Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [vb -s] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Ben Ali had a few minor constitutional changes to offer , but the absence of substantive concessions to the opposition parties has taken some of the gloss off his big day . |
| 2 | But it must be remembered that the process of evolving acceptable accounting standards has taken many years . |
| 3 | The workload is considered such that not even the appointment of a number of additional limited case judges has made much of a dent in it . |
| 4 | Merchants believe there is a psychological barrier at £3 , and although the wild swing in European exchange rates has pushed many French and German wines out of this bracket , most New World economies are suffering as much as if not more than ours , leading to a continued supply of cheap , good quality wine . |
| 5 | The existence of these foreign exchange deposits has created some unusual problems for the Yugoslav banking system , which will be considered further below . |
| 6 | Having three genuine lineout specialists has made all the difference , not to mention Derek Turnbull and , in the Irish match , Alan Watt . |
| 7 | Experimental phonetics has been an important part of phonetics for almost a century , and experimental work in phonetics laboratories has produced many important discoveries about how speech is produced and perceived . |
| 8 | A SPATE of new fixed-rate mortgage schemes has appeared this weekend . |
| 9 | The areas involved are small , but there used to be many unsightly corners in the mining villages near St Austell and , by making improvements here and there , English China Clays has done much to make life more pleasant for local residents . |
| 10 | The number of mental stress claims has increased more than tenfold over the past decade . |
| 11 | CONTROVERSY over pit closures has created some strange bedfellows . |
| 12 | The Rheidol trains are smart and well cared for while the mix of locomotive liveries has brought some much needed added interest . |
| 13 | The Scuds fired so far have done no direct military damage , but the hunt for their launch sites has diverted many allied aircraft from other jobs . |
| 14 | Mr Forsyth 's support for student loans has ensured little support for him on the campus but , that apart , the student vote seems to be as divided as it is in the wider constituency . |
| 15 | The craft of the ivory carvers has attracted more attention . |
| 16 | The relationship between the Hague Convention and the other methods of obtaining evidence abroad provided for in the United States Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and comparable State rules has occupied much judicial time . |
| 17 | Large reserves of foreign currencies would then be required to buy the domestic currency in support operations , but the growth and mobility of capital flows has made most countries accept that such a defence is impractical . |
| 18 | This kind of research about the treatment and academic performance of girls in mixed sex schools has led some feminists to argue in favour of single-sex schooling . |
| 19 | The frequent attention given to the management of river banks has made many unsuitable for the nesting of Kingfishers , and the frequent clearance of marginal vegetation has been to the detriment of species such as the Reed Bunting , Sedge and Reed Warbler . |
| 20 | Moreover , unearthing evidence of such inequality would not cause a pluralist to challenge the basis of his or her analytical approach in the same way that evidence of the influence of non-economically based groups on state decisions has generated much tortuous re-evaluation of basic theory among Marxist scholars . |
| 21 | The intrepid lady traveller Celia Fiennes had a near miss when her horse was nearly sucked into a dyke near Ely in 1698 ; and in the same year she took care to avoid Martin Mere in Lancashire , ‘ that as the proverb sayes has parted many a man and his mare indeed ’ . |
| 22 | Our share of trade in world manufactures has outstripped that of Germany , France , America and Japan . |
| 23 | Its decision to step back from examining the authority 's employment methods has disappointed several party members in the area , even though a report is being prepared by independent management consultants into the authority 's current and historic recruitment practices . |
| 24 | The lack of statistical services in most Third World countries has meant that population figures , let alone GNP per capita figures , have been very sparse and unreliable . |
| 25 | Similarly Ian Lewis argues that research on female science pupils has found that |
| 26 | But its decision to step back from examining the authority 's employment practices has disappointed several party members in the area , even though a report is being prepared by independent management consultants into the authority 's current and historic recruitment practices . |
| 27 | The experience of storing and distributing the 1991 Census datasets has taught some valuable lessons , which will be useful if data from future Censuses is released on a similar basis . |
| 28 | Northern Telecom Ltd 's Greenwich , London-based STC Submarine Systems has added another award to its collection from 1977 , 1983 and 1990 , for the installation of its turnkey submarine telecommunications systems . |
| 29 | Painting cars has become such a complex process that it can account or up to one-fifth of the manufacturing cost of a car . |
| 30 | The threat of Iraqi terrorist attacks has prompted some elaborate security precautions . |