Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both governments agreed to try to restart the political talks on Northern Ireland early in 1993 . |
| 2 | By this time I was becoming a little dissatisfied with the imprinting set-up that had become the stock in trade of my lab over the past few years , and I planned to try using an alternative form of learning in the chick . |
| 3 | Mr Nathan said that once he was jailed , members of the Knesset planned to try to call a special session . |
| 4 | He studied again the letter he had found in the wallet , then got to work making a careful copy of it . |
| 5 | He swore his family to secrecy and tried to continue living a normal life , making regular stage appearances and several movies . |
| 6 | In developing the short list of manufacturing locations he proposed to establish to produce the new products which would incorporate all the latest technologies , he had detailed the comparative costs of manufacture per country and identified the economic and commercial advantages and disadvantages of selling components into specific European countries from single and dual manufacturing sources . |
| 7 | The ANC shares the concern of the people and has , all the tame , tried to intervene to find an amicable solution to the problem . |
| 8 | Even when he was being particularly careful not to offend , he seemed to manage to say the wrong thing . |
| 9 | A great white shark , believed to have killed a 31-year-old scuba diver on his honeymoon in Australia , was spotted today . |
| 10 | Even a week of sitting there , supping in the beer by a kind of osmosis through the atmosphere , and eating solid sandwiches , seemed to have deposited a tiny roll of fat round his waist . |
| 11 | Øster wrote in the introduction to his paper that the publication of Gairdner 's article nearly 20 years earlier seemed to have made no significant impression on clinical practice . |
| 12 | Donaldson side-stepped to avoid two solicitors in conversation , youngish men who seemed to have made a conscious effort to propel themselves into a facsimile of late middle-age . |
| 13 | She seemed to have made a rapid improvement in health since I last saw her . |
| 14 | Generally , these cash buyers seemed to have made a fair assessment of their chances , in that they were unemployed or already had great difficulty matching small incomes to their outgoings . |
| 15 | He seemed to have clinched a seventh victory with his partner , Jean-Louis Schlesser , putting the icing on the cake of their shared world championship . |
| 16 | Fertiliser use is apparently very limited because of cost in spite of such grants and the RP seemed to have to peddle a narrow course between not stimulating significant agricultural change but allowing enough development to support a viable local economy . |
| 17 | Yet in some strange way the bird seemed to have affected the easy relationship that had previously existed between them and , in trying to analyse her own feelings , Lucy knew that she now felt shy and rather embarrassed . |
| 18 | In his writings on the colonial situation in China and India , Marx was puzzled by the fact that , although both these countries seemed to have reached a higher state of civilization than Europe in earlier times , they were in his time being overtaken by Europe , as the colonial conquests showed . |
| 19 | By 1987 she and Charles seemed to have reached an all-time low , if not in their marriage , then certainly in the public 's perception of it . |
| 20 | Being born and brought up next to a butcher 's shop in a Somerset town in the closing years of the 18th century may not have been the healthiest start in life for a child , but those who saw out the dangerous first two or three years seemed to have stood a good chance of survival thereafter . |
| 21 | Les and Peg seemed to have uncovered a simple truth which has evaded so many of us . |
| 22 | Her emotions seemed to have undergone a deep sea-change over the last few hours . |
| 23 | Alexander seemed to have become a decisive proponent of reform . |
| 24 | The Hilary of once upon a time would have done it and taken great pleasure in confronting him , but the Hilary of now seemed to have become a spineless coward . |
| 25 | This seemed to have become a permanent condition . |
| 26 | Her lips parted to tell him that it did , but hesitation seemed to have become a periodic tendency , afflicting her like hiccoughs . |
| 27 | War seemed to have become an unusable tool of statecraft . |
| 28 | There were only a handful of other people in the library reference section ; the normal air of peace and quiet one would expect in such a place seemed to have become an unnatural silence . |
| 29 | When Russian forces finally retreated from the Danubian Principalities in 1834 , Nicholas seemed to have achieved the final stabilization of his southern frontier . |
| 30 | Controversy aside , the fact that Dykstra was called upon so often vouched for Rangers ' ascendancy but the Hateley/McCoist goal machine seemed to have developed a mechanical fault . |