Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others had to put up with less ideal locations , and this led to demand for the feng shui practitioner , whose skill was in improving the landscape by correct siting , ensuring that nothing took place to disturb the flows of energy . |
| 2 | What he said was very significant — that the ANC wanted to encourage any film-maker , black or white , who tried to put on the screen images of black people that were recognisably human , and who also tried to give employment and encouragement to black technicians . |
| 3 | When a Palestinian delegation asked to participate in the armistice negotiations , its request was rejected and the armistice was signed only by East Bankers . |
| 4 | OUR quiz in the January Link seemed to appeal to the football fans amongst you . |
| 5 | So I 'd to go to the washing racks for fourpence a day . |
| 6 | And he said it was n't his fault , he , he told to do by the script writers , but I mean it 's to make out that he had no right to , it 's ridiculous . |
| 7 | Other people came to live in the market villages to provide services , like inns and later hotels , doctors and dentists , lawyers and bankers , and many traders and craftsmen making furniture , tools , clothes and leather goods . |
| 8 | Three failed to comply with the protocol restrictions ; one patient continued to use H 2 receptor antagonists until she was withdrawn three days after entry and another was unable to keep his alcohol consumption below 40 U/week ; a third ( asymptomatic ) patient withdrew her consent within a month of randomisation . |
| 9 | Last time the Democratic-controlled Congress sought to fiddle with the tax laws affecting mergers it was embarrassed when the White House sought to blame lawmakers for the October 1987 crash . |
| 10 | He contacted E. D. Morel , whose Congo Association had been a model of effective agitation ; Normal Angell , the best known public advocate of pacifism ; and Ramsay MacDonald , who had resigned the leadership of the Labour party when it agreed to vote for the war credits . |
| 11 | Spurred by a sense of the growing opposition , especially after Chernobyl , it began to agitate at the grass roots . |
| 12 | Demonstrators also began to gather outside the pit gates . |
| 13 | A rumour began to circulate around the cocktail bars of the music biz élite that The Smiths were unhappy with Rough Trade and , although still tied with contracts , were seeking to move away . |
| 14 | In May it was announced that the fleet name ‘ London TransporT ’ would be used and it began to appear on the waist panels of cars as repainted . |
| 15 | Jaggeresque in appearance he began to sail through the submarine defences of the class system , rather as the English in India had transcended the caste structure . |
| 16 | And the Russians were here , just as the morning mist began to lift from the chateau grounds . |
| 17 | Fairbanks found that when sea level first began to rise as the ice sheets melted , 17,000 years ago , it did so at a rate of about 4mm per year . |
| 18 | Simultaneously with doing the evening performances — two on Saturday , at five and eight — he was recording episodes of Beyond Our Ken and making the latest ‘ Carry On ’ film — Carry On Constable- and it began to show with the way Pieces of Eight proceeded . |
| 19 | Many women from AMPES decided to go to the combat zones , or were forced to leave the country . |
| 20 | The Committee decided to write to the Union leaders in Washington and ask for help . |
| 21 | I decided to work with the market women 's organization , ASUTRAMES , because my mother had a market stall and I would help her , and because the community had taught me how important it was to claim our rights . |
| 22 | At seven P M , she started to talk about the evening things and went to sleep . |
| 23 | They sat down and started to look through the movie tapes , Zambia interjecting the odd question here and there . |
| 24 | But at some point they decided to compete with the lending libraries in their own field . |
| 25 | Nutty forbore to compete in the charm stakes . |
| 26 | At their annual conference in Edinburgh , members of the National Union of Students Scotland agreed to demonstrate against the Government measures , which the union says would sap funds from all kinds of student activities . |
| 27 | Everything went to plan in the opening stages with the Republic piling forward and causing all sorts of anxiety in the Lithuanian defence . |
| 28 | The interrogators were quietly sacked and sent to work in the coal mines . |
| 29 | The agricultural sector managed to provide for the food needs of Japan 's growing population . |
| 30 | Scarlet went to look through the glass doors , wondering about the relationship between distance and responsibility . |