Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they dream up a bright profit-winning idea , even if it involves walking in the dirty waters of pornography as the 0898 service does , the Government are unable or unwilling to do anything about it , even over a six-year period . |
| 2 | The number of babies delivered by Caesarean section has trebled in the last twenty years , according to a book just published . |
| 3 | Grenada was the last tiny but bitter dreg in the constitutional cup which the United Kingdom has drained in the past thirty-five years ; and bravely , though not without a grimace of disgust , did we swallow it . |
| 4 | Although interest in soil erosion has developed in the late 1970s ( e.g. Morgan , 1979 ) it is a paradox that earlier work , for example developing from the Universal Soil Loss Equation ( Wischmeier , 1976 ) , did not materialize . |
| 5 | This happens when tension , which has developed in the rectal wall , impedes further radial expansion . |
| 6 | In contrast , the state has played little role in the protection of women against domestic violence although a very active voluntary sector has developed in the past 20 years . |
| 7 | There has developed in the past decade or two a mass audience for previously specialized cultural forms . |
| 8 | Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area . |
| 9 | Already another member of the nursing staff has enrolled in the 1993/94 course . |
| 10 | He also has the awkward problem of a narrow marginal seat in Bath which desperately needs nursing in the ordinary course of events , let alone during an election . |
| 11 | The question remains as to whether British policy-makers can fairly argue that by fighting ‘ from within ’ , although they may not have entirely succeeded in limiting the battleground to issues of trade and markets , they have nevertheless ensured that the economic policy itself has pointed in the right direction . |
| 12 | Rainfall in October could reach record levels — more rain has fallen in the first two weeks than usually falls in the entire month . |
| 13 | There half an inch of rain has fallen in the same period . |
| 14 | Yet it can happen that the momentum of the previous plan ( or previous chief executive ) is still pulling in one direction whilst the new plan ( or chief executive ) wants to go in the other direction . |
| 15 | It has been a day which commenced so stunningly with the horse and carriage procession , swept forward with the harmonious , soaring , musical arrangements at the wedding ceremony , and has culminated in the utter perfection of the gourmet dinner , all in keeping with what we have come to expect from the organizational abilities of one of the world 's paragons . |
| 16 | Together with the credits provided by export credit agencies , much of it for military hardware , this policy has culminated in the late 1980s in the accumulation of a mountain of debt which can not be serviced on the original schedule of payments . |
| 17 | Will the Prime Minister come out of his ivory tower across the road , put his photo calls on hold and face up to his responsibility for the past 13 years of Government mismanagement , which has culminated in the worst economic crisis since the 1930s ? |
| 18 | Britain has been subject to the same decline in long-stay beds and has responded in the same way as other European countries to this fall in the mental hospital population . |
| 19 | " In view of the unpopularity the nuclear industry has earned in the developed world , it is now looking for markets in the developing world , " Greenpeace said . |
| 20 | The case studies presented in Chapters 5 and 6 illustrate some of the forms which study skills have taken and the place which their development has occupied in the evolving project . |
| 21 | He lacked the confidence that has come in the last three or four years to make decisions and stick to them . |
| 22 | There are several other systems , regionally important , ethnically , culturally and/or theologically based but none has , as yet , had the pervasive success that capitalism has enjoyed in the twentieth century . |
| 23 | Anyone who has paddled in the shallow waters of the Arahura river will understand how such a concept arose . |
| 24 | Or flinging on high its smoke rings to fade in the pale blue sky . |
| 25 | He has exhibited in the Pastel Society at the Mall Galleries as well as in many London and provincial galleries . |
| 26 | A , whose career abroad ends when he attains a certain age , decides to retire to the United Kingdom , and before his return from abroad transfers his United Kingdom assets to a company he has incorporated in the Irish Republic with a view to future tax avoidance . |
| 27 | Since then the proposal has featured in the Liberal Democrats ' health policy document Restoring the Nation 's Health . |
| 28 | Perth College of Further Education has featured in the educational press already with its National Certificate Rock Music Programme — now the first intake of the college 's HNC Rock Music ( Performer ) is nearing the end of the course . |
| 29 | The Strasbourg winger missed the opening games of the new season but has featured in the last four with no ill effects from his ligament damage . |
| 30 | As demand for the drug has grown in the developed North , cocaine production has skyrocketed — up 600 per cent since 1980 . |