Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , when the opportunity arose to participate in the Programme as a SCOTVEC National Development Officer , the changes began again to figure fairly prominently .
2 ‘ What happened , ’ says an attendant parent , ‘ is that our defence stopped to look at the train .
3 It all began in the early hours when it 's alleged the car failed to stop at a police check and sped off through the city centre and out along the Botley Road .
4 TSL Holdings reached pre-negotiated agreement in principle with some of its major creditors to restructure its debt in a deal expected to result in an exchange of existing debt for a combination of new equity and long-term debt , and the agreement was reached in recognition that it would make the Chapter 11 filing ; Europe accounts for some 80% of sales .
5 The Superintendent got to work on the telephone .
6 When a Palestinian delegation asked to participate in the armistice negotiations , its request was rejected and the armistice was signed only by East Bankers .
7 Keegan led Newcastle to promotion in 1984 but the club failed to build on the success .
8 As it became apparent that considerable variations in training were to be found , the ( now ) British Library Research and Development Group for Research into Public Libraries felt that more information was needed about current practice , and in September 1982 , British Library Research and Development and The Library Association agreed to liaise on the development of an exploratory survey .
9 The office of president ceased to exist upon the death in 1980 of Marshal Josip Broz Tito [ for which see pp. 30472-73 ] , being replaced by a Collective State Presidency whose eight members ( one from each republic and province ) are elected for five years ( most recently in May 1989 — see pp. 36662-63 ) by the bicameral Federal Assembly ( Parliament ) .
10 Frankie Dettori , Forest Tiger 's rider , told the stewards that the colt failed to quicken with the field at the three-furlong marker and then ‘ died on him . ’
11 The work was actually carried out in 1971–72 , although the lease did not take effect until February 1974 just two months before the old county borough ceased to exist at the time of local government reorganisation .
12 The music industry tried to interfere with the sale of twin cassette music centres in CBS Songs Ltd. v Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc [ 1988 ] , on the basis that , by the sale and advertising of these machines , Amstrad were inciting the public to infringe copyright .
13 Mr Kallisher told the jury : ‘ The defendant tried to raise in the minds of the police a suspicion that Julie had been dealing with drugs stolen from the hospital and perhaps her murder was connected with that , not with him . ’
14 They looked red and sore and his mouth seemed to droop at the corners .
15 The entry seemed to jump off the page , twisting her stomach painfully .
16 Nearly two-thirds the work force opted to work outside the law , producing a hidden uncounted 29 per cent of the country 's GNP .
17 Its legs — if it had legs — were covered in what looked like a large brown sheet , and the light seemed to come from a kind of lamp attached to the back of what could , or could not , be its head .
18 The photograph seemed to leap off the page to hit her .
19 Obviously one does n't believe everything one sees in the media , but this programme seemed to capture in a nutshell what is wrong with our economy .
20 The chief superintendent seemed to revel in the reprimand he issued to her .
21 only problem was that these lapses in concentration seemed to conicide with the ball heading towards him , hence the comment ‘ and Sprake has let in a sitter ’ .
22 Dust from the tailings pond began to blow over the countryside again in 1985 , starting on 10 February , a Sunday .
23 The hairs on the back of his neck began to rise with the blast of primitive hatred which had rushed through the air .
24 They were running through thickly forested country , and tension began to mount in the car .
25 Another was the ā gri , sitting beside a petal-shaped oil lamp which he replenished as soon as the flame began to dwindle from a bowl on the hearth .
26 Provincial market towns , in 1922 as throughout the Soviet period , collected the first rural tide of those looking for work — peasant vagrants , demobilized soldiers , and in the case of the Smolensk area , flax-workers out of a job as their industry began to decline after the boom of the war years .
27 The whole of the prom was in shadow now and a chill , blustery wind began to riffle through the litter in the gutters .
28 As the wind began to rise outside the palm house , Halema told the story of Aisha 's deafness .
29 So I nodded and smiled and agreed , while part of my mind began to toy with the question of whether Balbazian steel was as impregnable as its well-advertised reputation insisted .
30 The Tory vote began to seem like the Cheshire Cat that Alice came across in her travels .
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