Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] has [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fashion for spas has died out in Britain , but in Germany and Italy there are still spas where people gather to drink the waters and undergo hydrotherapies . |
| 2 | Research into the form and content of user interfaces for GIS has accelerated rapidly in the last couple of years . |
| 3 | You Queenie Warley mentioned earlier that the number of personnel has gone up by what , a hundred per cent ? |
| 4 | However , its use in a wide variety of disciplines has grown dramatically in recent decades , to the point where it seems not only to be facilitating what was done before , but to be creating new possibilities . |
| 5 | The name of Lads has survived down through the years from the 15th century . |
| 6 | However , as the use of computers has spread rapidly to large sectors of work and business , there has been a growing trend to encourage the use of computers in schools across the curriculum . |
| 7 | The use of CDs has grown rapidly in recent years . |
| 8 | According to Miles Barber of Barbers Estate Agents ( 071–381 0112 ) , the level of enquiries about French property remains relatively high , although the number of transactions has fallen sharply since the peak of 1989 . |
| 9 | Members heard how the number of offences has gone up by seventeen percent in the past year although the actual rate of increase does seem to be slowing up . |
| 10 | This is partly due to the relative costs of production and the public 's growing recognition that other countries can make good rugs ; but perhaps the main reason is simply that the output of workshops has increased dramatically in recent years . |
| 11 | Thursday afternoon CPC bookstall Julian Critchley MP The Palace Of Varieties has shot straight into the best-seller list . |
| 12 | Three fish docks were built and now it is Britain 's leading fishing port , though the number of boats has declined rapidly in recent years . |
| 13 | The number of christenings has fallen dramatically in recent years ; parents would rather let the child decide about religion for himself , and many vicars are unwilling to conduct christenings for people who are not regular churchgoers . |
| 14 | The fact that we have had a nuclear deterrent for a number of years has added materially to our security and I believe that we should continue to sustain that deterrent . |
| 15 | In a twelve hour period the number of lorries has increased by over two hundred — and it 's similar with commercial vans . |
| 16 | Your otherwise excellent cover version album was sadly marred by a long speech detailing how annoying it is that the price of eggs has gone up in Narodny-Karabakh . |
| 17 | Under the present director , Geoffrey Morgan , a soft-spoken Welshman whose main outside interest is silkworms , the list of names has moved away from the Reform Club and further out into Middle England , although it is still a very long way short of representing a cross-section of the population . |
| 18 | Madam Speaker in view of the fact that the real value of pensions has gone down for many years now following the break . |
| 19 | Over the last decade , during a time in which the UK balance of payments has slipped heavily into deficit , Scotch whisky export earnings have increased from around £750 million to £l , 800 million last year . |
| 20 | However the quantity of remainders has increased greatly in the last decade , and titles are also being remaindered increasingly quickly to save on overheads ( even to the extent of remainder prices being agreed with dealers before publication ) . |
| 21 | There are structural difficulties and the Council of Ministers has come up with a typical measure — just finding a few extra bob to see whether it will solve the problem . |
| 22 | A generation of Tibetans has grown up to whom the Dalai Lama , who since 1959 has lived in India , is a remote figure . |
| 23 | New entry to the industry has been frequent ( Table 5.8 ) ; the total number of bookrunners has risen sharply since 1980 and 54 firms have entered the top 50 issuers since 1975 , while 15 firms have gained positions in the top 10 lead managers for the first time ( see Table 5.8 ) . |
| 24 | It is quite clear that community care developments in Scotland have failed to keep pace with discharge of patients and the closure of long stay beds , although the range of facilities has improved together with the liaison between the statutory and voluntary sectors . |
| 25 | In Britain support for families has focused less on parent education and teaching parenting skills and more on a range of informal support services ( De'Ath , 1982 , 1983 ) . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , our use of plastics for containers has increased dramatically in the Western World . |
| 27 | All in all , state ownership and state intervention with prices has come out with a generally , but not totally , bad record . |
| 28 | The number of drama teachers in schools has grown rapidly for years . |
| 29 | This interest in VDUs has come about as a result of an EC Directive relating to DSE , and UK legislation introduced on 1 January this year . |
| 30 | The actor who played Dirty Den in Eastenders has gone back to the prison where he was once an inmate . |