Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [vb -s] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 None of these lacks had any significance for Fagan .
2 None of these has posed any particular threat to the hegemony of traditional discipline and patterns of academic thought and women can be incorporated as easily as the rest .
3 So every one of these has got that symbol .
4 It had been hoped that the removal of exchange rate fluctuations between EC currencies would constitute the first stage toward monetary union , but the widespread acceptance of floating has made this aim more difficult to achieve , although the European Monetary System has had some success in this respect .
5 It is significant that the public debate on policies and content of education mounted in Zambia in 1976 has aroused much interest in other African countries .
6 Pupils would need to continue with maths , physics , chemistry and biology in sixth forms to keep all science options open to 18+ .
7 But if , as seems likely , the Chancellor 's commitment to take more than £6 billion out of the economy in 1994-5 and £10 billion in 1995-6 has done enough to reassure the foreign-exchange markets , the risk of a big misjudgment of market sentiment will diminish over the next few days .
8 Aerial survey in particular has revealed some of the intricacies of the site 's internal morphology .
9 Edward Thompson in particular has stressed this effect , writing of Methodism 's late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century leaders : They weakened the poor from within by adding … the active ingredient of submission ; and they fostered within the Methodist Church those elements most suited to make up the psychic component of the work-discipline of which the manufacturers stood most in need .
10 The Exxon oil company has claimed that the massive spill from the Exxon Valdez tanker in 1989 has had little lasting effect on the wildlife of Alaska 's Prince William Sound .
11 A reduction in suitable nest sites has been suggested as a possible cause , and a breeding survey of cliff-nesting Herring Gulls and Rock Pipits conducted in 1965 tends to confirm this idea .
12 Support in 1990 has enabled several thousand black students to continue into higher education .
13 After announcing a determination to play serve-and-volley , whatever the event , the ultimate professional then proceeded to work chiefly from the baseline for five sets to defeat that whimsical artist Miloslav Mecir in the final of the Stuttgart Classic exhibition tournament here on Saturday .
14 What has happened since 1960 has turned this ancient social welfare institution into the country 's leading tertiary hospital referral , teaching , and medical research system .
15 The fact that the foreign issuer premium ( i.e. the amount by which the interest rates on issues by foreign names exceed those on US domestic issues ) in the US market is now close to zero has facilitated such fully hedged issues .
16 The vast increase in the power of the President since 1945 has led some to compare his position with that of a Roman Emperor .
17 The big swing to the right since 1983 has seen some of these people expelled and a good many more departing , fed up , for premature retirement .
18 Erm and certainly when it comes to local needs housing that is in that is explicitly to be an exception and and erm I I see no particular problem with that .
19 takes over , Blackburn push it wide , at last has found some space but comes across to try and close him down , support just behind from , it 's a woeful cross from and it 's easily cleared by Shrewsbury Town right up to the centre circle , where it 's taken on the chest of Nicky .
20 That Shelford has a few doubters to disprove is cold comfort to Cardiff , who have had an unconvincing start to the season and whose main hope is to catch the tourists either cold or rusty after a lay-off which for most has lasted all of a fortnight .
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