Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A law of international organisations has developed to make effective the actions of international organisations , and has displaced the classic rule of treaties and third parties in this context . |
| 2 | The Office has stopped subsidising one-day energy surveys for industry and commerce and there is little accessible public information . |
| 3 | As a result the company has stopped accepting fresh landings of scallops |
| 4 | Parliament has intervened to give special protection to press reports of statements made on significant public occasions , and there are hints — no more — that in certain cases the courts may be prepared to extend protection of qualified privilege to media investigations of major public scandals . |
| 5 | John Alderdice , the Alliance leader , today said : ‘ It should be possible for the Government to bring forward the propositions which Sir Patrick has undertaken to make available to us and start bilateral talks . |
| 6 | Perhaps the one piece of good news is that ‘ Kent R Allen , chief financial officer of the company , has resigned to pursue other interests ’ : put most diplomatically . |
| 7 | A meeting of the Chinese State Council has voted to impose severe measures on those who destroy wildlife . |
| 8 | " Dr McNab has omitted to mention certain post mortem appearances which refute his view of cholera and support mine , " cried Dr Dunstaple waving his arms violently in his excitement and making thrusting gestures as if about to spear a particularly fine pig . |
| 9 | And the team Allan Border is leading there are missionaries again of a sort : cricket on the island lives hand-to-mouth , and political upheaval has repelled touring international sides for five years . |
| 10 | This year it has included installing solar powered waterpumps to provide year round water for wildlife at waterholes . |
| 11 | It is , however , suggested that where a new basis for constitutionality has come to enjoy universal acknowledgment or sufficiently widespread acquiescence , the judge 's obligation to uphold the law points in the direction of endorsing charge rather than blindly ignoring it . |
| 12 | This modern view has come about not as a result of any further substantial constitutional developments — perhaps strangely , or perhaps significantly , the issue has never been seriously tested — rather , it has come to enjoy widespread , although not universal acquiescence largely because Dicey ( following Stephen and an equivocating Blackstone ) posited it as a central feature of the English constitution and because it has a deceptively simple logical appeal . |
| 13 | The time has come to kick fast food . |
| 14 | Perhaps also the time has come to abandon content free systems and move towards the development of a knowledge-based program , using grid method but specifically designed to enhance the perception and appreciation of art . |
| 15 | But with the glorification of competition by capitalism it has come to seem natural to think of ourselves as fundamentally egoistic . |
| 16 | But , besides the fact that the details of his method can not be read into many of the advances made in the sciences , his promise of certainty has come to seem inappropriate . |
| 17 | Officials said he would have the same message for all — the time has come to revive direct Arab-Israeli negotiations . |
| 18 | When the doctor confirms that it is important to provide care , or when too much anxiety is felt in leaving an elderly person alone , the time has come to consider alternative options . |
| 19 | And I think the time has come to consider extra reward financially for your loyalty . |
| 20 | Art Deco has come to mean brilliant colours , curved upholstery and angular , geometric designs . |
| 21 | The problem is that just like the ‘ moral treatments ’ of the nineteenth century , normalization has come to mean different things to different people , and professionals who have espoused the concept of ‘ normalization ’ often proselytize their views with a religious fervour which , though often motivating to fellow staff , can be alienating to those who are unfamiliar with the concept . |
| 22 | Thereafter confusion set in and , from scenes of events , groups of figures , etc. , presented on a very small scale , the term has come to mean elaborate pictures , much more ambitious than the historiations and sometimes extending to the whole of a large page . |
| 23 | A woman will say something like , ‘ Oh look , he 's got a cute butt ’ and some geek standing next to her , sensing that his chance has come to make serious waves in the world of sexual politics , will whine , ‘ You would n't like that if I said that about a girl . ’ |
| 24 | Since that time HIV has come to dominate gay life in this country . |
| 25 | Variable analysis is an inferential structure , a form of methodological reasoning , that has come to dominate social research . |
| 26 | One is the notion of human dignity which has come to pervade modern ethical and social thought in the West . |
| 27 | Paris-based distribution company Metrologie International SA has let TopLog International , its Unix software business also based in Paris , fly the nest through a management buyout . |
| 28 | The rescue of two skin divers in appalling weather conditions has won Acting Coxswain James Dougal a Silver Medal for Gallantry . |
| 29 | The Vitara has grown to accommodate extra doors |
| 30 | Samwell was a gentleman architect of considerable accomplishment , whose achievement has been undervalued , although John Aubrey [ q.v. ] considered him ‘ an excellent architect , that has built severall delicate howses ’ . |