Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the fashion for hair has moved away from the hard , artificial post-punk era towards more natural styles , the emphasis has been on hair care products that promote softness and shine . |
| 2 | This story has lasted well during the past two millennia and many people still believe it , so that tom-cats are always kept carefully away from nursing mother cats and their young kittens , in case the urge to commit lust-inspired infanticide overcomes them . |
| 3 | So far , the case discussed in this book for the extended use of the industrial co-operative as a form of organisation for production or provision has stood primarily upon the proposition that it is an expression of authentic industrial democracy , that such an extension would help to fill a debilitating gap in the practice in the United Kingdom of western liberal principles , to mend what Bertrand Russell calls ‘ this disruption of democracy from within' . |
| 4 | Mammalian meiotic chromosome preparation has progressed considerably since the early days when a good squash preparation was the best that could be achieved . |
| 5 | Certainly , in many of his works the Prince has juggled well with the varied problems of painting and has produced a sensitive and interesting result . |
| 6 | Moreover the pace of technological change has increased steadily during the latter half of the twentieth century so that the farm worker in turn has had to become more adaptable to successive new innovations . |
| 7 | However , this sector of the Environment Services Division has expanded greatly in the ten years that it has been operating |
| 8 | Iris Murdoch 's fiction has centred rather on a search for goodness , most often by means of loving relationships ; Amis 's with a sense of decorum and indecorum — with social habits and rules made , altered and broken by the changing generations . |
| 9 | Soon afterwards police arrested a man with a gunshot wound to the chest found slumped nearby in an alley behind Copperfield Street . |
| 10 | The business of environmental consultancy has evolved rapidly over the past decade , with the number of UK firms involved jumping from 100 to 225 over the past couple of years alone . |
| 11 | A country-lover who spent most of his life in the great outdoors has died suddenly in the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 12 | The recession has led only to a ‘ period of consolidation ’ — in Tony 's words — but expansion is not too far away . |
| 13 | The recession has bitten deep in the European markets , particularly in the adult sector . |
| 14 | The Course has striven forcefully over the years of increased student demand and decreasing resources to preserve the notion of open access to modules in order to maintain the modular principles of real choice and flexibility . |
| 15 | The diversity of the International region , which sells 75 brands in 108 markets , is well illustrated by its performance in smaller markets such as Turkey , where the market for Scotch whisky has grown three-fold in the last ten years.Johnnie Walker Red Label has maintained its major market share and is well placed to capitalise on the growth of one of the fastest developing economies in the region . |
| 16 | ‘ The cannabis field has moved away from the drug abuse side of things . |
| 17 | Although Computing Science ( or Computer Science ) as a field has changed dramatically in the last ten years and will continue to do so in the next ten , I do not believe its boundaries have altered significantly . |
| 18 | It is her case that the university has failed either in the proper interpretation of its statutes or in their proper application . |
| 19 | The University has recovered well from the shock of a ‘ trading loss ’ in 1989–90 . |
| 20 | Whether British experience has come anywhere near the good practice ideal enshrined in the OECD guidelines set out in Chapter Three can be seen from an examination of the principal design guidelines set out in its pages . |
| 21 | Whatever the definition chosen , the proportion of government spending in National Income has risen steadily throughout the twentieth century , including the early period under the present Conservative government . |
| 22 | Traditionally , language teaching has concentrated only on the three levels of the formal language system — pronunciation , grammar , and vocabulary — and the way in which they function within the sentence , on the assumption that other aspects of communication will follow fairly automatically . |
| 23 | Apart from the Head Chef , who is 53 , opposition has come mainly from the Accommodation Manager , who is unqualified but very experienced : he believes that the old ways are the best ways and has generally received the support of his department heads , who owe their positions to him . |
| 24 | ‘ Your Mummy has gone away for a long time ’ usually only serves to leave the child frightened but feeling the anxiety of the adults all around which forbids further discussion . |
| 25 | The range of newspapers read by the bulk of the British electorate has narrowed sharply over the last two decades — in terms of the political partisanship of mass-selling papers , if not in terms of the proliferation of low-circulation titles ( Newton , 1988a , p. 320 ; Tunstall , 1983 , p. 12 ) . |
| 26 | THIS public fear has contributed much to the infiltration of fake hijras into the community of true eunuchs . |
| 27 | Violence has erupted again on an estate which has been plagued by joyriders . |
| 28 | The role of diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac angiography has evolved rapidly over the past decade , particularly in the context of acute coronary occlusion . |
| 29 | I think the real historical tragedy is that AIDS has emerged just at the moment that the gay community was reaching a sort of maturity and openness . |
| 30 | The Inland Revenue has commented further on the tax treatment of ex gratia payments made on the termination of an office or employment , as set out in Statement of Practice SP 13/91 . |