Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the Founder 's Day Service , this too has developed into an impressive annual event . |
| 2 | But the personalities of the fossil hunters involved have ensured that this protective move by the Ethiopians has developed into an acrimonious tussle . |
| 3 | The TQM strategy has developed from an earlier corporate planning exercise carried out in 1986 and more recently from a comprehensive survey conducted by an external quality consultant with support from the SDA . |
| 4 | Ms Amanda Taylor , 29 , who took up the Lib Dem banner , also has to contend with an Official Liberal Party candidate , Mr Erbie Murat . |
| 5 | Laura Levine has pointed to an interesting relationship in early modern England between fears of sodomy and fears of the theatre . |
| 6 | Their cash has fallen from an average £4.20 a week last year to £4 , a survey reveals today . |
| 7 | In the past three months output has fallen by an annualised 10.8% from its level during the three previous months . |
| 8 | On the next level are classrooms for conductor-trainees , offices and a sitting/buffet area , which has to cope with an international mix of families , visitors , students , staff and conductors . |
| 9 | ‘ At one level — and leaving out the executive stress — this woman has to cope with an enormous sense of personal threat , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The wound I made in you has healed in an ugly way . |
| 11 | But as anyone who has sat on an equal opportunities working party will tell you , it is one thing to formulate policies and quite another to implement them . |
| 12 | If he is less than successful he may find that he has to work with an unco-operative discharger . |
| 13 | All this has come as an unpleasant surprise to Hong Kong 's officials . |
| 14 | The author has come to an overall conclusion that , perhaps , clients and dealers are very much the same sort of people . |
| 15 | The inference that he did so by selling is supported by the incidental evidence of miracle-stories : one from St-Benoît-sur-Loire , for instance , recorded in the 870s , tells of two " comrades " ( compares ) at the monastery 's weekly market , who quarrelled over the 12d. they had made on their joint transactions ; another story of similar date from St-Hubert in the Ardennes has a peasant ( rusticus ) stating quite explicitly that he has come to an annual fair " to acquire the wherewithal to pay what I owe to my lord " . |
| 16 | ‘ This validation from the Prime Minister has come at an important time for the industry as it strives to get up off its knees , ’ said Keith Banbury , Chief Executive . |
| 17 | The observation of the Great Wall has come from an ambitious project to map the positions of all visible galaxies which are brighter than a specified minimum . |
| 18 | The Museum is a registered Charity with no public funding and Mick Miller , Finance Trustee , said : ‘ This sponsorship is a very generous gesture and we are delighted that this has come from an enterprising local company which has pledged support for our activities for the next three years . ’ |
| 19 | After closing for a year to refurbish its exhibition rooms the Diozesanmuseum has reopened with an exceptional exhibition of rare manuscripts from the Biblioteca Apostolica in the Vatican , ‘ Vaticana — liturgy and devotion in Medieval times ’ . |
| 20 | Although the king in The Magician who lost his Magic is not named in the story , he seems to be King Rollo , a character who has featured in an animated television series based on a series of David McKee 's books . |
| 21 | She has grown into an elegant and gracious woman , but lost none of the spark that made her such an endearing young bride . |
| 22 | The economic theory of job search has grown into an important aspect of labour economics in recent years . |
| 23 | If the first two years of the Thatcher Government are excluded — when the Government managed to achieve a negative rate of growth — the British economy has grown at an average rate of 3 per cent . |
| 24 | Lynda Warren , author of the report , said : " This industry has grown at an alarming rate , in a complete policy vacuum . |
| 25 | As Professor Moule has written in an unpublished paper , ‘ to generalise the Holy Spirit and use the term to denote God 's activity anywhere and everywhere , is to miss the biblical theme of election for service , and to ignore God 's strange way of particularising in order to universalise . ’ |
| 26 | M4 , the best measure we have , has risen at an annual rate of around 18 per cent , and even this year it has continued to rise at that rate . |
| 27 | Are employment figures alone sufficient to infer that the economy has shifted from a goods to a service economy , that the economy has moved from an industrial stage to a post-industrial stage . |
| 28 | Even by the normal ballooning standards of construction projects , this one 's original budget has turned into an amazing work of fiction . |
| 29 | If Rose wants to behave like an irresponsible teenager , that 's her affair . |
| 30 | Over this period the stock of such investments has expanded at an average annual compound rate of just under 19% . |