Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind it was an untold story of incredible complacency by Government ministers who failed to act to prevent the system failure , alleged by ambulance workers to have led to patient deaths . |
| 2 | The boy of all talents , the hero without a quest , the ‘ natural ’ who failed had found a purpose . |
| 3 | Peter White of Midland Bank was less convinced , complaining of the failure of some large firms to adhere to a strict off-limits policy , and described an even worse practice of advancing a candidate who has undertaken to engage the headhunter involved at a later date if he or she lands the job . |
| 4 | Rarely do I see a parent who has decided to buy a book as a present . |
| 5 | Phone calls for Head who has gone to visit a school where one of our pupils now attends full time . |
| 6 | G. S. Staines , of Darlington , was highly commended for ‘ No , I 'm not going just yet ; I 'm still waiting for my wife who has gone to collect a prescription . ’ |
| 7 | Skarsnik is a cunning and observant leader who has grown to understand the Dwarf mind . |
| 8 | The independent contractor is one who has agreed to do a piece of work , but is to be left free to choose his own method of doing it . |
| 9 | Indeed , for the individual who has arrived to keep a rendezvous with the pictures alone , there is the feeling of being conspicuously different , especially if you lose your social poise and start glaring fiercely at works which are almost always above someone 's head . |
| 10 | Roger Poole , and other leaders of the overtime ban , have vowed to do whatever they can to force a face-to-face confrontation with Kenneth Clarke , Secretary of State for Health , who has refused to countenance a meeting . |
| 11 | Farewell to : Secretary who has left to await the arrival of her baby . |
| 12 | These circumstances arise where the person who has died has no relatives or friends who would undertake the organisation , and has not made advance arrangements . |
| 13 | In other instances the biographer may have been commissioned by the family of a person who has died to write a biography with their authorization and co-operation . |
| 14 | There too a twenty year old who has managed to kick a habit that was leading him down a dangerous path . |
| 15 | He is another who has failed to maintain a grip on the advancing technology of credit and payment . |
| 16 | Fourthly , a member who has failed to make the declaration of acceptance of office ( see ante , p. 28 ) automatically ceases to be a member . |
| 17 | Anyone who has tried to swat a fly will know that its reactions are almost instantaneous . |
| 18 | ANYONE who has tried to sight a ball coming out of a dark background as dusk falls will quickly agree that sightscreens are a very important part of any cricket ground . |
| 19 | Second marriages were therefore common , as anyone who has tried to construct a family tree for this period will know . |
| 20 | Anyone who has tried to remove a hermit crab from its shell will know how tenacious these creatures can be . |
| 21 | These questions are not in themselves new and may be familiar to anyone who has had to design a catalogue , prepare a report , give a talk or write an essay . |
| 22 | In a preface he drafted shortly before his death for a prospective collection of his verse , the man who has come to epitomize the soldier-poet wrote : ‘ Above all I am not concerned with Poetry . |
| 23 | Such interjections are clearly ironic as they are likely to be those of the ‘ trained ’ nouveau roman reader who has come to regard the decentring of the author as paradigmatic of contemporary experimental fiction . |
| 24 | Anyone who has forgotten to take a glass bottle out of the freezer will know the shattering consequence . |
| 25 | ‘ We are anxious that everyone who wants to come has the chance . |
| 26 | However , I understand it has since been resold to yet another private company , who appear to have resold the lease to the Estates who in turn sold the farmland to local landowners but rented the house to the company , presumably for a much reduced sum . |
| 27 | But his handling of the industry portfolio incurred the wrath of industry leaders who appear to have won the president over to their side ( New Scientist 10 March , p 646 ) . |
| 28 | Although the hon. Gentleman accepts that my announcement represents an improvement over the previous situation , I am anxious to see that those who want to serve have an opportunity to do so . |
| 29 | And so they 're laying on this seminar for as many parish councillors who want to go to explain the planning procedures . |
| 30 | Maggie herself , he knew , understood the situation well enough : there was no one more sensible than Maggie ; but her auntie , who seemed to have taken the place of her mother and , like a mother , had her future interests at heart , was always bringing her qualities to the fore for him to admire . |