Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb -s] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rapid increase in the number and diversity of states has had long-term consequences for global politics . |
| 2 | Moreover , when these societies become industrialised and urbanised another set of values begins to undermine these time-honoured traditions . |
| 3 | A new generation of chefs has raised British cooking to poetic heights — with some unfortunate exceptions , says AISLING FOSTER |
| 4 | The administration of the business has been rationalised and the need for specialists in a range of disciplines has become apparent . |
| 5 | Hence , tests of this relationship have had to use historical data and have had to assume that the distribution of returns has remained stable over time . |
| 6 | The list of parties needs to identify direct lines and home numbers and fax numbers and addresses as appropriate . |
| 7 | A SERIES OF BOOKS HAS RESCUED HUNDREDS OF BUILDINGS FROM DERELICTION . |
| 8 | Any farmer or keeper of animals has observed this kind of behaviour . |
| 9 | In neither form of action could the plaintiff be sure of recovering his goods in specie since the judgment in trespass was for damages and in detinue gave the defendant the option of giving up the goods or paying damages but it is unlikely that this was considered a defect and it should be noted that the remedy of specific restitution of chattels has remained unusual right up to modern times . |
| 10 | The greater use of computers has brought more ‘ transparency ’ to the market place , transactors being readily discovered . |
| 11 | The easy availability of funds has led many Mozambican officials to view the formation of NGOs as a way to tap donor money . |
| 12 | In cotton-harvesting , the use of pesticides has provoked severe or fatal cases of poisoning . |
| 13 | His range of roles has crossed many more adventurous and challenging boundaries , from the devil himself through to perhaps his now most famous portrayal of The Joker in Batman and when Nicholson insists that everything he does on screen is in some way autobiographical , delves into what makes him tick find contradictions and confusion at almost every turn . |
| 14 | THE National Union of Journalists has elected 55-year-old John Foster as its new general secretary . |
| 15 | But if progress in the past couple of decades has appeared hectic , there is plenty to come over the next two . |
| 16 | A change of intention will normally be permitted only when a significant time has elapsed or a material change of circumstances has occurred sufficient to justify the person 's change of intention . |
| 17 | In marriages in which only one of the partners has been down the aisle before , the number of divorces has jumped 67 per cent since 1980 . |
| 18 | Ironically , since the National opposition swept back to power , the pace of reforms has become breathtaking . |
| 19 | The current generation of editors prefers to see this maturity exemplified in the ‘ final versions ’ produced during Shakespeare 's later years . |
| 20 | The sale of £47m of properties has helped lower debt , but net assets fall too , from 258p to 220p a share . |
| 21 | Although the same group of physicists has found good evidence for the production of B mesons at CESR before , this latest result shows for the first time the explicit decay of B mesons into less-rare , longer-lived particles ( Physical Review Letters , vol 50 , p 881 ) . |
| 22 | This view of things has created many opportunities for innovations : markets for new health care magazines , for all kinds of health foods , and for exercise classes and jogging equipment . |
| 23 | A more recent study in a small number of patients has emphasised these sex differences ( Seviour et al , 1985 ) . |
| 24 | How the hell my pack of jokers has managed two wins out of two is a complete mystery . |
| 25 | Moreover , experience in New Zealand and Australia ( where the strict rule has been relaxed for some years ) has not shown that the non-availability of materials has raised these practical problems . |
| 26 | Through all this process , and partly because of the pressures created by it , the central role of governors has received little public attention . |
| 27 | Whilst most secondary schools continue to be organized in terms of a timetable of subjects , the background thinking of teachers has become wider , less conventional and less secure in terms of single subjects . |
| 28 | For years the market has been dominated by Lotus 123 but the development of Windows has enabled other products to move into the market — notably Excel from Microsoft . |
| 29 | Meanwhile a pair of kestrels has produced four young in a disused ventilation pipe in a raw materials store . |
| 30 | So it 's argued that it 's frustrating to the er to the electant It 's also argued as well that the frequency of elections tends to produce lower turn outs . |