Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] occurred [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Where research studies have been carried out in different parts of the country it is difficult to disentangle anything which might be attributed to regional variations specifically , from other systematic variations by gender , class , ethnicity or variations over time ( that is where changes in patterns of family relationships have occurred between the 1960s and the 1980s ) .
2 For advanced economies , substantial changes had occurred over the latter half of the 1960s because of loss of comparative advantage in what had become basic technologies which could be mastered by low-income countries , together with changes in the nature of world demand and direct and indirect forms of trade barriers erected to protect domestic industry .
3 Similar problems have occurred in the Eastern Highlands , although educational provision is generally better .
4 However , changes have occurred at the local level , for there has been a strong centralization trend evident in both .
5 The greatest changes have occurred in the average salary of candidates placed — from £25000 to £70000 — and in the firm 's international links , which have extended from two European offices to membership of the globally spread E. S. International Group .
6 There is no doubt that enormous changes have occurred in the social and cultural values of the western world , for instance emphasising individual freedom and material well-being .
7 Darlington argues persuasively that Marx believed the process of evolution to be by direct Lamarkian and not by indirect Darwinian , or selective means : that is to say , that the environment in which individuals found themselves operated directly upon them to adjust them to it and that the adjustments were transmitted by them to the next generation ; and not that , fortuitous mutations having occurred in the genetic package , they would when favourable equip the mutant for greater success in the given environment than the unmutated form could achieve .
8 Similar settlement histories have occurred in the Gangetic plain and Doabs of northern India ( Schlich 1889 : 187–238 ) and Brazil up to the present day .
9 Most abuses had occurred within the first three months of the occupation , in response to protests against forced " Iraqization " .
10 As in America , important developments have occurred in the following areas of public order policing : public surveillance , crowd-control training and technology and the extension of legal powers .
11 The largest relative increases had occurred in the developing world , with Africa 's population set to grow from 650,000,000 in 1991 to 900,000,000 by the end of the century .
12 This suggests that either two separate integration events have occurred in the same trypanosome , or that the ST3 line is polyclonal .
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