Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus even the earliest and most modest collection of phrase structure rules would have been pregnant with new output ; and as the rules became entrenched so too would innovative effort and diagnostic insight become more relaxed and automatic , as words appeared newly combined in well-understood syntactic contexts . |
| 2 | The cost of claims for theft particularly in the larger towns and cities has increased quite noticeably . |
| 3 | Since then , as has previously been noted for interregional migration , the composition of migration streams from the cities has become even more highly skewed towards the better-off . |
| 4 | Now that Microsoft has launch it 's rival TrueType font family , and embedded the same in Windows 3.10 , Adobe 's price for PostScript fonts has become far more reasonable — lets hope this co-incidence continues . |
| 5 | The use of health services by the different socio-economic groups has become slightly less unequal during this period . |
| 6 | Roosevelt , at the beginning of the 1930s and at the height of World War II , may have briefly approached such a position of pre-eminence , but none of his successors has come even close to such a situation . |
| 7 | Further , the arms race between the superpowers has escalated still more . |
| 8 | Originally the Irish FA considered spending the entire period on tour but making the two trips has proved more financially viable . |
| 9 | To stick to the motor car analogy , the design of cars has improved more rapidly because a designer can incorporate in a single design a synchromesh gearbox that originated in one model with fuel injection that originated in another . |
| 10 | The debate among trade union tutors has concentrated almost entirely upon the content and organisation of the TUC day-release scheme . |
| 11 | The second of these aspects has emerged only relatively recently in the published literature on the postwar Labour government , but it is now a commonplace , certainly among Imperial and colonial historians . |
| 12 | The resulting emphasis on personalism and personalised relationships has become very much a feature of social life in the New World , too . |
| 13 | The text of warranties has become much longer because solicitors have included very many specific warranties as well as general warranties . |
| 14 | The remedies adopted reflected very strongly the work of Heath 's backroom team of the late sixties and were intended to ‘ remove the need for continual changes for a considerable period in the future ’ . |
| 15 | The bedrooms get used more often . |
| 16 | ‘ I tend to think , ’ says Harriet , ‘ teachers in state schools get paid pretty well . |
| 17 | ‘ But it was n't two teenagers getting married so quickly , it was two grownups , well into their thirties . |
| 18 | The full list of schools to have entered so far is : Harton Comprehensive School , South Shields ; Ian Ramsey School , Hartburn , Stockton ; Sedgefield Community College , Sedgefield ; Boroughbridge High School , Boroughbridge ; Greencroft Comprehensive School , Stanley ; Lanchester St Bede 's Comprehensive School , Lanchester ; Filey School , Filey ; Hermitage Comprehensive School , Chester-le-Street ; Ferryhill Comprehensive School , Ferryhill ; Scalby School , Newby , Scarborough ; Brackenhole School , Middlesbrough ; Hedworthfield Comprehensive School , Jarrow ; Royal Grammar School , Newcastle . |
| 19 | Mme Guérigny 's brothers had done quite well for themselves not far from Paris , and she , too , wanted to acquire a better standard of living , and some sort of training , possibly , for the two young people . |
| 20 | Our offices had expanded very rapidly from 1986 onwards and we had to increase our production capacity here and we were finding it very difficult to recruit trained sewing machinists . |
| 21 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |
| 22 | This is a view both parties had taken very seriously . |
| 23 | In the wake of the battle , things were very dangerous for Peden and his supporters ; the Dragoons had become even more ruthless and what were to become known as The Killing Times had begun . |
| 24 | Not quickly enough , however , and once again the night was split by flame and thunder as fire-sticks had roared terrifyingly close to them . |
| 25 | By this time the law relating to the protection of the king 's deer within the ‘ purlieus ’ or forest outskirts had become more clearly defined . |
| 26 | Hankin added : ‘ I think fans have waited long enough for an outstanding performance at home . |
| 27 | The limes have survived that long because of the technique of coppicing . |
| 28 | For one thing , teaching and examination styles have changed dramatically lower down the school system . |
| 29 | ‘ The two schools have worked extremely closely together . |
| 30 | And it would be another 55 years before an Australian team paused much longer than to browse the bazaars , while the nations have met just once in Test cricket on the island , in 1983 . |