Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] [vb pp] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Researchers using the Luxembourg Income Study microdata have shown that in Sweden and West Germany lone parent family incomes approximate the income of couple-headed families on a per capita basis . |
| 2 | Trial work has shown that on grassland particularly , there are definite benefits from injection . ’ |
| 3 | This type of analysis and the problems revealed provide useful lines of enquiry towards unravelling the complexity of how village plans have developed and at what periods . |
| 4 | It is believed intelligence services have discovered that at least two ‘ mainline bombers ’ are missing from their normal haunts and may already be on the mainland . |
| 5 | Safety levels have improved and with lower speeds have come reductions in noise and anxiety for residents . |
| 6 | Dr Kai Simons of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory has found that at least some animal viruses enter the cell surrounded by an envelope of cell membrane . |
| 7 | Recent renovation work has shown that beneath these modifications the fourth-century church is virtually complete . |
| 8 | Four became pregnant after their primary gall stones had dissolved but before trial entry . |
| 9 | Already in October 1953 the British defence chiefs had warned that in a world war they expected the main and first Soviet nuclear assault to be directed against the British Isles . |
| 10 | The motor age had arrived and by the end of the 1950s one and a quarter million new vehicles were being registered every year . |
| 11 | A study of some West Riding parish registers has found that in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , farming was the only occupation where more than half of sons remained in their fathers ' places of residence . |
| 12 | The setting up of the European environment agency has stalled because of a lack of agreement over where its headquarters should be . |
| 13 | Rate capping has meant that for every ‘ profligate ’ pound spent on such provision , £6 has been taken away . |
| 14 | For example anthropologists have argued that in those societies where women are allowed to inherit as well as men this can determine many other aspects of social relations . |
| 15 | British egg production had decreased because of constraints imposed on it by the ministry . |
| 16 | The American Gas Association has predicted that at least 10 million vehicles in the US will be running on alternative fuel by the start of next century , as the industry develops non-petrol substitutes in response to tough anti-pollution regulations introduced in several states , notably California and Texas . |
| 17 | Speaker Boothroyd has decided that in future all menus in her house will be in English . |
| 18 | Only two subjects in the nicotine patch and one in the placebo group had withdrawn because of side effects . |
| 19 | The case against a schoolboy accused of setting fire to a teenage girl while she inhaled an aerosol spray has collapsed because of lack of evidence . |
| 20 | The banks ' own private deposit insurance scheme had collapsed because of what were termed " extremely high delinquency rates " among borrowers . |
| 21 | In defence of their economic record , government spokesmen have claimed that from the second quarter of 1983 the numbers in employment increased and that more jobs were being created in Britain than in the rest of the EEC states taken together . |
| 22 | A study commissioned by the US Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that between 60 and 360 million people could go hungry as a direct result of the effects of climate change on wheat , rice , maize and soybean yields . |
| 23 | Indeed , the APU results have shown that for a national sample of pupils ( c ) is harder than ( a ) , which is harder than ( b ) . |
| 24 | And what has happened over time is that , in the twentieth century , with the advent of two world wars , with the impact of the worst economic depression that the world 's ever seen , with the rise to global dominance , both economic and military , indeed one might say culturally , the rise to global dominance of the United States , the scale and er scope of the U S executive branch has grown and with it an increasing er attention and focus on the presidency . |
| 25 | Health units have found that over the past two years nurses have taken more time off sick with qualified nurses taking an average of 14 days off each year . |
| 26 | Certainly general policies , such as those reproduced in part below , could have the effect not only of preventing but abating existing odour nuisance , the county council having recognised that in most cases where odour pollution causes problems , the source of the odour is either close to residential property or industry is so densely concentrated that the total odour emission is unacceptable . |
| 27 | This county council has recognised that in Leicestershire we live in a society . |
| 28 | ( 9 ) When this party has selected the prospective parliamentary candidate , section ( 3 ) of this clause shall be applicable only when section ( 8 ) applies or , having received a written request from the General Committee of this party for permission to reconsider the selection of the prospective parliamentary candidate , the National Executive Committee has decided that in its opinion there are changed circumstances relating to the prospective parliamentary candidate since his or her selection , and has given authority to this party to convene a special meeting of the General Committee in accordance with regulations sanctioned by the National Executive Committee to consider a resolution that the prospective candidate selected previously shall not be the candidate at the next general election . |
| 29 | Even the World Bank has proposed that in Latin America , where one per cent of the people own half the land , they should pay a heavy income tax . |
| 30 | Research by the Counselling in Primary Care Trust has shown that in an admittedly small randomised sample of counsellors working in primary care 24 of 26 had had three or more years of training . |