Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] have [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent studies showing predominantly presynaptic LTP have used 2.5mM Ca 2+ for slice experiments , and some have reported a high proportion of failures , suggesting low initial release probabilities . |
| 2 | With Chinese wages still roughly one-seventh of those in the colony , so many companies have shifted production across the border that at least two million Chinese workers — twice the size of Hong Kong 's manufacturing workforce — are employed in Guangdong , processing goods for the textile , toy and electronics firms which are the backbone of Hong Kong 's industrial sector . |
| 3 | Well I think so many people have got colds |
| 4 | ‘ So many business have gone bust and so many people have been made redundant . |
| 5 | In the past year the most horrific events have taken place in the middle east , with the Gulf war , and the most amazing changes have taken place in Europe , with the upheavals in the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | Already 10 farmers have established circuits like this and the number is growing all the time . |
| 7 | Not many teams have dominated Liverpool in front of the Kop as Leeds did after halt time . |
| 8 | While not many people have adopted Plato 's particular grounds for opposing democracy , the issue of expertise as opposed to supposed popular ignorance or incompetence has remained a central one in the debate about democracy . |
| 9 | In another study while 33% of patients with high grade dysplasia developed cancer within six years 33% were not operated on and were alive and well five years later so not all authors have advised operation even when high grade dysplasia has been diagnosed . |
| 10 | To participate in the euro-currency markets and international bond issues , most large banks have established branches , etc. , in London , New York , Luxembourg , etc. , along with some involvement in the Middle and Far East , e.g. Bahrain , Kuwait , Singapore and Tokyo . |
| 11 | The more tender-hearted biographers have pictured Vincent as a St Francis , lifting straying caterpillars from the ground and placing them gently on branches , leaving cheese and milk for the mice while he starved on bread and water . |
| 12 | Regular tours are undertaken throughout Europe , America , Canada , and Japan , while more unusual bookings have included India , Africa , the Middle east and South East Asia . |
| 13 | Some of the more elaborate types have barred cases to carry the comb ( Hills 1981a ) . |
| 14 | Farmers , especially in the more fertile areas have resisted efforts to place controls on their practices . |
| 15 | Ecologists with a morbid sense of déjà vu have even warned of the possibility of modern equivalents of the Irish potato famine , while those with more fertile imaginations have invoked science fiction fantasies of plagues of mutant insects devastating the countryside . |
| 16 | More recent developments have led observers to question the inevitability of this trend . |
| 17 | Many of the more senior academics have left university employment and the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has spoken of the threat this poses to academic leadership . |
| 18 | In the past year the most horrific events have taken place in the middle east , with the Gulf war , and the most amazing changes have taken place in Europe , with the upheavals in the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | Also Labour members have established positions on a Left-to-Right spectrum of opinion and more often put their own view than transmit the reactions of voters . |
| 20 | Traditionally social workers have espoused client self-determination , the right of the clients to participate in decisions affecting their lives and interests ( Kurzman and Solomon , 1970 ; Gilbert and Specht , 1976 ) . |
| 21 | Since its implementation , fines totalling more than £24 million have been imposed under the Act and clearly some airlines have adopted practices aimed at minimizing the number of penalties incurred . |
| 22 | Nearly all transfers have taken place on the initiative either of prospective landlords or of mainly Conservative local authorities . |
| 23 | Measures introduced since the 1970s to clean up industrial pollution have reduced levels of aerial deposits of sulphur — a trace element which plants need to grow — to such an extent that crop yields and quality are becoming affected , according to a British scientist . |
| 24 | However , the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment , which reviewed the matter thoroughly in the early 1950s , and later law-reform committees have accorded preference to the ‘ general principle ’ that ‘ persons ought not to be punished for consequences of their acts which they did not intend or foresee ’ . |
| 25 | Probably most people have seen displays of Prestel , even in television rental shops , which is a system running through the Post Office network accessing large amounts of mainly factual information — things like telephone directories , like timetables , like oh a lot of business information . |
| 26 | Probably most people have seen displays of Prestel , even in television rental shops , which is a system running through the Post Office network , accessing large amounts of mainly factual information — things like telephone directories , like timetables , like oh a lot of business information . |
| 27 | Just as Commercial Banks have collected deposits from the public so also has the state through the Postal Savings system , where savers can accumulate several tax-free accounts by using fictitious names . |
| 28 | By that I mean that substantially fewer customers have terminated contracts citing reasons of dissatisfaction or failure to deliver . |
| 29 | So far all surveys have shown prevalences greater than 5% . |
| 30 | But , just as many writers have taken Virginia Woolf as an mandate to waffle in subjective , near-incoherent mode about matters domestic without a sliver of her context , variety of perspective , real innovation and sheer writing genius , so many fey sprites are still dicking around with fairy stories , dry old myths and ( oh dear , oh dear ) the tale . |