Example sentences of "[num] [vb -s] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did not merely see three ships come sailing by : ordering in threes has shown significant benefits and economies . |
| 2 | The particularly complicated editorial and keying work on volume 8 of the Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired since 1925 has made substantial progress this year ; the catalogue description is finished and the disc has been sent to HMSO , while work on the index is at an advanced stage . |
| 3 | This is not to say that no one who has left China since 1980 has had dissident tendencies , but they would probably keep these concealed before being allowed out . |
| 4 | Here we present data indicating that this increase in CO 2 has enhanced biospheric carbon fixation and altered species abundances by increasing the water-use efficiency of biomass production of C 3 plants , the bulk of the Earth 's vegetation . |
| 5 | Deputy Head ( Staff ) : ‘ Scale 2 has to have some element of special responsibility ! ’ |
| 6 | The crisis of the social sector of Mexican agriculture in the 1980's has attracted increasing attention in recent years . |
| 7 | Overcoming this Catch 22 has cost modern fusion research billions of dollars so far , using arrays of magnets as big as houses in order to contain the fuel at temperatures ten times hotter even than those in the centre of the Sun , and making it dense enough and stable enough that a self-sustaining reaction can occur . |
| 8 | The store will be built in stages and could eventually have enough room in its 30 vaults to store 6000 tonnes of spent fuel for up to 100 years . |
| 9 | The CLAWS tagset used for tagging the LOB corpus is very similar to that of TAGGIT but is somewhat larger with 134 tags to achieve greater delicacy of analysis while preserving compatibility with the Brown corpus ( Johansson et al , 1986 ) . |
| 10 | Some of the tricks are familiar , though technically superior to the original , but Sonic 2 does boast new features ( corkscrew loop-the-loops , a 3D race between Sonic and Tails , a new gimmick which allows Sonic to ‘ warp through time ’ ) . |
| 11 | Observations No 2 does give some answers ( as to which college library facilities are open to teachers doing research for example ) . |
| 12 | 1991 has seen many changes both external and internal ; some placed upon us by legislative bodies and the fluctuating state of the economy , others initiated from within in order to improve the working environment for all employees . |
| 13 | The Badgers Act 1991 has changed that position along with a number of others , and the RSPCA intends to publish a leaflet to bring the book right up to date . |
| 14 | Paul in 1 Corinthians 7 seems to put another slant on this from the perspective of Roman life in the first century . |
| 15 | Despite this , the SGA 1979 does make some attempt to deal with the Scottish dilemma vis à vis non-possessory security interests through the insertion of s61(4) of the 1893 Act ( now s62(4) of the 1979 Act ) , a provision specifically drafted for Scotland but which also applies to England . |
| 16 | I was also surprised that Professor Lee should suggest that the paper issued by the Big Six seeks to ignore possible links between business and audit failure . |
| 17 | Despite these reservations MDC has enjoyed major successes in physically regenerating its area , which looks dramatically different than at its initial designation . |
| 18 | ‘ The world has become very graphical , ’ says Mr Ingram. ‘ 1-2-3 has had graphical capabilities for a couple of years with the WYSIWYG capabilities . |
| 19 | Whilst MDC aims to stimulate private sector activity , it is clearly public sector led and financed . |
| 20 | As we have observed , MDC seeks to use pump-priming measures to promote regeneration . |
| 21 | The computerized Belfast Newsletter ( BNL ) Index 1737-1800 seeks to remedy this situation by providing the first comprehensive index of an 18th-century newspaper : 63 years of the oldest , continuously-published English-language newspaper in the world . |
| 22 | There are signs that Channel 4 has given this matter some thought . |
| 23 | Channel 4 has gone some way to remedying this situation . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Yet section 4 seems to place severe limitations in some circumstances on the exploration by a children 's hearing of a child 's entire social background . |
| 26 | While Microsoft and WordPerfect bicker over whose Windows word processor is best , Lotus Development 's Ami Pro 3.0 continues to win new friends on merit alone . |
| 27 | It took forty-seven stitches to put that whippet back together but it lived . |
| 28 | The extensive use of ‘ supergrasses ’ in the eighties has made many people sceptical of informers and verbal statements , but such scepticism was far less widespread in the 1960s , and the impression that Paisley was heavily involved in illegal acts became common . |
| 29 | More generally , there is a growing debate about the effective exercise of civil and political rights within the present constitutional arrangements in some countries ; and in Britain , for example , the movement known as Charter 88 has raised major issues concerning the reform of the electoral system , a written constitution and a bill of rights . |
| 30 | And the MMC has identified some practices , such as wasteful advertising , that most people would regard as undesirable . |