Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 At the same time , most people 's daily lives and face-to-face contacts remain relatively limited to small-scale localities .
2 Second , this cladogram is an exercise in inference because many of the extinct groups remain poorly documented ; the text offers justification for many of the placements .
3 This is achieved when local authorities replace directly employed labour with a private sector firm ( eg street cleaning , hospital laundry and catering services ) and is known as contracting out .
4 For many , the roads debate therefore rested on measures of speed restriction and road safety , but with 2 million motor cars on British roads in 1939 , and urban congestion a growing problem , this was scarcely a satisfactory situation .
5 At a preliminary meeting of the British commanders Slim bluntly observed that ‘ the root of the trouble lay in the fact that the Burmese distrusted us ’ .
6 The notion that domestic roles remain highly segregated while the wife is not in employment is widely confirmed .
7 In a study of professional and managerial workers , Edgell ( 1980 ) concludes ‘ that marital relationships remain highly segregated , unequal and husband-dominated ’ .
8 With broken images showing hands and feet and faces , the whole is heavily varnished so the images appear almost sealed into the wood .
9 I did n't to his eyes appear sufficiently impressed .
10 There may be several reasons , concede Laws and Dennison ( 1990:276 ) , why primary heads appear so attracted to doing many things themselves .
11 He replied that since the words put forward related to the past the later debts ought not to be considered to be in the legacy .
12 Against this background , the British-born speakers show especially differentiated behaviour , sticking mostly to London English but occasionally manifesting strategic switches into Creole .
13 The co-ordinator of Greenpeace 's Great Lakes project also claimed that , in focusing on 17 named chemicals , the programme was ignoring thousands of others which pour into the Lakes .
14 This year it promises to be as big as ever , with 90% of stands space already booked .
15 The combined Staines/Nine Elms team somehow managed to finish with a negative score , which earned them the title of ‘ most sporting team ’ , and saved head office teams from occupying the last two positions !
16 This is evidenced by the fact that most candidates seem well drilled to answer objective-test ( multiple-choice ) questions , but are weaker in the written test .
17 It is excellent for skiing since lateral jumping movements can be used , the calves get well stretched and you also develop posture , balance and co-ordination .
18 The first and last pictures contrast highly ordered motion at one end of the sequence with turbulent motion at the other end , and it is seen that there is a series of intermediate stages by which transition from one to the other takes place .
19 A large majority agreed a central role for the computer and this underpinned the applications and methods approach ultimately adopted in the core curriculum .
20 As consumer demands become less varied around the world , the truly successful company is one which adopts global marketing strategies that can be tailored and implemented with a local focus .
21 When roles become more segregated , as they do after the birth of a baby , even when both parents continue to go out to work , people are less able to avoid their envy of the opposite sex and of the baby who receives so much care and attention .
22 This is one of the well-established results which Morton ( 1969 ) used in his influential model of the lexicon , which suggests that words become finally recognised when sufficient " data " about them have been collected from the environment .
23 In a hierarchical structure , where success is seen in terms of promotion but where promotional opportunities become increasingly limited , playing the power game is inevitable .
24 If our work goals are involved , our perceptions of verbal and non-verbal signals become more distorted .
25 The chronic phase shows progressive deterioration in emotional stability so that relationships become progressively damaged .
26 In certain respects Foucault always remained close to the general positions from which Althusser worked , particularly in relation to the influence of Bachelard and his scepticism towards progressivist and homogeneous histories .
27 The underlying philosophy has been that schools require more INSET to be school-focused , linking the enhancement of a teacher 's individual professional skills with the defined needs of the school as a whole ; and further that the capacities of a school staff to evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses must be improved and result directly in more effective forward planning to remedy recognized weaknesses .
28 Building , agriculture and dams have also taken their toll .
29 His words have really come home to me this week .
30 He eventually whittled it down to eighteen thousand and his successors have since reduced the number even more dramatically .
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