Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bickering began on the US side yesterday , with State Department officials angrily protesting to the White House that the Pentagon failed to provide any security for the US embassy in Panama . |
| 2 | The CGT promised to respect any agreements reached . |
| 3 | The LA had to consider any effect which the use of an operating centre had on the local environment . |
| 4 | During the Falklands war , the RAF had to buy anti-radar missiles from the US . |
| 5 | Ukraine and the Vatican had established diplomatic relations on Feb. 8 . |
| 6 | In the previous State Assembly elections , held in May 1986 , the PBS had won 34 seats [ see p. 34743 ] . |
| 7 | However , it also emerged that the DoE had agreed similar exemptions for lead , trihalomethanes , coliform bacteria and pesticides . |
| 8 | The CAA had allowed British Airways to introduce a low-cost Latesaver fare on the Boston route . |
| 9 | Belgium and the Netherlands had bestowed equal honours . |
| 10 | If the Ketterings had wanted another family to stand in for them , it could only be for recognition by someone they wished to avoid or who might be a danger to them . |
| 11 | In the first few years of the informal concordat under the RAC , there appears to have been a tacit agreement that in Cambridgeshire the WEA attempted to provide few courses , largely it is thought because of its financial problems . |
| 12 | But the DoH had made huge efforts to provide training for home helps through the training support grant and NVQs . |
| 13 | Recently , one of the Orandas started to spend long spells at the water surface . |
| 14 | The GLC had given high priority to funding this community centre as a space where lesbians and gays could manage their own social activities . |
| 15 | In an effort to avoid any financial contact with South Africa , the GLC had devoted considerable attention to its pension fund and the way it was managed . |
| 16 | After the talks Goh said that the Sultan had shown considerable interest in joining the FPDA , and that Singapore would welcome and support such a move . |
| 17 | While the discussions of partnership in validation were taking place in the late 1970s , therefore , the CNAA had had some decade and a half of validation experience , but the rapid expansion of subject areas and such relatively recent developments as the DipHE and modular courses , and the uncertainties surrounding public sector higher education in a swiftly changing economic climate , all helped to strengthen the view that the Council should not move too rapidly into a higher gear of change . |
| 18 | G Those discussions were fitted into a regular CDP meeting which itself discussed ‘ polytechnic autonomy ’ , and in which a variety of views were recorded — the institutions were at different stages of development ; the CNAA had established national status and its degrees were accepted currency ; the CNAA was known to be giving serious attention to ways and means of giving greater freedoms to experienced colleges ; emphasis should not be placed on charters as such … . |
| 19 | Prof Sargent , head of the school of natural sciences at Stirling , said yesterday the Odones had defied much scepticism from medical and scientific experts and had beaten seemingly impossible odds to find a treatment which had kept Lorenzo alive . |
| 20 | From about 1205 onwards , the Plantagenets began to exert tighter control over them by granting them the constitutions known as the Etablissements de Rouen . |
| 21 | What he said was very significant — that the ANC wanted to encourage any film-maker , black or white , who tried to put on the screen images of black people that were recognisably human , and who also tried to give employment and encouragement to black technicians . |
| 22 | Although the NDP had committed considerable resources to Quebec during the 1988 federal elections , it had failed to win any seats east of Ontario [ see pp. 36425 ] and had remained dogged by its image as a party of the more rural western provinces . |
| 23 | The NDP had won 25 seats in 1986 . |
| 24 | Maslonikov wrote in Pravda that the DPRK had made huge strides with the aid of the USSR . |
| 25 | Through this system of flexible " bridges and ladders " the NHS hoped to tap new sources of labour into nursing itself , from unqualified school leavers , previously unemployed middle-aged women and men . |
| 26 | Provisional results from the general election on April 29 indicated that Sir Dawda Jawara , leader of the Progressive People 's Party ( PPP ) , had secured at least 60 per cent of votes cast in the presidential poll ; in the elections to the 36-member House of Representatives , with the results from eight seats still to be counted , the PPP had won 20 seats , the National Convention Party five , the Gambia People 's Party one , and independent candidates two . |
| 27 | The USSR had limited military-strategic objectives in Finland ; the country was never occupied by Soviet troops , except in the case of the lease of the Porkkala base , and this was returned once it became strategically redundant . |
| 28 | But the research in the USSR had produced strong bursts of neutrons from reactions between deuterium nuclei . |
| 29 | The USSR had acquired substantial assets in the Third World , which for the first time were threatened by a combination of internal rebellion and external pressure . |
| 30 | But even before the establishment of the Karmal regime the USSR had acquired some control over the major military air base at Bagram near Kabul ; this was the base Soviet troops were initially airlifted into at the end of 1979 . |