Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Neil had been busy with a small epidemic of low fever which had fortunately missed Vetch Street , and Matey had decided to do some summer cleaning , spring cleaning having been missed out , due to the deficiencies of Sally-Anne 's predecessor . |
| 2 | Before the publication of the new draft , the Bush administration had appeared to show greater flexibility in its negotiating stance . |
| 3 | Where , however , the recorded mileage was exceptionally low for the age of the vehicle and the defendant had failed to make any enquiries even of the car 's immediate previous owner , the defence is likely to fail , Simmons v. Ravenhill ( 1983 D.C. ) . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland in the north [ see pp. 38182-83 ] , relief organizations had begun implementing EC-sponsored programmes in co-operation with the government created there by the Somali National Movement ( SNM ) . |
| 5 | In regard to giving ‘ due impartiality ’ to news presentation , the journalists had failed to give proper weight to the qualification of impartiality by the word ‘ due ’ . |
| 6 | For example in the case of the airline employees the revenue had sought to tax concessionary travel on the average cost basis but their claim had failed before the commissioners and they had not persisted in that claim . |
| 7 | Among the controversial issues which any negotiations would have to address were the following [ see also p. 36837 for so-called " Harare declaration " on ANC proposals for future negotiations , and p. 36912 for earlier policy guidelines ] : ( i ) nationalization : in press interviews in the days following his release , Mandela had reasserted the ANC 's stated policy of nationalizing certain sectors of the economy , including mines — this immediately provoked sharp falls on South African financial markets [ see also p. 37176 ] ; ( ii ) the armed struggle : Mandela had refused to renounce this policy , repeating on Feb. 14 that government installations were legitimate targets for sabotage [ ibid. ] ; ( iii ) power-sharing : the government and the ANC still appeared to be a long way apart on interpretation — the ANC for its part was not prepared to accept an arrangement similar to the current tri-cameral parliament ; ( iv ) sanctions : Mandela had already stated that " the conditions for which sanctions are being applied still exist " and thus there was no need for a review of the question [ for UK Prime Minister 's unilateral decision to break EC agreement on voluntary sanctions see below ] . |
| 8 | For their part , the Khmers Rouges claimed that UNTAC had failed to implement major aspects of the 1989 peace agreement , namely the full verification of Vietnam 's troop withdrawal from Cambodia and the strengthening of the all-party Supreme National Council ( SNC ) . |
| 9 | According to French radio reports on March 16 , the opposition had decided to boycott senatorial elections scheduled for April 3 . |
| 10 | She could n't think ; her mind had stopped doing that sort of thing ; she could only wait till her arms and legs felt like moving again . |
| 11 | Chubais on April 10 was expelled from the CPSU by his district party committee in Moscow , and it was reported on April 12 that the Byelorussian and Ukrainian Communist Parties had begun expelling Democratic Platform members from their ranks . |
| 12 | The department had hoped to reach flexible service agreements with many voluntary bodies , but the city 's lawyers told them they either had to give grants ( guaranteeing nothing in return ) or set binding contracts . |
| 13 | Sue Amphlett , director of the organisation , having studied the Scottish Guidelines , outlined nine main areas where Orkney Social Work Department had failed to implement proper procedures and practices . |
| 14 | On asking the reason for such an assembly , Yakovlev was told that the local priest had refused to marry any couples unless the community attended services . |
| 15 | If that journalist had attempted to inspect any files relating to Crabb 's ‘ accident ’ he would either be told that no such files existed or , if they did , were classified in the interests of national security . |
| 16 | The electricity utilities had decided to use cheaper reprocessing facilities in France and the UK . |
| 17 | After research had begun to throw some light on to the physics of plasmas , invention gave way to a more scientific approach . |
| 18 | Apparently Merton College had refused to take northern students and Oxford had been plunged into chaos and riot . |
| 19 | In the summer , a painter named Johannes Meintjies had come to visit 71 Bree Street . |
| 20 | Rumsey denied Alliance charges that Labour had failed to make full use of opportunities provided by the government for provision of relief works . |
| 21 | Now the Big Daddy of them all … the astonishing revelation that the Georgians had attempted to bribe Turkish match officials prior to the first leg game . |
| 22 | For example , after British manufacturers had failed to provide adequate supplies of boiler tubes , they decided to import some from Italy in the early 1950s . |
| 23 | I tried to argue that the Criterion had neglected to pay enough attention to certain lines of contemporary thought , above all that represented by Collingwood . |
| 24 | Over thirteen years , since he had taken over from the retiring senior partner to whom Francis Sutherland originally brought the affairs of Sleet , David Rosen and Delia Sutherland had come to know each other well enough to do without greetings ; they liked it that way . |
| 25 | Following the meeting Mann said that Shekhar had agreed to hold direct talks with militant leaders . |
| 26 | Rival Serbian and Muslim gangs stood poised to repel any attempt to breach the fluid battle lines . |
| 27 | The work needed included replacing rotten window sills , removing dangerous floorboards and cleaning the bathroom and carpets . |
| 28 | For one thing , the children involved all had genuine symptoms , and there was no suggestion that the parents had attempted to fabricate any symptoms . |
| 29 | His own name had been inspired by a brief interlude at Preston station in Lancashire where his parents had changed trains one Sunday afternoon on their way to Blackpool for their honeymoon . |
| 30 | The difference in the actions would be that in the former , the absence of the guard establishes breach of duty , whereas in negligence , Brian would have to prove that Alan had failed to exercise reasonable care . |