Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The divisional controllers also lacked the independence conferred by ministerial appointment on Area Board chairmen , and were more constrained when they were called regularly to London head office conferences . |
| 2 | Not too often that a company goes back to a previous vendor after switching , but Hydro Mississauga Ltd of the eponymous Ontario town , is returning to the Hewlett-Packard Co HP 3000 with Mitchell Humphrey & Co financials , after three years of using an IBM Corp 4381 : the change is being made in an effort to save $2m in operating costs and gain performance improvements , dumping the 4381 for an HP 3000 Series 957 running HP MPE/iX ; it says the power of the new machine has enabled it to reduce its operations shifts from three to two and to cut overnight batch processing from 11 to four hours , and one table-loading job was shortened from 14 hours to 20 minutes — and on-line response time is ‘ significantly improved ’ ; it switched from an HP 3000 Series 70 that lacked the capacity needed in 1989 , moving to the 4381 with Dun & Bradstreet Corp software . |
| 3 | One possibility would be that the children lacked the ability to think about epistemic states , such as knowing , thinking and believing . |
| 4 | If the Situationist project is flawed , as I believe it is , it is not because antecedent theories of libertarians , Marxists and Council Communists are ignored by them , but rather because they lacked the will to build on this tradition a systematic utopianism consisting of critique and plausible projections into the future . |
| 5 | Police evidence to the Lords ' Committee had already shown that parish vestry councils were generally incompetent , badly run and lacked the funds to embark on private prosecutions . |
| 6 | Before the Act , section 5 of the 1936 Act was supplemented by a miscellany of powers to be found in local legislation , which empowered the police to deal with minor nuisances and acts of hooliganism . |
| 7 | He divided the errors collected into three categories : substitution errors ( where an incorrect lexical item is produced instead of the target ) ; loss errors ( where a speaker fails to produce any lexical item ) ; and addition errors ( where a speaker produces more lexical items than intended ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Many of those who made the journey suffered from physical disabilities and the distances involved caused them great hardship and discomfort , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Anyway I watched Manc Of The Day and Norwich made the scum look like complete turkeys , chasing the ball round while the Canaries ‘ Southamptoned ’ them for lengthy periods . |
| 10 | The planes circling overhead , and the double lines of hovering artillery observation balloons they protected , made the infantrymen feel like some protectionless rodent under the penetrating gaze of an eagle endowed with Jovian powers of destruction . |
| 11 | The flames licked up round thigh-thick logs and made the iron firedogs into burning icons . |
| 12 | John Warner of Hartfield ( land £20 ) was probably the supplier of gunstones as well as a relative of Richard Warner who owned the Parrock works in 1518 . |
| 13 | Trent expected the hurricane to last between eight and ten hours . |
| 14 | But fans who expected the maestro to run through all of his favourites were disappointed . |
| 15 | The decision to take a firm stand comes after local councillors revealed the misery suffered by many of their constituents . |
| 16 | With a sense of foreboding , she read the note attached to one of the stems . |
| 17 | ’ Then I asked the children to write about some experience they could recall that had something physical about it . |
| 18 | He asked the voters to divide into two groups . |
| 19 | But we got , we got the things done in that respect . |
| 20 | Just got the buttons to go on that . |
| 21 | It was Botham who redeemed his poor bowling and got the crowd going with 42 not out , hitting the winning four off the third ball of the last over . |
| 22 | Mauer looked distastefully at the half-dozen overflowing bins and wondered where the man got the nerve to talk about hygienic conditions . |
| 23 | That led the court to hold in that judgment that , as a result of article 234 , a member state might have to apply , in its relations with the other member states , rules different from those which it applied in its relations with non-member countries , even though they were all party to the same international convention . |
| 24 | However , public opposition from the Roman Catholic Church in particular and objections from Austrian Airlines to transporting the refugees led the government to announce in early December that it would attempt to find jobs for the Romanians rather than deport them . |
| 25 | This led the government to intervene with some rather pallid legal weapons . |
| 26 | This led the team to concentrate on two aspects . |
| 27 | John Moore , then Social Services Secretary , set this out explicitly in a key speech in autumn 1987 , when he argued the need to move from social protection towards attacking dependency . |
| 28 | They had fought off a spirited £1.1bn bid from the BTR conglomerate six years earlier when chairman Sir Antony Pilkington and his team argued the key lay in dedicated research and investment . |
| 29 | When Putnam and Buchsbaum analysed the waveforms produced by each personality it seemed they were examining 60 people , instead of 20 . |
| 30 | The discovery of chemical substitutes led to the founding of a dyestuffs industry and helped the mills develop into extended factory production , gradually mechanizing processes which had hitherto been done by outworkers in their own homes . |