Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This government has been in office so long that this view of personal freedom has become written into detailed policy and into legal planning advice . |
| 2 | this is gon na be done from the heart , there 's no , nothing being put there in front , because when you see what I 've got and what my branch has achieved working with unemployed people your branch earner and that lady up there , , twenty seven years in this union we started this football team , it was this dream that I had and I come from Salford , which is not far from which is devastated with drugs burnt out cars people robbing each other , and of course , . |
| 3 | Seventeen of the 46 patients allocated to surgical therapy experienced documented bleeding from oesophageal varices after randomisation . |
| 4 | In its first environmental report , Nuclear Electric has pledged to stay within self-imposed radiation limits for workers three times more stringent than legal requirements and to foster openness and dialogue with local communities . |
| 5 | The 1992 programme has begun to falter amid growing evidence that it has become rigged with national interests , disadvantaging those countries who play by the rules . |
| 6 | That concentration has become marked in recent elections . |
| 7 | But they have done what no American administration has dared do in living memory — set the scene for a proper debate . |
| 8 | Her blood seemed to have turned into heavy oil in her body , and something was dragging her down so ruthlessly that she let herself fall into the harsh carpet of pebbles . |
| 9 | ‘ Blenkinsop is being extremely co-operative , and while I admit that his conversion into an upright citizen seems to have come with indecent haste , nevertheless , he was oddly compelling . ’ |
| 10 | Dubcek sobbed when he told his stunned nation in an emotional radio address that he and fellow leaders of the Prague Spring had had to bow to overwhelming military force . |
| 11 | Morpurgo 's mouth had begun to twitch in painful preparation to speak . |
| 12 | Farnham will miss the extra pace of Lee , but the club have resolved to do without overseas players . |
| 13 | Too often the choice for the British filmmaker has seemed to lie between critical approval combined with minimal box office or going all-out to emphasize the most garish , flamboyant and parochial aspects of popular cinema . |
| 14 | There must be some hidden sexual factor involved , as though the soft-furred ( and therefore sexy ) cat has come to stand for sexual violence and rape , via its savagely sharp claws and canine teeth . |
| 15 | But because there is no legal requirement to deposit records ( as with books ) the institute has had to rely on voluntary donations over the years . |
| 16 | With the recession the local labour council has refused to go for new jobs and at the height of this , they sacked the man whose job it was to bring jobs to Swindon . |
| 17 | The situation there is that the , there 're , if you have double rooms as doubles then there would be , we do have a relatively low occupancy but the committee had decided to move towards double rooms being used as single occupancy only and on the , I 've got the latest figures for the first of January in front of me just by ch really just by chance |
| 18 | Conceivably , if the revolt had spread to take in substantial parts of the country then , to anticipate Maoist precepts of the future , the countryside would have surrounded the cities ; but at this time not only were there no ‘ sympathetic detonations ’ in other parts of the country but there was practically no challenge whatever to French power in the cities . |
| 19 | They do exist , however , because certain breeds of cat have become adapted to different climates . |
| 20 | At the same time , levels of residential mobility have tended to increase in gross terms , giving the potential for more rapid and substantial net changes in population distribution . |
| 21 | The community has had to rely on occasional ferry trips in fine weather and flights on tiny Islander planes , operated by Loganair , for four years . |
| 22 | Analysts were mildly bullish following Storage Technology Corp 's first quarter report — figures , page five — and after an order imbalance on the New York Stock Exchange , the shares were up $1.125 or 4.7% at $25.125 in early trading on Friday : the numbers beat Wall Street expectations , and the company said that operating performance exceeded its expectations , largely as a result of the strengthening in the US enterprise-related business ; Europe remained slow as a result of weak economies , but the mid-range business has begun to benefit from new products ; cash grew to $325m from $118m at the end of 1992 ; it studiously avoided saying anything about the late Iceberg disk array . |
| 23 | This empirical and time consuming search for an effective strategy was mentioned by many arts interviewees , although every advisory teacher appears to have come to similar conclusions ultimately about which classroom practices were effective and which not . |
| 24 | The term was originally used by Hader and Lindeman to refer to work done in industrial consultation committees where some members of the committee were trained to observe in detail what happened at meetings and were then questioned afterwards by research workers — rather like an intelligence officer might question the crew of an aircraft after a raid . |
| 25 | If this package had had to go through national parliaments , it would not have been achieved in a hundred years ! ’ |
| 26 | The Mineralogy and Petrology Group continued to contribute to research into natural analogues for radioactive-waste disposal on behalf of the Department of the Environment at two sites in Scotland , Broubster in Caithness and Needle 's Eye on the Solway Coast , demonstrating the significance of plants and microorganisms in concentrating metals by biosorption processes and in encouraging secondary mineralisation . |
| 27 | Also the material benefits of Prussian citizenship had begun to show in improved living standards and educational opportunities . |
| 28 | The group had wanted to work with Albini for a while and were pleased when Korda Marshall suggested the liaison . |
| 29 | If the symbols for mem and gimmel have become differentiated for Hebrew readers during the course of their previous experience with this alphabet , these subjects should be at an advantage on both test tasks — an enhanced ability to discriminate between the two Hebrew symbols should be helpful in both cases . |
| 30 | ‘ Most of the fifty or so Europeans prefer to live in Tala-Tala rather than Anani , ’ he said adding , with a touch of sarcasm , ‘ They say they dinna want to get contaminated by big-city life . ’ |