Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our supply base activities continue to evolve as offshore operators increasingly contract out non-core activities and delegate more responsibility to service companies . |
| 2 | These results indicate that index futures appear to conform to a general pattern of leptokurtosis . |
| 3 | In fact , since the TV programme , more leukaemia cases have come to light in the area . |
| 4 | It is , however , harder to explain purely in the context of the theory of contestable markets why some firms ' eurobond operations have continued to be successful while others have been unable to establish themselves , why there has been no significant decline in market concentration over time despite continual new entry , and why profitability has declined so steeply . |
| 5 | It is very important that user groups do contribute to the change and that their suggestions are not merely dealt with by paying lip service . |
| 6 | Since then , field parties have returned to the Allan Hills region every year and collected more than 1200 specimens . |
| 7 | The move has been criticized by environmental organizations , which argue that the cars could be fitted with a converter because the cost , around £300 per car , is not prohibitive and that in any case manufacturers have known for some time when the law would come into effect . |
| 8 | All 21 NESB branches have re-opened under the name of Citizens Bank . |
| 9 | The major auction houses have moved with the times and have found new ways of selling works which in both form and content would have proved an unstable investment a decade ago . |
| 10 | Do succession patterns differ according to agrarian social class ? |
| 11 | In 1992 , used car values have fallen to even lower levels . |
| 12 | In 1863 , in a note written on a rare visit to England from his self-imposed exile in warmer climes , Lear apologises to Gould for not visiting him because , ‘ all my daylight hours have gone in the service of the old Enemy — Lithography . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ That would get me above 8,000 metres , something a lot of rock climbers want to get to . |
| 14 | All the research programmes have come from approaches made to the Unit and have involved extensive discussions , sometimes over a long period , but not for bureaucratic reasons . |
| 15 | You see your canteen takings have dropped by nearly twenty percent over the last two months . |
| 16 | The heathland birds have disappeared over large areas , and become rarer altogether . |
| 17 | The other feature , I think , of the debt that 's worth drawing your attention to is a sharp shift towards variable debt compared to a year ago , a number of our swaps have matured , we 've put one new one in er , some of our medium term notes have matured in the , in the States and we 're at last in a position to take more advantage of er , lower , short term variable interest rates than we were . |
| 18 | This is the primary reason that US foreign aid programmes have died since the passage of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings . |
| 19 | Two murder cases have gone to the duty solicitor . |
| 20 | Council tenants ' rent arrears have risen to over £450 million , and in some inner London boroughs two out of three tenants are in arrears , the Audit Commission reveals . |
| 21 | Council tenants ' rent arrears have risen to over £450 million , the Audit Commission reveals . |
| 22 | Council tenants ' rent arrears have risen to over £450 million , and in some inner London boroughs two out of three tenants are in arrears , the Audit Commission reveals . |
| 23 | Changes in teaching and research methods have resulted in the Arts developing new initiatives in the area of information technology . |
| 24 | The aim would ultimately be for a speaker independent system , allowing continuous speech , with a large vocabulary , and this has only recently become a practical possibility as speech recognition methods have shifted to phoneme-based systems , using transitional probabilities and methods such as hidden Markov models to allow sequences of phonemes found in English ( or whatever language is being considered ) and reject others . |
| 25 | However , careful studies over considerable areas with measurement of heights have shown that the presumed terrace fragments do fall into marked series , so that the basic interpretation seems to be correct , even though features other than terraces may have been included occasionally . |
| 26 | Although commercial shipping is no less in need of the RNLI 's services than it was , launches to pleasure boats and fishing vessels have risen in recent years . |
| 27 | The endothelial cells lining blood vessels become damaged during treatment and the affected vessels leak fluid into the tissues . |
| 28 | Both The Mall and Birdcage Walk are open and you can use Horse Guards Parade to get to the inside of the course and Hyde Park Corner , Victoria or Pall Mall to position yourself outside of the railings . |
| 29 | Atmospheric methane concentrations have increased from a level of 0.8 ppm about 150 years ago to around 1.7 by 1990 ( Khalil and Rasmussen , 1987 ; UN IPCC , 1990a ) as cattle populations have risen , rice cultivation has expanded , fossil fuels have been extracted in growing amounts and forests burned . |
| 30 | Practice visits have resulted in identifying training needs , the need for ( and writing of ) policies to improve the quality of prescribing , and the development of drug use analysis , including all of the cost implications . |