Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hope is that it could be possible to agree to look for alternative possibilities for Mrs Falconer . ’ |
| 2 | The Eleven agreed to proceed by qualified majority vote on health and safety , working conditions , information and consultation of workers , equality at work between men and women , and integration of persons excluded from the labour market . |
| 3 | But such enthusiasm for working on as many projects as possible has lead to serious cautions from doctors for Merton . |
| 4 | Recent evaluative work undertaken by the Public Sector Management Research Unit from 1979 to 1986 has concentrated upon technical issues of efficiency and effectiveness measurement in economic development programmes . |
| 5 | So , for example , the break in the earnings link for uprating the National Insurance pension in 1980 has resulted in cumulative savings of some £16,000 million . |
| 6 | I know one gay bar in London which used occasionally to screen porn videos , including safer-sex videos , but that has stopped after discreet pressure from the local nick . |
| 7 | That has improved in recent years and I congratulate the local authority and the local schools and colleges on that . |
| 8 | This became enshrined in popular memory as the ‘ winter of discontent ’ in which all the components of the British malaise emerged in heightened colours . |
| 9 | The British tend to sneer at American house-building methods . |
| 10 | Some branches go in for quite lavish posters , some make do with local draughtsmanship . |
| 11 | In short , what this has to do with modern poetry is very clear ; what it has to do with modern criticism is not clear at all , since that criticism has , as we have seen , no vocabulary for dealing with it , and moves further and further from finding such a vocabulary , the more it takes its lead from linguisticians like Saussure and Jakobson . |
| 12 | This has met with considerable resistance from the staff who have pointed out that the smoking restrictions at Chesser House are merely a voluntary agreement and are not Council policy in the same way as restrictions at Regional Headquarters and Regional Chambers . |
| 13 | This has led to embarrassing moments among his pure-white mobile guard force . |
| 14 | Failure to do this has led to other serious local conflicts . |
| 15 | As women enter traditionally male positions of power , this has led to new coinings like Stadtssekretärin and dottoressa . |
| 16 | This has led to increased complexity of the maintenance workload . |
| 17 | Equally important the Chairman 's office is colocated with the Secretariat and this has led to increased efficiency in the conduct of the profession 's affairs . |
| 18 | This has led to parliamentary deadlock . |
| 19 | This has led to considerable confusion as to what religion is anyway , because any necessary reference to the divine , to God , to the transcendent has been removed from it . |
| 20 | He accepts that there have been changes , in particular the modern office has grown in size , but he denies that this has led to clerical workers becoming proletarian . |
| 21 | This has led to constant clashes with everybody from health ministers to bishops and police officers . |
| 22 | In some cases at some times this has led to ruthless persecution with many deaths ( USSR in the 1930s and China in the 1950s ) . |
| 23 | This has led to intensive attempts to standardise costed " packages of care " which bring together considerations of outcome with workforce and workload planning . |
| 24 | We found that in areas of Southern Norway and Sweden , and areas of Scotland where there are hard granite rocks and thin soils , that many of the lakes and streams have shown er a progressive acidification since the industrial revolution , and that this has accelerated in recent years , until about ten years ago , when er the emissions of So2 from the U K , particularly fell , about , between about nineteen seventy and er today of about thirty or fell forty per cent drop . |
| 25 | I re do regret that this has come to full council yet again because I thought we 'd already had the debate . |
| 26 | Škvoreck ý's; The Bass Saxophone describes the particularly intense form this has taken under totalitarian regimes — both Fascist and Stalinist — when ‘ the ideological guns and sometimes even the police guns of all dictatorships are aimed at the men with the horns ’ . |
| 27 | We know much more than anyone could possibly want to know about Bill and Hillary 's sex life er than we do er about prospects for economic recovery and this has happened to successive American presidents and it happens in part because in the U S the president and his family , and it has been a his so far , the president and his family take the part , not only the part played in England by the prime minister , but also the part played by the monarchy . |
| 28 | Unfortunately this has rebounded on local authorities since , operating under the principle of he who pays the piper calls the tune , Central Government has been able to impose severe restrictions on local authority spending , not only by curbing the total amount of the grant , but also by penalising local authorities who exceed targets imposed by the Central Government . |
| 29 | This has concentrated on continuous process control and automation as the models of advanced technology . |
| 30 | This has succeeded in kick-starting many renewable projects , but as its 1998 cut-off date approaches , it is becoming difficult to finance new schemes . |