Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Bus usage in leading English cities has fallen by a sixth since 1985/86 because of the Government 's deregulation of bus operations , says a study for the Association of Metropolitan Authorities . |
| 32 | On the contrary , he has pressed for a centralised federation in which Serbia would presumably play a dominant role . |
| 33 | The Association has pressed for a clear-cut answer on this issue and has not received it . |
| 34 | The difficulty in transferring contracts arises because the basic rule is that the vendor can not be excused from the burden of its contractual obligations by assigning or otherwise purporting to transfer to the purchaser the obligation to perform the duties it has undertaken under a particular contract . |
| 35 | Britain has reneged on a 1989 agreement to use Flue Gas Desulphurisation ( FGD ) equipment on at least 12,000 MW of power stations . |
| 36 | ‘ I always rated Pally at Ayresome Park , but there is no doubt he has blossomed on a bigger stage . |
| 37 | Since the British challenge made its start in 1987 at four locations , it has blossomed into a major feature of up to six kite meetings each year . |
| 38 | Barthes has differentiated between a postwar period during which the cultural influence of the French writer/intellectual has gradually diminished , and an interwar period during which " great writers … such as Gide , Claudel , Valery , Malraux … were at the centre of intense activity , exerting enormous cultural influence " . " |
| 39 | In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " . |
| 40 | The place has given off a bad odour for years and I have always avoided it like the plague . |
| 41 | The company will also be estopped if the transferee has relied on a false statement in his transferor 's certificate that the transferor was the registered holder of the shares on the date stated in the certificate . |
| 42 | However , most of the research has relied upon a narrow and traditional form of grammar teaching . |
| 43 | It would not be the first time that a ‘ bad cold ’ has referred to a political chill rather than a runny nose . |
| 44 | ( c ) The opponent has responded to a front kick that turned out to be a roundhouse kick ! |
| 45 | He can argue that he has responded in a statesmanlike manner to the democratic will , and done what was asked of him . |
| 46 | The ideology of the enterprise culture through society has penetrated to a considerable degree to the young who grew up under Thatcher — ‘ Thatcher 's children ’ . |
| 47 | In the sleeper compartment of a train speeding through the night a youth crouches over a naked woman he has drugged with a hypodermic syringe . |
| 48 | The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) has claimed as a major success its programme for integrated pest management in rice . |
| 49 | In a period when , as recent events in Los Angeles and elsewhere have shown , the ethnic melting pot has dissolved into a racial meltdown , the clemency of clear understanding is as sought-after as ever . |
| 50 | Third , the centre has collapsed as a political force — although not as a constituency — and this obliges both major parties to compete more assiduously for middle-of-the-road votes . |
| 51 | Tobacco has collapsed as a primary source of funds . |
| 52 | He likes my sticky , sweaty body which smells of nectarine and baby oil and a spliff that Jo has rolled beneath a shadowy cove of eucalyptus . |
| 53 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 54 | ‘ I find by the time I get to the last houses on Christmas Eve , rum custard has congealed into a nasty skin , ’ he said . |
| 55 | The turps in the jar has congealed to a semi-solid jelly around the brushes . |
| 56 | Patrick Duff wrote , ‘ This reverse has come as a great shock . |
| 57 | Tearful Mandy said : ‘ This has come as a total surprise to me and my family . |
| 58 | But the news has come as a total shock for many people . |
| 59 | This has come as a terrible shock . |
| 60 | ‘ This has come as a terrible shock . |