Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This turnaround of the external accounts has made the domestic performance of the ecomomy look decidedly better than it has been . |
| 2 | THE bloodshed in the Baltic states has polarised the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | Much of the literature on the non-equivalence between these trade policies has considered the polar cases of monopoly and perfect competition ( for review see Helpman and Krugman , 1989 ) . |
| 4 | Apart from providing important evidence about the relationship between resources and performance in higher education , the demonstration of stable between-area assessment patterns has enabled the Modular Course to successively nudge each area into modifications of assessment practice which gradually bring them closer together . |
| 5 | Drake Educational Associates has appointed the following representatives : Kent , East Sussex — Pamela Teague , South Winds , ( ) ; Beds , Bucks , Berks , Oxon , Herts and Northants — Deborah Newling , ( ) ; Staffs , Salop , Worcs , Warks , West Midlands — Fiona Boyle Wolverhampton , West Midlands , Cambridgeshire , Suffolk , Norfolk , Essex — Stan Carter ( ) . |
| 6 | However , an exception provides that recognition will not expire solely because the death of a shareholder or shareholders has left the recognised body with no shareholder able to exercise such voting rights . |
| 7 | The Middlesbrough branch of Mortgage Advice Shops has topped the other 24 outlets of the national chain to become the company 's branch of the year . |
| 8 | The heightened interest in underwater archaeology caused by the find of the Brindisi bronzes has prompted the new Ministro per i Beni Culturali , Alberto Ronchey , to propose changes in the law : first , to extend the limit of Italian territorial waters beyond the six miles off the coast currently in force and beyond the seabed on the continental shelf ( no distance has yet been specified ) ; second , to consider allocating underwater ‘ concessions ’ to non-government teams who would take a course in the theory and practice of underwater excavation and make up the shortfall in trained divers . |
| 9 | First the painting community rejected the opportunity to draw a female nude , a subject which over the centuries has inspired the great artists . |
| 10 | Laughing Stock says that its Red Dwarf : Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers has achieved the highest sell-in for an audio book since the BBC 's Blackadder . |
| 11 | Most of the subsequent writing on Mary Queen of Scots has stressed the immense , even intolerable burden placed on the shoulders of this young and carefully nurtured girl , when at the age of eighteen she was driven from the civilized country of France , where she had lived since she was five , to the backward and lawless kingdom of Scotland . |
| 12 | They say the Government 's willingness to over-subsidise private old people 's homes has caused the 300-plus empty spaces at the county 's 42 council-run homes . |
| 13 | Despite the essential superficiality of much of this contact , the traditional empathy between the nations has assisted the Japanese to be on good terms with a regime whose political ideology is the antithesis of their own . |
| 14 | The United Nations has suspended the Somali peace talks in the Ethiopian capital until it has details of the fighting in Kismayu between militia forces of Mohamed Said Hersi , known as Gen Morgan , and Ahmed Omar Jess . |
| 15 | On a happier note , Wharfedale 's own brand of loudspeakers has won the Dutch Audio & Video Totaal Award for innovation in loudspeaker systems . |
| 16 | MICK QUINN , whose explosion of goals has blown the Premier League wide open , threatens to turn the title race into a demolition derby . |
| 17 | Similarly , although each of the jurisdictions has divided the traditional offence of rape into several categories , this in itself does not necessitate abandonment of the term rape . |
| 18 | The prospect of1993 and the abolition of customs controls between EC countries has spurred the Italian State to set itself the awe-inspiring task of cataloguing a further two million items of its national heritage within two years in execution of its duty to ‘ care for Italy 's landscape , history and cultural heritage ’ ( to quote the Constitution ) . |
| 19 | The notion of quotas has angered the Central Council for Jews in Germany , whose chairman , Heinz Galinski , has said that this would represent a sinister form of selection . |
| 20 | In conclusion , research over eight decades has demonstrated the predictive validity of ability tests to be high , or certainly much higher than an interview . |
| 21 | I am particularly keen to learn whether readers believe the employment of these cricketers has benefited the English game at domestic and national level . |
| 22 | America 's leading supplier of nuclear power stations has chosen the legendary Czech firm as its global partner . |
| 23 | The spread of poverty in the eight years has strained the whole nation , and widened misery and disadvantage amongst the old and young . |
| 24 | A man who was held in an Indian prison for two years has accused the British Foreign office of failing to help him . |
| 25 | Indeed , the single most important social change to have occurred in the countryside in recent years has concerned the changing social and occupational composition of its population . |
| 26 | A series of electoral shocks in recent weeks has shaken the European political landscape , and the Maastricht Treaty , the framework for EC union , may be about to crack . |
| 27 | In Sweden the negotiation of economy-wide agreements on wages by the union and employer confederations has reinforced the prominent position of the Swedish Employers ' Confederation ( SAF ) . |
| 28 | Clearly the relatively sudden and far-reaching nature of these changes has disrupted the established pattern of social relationships to be found within most villages . |
| 29 | The problems of confusing AIDS with other conditions has led the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre , based at Colindale , north London , to adopt a set of criteria . |
| 30 | The Select Committee on Education has found that the lack of specific resources has restricted the 1981 Act 's implementation . |