Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the heyday of the Chicago School , though , there has developed in urban sociology ( and , arguably , in sociology more generally ) a major gulf between these two kinds of understanding . |
| 2 | However , child benefit has fallen in real value , so there was no justification for reducing the dependency additions . |
| 3 | The list of reforms the Conservative government has undertaken in social security is long : the Fowler reviews ; the removal of young people from the benefits system , and Lilley 's categoric assurance that the youth training guarantee works ; the recent changes to the system of disability benefits ; and changes to the system of child maintenance . |
| 4 | Shell has stated that it ‘ no longer wants to invest in exploratory mining in Brazil . |
| 5 | She has succeeded in convincing Rainbow that she alone must somehow atone for the misdeeds of the ancestress who caused poor Anya to wander forever in a twilight world . |
| 6 | But Leonard is not of that cloth ; his nature is obsessive ; what he does , he must do with abandon ; he has to work in total conviction , and dedication . |
| 7 | ‘ The church has come in good faith , and is innocent of any deception . |
| 8 | Eight years have elapsed since Middlesbrough terminated Allison 's last post in League football , since when he has dabbled in non-League management with Fisher , and coached Danes , Swedes and Scots . |
| 9 | The seeds alone , as anyone who has dabbled in Indian cookery knows , are not pungent . |
| 10 | McKibbin is due to enter hospital for an operation on his hand , while Barrett has impressed in pre-season training . |
| 11 | The range of courses presently available , both advanced and non-advanced , has grown in piecemeal fashion , largely in response to the technological revolution which British agriculture has achieved over the last 30 years . |
| 12 | Up to this point , Sartre 's notion of conflict has operated in direct antithesis to that of Bakhtin : whereas for Sartre , struggles are totalizing , always creating a larger , meaningful and developing whole out of multiplicities , for Bakhtin they are detotalizing , dissolving ‘ previous totalisations ’ . |
| 13 | By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 14 | The academic book market is already in decline with the erosion of student grants ; the spending on schoolbooks and on libraries has suffered in public spending cutbacks , and consumer cash in the current recession is clearly not plentiful . |
| 15 | Also I would like to say Joshua Galvin , for all the unsung work he has done in British hairdressing ’ . |
| 16 | Coming on top of a worryingly high inflation rate and a sequence of record-breaking trade deficits , Labour will be working hard to demonstrate that ordinary people are paying dearly for mistakes which the once super-abundantly confident Chancellor has made in economic management . |
| 17 | Arrested larvae accumulate during the spring and where Type II disease has been reported it has occurred in late summer or early autumn . |
| 18 | The subject is under strong social pressure to go along with the hypnotist ; he has agreed in good faith to be hypnotised , after all , and is determined to carry out the hypnotist 's suggestions . |
| 19 | On the assumption that the local authority has acted in good faith , and has followed the statutory procedures correctly , this will require him to satisfy the court not merely that the court itself would regard the accommodation as unsuitable , but that no reasonable council could regard it otherwise than as unsuitable . |
| 20 | Clough , who has not replaced England star Des Walker following his £1.5 million move to Italian club Sampdoria in the summer , has drafted in 21-year-old midfield man Keane instead . |
| 21 | It has participated in American Petroleum Institute [ API ] committees and task groups , in order to develop specifications currently in use today . |
| 22 | But now Darlington Football Club has invested in new physiotherapy equipment at Feethams and a trained physiotherapist is developing a service for people in the town . |
| 23 | Since the Niigata quake in 1964 , Japan has invested in new building designs |
| 24 | In the meanwhile , a new Leviathan has surfaced in cultural life . |
| 25 | It has been organised for Daedalus by its European director Dr Nicholas Reeves , who was formerly a curator in The British Museum 's Department of Egyptian Antiquities ( and now advises the Earl of Carnarvon on his Egyptian collection at Highclere ) , together with Rupert Wace who has dealt in ancient art for over fifteen years . |
| 26 | The internal management rule does not assist a third party which has dealt in good faith with an organisation which then defaults on its debts . |
| 27 | Answer guide : The relevant range of activity refers to the level of activity the firm has experienced in past accounting periods . |
| 28 | Whichever happens to your child , you are very important to them and the Department of Social Work needs to keep in close touch with you at all times to try to work out what is best for your child . |
| 29 | As Pahl ( 1988 ) points out , it is not possible to accept uncritically the idea that an underclass has emerged in British society . |
| 30 | The model of multidisciplinary teamwork that has emerged in old age psychiatry potentially provides a means whereby the valuable experience of the several disciplines concerned can be applied to the widest possible range of those who need it . |