Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The raising of revenue by local authorities has generated a lot of litigation in the last decade as rate-capped and community charge-capped authorities have sought to challenge the legality of the caps imposed by central government . |
| 2 | It is no coincidence that since Sir Peter became Commissioner in 1987 , the relationship between Scotland Yard and London 's 13 Labour authorities has seen a new detente . |
| 3 | They point out that a survey of local authorities has shown a poor level of awareness of food hygiene among many food businesses . |
| 4 | As diverse evidence also indicates that the stars found in star-forming regions lose mass either from their surfaces or from surrounding accretion disks , a causal connection between stellar mass loss and the H-H objects has become a widespread article of faith . |
| 5 | Listening to all these personal accounts has had a profound effect on us . |
| 6 | The United states has done a great deal to blur the barrier between the bomb and the watt . |
| 7 | In the educational sphere , the minimum competencies legislation passed by at least 38 states has provided a possible vehicle ( litigation ) for ordinary laymen to demand that certain tasks are fulfilled by the professionals . |
| 8 | Families of servicemen returning found a system not geared up to help . |
| 9 | projects has done a bloody good selling exercise because he 's convinced these people |
| 10 | Finally , the increase in projects has produced a constant stream of highly-paid expatriate consultants . |
| 11 | This continuing exploration of sequential thought forms has embraced a number of major movements of the twentieth century . |
| 12 | Imaging software company Excalibur Technologies has opened a new headquarters in San Diego , California in addition to its existing US office in Virginia and its Windsor , Berkshire UK subsidiary : the new premises offer the best in demonstration and training facilities . |
| 13 | A year after a referendum failed to endorse proposed sweeping restrictions on hunting [ see ED no. 35/36 ] , the Italian Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill cutting the hunting season by three months , restricting hunters to designated reserves and limiting the number of species which can be killed . |
| 14 | Sir , The current debate on fair competition between booksellers and book clubs has exposed a whole area of concerns for booksellers . |
| 15 | One of my Oscars has developed a lower jaw which is twisted . |
| 16 | This in turn has made the South more competitive and in some cases has had a positive effect on salaries . |
| 17 | CHASE de Vere Investments has launched a Five-year Guaranteed Income Bond designed to provide to provide an income rising from 5.5 per cent for a basic rate taxpayer and 4.68 per cent for a higher rate taxpayer , to 7.5 per cent and 6.38 per cent in year five for basic rate and higher rate respectively . |
| 18 | To help , Chase de Vere Investments has produced a PEP guide . |
| 19 | This question of the benefit to be achieved from library activities has generated a good deal of literature , none of it very conclusive . |
| 20 | The Ministero dei Beni culturali has given a firm ‘ no ’ to the latest plans from the office of architect Renzo Piano , co-designer of the Pompidou Centre in Paris , for the restoration of the Palladian Basilica complex in Vicenza . |
| 21 | Guatemala 's Minister of Energy and Mines has announced a plan to set up a series of solar generating stations in rural areas currently without electricity , and similar initiatives are being considered by the governments of El Salvador and Panama . |
| 22 | The recently announced moratorium on new health promotion clinics has put a temporary brake on applications , but it seems probable that the new regulations from next April will encompass stress clinics , although within a cash limited total . |
| 23 | That court has , on more than one occasion , held that a decision of the English courts has violated a litigant 's rights under article 10 and this on occasion has led to Parliament having to change the substantive law . |
| 24 | Rescheduling of such debts has become a necessity for the private banks , and a practice which has emerged is that new agreements have been made conditional on such countries accepting the stringent programmes of the IMF which are intended to promote effective adjustment of a country 's balance of payments and ensure that the use of Fund resources is temporary . |
| 25 | In a survey of small businesses , Nat West said that late payment of trade debts has become a major problem over the past year . |
| 26 | The Guardian newspaper , in partnership with the Royal Institute for the Blind and associates has launched a system that enables the entire editorial text of the newspaper to be transmitted nightly via Teletext on Channel 4 television 's frequencies to a personal computer , which can read the text in a synthesised voice to blind and partially sighted people : those that can afford an £8,000 Braille terminal can also read the text that way , and it can also be displayed in large print on the screen for those with poor sight ; the text is structured so that readers can scan the headlines and choose the items that interest them ; the paper will be marketed , serviced and supported by Electronic Text Networks Associates Ltd of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , a commercial venture one third owned by the Guardian and the charity ; the other shareholders , each with a third share , are Aptech Ltd , which specialises in computer aids for disabled people , and Intelligent Research Ltd , which made the hardware for the system ; the decoder board for the personal computer is £400 , plus about £500 for a speech synthesizer ; the annual subscription to the electronic paper is £160 and the partners hope that other papers will decide to go onto the system . |
| 27 | This reliance on ‘ self-lacerating ’ punishment strategies has led a number of authors to propose an alternative criterion of credibility , known as ‘ renegotiation proofness ’ . |
| 28 | The Save The Children Fund programme with the motorcycles has made a very big difference to the number of visits that health assistants can make to villages . |
| 29 | It has been demonstrated that the dominance of unemployment in these outer estates has had a growing impact on the relative decline in income in each of these areas . |
| 30 | A team of researchers has completed a tour of more than four hundred public houses across the country . |