Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Each has had magnificent results . |
2 | Being certainly lost an opportunity by not being it 's only body there is an editing element in the book publishing section from the P G B and there are elements relating to us in the S P G of the Periodical Training Council and there will be bits of them in the public relations in the marketing one of which I 've got a copy of the draft , but you know there is nothing all embracing B T E C do graphics and journalism but there is no single forum , I mean that 's what so astonishing and interestingly somebody at B T E C told me the other day there 's been a bit of a problem about the the book editing part of the editing level three element um , and that 's partly political as to editing versus production because production 's level four and editing is level three , and that has made some problems apparently |
3 | Oh , she 's got all the answers up her sleeve I expect , but that has caused tremendous debt charges , which , at the moment , have to be paid , and whether we could find a private operator to take them on or not I do n't know , but private operators operate throughout the country and in many other of the districts within the county of Oxfordshire , and they operate efficiently and do just as good a job as the City Council are doing in the present situation . |
4 | That has provoked more paperwork , or at least strongly supportive letters to him from complete strangers in higher education , schools and the health service . |
5 | Mrs. Brooks continued : ‘ Perhaps it is the re-routeing of the old A31 that has left some confusion as to the designation of this stretch of London Road . |
6 | Instead they took on the passivity of the adored object in an equation — homosexual desire translated into female adoration — that has haunted English pop ever since from the Beatles through the Bay City Rollers to Wham ! ; as one of Wham 's managers , Simon Napier-Bell , makes explicit in his memoir of the sixties : |
7 | Okay , but I just wanted to go on to say that I think in reviewing how the budget may be brought more closely under control in the coming year , officers will need to look at the erm size of the committees because we are working with committees at the moment that are larger than those committees which used to exist when this year 's budget was set and that has had some impact and we need to have the implications of any change of committee size whether that might affect the budget , how that would affect the budget , also whether there is any potential for reducing the number of committees further and also whether the rates might be changed , I particularly would like officers to report on what , whether there would be any significant saving from er setting the rates at the round figures they were at a couple of years ago erm |
8 | That has put some Names under pressure when losses incurred by Lloyd 's syndicates seem likely to breach £2 billion for the second year in succession . |
9 | That has allowed medical genealogists to draw up family trees , showing how breast and ovarian cancer has been inherited from one generation to the next . |
10 | It is this last factor — the high cost of extending the scope of mainframe-based applications — that has discouraged hard-pressed customers in the US from adding mainframe power at a rapid pace even as they have rapidly added desktop machines and minicomputers . |
11 | Will he agree that inward investment is due to the activities of the Welsh Development Agency , some of the lowest wages in Britain and high levels of skills , and that it is the quality of the Welsh work force as much as anything else that has brought inward investment into Wales ? |
12 | But that has angered some residents who say it could be a health hazard . |
13 | Process technician : ‘ I have learned three new skills and that has meant more money . |
14 | But all that has changed this year . |
15 | That has opened new wounds in relationships between the two sides , barely on speaking terms after bad blood dating back to the infamous Shakoor Rana-Mike Gatting bust-up . |
16 | This has rated some fish species impossible to keep as in the case of a number of polyp-feeding butterflyfish species . |
17 | This has created more food for everybody and , therefore , created more food that is available to feed animals . |
18 | This has created particular problems in parts of the Norfolk Broads , for example . |
19 | This has kept mass tourism at bay . |
20 | This has given large capital gains to many people , but also a misleading picture about the ‘ ease of making money ’ . |
21 | This has given fresh impetus to European Community moves to base a levy on carbon dioxide emissions . |
22 | This has imposed new demands on refineries . |
23 | This has led many farmers to believe that the skilled , responsible and versatile labour which they require can not be purchased at any price , and that the future expansion of the industry will be jeopardized by a chronic shortage of the requisite workers . |
24 | This has led many people to argue that , under the conditions of the global capitalist system , industrialization is only possible for developing countries where bureaucratic authoritarian regimes can organize the production process , and particularly the labour force , to satisfy the demands of the transnational corporations and the world market . |
25 | This has led some commentators to observe that it is possible to find an individual of either sex who will show almost any specified degree of any ability that we might care to select . |
26 | This has led some writers to suggest strong' and ‘ weak ’ cultures . |
27 | This has led some writers to place him within the interpretative tradition . |
28 | Although this has led some farmers to renounce the more extreme forms of continuous cropping , the new minimum cultivation methods ( described in Chapter 3 ) may allow a return to monoculture on suitable light soils . |
29 | This has led some doctors to dismiss the whole idea of chemical sensitivity and claim that all such patients are hyperventilating . |
30 | This has led some people to commit what may conveniently be called ‘ Sahlins ’ fallacy' ( Sahlins 1976 ) , and to suppose that the operation of kin selection requires that animals , or people , are able to perform the necessary calculations . |