial , less close relationships between education and business where , crucially , activities remain largely separate from the mainstream activities of both and owned only by those individuals who are involved rather their organisations . |
| 5 | As the army 's innately conservative values became increasingly influenced by ultranationalist thought , the villages from which many soldiers came continued to be seen as fertile areas of support . |
| 6 | Osaka merchants became increasingly specialized in function and their number expanded rapidly . |
| 7 | After a while , the two programmes became strangely blurred into one . |
| 8 | At the same time , most people 's daily lives and face-to-face contacts remain relatively limited to small-scale localities . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , apart from the geographical distribution of general practitioners , there were no explicit policies to equalise either access to or use of services . |
| 10 | Patricof plans to invest further sums in Neill allowing it to make acquisitions on the Continent . |
| 11 | The weights and fuel consumption times given below refer to the larger CV470 . |
| 12 | The bundle she had disturbed eddied a few inches into the deeper water and as Wexford watched , a thin pale hand , lifeless as the agate-veined stones , rose slowly from the sodden cloth , its fingers hanging yet pointing towards him . |
| 13 | But this also means that as the morphology of species matured over great periods of historic time , other forms became more adapted to life on land , while yet others returned to the water to escape the increasing competition . |
| 14 | For the Council , the creation of the new institutions has greatly added to its work , while for the colleges the rigours of course submission and CNAA validation procedures have , in some cases , been traumatic . |
| 15 | However , the proportion of women who are full-time housewives has significantly dropped during the post-war period and , since married women who have paid employment spend less time on housework than those without paid work , this means that overall , there has been a significant decline in the amount of time the average woman will spend doing housework . |
| 16 | The incidence of wage queries has certainly reduced since summer , but the first test of the improvements made will be during the next up-man which is due in early 1993 . |
| 17 | Fears that President Clinton will raise cigarette taxes triggered overnight falls in Philip Morris , and sent BAT 34p lower to 926p , with Rothmans losing 19p to 603p . |
| 18 | Labour 's plans to establish home rule for Scotland will also strengthen the Unionists ' push for decentralised power , cutting across the Anglo-Irish treaty . |
| 19 | The composition of the upper strata has clearly changed since pre-industrial times . |
| 20 | For many , the roads debate therefore rested on measures of speed restriction and road safety , but with 2 million motor cars on British roads in 1939 , and urban congestion a growing problem , this was scarcely a satisfactory situation . |
| 21 | To this must be added the 157,000 temporary houses ( the provision of temporary houses has now come to an end ) , the repair of war-damaged property , and the use of huts and service camps . |
| 22 | The rise of complex , enterprise-wide client/server computing strategies has inevitably lead to demands for a single mechanism that will allow users to access information which resides on databases that may be distributed across a range of hardware platforms . |
| 23 | The rise of complex , enterprise-wide client-server computing strategies has inevitably lead to demands for a single mechanism that will enable users to access information which resides on databases that may be distributed across a range of hardware systems . |
| 24 | It is very characteristic of the Romans that they chose to display in public parades those objects considered particularly suited to the context in which they were won — gods and heroes were explicitly linked to the glory of battle . |
| 25 | We 'll have a little inspection later on to see if any birds has actually doodled on it . |
| 26 | BMC national officer Roger Payne explained that the policy at the BMC is to try and give funding to experienced groups of British climbers attempting the sort of peaks which provide a strong technical challenge but are unlikely to get commercial sponsorship , simply because no-one apart from climbers has ever heard of them . |
| 27 | A growing number of disputes over building contracts has inevitably led to more cases coming before the courts or arbitrators . |
| 28 | Investment in training has increased and our respondents believe that the quality of their audits has significantly improved by a better focusing of audit effort and improved recording of audit evidence . |
| 29 | Moreover , as I have remarked earlier , thinking around the question of what it means to understand cultures has hardly begun in multiculturalism , although there is a wealth of material and debate in cultural studies , social anthropology and philosophy upon which to draw ( cf. |
| 30 | Moreover , the creation of political boundaries in the Sahelian countries during colonial and post-colonial times has actually contributed to the disruption of a carefully regulated system of pastoral movements and pastoral-agricultural symbiosis , leading to environmental deterioration and desertification ( Franke & Chasin 1980 : Ch.3 & p.98 ) . |