Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The acoustic front-end failed to detect the first vowel . |
| 2 | Liberal attempts to find a middle way between radical demands for outright confiscation of noble land and conservative rejection of land reform failed to save the Second Duma . |
| 3 | Cockfield Fell managed to escape the 18th Century Enclosure Acts and remains a valuable area of common land . |
| 4 | By the time the Board decided to build a second power station at Hinkley Point in the 1960s , an accepting local population had got accustomed to an industrial development in the middle of the countryside . |
| 5 | A CONSIDERABLE future opened up for Gary Mason here last night when he knocked out Tyrell Biggs as the bell rang to end the seventh round . |
| 6 | But he withstood some solid blows and finally saw off Biggs with a right to the temple as the bell sounded to end the seventh round . |
| 7 | Of these societies ( outside those areas of disseminated settlement where the parish tended to become the first unit beyond the family and that of those neighbouring farmers who helped each other out at harvest and ploughing ) the most significant was the pueblo . |
| 8 | Beset by mounting criticism at home , and abroad , over the way the issue had been handled , the Japanese government agreed to defer the fifth group of demands and in May 1915 delivered the remainder in the form of an ultimatum . |
| 9 | The government is this lunchtime expected to announce the third wave of Scottish hospitals to be given self governing status . |
| 10 | • Adhesive Knit to hold the 2nd skin in place and reduce friction . |
| 11 | The inability of the States of Western Europe to play a decisive role in the solution of these new questions was shown clearly by the impotent resentment with which the French government had to watch the first partition of Poland in 1772 and the Russian annexation of the Crimea in 1783–84 . |
| 12 | The government intended to achieve the first aim primarily through council housing , relegating privately-built housing to a secondary position . |
| 13 | Looking back over the first decade of his regime , in a radio broadcast made to mark the tenth anniversary of the end of the Civil War , Franco crowed , |
| 14 | This suggestion seemed to prevent the second law of thermodynamics from being violated in most situations . |
| 15 | There was a long silence , during which the noise on the line seemed to become a third party in their conversation . |
| 16 | Writing in a report published to mark the 20th anniversary , Mostafa Tolba , the organization 's secretary-general since 1975 , complains that apathy about the condition of the environment persists and that there is a lack of political will to tackle serious environmental problems , despite the growth of awareness among the general public . |
| 17 | MARC BOLAN is the subject of a new book published to commemorate the 15th anniversary of his death . |
| 18 | It was widely believed that there were no human fossils , so the recent appearance of humankind seemed to represent the last step in the ascent of life . |
| 19 | In reaching this conclusion the court argued that freedom of contract was a fundamental right , and that if parliament intended to empower a third party to make conditions which affected the provisions of a contract between others then this should be expressed in clear terms . |
| 20 | Firstly , the rice-salt solution failed to fulfil the second criterion , which demands that the materials needed for preparing the mixture should be affordable by all who need them : The actual components of the mixture were readily available , indeed this was one of the reasons which prompted BRAC to substitute rice for the less readily available gur . |
| 21 | A CHILD murderer set to become the first person to be hanged for 28 years has sparked controversy across America . |