Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time he sought to expunge every trace of Existentialism , but retained much of the material from the first draft , including the elements mentioned above . |
| 2 | She also sought to compare the impact of wife rape with the impact of rape by strangers and others , and found that 65 per cent . |
| 3 | Mr Anthony Hamnett , 48 , a trainee solicitor at the time with Nabarro Nathanson , admitted eating the penis under pressure from secretaries during the lunch held in a Chelsea restaurant just before Christmas 1990 . |
| 4 | Extensive research failed to support the cycle of deprivation thesis but the stereotype lived on , and grew to more prominence with the dominance of the right wing in the Conservative party and thence in British society and politics : Keith Joseph was of course an early leading figure in this faction within the party . |
| 5 | President Reagan failed to support an effort in Congress to provide a five-year , $1000 million package of loans and other measures to tempt the mining firms into action . |
| 6 | In Court The following cases were dealt with by Leyburn magistrates : M Kettlewell ( Melmerby ) Ltd , of Station Depot , Melmerby , Ripon , admitted using a vehicle with tachograph equipment not complying with council regulations , fined £25 , £25 costs . |
| 7 | Elizabeth Ann Pritchard , 22 , of Bullamoor Road , Northallerton , admitted using a car without insurance , fined £100 plus £20 costs , licence endorsed , six points . |
| 8 | Graham Coates , 23 , of Hutton Road , Eston , Middlesbrough , admitted using a car without excise licence or test certificate and with a defective headlamp . |
| 9 | I looked out to sea , almost as though I expected to see a puff of smoke and a beast with a forked tail appear from the darkness . |
| 10 | ‘ I expected to see a lot of back play but have been surprised by the lack of it , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Author of The Road to Serfdom , published — impossibly ill-timed — on the eve of Labour 's great victory in 1945 , he lived to see the crumbling of communism ; the destruction , as no doubt he saw it , of collectivism 's inner citadel . |
| 12 | The purpose of the trials has been to obtain raw data which must be assembled and evaluated to provide a basis for comparison . |
| 13 | But the Crown Prosecution Service has dropped the case after four post mortems failed to establish a cause of death . |
| 14 | The announcement led to informal discussion between the Board 's officers , District representatives and the National WEA but failed to establish a basis for co-operation of provision in either county . |
| 15 | leyasu sought to establish a system of rule that would ensure the continued dominance of his heirs . |
| 16 | The Supreme Privy Council , established during the reign of Peter 's widow Catherine I ( 1725–27 ) , sought to establish the right to participation in , and an effective veto over , all major policy decisions . |
| 17 | Minutes later , at the other end , Roy Gordon failed to accept a chance in front of an open goal . |
| 18 | The evidence produced included a transcript in English of Price 's evidence before the City Court of Gôteborg ; and it was not disputed that this evidence was admissible under paragraph 12 of the Schedule 1 . |
| 19 | The prospect of a national curriculum with prescribed core and foundation subjects covering about 70 per cent of timetabled time , marks a departure from earlier recommendations that sought to delineate a core of subject studies or areas of experience within the secondary curriculum . |
| 20 | The grammarians sought to discover the nature of reality . |
| 21 | Unlike the Piano making concern at Woodchester near Stroud , it failed to stand the test of time . |
| 22 | The other notable picture , Rembrandt 's early and small Daniel and Cyrus before the Idol of Bel , estimated at ‘ over £5 million ’ failed to find a buyer after bidding stopped at £6 million . |
| 23 | She failed to find a donor in time to save Anthony , who died , aged just seven , but since then the register has helped to save hundreds of lives and continues to provide a vital service . |
| 24 | Our results may explain the puzzling results from at least two previous trials , which failed to find an impact on morbidity even in the presence of a large effect on mortality . |
| 25 | Merkulov , one of Kuchma 's close advisers , said that the council would create a currency market and stock exchange , planned to increase the proportion of property in private ownership from 3 up to 50 per cent , and would , in particular , assist private motor manufacturers ; the government was negotiating with the US-based Chrysler Corporation on plans to build new factories in Ukraine . |
| 26 | The Law Commission recommended codifying the law of confidence and its report , Breach of Confidence ( 1980 , Cmnd. 8388 ) , contains a draft breach of confidence Bill . |
| 27 | The Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church , the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church , the Archbishop of the Church of Ireland and the President of the Methodist Church asked to meet the secretary of state as a deputation . |
| 28 | At school he did ‘ extraordinarily badly ’ by his own admission and he also failed to obtain a degree in agriculture at Cambridge University , but with his sights firmly fixed on a career in the family business , such academic shortcomings represented no real handicap . |
| 29 | RAF man fined : Graham Morris , 18 , of the RAF Regiment , RAF Catterick , near Richmond , was fined a total of £280 and ordered to pay £20 costs by Richmond magistrates yesterday after he admitted driving a car without insurance and with a defective light . |
| 30 | One statement to which we take a major issue is that Dista Products failed to inform the Committee on Safety of Medicines about the way the drug behaved in the body of certain very elderly patients and that thus information was withheld from doctors for a period of 14 months from June 1981 . |