Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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1 | The pylons proposal , which the NGC says is necessary to cope with electricity from a new power station at Wilton , has received a further setback . |
2 | One of my Oscars has developed a lower jaw which is twisted . |
3 | ( The position in Canada , however , is somewhat different since the union movement there — probably because of the different system of government — has developed a broader view of political ideology and has close ties with the New Democratic Party . ) |
4 | Hun Sen , the prime minister of Cambodia , has withdrawn an earlier promise to allow the Khmers Rouges ' leaders to stand in any election . |
5 | The Pb isotope data for other islands located in areas of old lithosphere , Fernando de Noronha , Cape Verdes and the oceanic Cameroon line ( Fig. 1 ) , tend to be only slightly high in 206 Pb/ 204 Pb for a given 207 Pb/ 204 Pb ( Fig. 2 c ) , as expected given the lower average U/Pb ratios of lavas from these islands ( Fig. 3 a ) . |
6 | We can preserve , conserve , store , freeze , can , bottle , jar or produce doorstep-fresh anything you want ( short of the snowflake ) , but as a result of this , a greater understanding of the very composition of food has become necessary , which in turn has given a deeper insight into handling systems . |
7 | Since its arrival in the eighteenth century , this is a literary mode which has recurrently been pronounced dead but which has been capable of renewal , and now Ackroyd has given a further turn to the wheel . |
8 | But Norris has given a further and suggestive explanation : ‘ The possession of a written Constitution whose principles are yet open to all manner of far-reaching judicial review … gives a political edge to questions of textual and interpretative theory that they do not have in the British cultural context . ’ |
9 | This situation has given a further boost to the microelectronics industry , which now has the incentive to apply its research and development programmes to telecommunications . |
10 | BNFL 's donation towards the scheme is £25,000 while Sellafield Charity Snowball Committee has given a further £2,000 . |
11 | For example , assume that a child is a rehabilitated person within the meaning of the Act : in other words , he has been subject to a supervision requirement and that requirement has been terminated or a year has elapsed since the date of the hearing that imposed the supervision requirement , whichever is the longer , and he has committed no further offences during the rehabilitation period ; or he has appeared before a children 's hearing which has decided not to impose a supervision requirement on him and six months has elapsed during which time he has committed no further offences . |
12 | For example , assume that a child is a rehabilitated person within the meaning of the Act : in other words , he has been subject to a supervision requirement and that requirement has been terminated or a year has elapsed since the date of the hearing that imposed the supervision requirement , whichever is the longer , and he has committed no further offences during the rehabilitation period ; or he has appeared before a children 's hearing which has decided not to impose a supervision requirement on him and six months has elapsed during which time he has committed no further offences . |
13 | In summary , the Zeebrugge tragedy has reminded the haulier that operations across the Channel can pose quite complicated legal problems concerning matters of compensation for loss of life , injury and damage to property . |
14 | Speculation as to the causes of queues has included a greater public awareness of the CAB , growing numbers in receipt of state benefits , unemployment and the availability of credit , the rising divorce rate , and a complex legislative programme that has affected clients detrimentally . |
15 | But that charge was thrown out at Gloucester Crown Court last month and now the prosecution has dropped a further assault charge . |
16 | The rest of Latin America has fared no better than Brazil . |
17 | Hilton says that the possibility of reformation thus open to man 's free choice has two aspects : first , reformation in faith which is based on the process of recognition and destruction of the image of sin which has occupied the greater part of Scale 1 ; and second , reformation in feeling which involves a development possible for some who can progress further to an inner freedom and joy which such discipline enables . |
18 | Only AA has reported a larger rise in fee income so far , at 12.7% . |
19 | During the Eighties , it has been the Thatcher-Reagan model which has enjoyed the higher global vogue . |
20 | He has added a further submission , namely that what is sought here is an extreme exercise of judicial power , namely the right to force doctors to administer treatment against their will . |
21 | Recent work in the eastern suburbs on the later winged-corridor building has added a further complexity , revealing an important sequence of later Iron-Age ditched enclosures alongside a stream , in one of which lay a two-phase timber round house associated with pottery , slag , bone and worked flints . |
22 | The agreement reached between SCOTVEC and SCOTCAT members — and between SCOTVEC and BTEC — has added a further dimension to the flexibility and widened opportunities for candidates which are the hallmark of our new advanced courses . |
23 | has added a further tri-axle tanker trailer to its fleet which will be used to carry bulk loads to the Manchester and Walsall areas . |
24 | ‘ With our own staff I believe the Company has fostered a greater sense of confidence in what it is seeking to achieve and the way it is going about achieving it . |
25 | For a given outlay of local currency it has ensured a higher value of imports than would have been available under a market valuation of the currency . |
26 | The resulting interpretation of the couplet is no spectacular advance on the appropriate sense many readers attain very quickly ; but our investigation has built a surer foundation for the validity of the interpretation . |
27 | It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car . |
28 | The longer term has seen a greater willingness on the part of the judiciary to challenge the exercise by Ministers and civil servants of their discretionary powers . |
29 | As Donald J. Olsen has written : ‘ With the possible exception of Canada , Britain has seen a closer relationship between railways and hotels than any other country . ’ |
30 | Here the great house is not crumbling , as in Palladian , but has suffered the worse humiliation of being perverted into a preparatory school for boys : it is divided by baize doors and encircled by cinder paths . |