In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
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Question: The University of Nottingham found that British people became more racist after the riots .

Answer: Research conducted by the University of Nottingham suggested that race relations in Britain deteriorated in the period following the riots and that prejudice towards ethnic minorities increased .

Question: Resistance in the Netherlands included sabotage ( like cutting phone lines , distributing anti-German leaflets , or tearing down posters ) .

Answer: Resistance in the Netherlands initially took the form of small-scale , decentralized cells engaged in independent activities , mostly small-scale sabotage ( such as cutting phone lines , distributing anti-German leaflets or tearing down posters ) .

Question: Its pattern of two-tier councils remains in use today in large parts of England , although the metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986 and it was replaced with unitary authorities in many areas in the 1990s .

Answer:
Its pattern of two-tier metropolitan and non-metropolitan county and district councils remains in use today in large parts of England , although the metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986 , and both county and district councils were replaced with unitary authorities in many areas in the 1990s .