Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the US , for example , where the socialist party failed to establish itself as a major party after a fairly rapid growth in the first decade of this century , it has long been argued that the presidential system is a major obstacle to the development of third parties , and undoubtedly these constitutional factors have been important ; but it is clear that many other social and economic characteristics of the US have had a preponderant influence in determining the absence of a large-scale independent socialist movement or party there ( Sombart , 1906 ; Laslett and Lipset , 1974 ) . |
| 2 | By looking after its past employees , the army sought to position itself as a caring organisation which would encourage new recruits . |
| 3 | The defendant then made an agreement with the plaintiffs in which ‘ in consideration that the plaintiffs , at the request of the defendant , would deliver to the defendant ’ the cargo of coal , the defendant promised to unload it at a stated rate . |
| 4 | In time , academic anthropology became less directly associated with evolutionary ideas , and it tried to establish itself as a respectable , if not conservative , branch of the social sciences . |
| 5 | After the series of treaties in 1854 – 58 which helped to launch her on a rapid and irreversible process of change it could even still be questioned whether full-scale diplomatic representation there was worth what it cost . |
| 6 | The 30-year-old man , who has not been named , died despite the efforts of coastguards and ambulancemen , who tried to revive him after a failed rescue attempt by surfers . |
| 7 | She called a gangcult a gangcult , but the Daughters tried to sell themselves as a Conservative Pressure Group . |
| 8 | Under the influence of this late surge of rational speculation I tried to view myself in a different light . |
| 9 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 10 | The crew tried to sail her through a narrow gap at a bridge in Purton . |
| 11 | He tried to leaven it with a minor joke . |
| 12 | She leaned against the wooden wall , and tried to flatten herself as a tall thin man came out of an adjacent door and turned in her direction . |
| 13 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 14 | They invited people whose backgrounds were very different to join this ‘ high class Jewish fraternity , ’ and tried to run it as a continuous party . |
| 15 | For a bit , she tried to turn Yeats into a warrior , and he tried to turn her into a high priestess of the Celtic mysteries — and thus , of course , into a ‘ moderate ’ . |
| 16 | Last week he promised to supply us with a written explanation of the way his company had treated Debbie , but it never arrived . |
| 17 | Cati went in to Rosa , who lay gripping the down coverlet , to cram it into her face and muffle her sobs ; she climbed up next to her , and stroked her head , and tried to cradle her with a thin arm across her shaking shoulders and felt herself going dry in her throat and choked up too ; Rosa twisted , her red face glowered up at Cati . |
| 18 | Middlesbrough were stronger defensively in the second half as , surprisingly , Swindon tried to upset them with a long-ball game rather , than with their usual slick passing style . |
| 19 | A paper boy on his morning round was grabbed by a man who then tried to drag him into a waiting car . |
| 20 | The boy was deliverying papers in Kingham village just before seven this morning when a man tried to drag him into a waiting estate car . |
| 21 | ‘ I tried to tell her in a matter-of-fact way that when you die you leave your body behind and go to Heaven . |
| 22 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 23 | And the recreation committee yesterday agreed to replace it with a new wooden one costing £9,500 . |
| 24 | I first met him when he came to interview me as a young reporter . |
| 25 | As soon as voters came to see it as a real choice between Labour and the Conservatives , thousands of waverers who had told the polls they were going to vote Labour or Liberal Democrats , clearly decamped . |
| 26 | If the mixture of live action and 2-D animation achieved surprising commercial success in the late 1980s ( $78m rentals , justifying a cost of over $50m ) , the combination of live action with 3-D animation seemed to reach something of a dead end with Clash of the Titans ( 1981 ) . |
| 27 | They valued his vigour and inventiveness and came to respect him as a reliable man of business . |
| 28 | The house seemed to watch her with a calculating eye . |
| 29 | Summoning up all my courage , I entered San Esteban and its overpowering gilded Churriguera altar seemed to welcome me like a long-lost friend as I dipped my hand in the holy-water stoup at the door and knelt to pray in front of Claudio Coello 's heavenly blue painting . |
| 30 | With a slight change of posture — a lift of the head , a straightening of the already straight back , that little proud look — she seemed to transform herself into a great lady of some kind . |