Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pressure of numbers impinges on every facet of the prison system , and in some institutions has resulted in overcrowded conditions that would not have been tolerated a century earlier . |
| 2 | Visits from archivists and librarians to study the holdings of local maps has led to useful contacts as well as to the provision of further photocopies to the local archive and library services . |
| 3 | In a recent study of all Higher Education Institutions it has become quite clear that the main impetus towards Equal Opportunity Policies has come from female members of staff or particular unions representing female members ( CRE , unpublished ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The establishment of sickle cell centres in many cities has led to increased awareness of the condition and greatly improved care for sufferers , and much of the credit for this must go to the dedicated nurses , health visitors and counsellors involved . |
| 6 | A Devon family has previously been reported in which a female in three successive generations has presented with multiple polyps requiring repeated surgery over a number of years . |
| 7 | Meanwhile the popularity of Yardie amongst jail birds has led to certain elements deciding that the book comes a little too close to the truth for their liking , and Victor Headley has disappeared into hiding to work on Yardie 2 , leaving Adebayo and Pope to speak on his behalf . |
| 8 | Although the division between nomadic and urban cultures has diminished in recent years , most of the older , more established weaving groups have retained their traditional allegiance to either geometric or curvilinear designs . |
| 9 | In recent years , problems have accumulated , and the technological level of many of its products has lagged behind Western equivalents and machinery imports have greatly expanded . |
| 10 | If you have read chapters 6 and 7 , it can not have escaped your notice that whereas research into the recognition and comprehension of single words has centred around detailed theories which attempt to provide a comprehensive description of all aspects of single word processing , research into the comprehension of sentences and discourse is much more fragmented . |
| 11 | Under section 18 of the Act , control of the curriculum in county schools has shifted to head teachers , although they must ensure that the curriculum is compatible with their LEA 's statements on curricular policy — as modified by the governors in their own such statement . |
| 12 | This is the more necessary , the Commission believes , at a time when the bias in schools has shifted towards instrumental music and composition , although a fair number of state secondary and senior independent schools continue to maintain a strong tradition of choral singing . |
| 13 | Our range of reverse osmosis units has met with considerable interest and just proves that it is no good trying to adapt unsuitable systems to the fishkeeper — they need and deserve purpose-built items . |
| 14 | The first High Court case in which a child is seeking effectively to divorce her parents has begun behind closed doors . |
| 15 | But increasing pressure from recreation and development of all kinds on the delicate mountain areas has led to renewed attempts to set up some kind of planning scheme to protect them . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the investigator 's earlier research in Atlanta , Georgia , shows that , in this city , residential segregation remains , the gap between predominantly black and white areas has increased in important respects , and inequality among black neighbourhoods has increased . |
| 17 | The report says : ‘ Involvement in all these areas has met with great success and has been greatly appreciated by the recipients . |
| 18 | Remembrement in the uplands has resulted in limited losses of semi-natural features . |
| 19 | As the record shows , the preference given to large companies and the support they receive from their bankers has led to rapid growth in output with consequent effects on the profits of banks and their leading customers . |
| 20 | A group of 11 companies has committed to developing products conforming to the joint AT&T Co-Hewlett-Packard Co proposal for 100Mbps Ethernet , despite the fact that the IEEE has yet to decide whether to adopt it as a standard . |
| 21 | As Mr Smith points out , ‘ the share price of these companies has ranged from indifferent to disastrous , with MCC representing a near certain total loss to shareholders ’ . |
| 22 | A century of saving seed from the best plants has led to continuous improvements . |
| 23 | The academic book market is already in decline with the erosion of student grants ; the spending on schoolbooks and on libraries has suffered in public spending cutbacks , and consumer cash in the current recession is clearly not plentiful . |
| 24 | Research over the last sixty years has demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that , for many people , unemployment is responsible for deterioration in mental and physical health . |
| 25 | It was abandoned when the new church was built in 1909 and in less than severity years has fallen into complete ruin — a good indication of how severe the Dales weather can be and how quickly buildings succumb to its assault . |
| 26 | The availability of water is the main constraint on food production and while traditional shifting cultivation and nomadic practices are inherently conservation-oriented , the trend towards permanent cultivation and settled herding over the last 50 years has led to widespread environmental change . |
| 27 | Bill Cash is a lawyer who for many years has specialised in constitutional issues , not least that of the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution . |
| 28 | What will happen if schools fail to comply with the recommendations remains to be seen — so far introduction of reviews has resulted in substantial voluntary initiatives for change in all Dutch medical schools . |
| 29 | Looking back , almost everything about Mrs Thatcher 's 12 years seems touched with gothic melodrama — the political landscape was illuminated not by daylight but by periodic lightning-flashes . |
| 30 | PANAMA is the latest in a series of rogue regimes , the menacing state of whose internal affairs has led to armed intervention by other countries — and to an unresolved international tangle about the legality of such action . |