Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That most of these songs seem designed to soothe a troubled soul is down to Lanegan 's croon , a remarkable vocal instrument that posits Leonard Cohen as stadium rock god . |
| 2 | Her legs had begun to acquire a nice , even tan , and she slipped her feet into a pair of sandals before brushing her still damp hair into a ponytail . |
| 3 | By the beginning of March , as many as 640 oil wells were alight and individual smoke plumes had combined to create a regional plume 1000–2000 km in length , extending frequently to the south-east and periodically to the north-east . |
| 4 | On Sept. 14 it was reported that six political parties had combined to form a United Front of Political Movements ( UNIFORM ) . |
| 5 | This was unexpected as previously ozone losses had tended to follow a two-year cycle , with shallower holes evident in even-numbered years . |
| 6 | Canada 's provinces have agreed to appoint a three-man commission to investigate the efficiency , safety , and management of the country 's blood-supply system . |
| 7 | More recently , certain local authority organizations have begun to take a direct interest in popular music . |
| 8 | MRI may also be useful as a problem solving exercise when other imaging methods have failed to resolve a specific clinical problem relating to malignant disease . |
| 9 | However , most Japanese businessmen acquainted with foreigners have come to expect a certain variety within reasonable limits in the dress of foreign businessmen . |
| 10 | For the umpteenth time they have arisen because Labour nominees have failed to attend a single meeting in the previous 12 months . |
| 11 | My parents had hoped to have a large family , but when I was born Mamma needed a Caesarean section . |
| 12 | The summit was originally intended to improve EC foreign policy co-ordination after member countries had failed to present a united front during the Gulf crisis [ see pp. 37927 ; 37934 ] . |
| 13 | In early March Syria , Egypt and the six Gulf Co-operation Council countries had agreed to establish a joint Arab Gulf regional security force [ see pp. 38116-17 ] . |
| 14 | WITH ITS power and prestige slipping away and its leaders calling desperately for unity , 72 per cent of Polish Communists have voted to find a new name for their party , the Polish United Workers ' Party . |
| 15 | Under pressure from the European Community , the two countries have agreed to operate a temporary water management scheme , which aims to reconcile the Slovakian need for increased energy with Hungary 's fears about environmental impact . |
| 16 | But now these incidental catches have come to present a major danger to cetacean populations . |
| 17 | Christians had managed to set a moral example to their neighbours . |
| 18 | So , you know , if you 're going to talk in terms of losses , then it does suggest , heaven forbid that the allies have got to lose a tremendous number of aircraft before the equation sort of balances . |
| 19 | In particular , the large romanized buildings have tended to dominate a disproportionate amount of past excavation at the expense of the more vernacular structures , even though recent evidence has begun to redress the balance . |
| 20 | The banks have tended to choose a lower liquidity ratio over the years , and certainly a lower cash ratio . |
| 21 | In the mid nineteenth century , Fermin Caballero attempted to divide agricultural Spain into three parts : the Cantabrian regions , where the hard-working race of ‘ gothic ’ small farmers had survived to create a stable peasant economy ; the basins of the Guadiana , the Guadalquivir , and Aragon , where the economic legacy of the Arab conquest was the latifundia ; the centre , where the two races had mingled and left an intermediary , medium-sized farm . |
| 22 | By then our approaching orgasms had synchronized to form a freak wave of emotion which threatened to wipe our personalities clean . |
| 23 | Since the start of the Troubles , a number of loyalist trade unionists had tried to create a province-wide organization of unionist workers and by late 1973 the plans of men such as Billy Kelly , a power workers ' shop steward , Billy Hull , ex-Northern Ireland Labour Party , and Hugh Petrie , a precision engineer from Shorts , were sufficiently advanced for them to propose to the loyalist politicians that the province could be brought to a halt by a strike . |
| 24 | Eight Kent families have failed to get a High Court order forcing two health authorities to hold an independent review of complaints about consultant paediatrician Heather Richardson . |
| 25 | I do n't know which is the more satisfying sight – the laden tables at the beginning or the empty ones at the end , after all our customers are gone and we are left happy in the knowledge that our efforts have helped to raise a wonderful total for Christian Aid . ’ |
| 26 | For example , in Conservative Ealing , tenants have had to face a 100 per cent . |
| 27 | From the 1966 census , but with analyses pushing back to 1961 , several major studies have attempted to use a wide range of census data grouped in new and more functional ways to depict the spatial characteristics of the British population . |
| 28 | In contrast , several controlled studies have failed to show a protective effect of somatostatin or octreotide in ERCP induced pancreatitis . |
| 29 | Yet , even in opposition circles , intellectuals have refused to take a principled stand . |
| 30 | Among western specialists many revisionist arguments have begun to gain a wide measure of acceptance . |