Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Criticism of the empress has developed along at least three different lines . |
| 2 | From a longer-term perspective , it can be said that the number of transactions per day has shown no tendency to increase since the mid-1970s ; there was a surge in total number of transactions during 1987 and 1988 due to a large number of deals between the newly established market makers but both transactions on behalf of customers and intra-market business has fallen back since then . |
| 3 | The number of students who have entered chartered accountancy training contracts since the start of the 1992/93 academic year has fallen back to around 1982 levels , according to the Institute . |
| 4 | In the US , where the government is the only major backer , research has limped along at about half a million dollars a year . |
| 5 | Tranmere 's form has picked up of late … they could pose a real threat tomorrow … |
| 6 | ‘ There is one thing which nobody has picked up on yet , ’ confides Alex late in the evening . |
| 7 | Chair , I I think what needs to be said in this debate is something positive about the work that has come out of particularly Highfields , er and indeed to some extent Moat , in the past . |
| 8 | The book has come out in remarkably quick time , a great tribute to Ian Robertson , the editor , who must have beavered away ferociously . |
| 9 | Seems like somebody else has come back from somewhere too . |
| 10 | Work has come in from all over the UK , and even the charity Farm Africa uses the Hoy facility . |
| 11 | The number of hours a week worked by juniors has come down by about 10 hours since the Labour party was in power . |
| 12 | This has come about for purely geographical reasons . |
| 13 | The myth of the returned loved one is rooted deep in both Celtic and Norse mythology and has carried over into more recent times . |
| 14 | ‘ The next generation which has grown up over here and understands what their children have to go through will handle them much , much better , ’ Cecil Williams speculated . |
| 15 | Within 40 years , that figure has shot up to almost 80 million tonnes . |
| 16 | The top seed , who has missed out on just one final in 30 tournaments over the last two years , looked set for a shock defeat at 3–6 , 0–3 down midway through the second set . |
| 17 | However , the independence that HMI has had up to now has been deeply embarrassing to the Government . |
| 18 | The RISC-based — R3000 or R3000A presumably , since that is what it has used up to now — XfaceC or XfC , is designed to bring colour graphics capabilities to users that require a compact , high resolution , easily transportable X terminal . |
| 19 | One security source said : ‘ The IRA has got in to much better protected places . |
| 20 | Item twelve , which is paper K , er , the order has tumbled down in too many free meetings , which right , business links , otherwise known as the one stop shop . |
| 21 | WHEN Norman Lamont opens his battered old red box on Tuesday , his action will signal the end of a tradition which has stretched back at least two centuries . |
| 22 | Once a project has settled down into reasonably routine operation , it is useful to examine the pattern of achieved costs and benefits in the light of what was initial predictions . |
| 23 | Since then , however , their predicted share has slipped back to around 13-15 per cent . |
| 24 | ‘ No doubt word has gone round by now that I could n't get through to him or to Mona on the telephone . |
| 25 | This has gone up in virtually the same proportion as the labour cost . |
| 26 | This saga has gone on for quite some time . |
| 27 | This separation has gone on for far too long . |
| 28 | Hon. Members will have an opportunity to debate the Bill , but , whatever happens , it is far better to have a system that is more accountable to local people and that will , we hope , put an end to some of the ridiculous mismanagement , inefficiency and wasting of money that has gone on for far too long . |
| 29 | Helen Lockwood , director of Teesside Society for the Blind , said : ‘ Nothing seems to be happening and this has gone on for so long now . |
| 30 | This one has gone on for so much longer — two years so far with no sign of it coming to an end . ’ |