Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , the moves in education to allow schools to become self-governing has shifted finance normally allocated and controlled by local authorities back to central government , whilst the selling of council houses has reduced both the size of the public housing sector controlled by local authorities and the level of financial control that accompanied this . |
| 2 | This has been undesirable , but not of critical importance because our income from invisible exports has made good the difference . |
| 3 | An alliance between farming and environmental groups has put forward an action plan to help farmers combine food production with conservation of the countryside . |
| 4 | She 's still got the voice but the politeness has slipped away a bit . ’ |
| 5 | The increased use of credit cards in recent years has reduced both the transactions and precautionary demands . |
| 6 | But the unusual intensity of this year 's protests has left both the students and the government wondering about the price of peace . |
| 7 | Auditing of accounts aims to check periodically the adequacy of accounting procedures . |
| 8 | In America today modernity as a term synonymous with the problems of life in the advanced societies has become almost a cliche . |
| 9 | As the prevalence of HIV-1 infection among homosexual men has risen so the risk of exposure to HIV-1 with each unsafe sexual encounter will have increased . |
| 10 | From these data , smoking by women appears to reduce significantly the chances of successful pregnancy after IVF treatment . |