Example sentences of "[vb base] occurred " in BNC.

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1 No clusters of HEV occurred when seropositive persons were grouped by last name or street address .
2 An interesting illustration of the way in which the legal principles discussed earlier actually operate occurred in Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler ( 1986 ) .
3 After the violent conditions that erm we think occurred in the early life of the earth and injected energy and churned up the atmosphere and formed the prebiotic molecules , we find that just those same molecules are actually in the clouds in space , and these clouds are the basic raw material from which stars and plants form in the first place , so we might ask the question could they have got into the earth 's atmosphere without this intermediate process , and I think there are mechanisms whereby these molecules can accrete into the earth 's atmosphere , and it certainly suggests that we should look at thse and certainly not be taken as a foregone conclusion that the Uray/Miller experiments are the only mechanism whereby the prebiotic soup was formed .
4 I 'd like to take up some points as they 've occurred this morning .
5 No effort has been made to investigate the tens of thousands of murders and ‘ disappearances ’ that have occurred over the past three years : in February , Sri Lankan human rights activists estimated that 40,000 people had ‘ disappeared ’ since 1987 .
6 A number of accidents and incidents have occurred with gliders such as the Olympia 463 , K6 and K18 , flown by relatively inexperienced pilots .
7 The ‘ good ’ policemen and women know their area : the sites of trouble and danger , as Holdaway describes them ( 1983 : 39–42 ) , which need special attention , the places to avoid without having further back-up , the places where events and incidents have occurred in the past , the people on whom to focus attention , such as the ‘ troublesome families ’ in whom crime historically runs or the VIPs in the area who get special protective care .
8 Despite this difficult history , crucial alliances have occurred .
9 Some of the more spectacular productivity gains ( e.g. British Steel ) have occurred prior to privatization .
10 Significant shifts of production have occurred from export crops , such as coffee and cocoa , to food crops for the domestic market , and the trend towards such shifts is likely to continue .
11 The detailed design of farm buildings changed only gradually in the past , but the rate and type of change is now very much quicker as a result of the significant alterations in farming methods which have occurred since World Wall II — primarily greatly increased mechanisation .
12 A comprehensive account of the function and characteristic features of traditional barns follows , because it is apparent from even a brief tour of any rural district that the treatment meted out to many old barns in the course of their conversion into houses has been insensitive , or even atrocious , and even these enormities have occurred despite their owners ' clearly expressed intentions to preserve , rather than erase , the ‘ barn-like ’ qualities of the buildings .
13 It is not clear to what extent the Securitate is now a ‘ state within the state ’ and to what extent it is directly answerable to President Ceausescu , but it is odd that the service 's worst excesses have occurred when the head of state is on an official trip abroad , in this case to Iran .
14 These conclusions are reinforced by Curve B , which represents the frequency and length of conflicts that have occurred since the Second World War .
15 Nonetheless an effort has been made in the final chapter to draw some conclusions about the contemporary impact of changes that have occurred .
16 Those who deal with firearms are generally aware of the attendant risks , and the days when those involved in motoring and other forms of transport could make light of the risks to life have now long passed , as various air , sea , rail , and road disasters have occurred .
17 Whilst some shifts in meaning have occurred , therefore , the survival of the rituals of both circumcision and menstruation demonstrates their profound significance to the Jewish socio-religious and cultural system of belief and definition , and their on-going role in the business of gender and the creation of non-ambiguous male-female categories .
18 As Alan Cantwell , the intermediates manager , pointed out ‘ any spillages can be controlled in minutes ’ and he was also keen to point out that in the 18 months since it was commissioned , ‘ no spillages have occurred ’ .
19 Not surprisingly , these reports have tended to appear at times when fatalities have occurred as a result of fires when occupants have been asleep .
20 Nevertheless , despite a similar provision in section 6(3) of the Education Act 1980 ( enabling , until the ERA 1988 restricted its effect to schools which are not yet subject to LMS , parental preference to be denied formally on economic efficiency grounds ) considerable extensions of parental rights have occurred , as shown below .
21 The greatest falls have occurred among Caribbean , Indian , Pakistani and Bangladeshi born women .
22 Over time , divorces have occurred at increasingly shorter durations of marriage .
23 Similar settlement histories have occurred in the Gangetic plain and Doabs of northern India ( Schlich 1889 : 187–238 ) and Brazil up to the present day .
24 Constant liaison at the appropriate level is therefore necessary to avoid a situation arising where problems have occurred about which the supplier is not aware .
25 But have the limited changes which have occurred been beneficial ?
26 Where problems associated with water penetration have occurred on mastic asphalt roofs , it is usually as a result of failure from one or more of the following : incorrectly detailed or ignored movement joints , penetration through parapet walls , wrongly positioned or damaged damp proof courses , blocked rainwater outlets , condensation , failure to provide a suitable finish , or physical damage in use .
27 During the surface interval , the fly time screen displays one of four sets of information : Warning/do not fly for … hrs … mins ; safe to fly/time to tissue desat … hrs … mins ; safe to fly/tissues desaturated ; and , should a decompression incident have occurred : Warning/do not fly .
28 With the end of the season in sight it is always worthwhile looking at the trends in diving accidents that have occurred .
29 Hundreds of smaller , locally organised anti-war actions have occurred nationwide , but little attention is afforded them by a media cowering under government charges that it contributed to the US defeat in Vietnam .
30 The following changes have occurred among those listed :
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