Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At their approach tribe pressed on tribe , nation upon nation , leaving an ever-widening swathe of destruction as each sought to escape from the terror behind ; one far-flung ripple had driven the Saxons across the North Sea into Britain . |
| 3 | Suddenly he said : ‘ What 's all this got to do with a girl being missing ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ So what 's all this got to do with the deaths of our agents ? ’ continued the DDA . |
| 5 | Opposition leaders made speeches during the gathering in the southern city of Kaohsiung , and some planned to walk along the route where the disturbances occurred . |
| 6 | Others had to put up with less ideal locations , and this led to demand for the feng shui practitioner , whose skill was in improving the landscape by correct siting , ensuring that nothing took place to disturb the flows of energy . |
| 7 | Contact with mariners from China from before Ar ) 300 led to trade in a number of commodities in the Asiatic tropics , notably resins , birds ' nests , poisons , medicines , latex , pelts , ivory and rhinoceros horn as well as rattans . |
| 8 | In any case , all this helped to prepare for the militarist attitude that the party was to take when war came , when it could advocate conscription without any fear of the electoral consequences . |
| 9 | A leading scientific journal , Nature , did not publish the paper but none of this seemed to matter before the Utah steamroller . |
| 10 | Some came to rest on the bamboo pigeon frames — horizontal slats of trellising raised on a pole — that several of the fliers had raised above their roofs . |
| 11 | In England the king claimed that all his subjects owed fealty to him in some degree , and in due course this came to conflict with the possibility of any of his vassals owing liege homage to any but the king . |
| 12 | This happened to coincide with the moment Hugette Bouchardeau took over as France 's new , untried environment minister . |
| 13 | A reaction against the occupation by the British began to develop after an incident in December 1813 when the then British commander , Major-General Gordon , condemned to death a British soldier for insubordination and the murder of a sergeant . |
| 14 | Using the alias Frederique Bonlieu , Cabon wrote to Greenpeace claiming she shared their views , and when she arrived in Auckland on 3 April 1985 offered to work for the organisation without salary . |
| 15 | Other navies might stick to the old tactics of trying to board enemy ships and capture them , or concentrate on firing at the masts and rigging in the hope that successful shooting would disable the other side , but the English preferred to shoot into the hulls of their enemies because they knew that with enough time and enough shot they would destroy their opponents . |
| 16 | The most likely means of achieving agreement on this appeared to lie in the dialogue over the formation of a Joint Nuclear Control Committee ( JNCC ) — the instrument of inter-Korean nuclear inspection contained within the joint denuclearization declaration — which had begun on Feb. 27 . |
| 17 | In another family , where the inheritance from the father was quite substantial , funds for the brothers and sisters were tied up in a trust which was administered by their mother , and this appeared to result in a series of squabbles about whether each of them was getting their fair share in comparison with the others ( p. 376 ) . |
| 18 | In November 1992 the two French ecologist parties " the radical Les verts and the more pragmatic Génération écologie " had reached an entente but this appeared to result in the image of both parties being less clearly identified . |
| 19 | I had occasion to set up the chunky machine ( this had to go in the bedroom , because of lack of space elsewhere ) . |
| 20 | In the first place , Niki could n't stand him personally — and this had to do with a clash of personalities , the Argentine being in every respect the antithesis of Niki — and in the second , the Ferrari tactic was quite clear : if Niki does n't recover , we get rid of him . |
| 21 | This is one person who ca n't be quoted , but apparently this had to do with the description of John Major during that leadership crisis . |
| 22 | Although the United States accepted the case for the dollar eventually being convertible into SDRs , in its view this had to result from the dollar being sufficiently competitive to generate enough capital and current account surpluses over a period to make convertibility a reality . |
| 23 | The British had to wait until the end of the 1930s for that luxury . |
| 24 | This continued to operate in the Treasury though no attempt was made to coordinate its activities with the Economic Section of the Cabinet Office which was responsible for the Economic Survey . |
| 25 | There were so many mourners at the funeral that some had to stand at the back and listen to the service relayed by loudspeakers . |
| 26 | At a news conference on Sept. 12 held to coincide with an emergency meeting of pro-Israel lobby groups in Washington , Bush said that he had " worn out the telephone " in lobbying Republican senators for their support in securing a delay which he regarded as crucial to the peace process , but that he was " up against some powerful political forces " . |
| 27 | Sabine began to fumble with the seatbelt . |
| 28 | Another reason for expecting fundholders ' referral rates to fall after April 1991 had to do with the way in which their budgets were set . |
| 29 | Three failed to comply with the protocol restrictions ; one patient continued to use H 2 receptor antagonists until she was withdrawn three days after entry and another was unable to keep his alcohol consumption below 40 U/week ; a third ( asymptomatic ) patient withdrew her consent within a month of randomisation . |
| 30 | These seemed to arise from the process of urbanization , the breaking down of traditional practices , and what was seen as a conflict between the old morality and the new . |