Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view has also received support from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and from the environmental directorate of the European Commission , although in the UK government itself the Department of the Environment failed to acknowledge receipt of the FoE reports . |
| 2 | Now their pension money has been frozen while trustees investigate certain deals made using money from the fund . |
| 3 | During the political unrest of Edward II 's reign , Eastry sought to restore tranquillity to the realm . |
| 4 | The deputy judge had before him a probate action in which the first defendant , Mr. Clive Smith , sought to obtain probate of a manuscript document bearing the date 18 April 1986 , and said to be a testamentary disposition made by the deceased , Mr. Percy Winterbone . |
| 5 | These revenue investment proposals failed to attract support in the context of the proposed accounting standard , and the ASB therefore concluded that they should not be pursued by that means . |
| 6 | Substitutes have been developed in the past but failed to absorb water to the extent that ivory does . |
| 7 | After some heated argument in which I pointed out that it would have been more courteous and certainly more seamanlike to ask us to move before attempting to sink us as well as our motor boat , the skipper agreed to accept liability for the damage , and we moved off to lick our wounds . |
| 8 | Subsequently , newly formed opposition groups , the central trade union , professional organizations , students , religious bodies and even individual members within the UDPM sought to increase pressure on the government to introduce political reforms . |
| 9 | Islamic independent candidates failed to secure election to the executive bureau . |
| 10 | The United Kingdom failed to secure re-election to the Commission for a further three-year term , for only the second time in the Commission 's history . |
| 11 | His only child was an infant daughter but he also had two adult brothers , William and Ademar , who clearly expected to obtain possession of the county and be the guardians of their niece . |
| 12 | Mr Douglas said : ‘ Mr Jackson would have taken the car back from Mr Ross or alternatively tried to arrange compensation for the mistake . |
| 13 | General Noriega tried to isolate opposition within the military after a similar coup attempt last year by promoting loyal officers to the important Strategic Military Council and General Staff , and retiring those thought to be less enthusiastic in their support of him . |
| 14 | The plaintiff tried to obtain collection of a debt under the contract by way of summary judgment , and , when the defendant attempted to raise a counterclaim for breach which would entitle him to defend the case , relied on this clause . |
| 15 | The stench that the Doctor noted as he approached bore witness to the speed with which decay took place in the tropical climate , and he found that he had to clap a handkerchief over his mouth as he knelt to examine the body . |
| 16 | I do nt know much about the second half , except that Hodges tried to maim dorigo with an elbow , and should have been sent off . |
| 17 | Two men caught syphoning petrol from a car in Darlington were fined yesterday . |
| 18 | Then he watched a video and tried to set fire to the house before going back to Bath . |
| 19 | At that same January meeting , Maritz tried to sell Sun on the notion of porting Windows NT to its Sparc RISC . |
| 20 | At that same January meeting , Apritz tried to sell Sun on the notion of putting Windows NT onto its Sparc RISC . |
| 21 | Only half in jest , Sharp and Vernikos at Ames suggest creating a research centre dedicated to space biology in the home district of an important politician . |
| 22 | Then , the GLC , appalled at the waste and dereliction of this gigantic site in the heart of London , declared the place an ‘ Action Area ’ and tried to inspire development from the top down . |
| 23 | He tried to slap Killion on the shoulder and missed , and ended up on the floor . |
| 24 | On Christmas day they stopped sending aid to the country , because he had taken over its government yet again . |
| 25 | The latter is a good example of his more extended type of cantata with fewer but longer sections than Rossi 's : The opening of the duet will also illustrate one of Carissimi 's most striking characteristics , his genuine sense of key : The slow , uncertain supersession of mode by key had not yet generally revealed the possibilities of tonality for variety and dynamic structure ; composers still treated a key very much as a mode , a tonal area within which they could move and from which they wandered uncertainly , and which helped to give unity to a composition . |
| 26 | There was , in addition , supervised teaching practice in the workplace . |
| 27 | We tried to keep track of the number of taps and translate them into words . |
| 28 | It was doubtful whether Schluter could remain in control but two emotional anniversaries during the campaign helped to keep defence as the issue : April 9 was the anniversary of the German invasion and occupation of Denmark in the Second World War , and May 9 the anniversary of the Liberation . |
| 29 | A case against Mr Naren Dave , a Labour councillor in Barnet , north London , who allegedly used threatening behaviour during a visit in June by Mrs Thatcher to her constituency , was dropped yesterday . |
| 30 | The team at the Sistine have admitted that the cleaning techniques used involving removal of the solvent gel with large amounts of water has introduced solvent into the fabric of the fresco . |