Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] occurred " in BNC.
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| 1 | If nothing has occurred to render the security enforceable but the debentureholder 's position is nevertheless in jeopardy , an application to the court may be necessary , for the court has a discretionary power to appoint a receiver in such circumstances . |
| 2 | That comparison is exagerrated by the enormous increase in world trade which has occurred in the post-war period , and which has largely by-passed the Eastern European countries . |
| 3 | But they are now undoubtedly the most endangered of the dolphin species , largely because their small and isolated populations are particularly vulnerable to the industrialisation which has occurred throughout much of their range in the past few decades . |
| 4 | The little direct interchange which has occurred has been largely between compatible representatives of broadly similar organisations , e.g. Crofters ' and Farmers ' Unions , or between a variety of environmental and wildlife bodies , or among a number of local history societies . |
| 5 | However , it did not prevent , in the winter of 1921–2 , an appalling famine afflicting the southern districts of the Ukraine , ‘ the worst ’ , a League of Nations report declared , ‘ both as regards the numbers affected and as regards the mortality from starvation and disease which has occurred in Europe in modern times ’ . |
| 6 | Add to this the rapid growth in the numbers of expeditions , climbers and trekkers which has occurred in recent years and it is not surprising that the problem has reached massive proportions despite the availability of new access sites from Tibet which was opened to climbers in 1980 . |
| 7 | The explosion of knowledge , skills and ideas , which has occurred in the last half century makes any mapping to some extent arbitrary . |
| 8 | It is the shift which has occurred within the population over statutory retirement-pension age towards the oldest old . |
| 9 | He further comments that the very increase in examination successes which has occurred especially since the introduction of CSE has meant that educational attainment has become more , not less , associated with social class . |
| 10 | I use police definitions because this reflects the fact that to violate another person is unlawful , realigning the imbalance which has occurred as carers have generally become more empowered . |
| 11 | This is an important point to make , and it can again aid in understanding a distortion which has occurred in the notion of ‘ death instincts ’ in psychoanalytic theory . |
| 12 | Any growth which has occurred must either have come later or have involved other forms of temporary working , such as the imposition of a special " temporary " status on certain workers recruited on open-ended contracts — something which our case studies indicate might have been the case . |
| 13 | In England pop culture has a simultaneous function — inextricably intertwined to a degree unmatched anywhere else in the world of exploitation and expression : exploitation as the product of an industry at the sharp end of the new conditions of capitalism , expression by virtue of its position — which has occurred by default — as the main area of activity in our society which freely admits voices of both youth and change . |
| 14 | The Free Churches have made much use of the explosion of hymn writing which has occurred during the last thirty years and which crosses the boundaries of all denominations . |
| 15 | That this is not always the case is apparent from our policy in cervical cancer screening , the bulk of which has occurred among young women , in whom the risk of dying of cervical cancer is substantially less than among older women , who have not been the focus of public screening policies for this disease . |
| 16 | One theme which has occurred throughout this book , is that law and order , and indeed Conservative criminology , has developed in response to social anxieties felt by ‘ respectable ’ elements of British society about a Britain which has difficulties in coming to terms with its position in a changing world . |
| 17 | This season all female competitors had to undergo a compulsory sex test , a sad indication of the ridiculous cheating which has occurred in top level sport in the past . |
| 18 | Bearing in mind the magnitude of soil erosion which has occurred in sensitive areas including the Dust Bowl , parts of China and of Africa it is surprising that more attention has not been directed to this aspect of the human impact . |
| 19 | It is a matter of looking at the extent of the actual breach which has occurred . |
| 20 | She wrote : ’ I am writing to you in the hope that you can help me with the injustice which has occurred . |
| 21 | We certainly can not bank on the 49 per cent increase in the size of the Bar which has occurred in the last 10 years . |
| 22 | No , I think it , it is , it 's quite a complex situation , but there is a disease of p pigeons which is one of these paramixa viruses , which has occurred in the country and is a disease of pigeons , and most pigeon clubs in fact all pigeon clubs now I believe , insist that their members vaccinate their birds . |
| 23 | Mr Dryfe said : ‘ The violence which has occurred during the last several weeks outside the factory gates and the damage done to the property of several of our employees is deplorable . |
| 24 | But try and be positive about it , and say , ‘ Yes , this , I have to say this is a bad situation , , it 's not a situation which has occurred before , we are taking very positive steps to ensure that it does n't happen again , we have prosecuted Mr X , we have done whatever is appropriate . ’ |
| 25 | Evolution , which literally means unrolling , or development , is , for biologists , the process by which there has occurred a steady change in the form of organisms across generations . |
| 26 | Moreover , Dittmar takes a very dim view of Jansher 's behaviour , because it has occurred before . |
| 27 | Our aim is to prevent long-term unemployment , rather than just trying to cope with it after it has occurred . |
| 28 | It has occurred in Lake Victoria in East Africa . |
| 29 | It will also detect reinfection when it has occurred . |
| 30 | At times , as I have researched this book , it has occurred to me that the second-hand book world is the only place left in England where knowledge of anything but the latest semi-literate fads still exists . |