Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economic activities have steadily moved from the villages and the rural communities into the towns and the urban areas ; and as employment opportunities have diminished in the rural areas , the village population have moved into the towns |
| 2 | However , the proportion of women who are full-time housewives has significantly dropped during the post-war period and , since married women who have paid employment spend less time on housework than those without paid work , this means that overall , there has been a significant decline in the amount of time the average woman will spend doing housework . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the exigencies of balancing the government 's books in hard economic times have everywhere called into question the future of the welfare state . |
| 4 | ‘ My political views have never changed in the past and will not change in the future , ’ he said soon after court officials ordered his early release from a Beijing prison . |
| 5 | Again , this was a 1960s fad which lasted only a very few years ( c 1966–69 ) , although split-screen sequences had occasionally appeared in fantasy films such as musicals in the 1940s and '50s . |
| 6 | The junior recruits have all gone to Aldershot to take their Military Swimming Test and to have chest X-rays . |
| 7 | Therefore the process of the naturalisation of economic relationships had already begun before the transition period was embarked upon . |
| 8 | Grammar , secondary modern and technical schools in England and Wales ( and , with different terminology , in Scotland and Northern Ireland — see below ) form what is called the tripartite system , though in reality technical schools have never existed in large numbers . |
| 9 | The remit which I set myself is to examine in outline the ways in which the political parties have both responded to and helped to shape the pertinent social collectivities in Britain over the post-war years , and how the activities of political forces have been constrained by , and have served to maintain or transform , the economic class relations of British capitalism . |
| 10 | Some courts have however looked to the causal link between the existence of a hearing and the final outcome . |
| 11 | Whether you then sow the seeds in rows , or in patches , or in " stations " — groups spaced several cm ( in ) apart — is up to you ; in any case , some herbs do better sown in boxes or a seedbed , and then transplanted ; others are better sown where they are to grow and then thinned . |
| 12 | Again , many different technologies exist mainly based around the Intel chip sets and the JPEG compression technique . |
| 13 | Finally , let us note that titles of address and all vocative forms seem invariably marked for speaker-referent relationship : there is no such thing , it seems , as a socially neutral summons or address ( see Zwicky , 1974 : 795 re English ) . |
| 14 | Very few transvestites have actually played for Scotland . |
| 15 | Admittedly we can discern glimmerings of intelligent thought involving the location of sub-goals and the execution of sub-strategies , a grasp of ‘ causality ’ , perhaps even a grasp of the internal motivational states of others , as disclosed by their behaviour ; and some experimenters have even looked for signs of a sense of self , and even of intimation of mortality . |
| 16 | Although the requirements concerning the environmental suitability of an operating centre have only been in force since June 1984 , some interesting cases have already arisen on their interpretation . |
| 17 | As we will see below , marine animals have all adapted to this patchiness — and in some cases , as with the great whales , exploit it beautifully . |
| 18 | Two different methods have recently come to hand . |
| 19 | West Germany : ‘ the nuclear construction programme of the German utilities has practically come to an end for the time being . ’ |
| 20 | Although the land was largely champaign , some demesnes had never lain in common field , or had long ceased to do so . |
| 21 | Similar changes in a wide range of physical oceanographic variables have also occurred in the eastern Pacific . |
| 22 | In addition there is the charge that the ownership of British companies has now passed to the large institutions — insurance companies , pension funds , unit trusts and investment trusts — who tend to adopt a rather passive approach to those companies whose equity they hold because they are more concerned with their own role as financial intermediaries . |
| 23 | The area of study in the social sciences which has gone under the name of anthropology in English-speaking countries has traditionally concentrated on primitive peoples . |
| 24 | We are now producing the new list of Specialised Classes — some areas have already sent in details — but I need the rest as soon as possible . |
| 25 | In the first place , although non-convertible bank notes may have been a new element , many — perhaps most — commercial transactions had long depended on paper bills rather than value-for-weight coin . |
| 26 | The importance of social class membership in providing access to resources , including income , was demonstrated by the fact that differences between the propensity of those in different classes to retire early increased with distance from pension age . |
| 27 | The finds included several urns and glass vessels as well as stone and lead coffins ; some graves had even cut through the counterscarp bank of the town 's ditch , suggesting prolonged usage . |
| 28 | Many English Catholics remained deeply committed to the Stuart dynasty , for obvious reasons , although they were only a tiny minority of the population . |
| 29 | A few observers had already commented on the effectiveness of coaching for tests , a factor which was to lead to the first serious public disquiet over tests as measurement of innate , unalterable and asocial ability — although such comments were not yet thoroughly substantiated . |
| 30 | Frequent sales from central banks over the past few years have barely eaten into stocks . |