Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [noun] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As taxpayers we are entitled to know why intelligence services failed to spot signs of an end to the Cold War . |
| 3 | It is a matter of deep regret that the Department of Social Security failed to provide copies of the instruments in time for the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments to consider them and report to the House . |
| 4 | Such a situation will be rare , but might arise if , say , the exchange required all floor traders to have their mnemonics printed on their trading cards , failed to accept delivery of the cards by the member to the trading floor , and then brought an action for breach of the original requirement . |
| 5 | The deputy judge had before him a probate action in which the first defendant , Mr. Clive Smith , sought to obtain probate of a manuscript document bearing the date 18 April 1986 , and said to be a testamentary disposition made by the deceased , Mr. Percy Winterbone . |
| 6 | Pierburg then sought to obtain photographs of a car which was situated in California , and it was held ( plainly correctly ) that this was not a case of evidence being obtained ‘ abroad ’ and so the Convention was inapplicable . |
| 7 | Then I commenced a tremulous search through its pages , almost as if I expected to find details of a timeslip between Geneva and where I now was . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The plaintiff tried to obtain collection of a debt under the contract by way of summary judgment , and , when the defendant attempted to raise a counterclaim for breach which would entitle him to defend the case , relied on this clause . |
| 10 | We tried to give examples of the ways we could try to direct finance to help these sort of things happen . |
| 11 | We tried to keep track of the number of taps and translate them into words . |
| 12 | Pattern for the side vents of the 1895 coat , which unbuttoned to allow use of the sword belt . |
| 13 | Mr Edgar tried to get hold of the key , but she threw it quickly into the hottest part of the fire . |
| 14 | Soon after the Persian Wars , as we saw on p. 23 , King Leotychidas of Sparta led an expedition to Thessaly , and ended the tageia of the Aleuads ; at about the same time , Plutarch says , there was a Greek , perhaps a Spartan , fleet at Pagasai , whose strategic importance we have just noticed , and the Spartans tried to get control of the Amphictyony ( see p. 33 ; Plut . |
| 15 | They tried to ascertain news of the tsar and his family , but to no avail . |
| 16 | The previous Congress Party government tried to lay part of the blame on Pakistan , saying that Khalistan terrorists had been trained and armed across the frontier . |
| 17 | The previous Congress Party government tried to lay part of the blame on Pakistan , saying that Khalistan terrorists had been trained and armed across the frontier . |
| 18 | We have been living in exciting times and it has needed a strong hand to keep order in the town , where all the disorderly elements tried to take advantage of the situation . |
| 19 | ‘ Your partner probably recognised you as the innocent you are — and tried to take advantage of the fact . |
| 20 | Four people were killed in Glina in several days of fighting which began on June 26 when Serbs tried to take control of the police station . |
| 21 | His responsibilities in Africa ended in 1962 and he moved to take control of the group 's European operations which were beginning to take off . |
| 22 | Then , as Fabia tried to make sense of the menu written in Czech , he looked across to ask , ‘ What would you like ? ’ |
| 23 | in Community Medicine at Manchester , spent nine years lecturing , then moved to become Secretary of the Community Health Council for Ealing and Southall , and then spent ten years working for Leeds City Council in Planning and Development in the Social Services . |
| 24 | After five years he moved to become manager of a shop in Scarborough before coming to Darlington in 1989 . |
| 25 | In 1990 he tried to register ownership of the land but his claim was opposed by the county council and residents . |
| 26 | THE SERIES DESIGNED TO MAKE SENSE OF THE THEORY BEHIND TEACHING |
| 27 | The legislation sought to restrict picketing of a place of work to those who were employed there . |
| 28 | The authorities failed to regain control of the situation . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Dr Mortimer , ‘ Laura married a painter called Lyons who came to paint pictures of the moor . |
| 30 | This was only partially examined , but seemed to form part of an east-west range of rooms with at least two floor sequences . |