Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend of mine in her late thirties has spent the last five years building up a successful business . |
| 2 | In that time , the giant multinational has bought a 40 per cent stake in the company that runs south Crofty ( which also operates a small mine at Pendarves ) as well as 18 per cent of the shares in Geevor . |
| 3 | Brian Little has become the first man to win the Vauxhall Conference manager of the month award , worth £250 , for the second time in succession , for Darlington 's unbeaten run throughout October . |
| 4 | Former Darlington manager Brian Little has done a superb job in his first season , but Leicester face three promotion rivals in their four-match finale . |
| 5 | Little has done an excellent job at Filbert Street since he left Darlington last summer . |
| 6 | As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang , but neither has made the same impact as yet . |
| 7 | But so far neither has shown the tremendous flair with top-spin attacking that made them a major force in the world championships in Dortmund only seven months ago . |
| 8 | But neither has found an authentic expression in the institutions of representative democracy . |
| 9 | The Administration of Estates Act 1925 has provided a uniform method for the administration of all the property of a deceased person . |
| 10 | The long-wave , world-systems and regulationist theories are broad frameworks to which several writers have contributed and each has given a new twist to the framework they use . |
| 11 | Several groups of them specialise in this diet and each has evolved a long sticky tongue entirely independently : a marsupial , the numbat , in Australia ; a distant relative of primitive antelopes , the aardvark in Africa ; the pangolins of Asia and Africa which are covered in a mail of horny plates so that they resemble giant animated fir-cones ; and the three very different ant-eaters of South America , the gazelle-sized giant of the savannahs , the squirrel-sized pygmy from the forest canopy , and the monkey-sized tamandua from its mid-storey . |
| 12 | Each has had a significant impact on the other . |
| 13 | They may have many detailed conversations without realizing that each has attributed a different meaning to the ‘ it ’ or the ‘ that ’ they are talking about . |
| 14 | That has made a huge difference , and in terms of the response to the issues among so-called ‘ decision-makers ’ it is this increasing ability on the part of the environmental organisations to marshal good accurate evidence behind them that has begun to tilt the balance of opinion in their favour . |
| 15 | That has made an enormous difference , and has replaced a lot of penpushing with bricklaying and planning . |
| 16 | ‘ I only get tax relief on the first £30,000 , so that has remained the same . |
| 17 | That has threatened the whole concept of compulsory competitive tendering and we will keep threatening the government 's compulsory competitive tendering regime by using TUPE and the acquired rights directive as the legal shield to protect our members ' jobs and public services from the Tylers of this world . |
| 18 | That has aroused a great deal of fear and was referred to in a recent Health and Safety Executive report . |
| 19 | It was the latter suggestion , and how it was put into practice , that has enslaved the working man to this day . |
| 20 | That has given the whole company a step up , including Crate , who , as we mentioned earlier , are now making use of the systems that I came here with . ’ |
| 21 | And that has ruffled a few feathers at Shire Hall . |
| 22 | And it is not insignificant that the quarterly of which he is the editor is the first British journal which has attempted to relate the British mind to the total European mind ; that has attempted a rational synthesis of the traditions of Roman culture ; that has , in a word , contemplated order . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's fine in the Ryder Cup , although that has got a little bit out of hand when nerves are stretched like the note of a piano . |
| 24 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 25 | Jones has become increasingly loathe to change his side to accommodate individual clubs ' fortunes , and that has brought a first county call-up for young Hawarden Park batsman Darrell Bowden . |
| 26 | That has brought the Gwili Railway alone six members to date , to say nothing of the other railway societies I have joined . |
| 27 | That has settled the whole matter . |
| 28 | Well , I have done the photography for the front cover and er of this particular book , but countryside books , who are the publishers , were asked a number of years ago to republish the old Berkshire village book and that has started a whole series of countryside village books , which now cover , I think , about thirty five different counties . |
| 29 | The academic year 1992/3 has seen the first year of fully modularised courses at Napier . |
| 30 | PRUDENTIAL has launched a new range of flexible pensions products which can be converted to a free-standing additional voluntary contribution and vice versa , and allow contribution levels to be reduced or even suspended altogether for up to five years . |