Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late 1960s , Ceauşescu himself had called for a strengthening of the traditional family , but when that failed to have the desired effect of boosting the birth-rate , the regime reversed its direction from promoting old-fashioned morality as a stimulus to conception . |
| 2 | That failed to gain him entry . |
| 3 | The neutralisation technique has been validated by double blind randomised trials , including food trials showing its effectiveness in preventing symptoms.Studies that failed to show effects evaluated the provocation of symptoms by food extracts ( not part of the standard technique ) ; that cited by Kay was also faulty in many respects and gave a wrong definition of the end point . |
| 4 | The Government said parents knew best but that failed to recognise the professionalism of teachers and the close links between teachers , parents and schools . |
| 5 | A meeting of the central committee of the Communist Party ( PCF ) on Sept. 3-5 failed to dislodge Georges Marchais , 71 , the veteran general secretary ( since 1972 ) , and approved on Sept. 5 a report presented by André Lajoinie , the president of the PCF group inthe National Assembly , rejecting all criticisms from the reformist wing . |
| 6 | Statistical analysis was performed using the χ 2 test with or without Yates ' correction , the Fisher 's exact test and the Wilcoxon 's rank-sum test , each applied according to its own indications . |
| 7 | When it appeared that the intent to educate had been overwhelmed by the need to amuse , Cayley became chairman of the Royal Polytechnic Institution at Regent Street , which from 1838 sought to do what the Adelaide Gallery had failed to do . |
| 8 | She took it from the cupboard and as usual became engrossed in the other pages of the newspaper . |
| 9 | ‘ Megavitamins ’ , that is doses of vitamins many times larger than that recommended to prevent diseases arising from deficiency , have been found to affect the biochemical reactions for which the vitamins are needed . |
| 10 | In time the student will advance to more complicated forms , each devised to add extra to his training programme . |
| 11 | PEG precipitated templates can be sequenced from both ends , each read yielding up to 400 nt of highly accurate sequence ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 12 | She and nine patrons ( Mrs Boehm calls them ‘ the Angels ’ ) each agreed to give $100,000 , raising a total of $1 million , a sum to which the owners generously agreed . |
| 13 | The deal which DBV and Darlington council struck went like this : each agreed to put in £150,000 . |
| 14 | Each agreed to provide practical assistance to the other in times of difficulty . |
| 15 | On the Spanish left the period between the November 1933 election and the end of 1935 became known as the bienio negro , the ‘ two black years ’ , during which the reforms of 1931–3 were reversed or flouted , socio-economic power reverted sharply to landlords and employers , the left itself experienced unprecedented repression and the seeds of civil war were decisively sown . |
| 16 | Repeated referendums were held between 1983 and 1990 in an attempt to achieve this end , but each failed to secure the necessary 75 per cent approval level [ see p. 37251 ] . |
| 17 | None of the big guns will be involved as Lisnagarvey , Banbridge and holders Holywood — each expected to reach the floodlit semi-finals of the competition — take time out to assist English national league side East Grinstead in their pre-season preparations . |
| 18 | None of the big guns will be involved as Lisnagarvey , Banbridge and holders Holywood — each expected to reach the floodlit semi-finals of the competition — take time out to assist English national league side East Grinstead in their pre-season preparations . |
| 19 | In 1986 , the Secretary of State for the Environment , Nicholas Ridley , announced the creation of four more UDCs ( see Figure 2 , p. xii ) , each expected to spend about £150 million in the first five years of their existence . |
| 20 | What 's that got to do with her ? |
| 21 | What 's that got to do with it ? ’ |
| 22 | What 's that got to do wi' it ? |
| 23 | What if that got tangled up in an aeroplane passing ? |
| 24 | and I think my concern is that I P R and B A I E might being to get a bad name with hosts if that got known |
| 25 | And there was a move to set it up again in the late Sixties , but that got sat on . |
| 26 | ‘ That got sorted out , ’ Benny said . |
| 27 | That got burnt , otherwise I 'd still have it today . |
| 28 | ( It was announced that the eight planned to appeal . ) |
| 29 | Eight failed to do so because of a recurrence of their disease that could not be attributed to any particular food constituent . |
| 30 | One child had previous failure to thrive and developed diarrhoea which persisted for 14 days ; the other eight failed to thrive after the onset of diarrhoea . |