Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teaching force , disillusioned and aggrieved at the treatment it has received from a succession of Secretaries of State , has been less willing in recent years to devote unpaid hours to community bridge-building . |
| 2 | Families and the law Investigators : Dr R W Dingwall , J M Eekelaar , M Maclean The Centre 's work in the field of family law has developed through a series of related projects clustered around a clearly focused concern with the interests of children as members of families and as individuals and with the economic and other consequences of marriage breakdown . |
| 3 | Like copyright , patent law has a long history and has developed as a means of protecting innovation which has a benefit to innovator and public alike . |
| 4 | Though deregulation is a difficult concept to define , the reshaping process which has developed as a result of it is readily apparent . |
| 5 | Dead empires have bred leaping ambition ; international politics has developed into a struggle between competing ethnic groups ; the United Nations has to pick an impossible path between respect for sovereignty and respect for nationalism . |
| 6 | In practice case management for people with long term mental illness has developed into a range of techniques that can be described along 12 different axes ( box 2 ) , which aim to ensure that patients with long term psychiatric disorders receive consistent and continuing services for as long as they are required and that services do not focus inappropriately on patients with less severe conditions . |
| 7 | ‘ Photography has developed into a weapon of resistance in the constant struggle for survival , ’ Mr Müller said . |
| 8 | A mixture of language ( usually incorporating English or French ) which has developed into a language in its own right . |
| 9 | ‘ Ince has developed into a player of substance and people forget he is still only 24 . |
| 10 | However , when the weathering mantle has developed to a depth of several metres the rate of water movement at the weathering front becomes very slow . |
| 11 | He points to the way in which the law has developed from a maze of individual sets of circumstances in which one or other of the prerogative writs would lie to a general principle under which courts will review decisions on the three grounds of illegality , irrationality and procedural impropriety : see per Lord Diplock in Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 , 410 . |
| 12 | Radioactive water has leaked into a reservoir from a nuclear power plant near Yekaterinburg in Russia . |
| 13 | Easily despised because of the promises he has broken without a word of apology . |
| 14 | Taylor saw for himself on Saturday how the 24-year-old Aston Villa flyer has matured into a player of genuine international potential . |
| 15 | Parents who have watched their children grow and develop are just as likely to have insights into the development of their child as the teacher who has taught for a couple of years . |
| 16 | Grieco , in a fascinating and detailed series of ethnographic studies of working-class networks in this country , has pointed to a number of advantages which workers and employers gain from ‘ the network ’ : . |
| 17 | Previous research has pointed to a number of socio-demographic factors that contribute to the likelihood of a child coming into the care of local authorities . |
| 18 | The sloop apparently ran straight on to the top of the bank under sail in spite of the fact that the top of the bank is 10 m ( 30 ft ) above the level of high spring tides.Jutson ( 1939 ) has pointed to a series of generally narrow platforms cut mainly in almost horizontal rocks in New South Wales and extending up to a height of 10 m ( 30 ft ) or more . |
| 19 | After so-far fruitless attempts to create a ‘ scrambler ’ signal which could be inserted onto a disc or tape to prevent copying , the record industry has lobbied for a royalty to be placed on blank tapes and tape recording hardware . |
| 20 | Certainly small business , through its close connections with the ruling LDP party , has lobbied for a shift in the established policies of support and protection for big business . |
| 21 | Most groups of pirate enthusiasts number around 10 , but New Scientist has heard of a group of 60 people swopping bootleg software . |
| 22 | It has fallen for a number of reasons . |
| 23 | Over time , excise duty revenue from alcoholic drinks has fallen as a share of total indirect taxes excise duties plus VAT — from 13.4% of the total in 1980/81 to only 8.6% in 1991/92 . |
| 24 | However , public expenditure has fallen as a proportion of GDP . |
| 25 | over , over the century , er , although as a proportion , agricultural trade has fallen as a proportion of total trade , right , and that reflects a number of influences . |
| 26 | Adjusted to take account of interest paid — which has fallen as a result of significantly reduced borrowings — net investment income in sterling terms increased from $215.1m to $238.8m — a growth rate in original currencies of 9.1% . |
| 27 | The college has fallen into a state of such disrepair since it was closed down that I doubt if anyone could truthfully class it as that . ’ |
| 28 | As in that sequence ( 1 — 17 ) , so in this ( 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 ) the I is suppressed altogether , the Thou has fallen from a pedestal to the gutter . |
| 29 | In its short life the EMS pound has fallen from a peak of DM3.03 to as low as DM2.86 . |
| 30 | Employment among lone mothers ( now 42 per cent ) has fallen from a peak of 49 per cent in 1979–81 although it is now higher than the low of 39 per cent in 1983–85 . |