Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The various plans failed to restore the confidence of either foreign banks or foreign investors . |
| 2 | PC Richard Parry said the car was very dirty and a detailed inspection failed to find any sign that it had made contact with the two pedestrians . |
| 3 | Other acts sought to prohibit as far as possible corrupt practices and limited the amount of money a candidate could spend on election expenses . |
| 4 | The officers from Lothian and Borders , Grampian , Northern Constabulary and Cambridgeshire met to review the investigation . |
| 5 | At an extraordinary general meeting last Thursday , Spectrum 's shareholders agreed to form a consortium , Harmony Investments , which has pledged to inject at least £600,000 into the station to cover debts estimated at £450,000 . |
| 6 | Ian Stewart got to know Paul Gascoigne well when he teamed up with the troubled Lazio and England star at Newcastle . |
| 7 | Perfusion of the stomach with saline for four hours failed to cause any mucosal damage at the macroscopic and histological level ( n=4 ) . |
| 8 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |
| 9 | R. A. Hamilton was not in favour of such trees and the chairman agreed to write accordingly . |
| 10 | R.A. Hamilton was not in favour of such trees and the chairman agreed to write accordingly . |
| 11 | Bolney Estates agreed to take up £1,000 worth and others agreed to buy a further £3,000 worth . |
| 12 | Suffice it to say that , in the absence of a sufficiently ‘ mature ’ , well-educated civil society in Siberia , Speranskii sought to design a structure of bureaucratic agencies and offices in which power was vested in institutions rather than personalities , which took full cognizance of individual regions ' peculiar human and material needs and circumstances ( both Russian and native ) , and which laid down proper codes of administrative procedures , legal practices and economic policies . |
| 13 | Two control individuals and three adult coeliac patients in remission agreed to take part in the study . |
| 14 | Described by Finance Minister Allan Larsson as " austere but responsible " , the budget sought to bring the expansion of public-sector expenditure to a halt [ for austerity measures already approved in December 1990 see p. 37925 ] . |
| 15 | The budget sought to raise L30,000,000 million ( about US$26,900 million ) in extra revenue through one-off taxes on bank deposits and property , increases in stamp duty and the cost of passports and some licences , and spending cuts achieved especially through a freeze on employment in the civil service and some state companies . |
| 16 | These were also powerfully promoted by domestic service at a time when even the meanest clerk expected to employ at least a resident maid-of-all-work . |
| 17 | However , Sharon said in an interview with the Jerusalem Post of March 22 that the Housing Ministry planned to build 13,000 new homes in the West Bank over the next two years . |
| 18 | CYNTHIA Hirst was disappointed the Budget failed to give substantial help to disabled people . |
| 19 | The motor industry bucked the trend with figures showing that the halving of car tax in the Budget failed to stimulate sales last month . |
| 20 | Mr Major 's budget failed to change their minds . |
| 21 | Employers agreed to pay on December 1st nearly the full wage hike they promised to give on April 1st . |
| 22 | An Italian government proposal to establish a central register of suspicious operations failed to gain parliamentary approval . |
| 23 | Moreover , at the critical moment at least one of the mines failed to go off . |
| 24 | ‘ IMC can not be held responsible for the fact that your Earth Central contracts failed to guarantee your return journeys . ’ |
| 25 | Before the case came to a hearing Parliament sought to improve the revenue 's position by enacting with retrospective effect section 47(1) of the Finance Act 1986 , but this proved ineffective for the purpose and on 31 July 1987 Nolan J. [ 1987 ] S.T.C. 654 decided that the regulations complained of were ultra vires and void in so far as they purported to provide for the imposition of tax on interests and dividends paid by building societies prior to 6 April 1986 , and made an order accordingly . |
| 26 | The latter have shown a conservative judiciary interpreting legislation and developing the common law in ways which government and Parliament sought to reverse . |
| 27 | first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) . |
| 28 | The principle of this case lingers on , although Parliament sought to mitigate its harshness by a special provision which enables publishers of unintentional defamation to make amends without incurring heavy damages . |
| 29 | More important , it was subversive of the control and influence over events which Parliament sought to exercise that the monarch exercising a substantial ‘ pay-roll ’ influence over Parliament itself . |
| 30 | If this form of ‘ transition ’ becomes simply a retrograde return to passivity , it can be seen as a complete negation of all that the college course sought to encourage : |