Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then extra-marital conceptions have increased sharply while all conceptions , and all births , have fallen . |
| 2 | But in their hurry to get off the mountain , exhausted climbers have discarded tons of rubbish . |
| 3 | And , secondly , local economic strategies have shown that the economy can not be abstracted from other sets of relationships within society . |
| 4 | In spite of scepticism and outright hostility to her at the court ( how could she achieve what professional commanders had failed to do ? ) |
| 5 | Whether one accepts that view or not — and I do not think that it is valid in its simple form ( see Fine and Harris ( 1985 ) ) — it is a powerful one ; in that context , the fact that the proportion of foreign assets in UK pension funds ' total investments has risen is a mark of the power that the post-1979 boom in the City 's foreign investment has had . |
| 6 | The flows of trade and capital discussed in sections 1.3.2 to 1.3.4 indicate that the growth of these complex two-way flows has become the most important factor in the UK 's international position . |
| 7 | On Dec. 31 , 1991 , the two Korean states had initialled an outline agreement designed to ban nuclear weapons from the peninsula [ see pp. 38659-60 ] . |
| 8 | Although South Korea did not make an official response to the preconditions — all of which it had rejected in the past — it did agreed to suspend its pursuit of membership of the UN until the two Korean states had discussed the issue further . |
| 9 | From September 1981 the music course for professional performers has qualified for mandatory awards , the Welsh College of Music and Drama being one of a small number of specialist music centres in the UK to be so designated . |
| 10 | In 1920 and 1924 the 12 largest cities had voted Republican ; in 1928 Al Smith won them all . |
| 11 | Originally there were only what are now called provinces , but over the years the largest cities have grown in importance and have become self-governing . |
| 12 | By mid-century , many scientific and professional groups had grasped the value of the new medium as an aid to empirical verification . |
| 13 | It may also be true that some professional groups have had their independence and autonomy reduced . |
| 14 | Five of London 's finest hairdressers have teamed together and will be opening their new salon , Parsons Skott , on Midsummers Eve , June 20th . |
| 15 | " Cho Lon " in Annamese means " Great Market , " and they hope to make their fortune there as many Cantonese emigrants have done , by exploiting the lazy Annamese . |
| 16 | Most of the major private mines had worked normally . |
| 17 | Similarly , the prevention of further episodes of self-poisoning or self-injury continues to be a problem , and while retrospective investigations have given support to the policy of psychiatric intervention , prospective studies have failed to demonstrate any effect on repetition rates . |
| 18 | In the 1960s regional policies had remained in national hands . |
| 19 | Third , regional policies have eased the process of restructuring old industries by promising new jobs . |
| 20 | With these qualifications in mind , it can be said that regional policies have moderated the relative but not the absolute differences in the unemployment rates of development and non-development areas , as Table 4.5 suggests . |
| 21 | Coggeshall was neither large nor particularly affluent ; John Paycocke , nephew of Thomas and inheritor of the imposing Paycocke house , was assessed at no more than £53 , though the richest man in Coggeshall , his son having £10 as well ; to all appearances Thomas 's munificent bequests had depleted the family fortune . |
| 22 | In the 1970s the odds had lengthened against effective leadership from the White House ; there had been a succession of failed presidencies public confidence in political institutions had slumped disastrously and congress had become even more difficult to deal with . |
| 23 | Lower Palaeozoic sediments and volcanics are being studied in the multidisciplinary Lake District project in the course of mapping several 1:50 000 sheets Stratigraphical interpretations of the Eycott and Borrowdale Volcanic groups have confirmed that their evolutional histories are similar , and support the reinterpretation of biostratigraphical evidence in favour of their coeval eruption . |
| 24 | Stratigraphical interpretations of the Eycott and Borrowdale Volcanic groups have confirmed that they have similar evolutional histories and support the reinterpretation of biostratigraphical evidence in favour of their coeval eruption . |
| 25 | Our dry summers have highlighted the fact that water is a commodity which can run out , and higher bills have focused minds on water economy . |
| 26 | This sum had first been mentioned in January 1991 as the amount necessary to fund the absorption of Soviet immigrants in Israel , and in February a smaller US loan guarantee to fund the housing of immigrants had only been approved after the Israeli authorities had undertaken not to use the funds in the occupied territories [ see p. 38023-24 ] . |
| 27 | The report also claimed that 3,650 people had been arrested during the curfew and that the Israeli authorities had distributed only 50,000 gas masks — to protect against possible Iraqi chemical attack — among a Palestinian population of 1,700,000 . |
| 28 | European institutions have grown warier of the public markets and less suspicious of private ones . |
| 29 | It is not widely realised that Germans of all political complexions have identified the fate of their country with that of Europe . |
| 30 | The inquiry heard that only one suicide and no accidental drownings had happened at Bellrock Quarry before last year 's double tragedy . |