Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are members of the European parliament who s s support Strasbourg as a meeting place clearly , but the majority do not , the majority want to meet in a single city and in so doing the majority have accepted that there should be a new European parliament building in Brussels and that European parliament building now operates . |
| 2 | The environmental policies of the Reagan administration have resulted in a resurgence of the American environmental movement — the book explains why in graphic terms . |
| 3 | It is for just such situations that the army plans and trains , and many years of trial and error have resulted in a hierarchy in which the number of subordinates at most levels is between 3 and 6 . |
| 4 | Both of Ambrose 's ( 1986 ) mechanisms of capital accumulation have operated in a straightforward fashion . |
| 5 | These sufferers in early recovery continue to live in a group , receiving some counselling and giving each other support and feedback and often going together to meetings of the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 6 | In such quiet periods capacities of a primarily functional nature come to operate in a peculiarly unified and simultaneous way . |
| 7 | Staying on the other side of the Atlantic but turning to the Charles Dutoit/Philadelphia Orchestra coupling of Rachmaninov 's Third Symphony and Symphonic Dances , a Decca team have turned in a quite different acoustic balance . |
| 8 | The hurricane , the flood or the tsunami may do more in an hour or a day than the ordinary processes of nature have achieved in a thousand years . |
| 9 | Wolpe 's argument is that changes in the labour process have resulted in a disjunction between the skills taught by the education system and the skills ( or , in a sense , lack of skills ) demanded in the labour market . |
| 10 | In the modern post-war period various adjustments within the national system of education have resulted in a succession of controversies regarding the role of English in a democratic society . |
| 11 | Reunification and immigration have resulted in a massive housing programme and profits at the various RMC businesses rose 26 p.c . |
| 12 | How does the heroic voice and the heroic image of the black woman get suppressed in a culture that depended on her heroism for its survival ? ’ |
| 13 | I wonder if there really are time traps , where events and people from the past remain locked in a moment that can be revisited by those in the future . |
| 14 | The Aircoupe has an unusual trimming device , centrally placed in front of the seat , best described as a screw-threaded brass plunger running in a guide , with a black plastic knob atop . |
| 15 | But if the means of communication have moved in a more public direction , the images have gone the other way . |
| 16 | As with settlements , changes of status have occurred in a poorly-documented period — the tenth to twelfth centuries . |
| 17 | b ) Contacts with a hospital have resulted in a new learning module for A Level Physics . |
| 18 | The high profile of biological theories and perspectives in gerontology have resulted in a perceived general association between age and ( ill ) health . |
| 19 | Newcastle Gosforth have arranged to play their Northumberland Cup tie at Morpeth , but their scheduled opponents Durham City have failed in a similar bid to play their Durham Cup match against Horden . |
| 20 | It is clear that some variables in English do function in a very general way : for example , variation between the alveolar and velar nasal in the present participle ending ( ing ) is universal and can be said to mark the whole English-speaking world as a single speech community . |
| 21 | Three peple have died in a crash on the M5 motorway south of Worcester . |
| 22 | In order to ensure that there is at least a decent degree of match between the colour on the screen and the colour that will eventually be printed , Adobe have built in a compensation system . |
| 23 | The complementary strengths and innovations from both sides of the company have resulted in a complete suite of computational chemistry software packages being available from one supplier across the biological and materials research and development areas . |
| 24 | While it is true that certain designs are closely associated , even synonymous , with specific localities or weaving groups , centuries of trade , migration , intermarriage and inspired plagiarism have resulted in a gradual spreading of compositional traditions . |
| 25 | One complication of non-specific urethritis leads to ankylosing spondylitis , a disorder whereby the vertebrae of the spine become fused in a fixed , rigid bamboo-like structure . |
| 26 | It is obvious , too , that image and language become combined in a more pervasive and subtle way still to give some words a gender — as in European languages — although they appear neutral : I find it a constant effort of will to look at picture books with my three-year-old and say ‘ That 's the farmer and that 's the farmer 's husband ’ . |
| 27 | People in her own country who have been injured , terrified and starving to death have behaved in a way that Anna can hardly bring herself to think about . |
| 28 | It appears that " the Free Church in the year 1855 and since that time have worshipped in a loft over a stable — the supply of ordinances has been irregular but the attachment of the adherents of the Free Church has been steadfast . " |
| 29 | Police hunting the killer of a prostitute have called in an expert to compile a psychological profile of the murderer . |
| 30 | In brief , developments in technology have resulted in a situation in which increasing amounts of information are stored and communicated electronically . |