Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is claiming that Imperial Tobacco failed to issue warnings about the health hazards when he started smoking 30 years ago . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Most of the journalists expected to see children near the line . |
| 4 | Darlington council yesterday agreed to demolish sheds at the motive diesel works east of Melland Street and landscape the site as part of the Railside Revival scheme . |
| 5 | During the political unrest of Edward II 's reign , Eastry sought to restore tranquillity to the realm . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Substitutes have been developed in the past but failed to absorb water to the extent that ivory does . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , in Re Cadbury Schweppes Ltd 's Agreement [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 307 a parent company and a subsidiary were not treated as a single person where two companies agreed to accept restrictions on the supply of goods to a third which was a subsidiary of one of them . |
| 10 | The Clarks sued through their solicitor , and over a year later , after much bitter argument , agreed to accept £3,450 from the surveyor 's insurers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Islamic independent candidates failed to secure election to the executive bureau . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Rohmer tried to hit Cardiff in the face with his other free fist , but Cardiff was expecting it . |
| 16 | Mr Douglas said : ‘ Mr Jackson would have taken the car back from Mr Ross or alternatively tried to arrange compensation for the mistake . |
| 17 | I tried to arrange guides on the drum sander but quickly gave up . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Under these circumstances , a " Device full " error would be reported when you tried to write data to the file for the first time . |
| 20 | Mountbatten tried to tempt Bogyoke with the post of Deputy Inspector-General and the British rank of Brigadier : he was too shrewd to be side-tracked in that way . |
| 21 | Then he watched a video and tried to set fire to the house before going back to Bath . |
| 22 | At that same January meeting , Maritz tried to sell Sun on the notion of porting Windows NT to its Sparc RISC . |
| 23 | At that same January meeting , Apritz tried to sell Sun on the notion of putting Windows NT onto its Sparc RISC . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I promised to buy shares in the brewery to make up for it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Bamrung Boonpanya , who helped to organise protests against the pollution of the Nam Siew river , says that trying to get the police to enforce the law was ‘ like running after rats ’ . |
| 28 | He tried to slap Killion on the shoulder and missed , and ended up on the floor . |
| 29 | Ruth Rolph has now re-introduced a recreational class to Cromer and numbers amongst her class members two of the original teachers who helped to put Cromer on the Medau map — Jackie Horner and Sheila Viles . |
| 30 | The Soviet Union , for its part , tried to build relationships within the region in the hope that it could displace the Western powers on the tide of Arab nationalism . |