Example sentences of "[art] [det] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at a time when tunes from bourgeois sources were increasingly popular and when traditional , so called ‘ folk ’ tunes were in decline , certainly in the music hall , Corvan used comparatively few of the former and actively retained many of the latter . |
| 2 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 3 | In a similar survey undertaken in 1974 , Greeley found the effectiveness of catholic schools either the same or slightly increased . |
| 4 | Some rebuilding was carried out in 1804 , after the earlier building had been damaged by fire ( see Shrewsbury ) , for it had timber floors , but the main block is basically the same as originally built , and is still in use . |
| 5 | But then both you and RIPPOE said that her mother was the same and always arrived late and so on for everything , so perhaps it is genetic ! |
| 6 | The search must be no more than reasonably required for the purposes of discovering such evidence and there must be reasonable grounds for believing that such evidence will be found . |
| 7 | Naturally the students who had not been admitted to the courses of their first choice were in general no more than minimally qualified . |
| 8 | These expansions , furthermore , introduce ideas no more than potentially implied in the Horatian phrase : " renews the plain " , " fashion " , " suffers " , " shakes " . |