Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNFORTUNATELY the majority of memorial dedications tend to receive only a fraction of the publicity they deserve . |
| 2 | This happens to be a good strategy for a side with material superiors , and computers have won quite a lot of games with this strategy . |
| 3 | J. Sainsbury , Britain 's biggest food retailer argues that discount shops have received only a temporary boost from the recession . |
| 4 | No I bought my dining room suite , this Ercol dining room suite in there , I 've still got it , yeah that was a long Oh yeah the shops have changed quite a lot in the The Stow have n't they ? |
| 5 | With Norm 's demise , America 's beer-drinkers have lost both a role-model and a soulmate ; but , as it happens , the week also brought them good news . |
| 6 | Michael Attenborough of Hodder commented : ‘ For any publisher , losing an author all of whose books have sold over a million copies in their UK editions — and I have no doubt that As the Crow Flies will join them soon — is very regrettable . |
| 7 | Although the past few months have seen quite a number of problems for European unity , one area that remains firmly fixed is the demolition of trade barriers in 1993 . |
| 8 | However , there are differences between Type I and 2 diabetes : HDL levels are generally either normal or low in Type 2 diabetes ( Lopes-Virella et al , 1977 ; Kennedy et al , 1978 ; Reckless et al , 1978 ; Taylor et al , 1981 ; Rendel et al , 1982 ) : Studies on the subfractions have shown either an increase in the level of the HDL 3 subfraction ( Durrington , 1982 ) , or a reduction in HDL 2 . |
| 9 | There is often an upper age limit set for policyholders , although , in recent years the insurance companies have extended upwards a little . |
| 10 | But John King has stuck to his principles and Rovers have strung together an impressive home record . |
| 11 | Now , ambulance crews have put together a video of some accidents which they 'll be showing to young drivers . |
| 12 | Contrary to your impression matters have moved forward a considerable way in relation to the Church Road stop . |
| 13 | Nature conservationists have put together an otter 's holt made from logs . |
| 14 | Conservationists have put together an otter 's holt , and one of the creatures has given the residence her own ’ paw-print ’ of approval |
| 15 | The past 30 years have witnessed both an escalation of the arms race between NATO and the Warsaw Pact and a proliferating membership of the nuclear weapons club . |
| 16 | The last few years have seen quite a shake up in the leasing market . |
| 17 | Aids have claimed quite a few victims now |
| 18 | The investigators have put forward a theory suggesting that the gross organisation of human action is carried out by different parts of the mind from the fine detailed planning and control of behaviour , and that it is governed by emotional factors to a much greater extent than people had realised . |
| 19 | In the shadow of that history there is all the more to appreciate about the way progressive movements in our time have turned things around , and begun positively to identify the difference of the other : ‘ the emphasis on discontinuity , the celebration of difference and heterogeneity , and the assertion of plurality as opposed to reductive unities — these ideas have animated almost an entire generation of literary and cultural critics ’ ( Mohanty , ‘ Us and Them ’ , 56 — 7 ) . |
| 20 | In an effort to salvage the protocol , other delegates have put together a counterproposal requiring any country that decided to mine under the terms the US proposed to withdraw from the entire environmental protocol and not just the mining clause . |
| 21 | Of course , the historical analogy is not a completely valid one , for history only concerns the interactions within a single species during a few thousand years , in connection with which geological and climatological changes have played only a minor role ( as in the extinction of Carthage and of the Viking settlements in Greenland ) . |
| 22 | Roberts ' prints have become almost a cliché , corrupted by overuse , representative of both a cause and a dream . |
| 23 | First , a return to viewing the landscape in totality , rather than the sum of its component parts , and second , a much greater emphasis on the preferences of the general public , rather than professional people , even though some studies have shown quite a good correlation between the two ( Preece , 1980 ) . |
| 24 | But I think those days are now over and anybody who 's been in building societies , there 's now a feeling er that things have altered quite a long way . |
| 25 | I can see from what you 've just told me that things have changed rather a lot in fifty years . |
| 26 | Right so at the point we broke off , you were saying about things that things have changed quite a lot . |
| 27 | not , not very easily because there 's different things apply to different courses like some things have got quite a lot of sort of documentation and handout materials some things |
| 28 | Others are highly critical of this type of reasoning , which is often cited as the main justification for examining in the arts , but which the critics argue confers only a ‘ spurious legitimacy ’ at the expense of much that is valuable in the arts . |
| 29 | So various market research interests have put together a classification for research purposes which the majority of research firms now use , which provides a kind of guide to people 's status in the community and their likely spending behaviour . |
| 30 | The city is one of the most popular destinations on the visitors ' map … but accomodation bookings have fallen roughly a quarter over the past two years . |