Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard cash will be the measure of whether Climb for the World develops into an annual jamboree or gets consigned to the drawer marked ‘ heroic failure . ’ |
| 2 | It will frequently happen that information disclosed in confidence is or becomes known to a limited number of people or to a specific section of the public only . |
| 3 | During six weeks of intensive pre-tour training at Lilleshall , Graham Gooch 's batsmen have , for the first time , been using a special indoor mat in the nets that has spun like a sub-continental wicket . |
| 4 | We know that the Labour party is committed to an increase in child benefit and pensions , covered by its eight new or increased taxes , a point that has featured in the debate . |
| 5 | Fact is , it 's precisely the too-thorough internalization of punk 's dread of the hippy and the resulting strategy of self-limitation that has led to a wholly different kind of dire stasis . |
| 6 | Some years later , Crook and Elliot ( 1980 ) conducted a similar review and came to similar conclusions , suggesting that social class is a confounding variable that has led to a spurious association in some studies between loss and depression . |
| 7 | It is this combination of factors that has led to a stream of government interventions over pay determination , productivity and working practices , investment and closure decisions , and industrial conflict . |
| 8 | The management of patients who mutilate themselves while in a disturbed state will include treatment of the disorder that has led to the disturbance and will invariably have to be initiated in the psychiatric inpatient setting . |
| 9 | Is it not an appalling indictment of 13 years of this Government 's economic policy that yesterday one of Her Majesty 's coroners described the shortage of beds in one of Britain 's principal hospitals — a shortage that has led to the death of a pensioner from Southwark — as appalling due to a 2 per cent . |
| 10 | The development of the in-can system that has led to the successful introduction of Canned Draught Guinness and Guinness Draught Bitter is a fine example of how the application of technology and innovation can produce outstanding results . |
| 11 | It is this emphasis on controlling the money supply that has led to the title ‘ monetarist ’ . |
| 12 | Italy is one of Iran 's main trading partners and had until now been largely spared the violence that has led to the deaths of dozens of opponents of the Tehran government opponents in other European cities since the 1979 revolution . |
| 13 | The approach is primarily focused on helping patients resolve the crisis that has led to an overdose and on tackling their longer-term problems , largely using their own resources to do so and thereby developing greater ability to cope with stresses in future . |
| 14 | Clearly the most drastic punishment for a firm that has reneged on the collusive agreement would be for the other firms to force it to its security level , either forever or for some specified number of time periods . |
| 15 | We may see rage in a bucking horse , acute anxiety in a solitary horse galloping up and down a fence , great fear in a horse that cowers and jams its tail down hard between its hind legs , or elation in a pony that has escaped from a yard and is prancing around the paddock in an exuberant high-stepping trot . |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman represents a party that has called for a 50 per cent . |
| 17 | It is this skewed nature of the existing private print media that has called for the participation of the government in the ownership and operation of the print media in this country . |
| 18 | It is this skewed nature of the existing private print media that has called for the participation of the government in the ownership and operation of the print media in this country . |
| 19 | After a few minutes , use a slotted spoon to remove the beige scum that has risen to the surface . |
| 20 | Apple Computer , the Cinderella company that has risen from the backyard to a worldwide name in six years , is going to give a computer to every public and private school in the state — that 's about 10 000 computers with a retail value of almost $20 million . |
| 21 | I have enjoyed reading all your letters and look forward to continuing the two-way communication that has developed over the past year . |
| 22 | Associated with cost is the gap that has developed between the ways in which essentially the same text is used by different groups of people . |
| 23 | Fundamentally , roses are as much shrubs as any others in the garden and , like them , divide broadly into two categories as far as pruning is concerned ; those that flower in spring and summer on wood developed during the previous growth period ( i.e. last year ) , and those that flower , necessarily a little later , from mid summer on , upon wood that has developed during the current season . |
| 24 | Father Giles reflected on the Beatitudes — their original meaning and the meaning that has developed in the course of time , up to the present day . |
| 25 | Hansen ( 1980 ) makes it very clear that signed Danish is not the same as the Signed English that has developed in the USA , and she believes it to be a more flexible and efficient natural language form . |
| 26 | The English that has developed in the country — certainly its spoken version — will not be readily comprehensible to those from outside the sub-continent . |
| 27 | In spite of changing perceptions of the environment and the differences that has made to the Trust 's approach , it is the ability to manage property in a sustainable way , that underpins the Trust 's relevance to protection of the environment in the 1990s sense of the word just as much as it did in the 1890s , in the Victorian sense of the word . |
| 28 | Economic decline is tangled up with political turmoil in a way that has made for a crisis of the constitution . |
| 29 | Relatives may make a gift to a local hospital that has cared for a loved one . |
| 30 | Bouncing around on the end of an elastic rope may not be everyone 's idea of fun , but for the 24-year-old from Staindrop , County Durham , it 's a fascination that has turned into a living . |